When we were dreaming (movie)

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Movie
Original title When we were dreaming
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2015
length 117 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Andreas Dresen
script Wolfgang Kohlhaase
production Peter Rommel
music Jens Quandt
camera Michael Hammon
cut Jörg Hauschild
occupation

As we dreamed is a feature film by the German director Andreas Dresen from 2015 based on the bestselling novel of the same name by the writer Clemens Meyer . As the official competition entry for the 65th Berlinale , the film premiered on February 9, 2015, and the German theatrical release was on February 26, 2015.

action

A Leipzig boy clique in the early days of the reunification: Dani, Rico, Pitbull, Mark and Paul try each other in the new era after the reunification and the end of the GDR. They steal cars, try drugs and set up their own nightclub - a techno club. Confrontations with bald neo-Nazis , Rico's hope for a boxing career and Dani's longing for the great love of starlets become a path to great failure.

Film music

The movie's theme song is A New Error by Moderat . Dresen says: "The music in the film is only historical where it is used 'within the scene', otherwise we have taken the liberty of using more modern pieces and sounds [...]". In doing so, transitions between historical and current pieces are created in the film. B. with the two Marusha tracks Rave Channel (1992) and Club Arrest (2012).

History of origin

Peter Rommel and Andreas Dresen at the Berlinale Openhouse Berlinale Talk 2015 on When we were dreaming

The film was shot in autumn 2013 in Leipzig (especially in the districts of Lindenau , Grünau , Reudnitz and in the ruins of the former Sternburg brewery in Lützschena ). Even Halle (Saale) , Dessau and Dresden were filmed. The collaboration between Dresen and Kohlhaase is the third after Sommer vorm Balkon (2005) and Whiskey with Vodka (2009).

The novelist Clemens Meyer can be seen in a cameo as a police officer in the film. The film was first announced in 2009, originally with Lars Kraume as director. After the film rights had become free again, Rommel and Dresen implemented the film project with a new script by Wolfgang Kohlhaase .

Supported by the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung , the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the German Filmförderfonds , rbb , BR , mdr and arte , among others , were involved in the production.

reception

The film announcement for the Berlinale states that Kohlhaase and Dresen would condense Meyer's novel “into a cinematic parable about friendship and betrayal, confidence and illusion, brutality and tenderness”. They tell the story of “a lost youth and at the same time present a game about rebellion and the never-ending utopia of great happiness”.

“ When we dreamed it was a rough film that still treats its protagonists tenderly, for example when they sip punch in grandmother's living room and enjoy the seemingly ideal world. The attention to detail, a strength of all Andreas Dresen films, meets here with the precision of Wolfgang Kohlhaase's script […]. The equipment, the locations are perfectly chosen and atmospherically dense. Scenes, some of which are difficult to bear, are extremely exhausted and increase the authenticity of the plot and the milieu. The irrepressible strength of young men becomes visible here, but it also turns against them. Their loss of control makes them losers, relegated, even before they can take the opportunity to use their forces positively. "

- Jury of the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW)

"A film adaptation of a literary film about a Leipzig clique at the time of reunification - with great young actors."

- Ulrike Frick : Bayern 3

“[…] The scenes don't take time for their group dynamics, the actors always have to prove how rebellious they are. […] One often has the impression that a gang film from the 1950s is being transplanted into the backdrop of the old GDR building. […] In the group scenes […], when the clique is filmed drinking in the basement or partying in the techno club, [the director] loses track. [...] When the film finally calms down in the second half, it gets tangled up in the many stories that are told side by side. "

- Dirk Knipphals : The daily newspaper

“Dresen [...] wants to surprise us with the development of the plot, and, [...] he succeeds. […] [The] film is clear because it tells [with exceptions] strictly chronologically. […] When [Dani] betrays his friends Mark and Rico out of cowardice in the masterful staging of the best novel scene, Dresen and his cameraman Michael Hammon manage to make Dani's own desperation about it clear. You haven't seen anything like this in German cinema for a long time […]. [...] 'When we dreamed' would grace every festival in the world. Because it's world-class cinema. "

- Andreas Platthaus : Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

literature

Web links

Commons : When we were dreaming  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Release certificate for As we dreamed . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2015 (PDF; test number: 149 417 K).
  2. ↑ When we were dreaming. ( Memento from January 31, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) In: RBB online , January 31, 2015, accessed on January 31, 2015.
  3. ^ Press release: The film music. In: Pandora Film , 2015, p. 20.
  4. ↑ Clemens Meyer - film shoot. In: Hundertvierzehn - The literary online magazine of S. Fischer Verlag , interview with film photos, accessed on February 1, 2015.
  5. ↑ dpa : Meyer's novel “When we dreamed” is being made into a film. In: N24 , September 1, 2009, accessed February 1, 2015.
  6. ↑ Ricarda Nowak: Dresen turns off bestsellers. Author Clemens Meyer is allowed to play as a police officer. In: Märkische Allgemeine , February 5, 2014, accessed on March 4, 2015.
  7. ↑ Film data sheet for When we dreamed . Berlin International Film Festival , accessed on February 9, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Predicate particularly valuable. Award from the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW). In: kino.de , accessed on March 4, 2015.
  9. ↑ Ulrike Frick: When we were dreaming. ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: Bayern 3 , February 24, 2015, accessed on February 28, 2015.
  10. ↑ Dirk Knipphals: Die Halbstarken from 1989. In: taz.de from February 25, 2015.
  11. ^ Andreas Platthaus : Berlinale Competition. End of the line longing look. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 10, 2015.