Army Go Home!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Army Go Home! |
| Original title | Buffalo Soldiers |
| Country of production |
Germany Great Britain |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gregor Jordan |
| script | Gregor Jordan Nora Maccoby Eric Weiss |
| production |
Rainer Grupe , Ariane Moody |
| music | David Holmes |
| camera | Oliver Stapleton |
| cut | Lee Smith |
| occupation | |
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Army Go Home! is a 2001 comedy film by Australian director Gregor Jordan .
action
West Germany in 1989, shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall . In a barracks in Stuttgart, the US soldiers stationed are bored with the slowly fading enemy image of communism and arrange all kinds of illegal machinations. Above all, GI Ray Elwood, who preferred army service to prison and now, as the person in charge in the supply battalion , can handle almost anything. Behind the back of the comradely, but also naive barracks commander Berman, Elwood runs a flourishing black market trade in military products, produces and sells drugs and sleeps with Berman's wife.
One day finds it by chance a military transport with M16 - assault rifles , grenade launchers and Stinger missiles in the hands that he wants to sell on a large scale for cash, but instead, 30 kg of morphine to heroin gets cooking.
However, Elwood's life so far changes completely when First Sergeant Lee is transferred to the base to change conditions. But right now Elwood has to make the big load of heroin for his customers. He also falls in love with Lee's daughter Robyn.
As of now, Elwood is no longer sure of his life. Because of Lee's presence, he cannot deliver the promised weapons, which is why his middleman threatens him with consequences. And the sergeant also seems to be walking over corpses in his crusade against the prevailing conditions, as Elwood's buddy Stoney has to learn firsthand. Elwood and his friends have to make large quantities of heroin to keep their customers. But Lee, who has smuggled in an agent with Second Lieutenant Knoll , who pretends to be Private First Class , so that Elwood trusts him completely, storms the scene together with Knoll. In the subsequent scuffle, Lee threatens to kill Elwood. This is eventually helped by the drug lab chemicals that get too hot and explode. Elwood is thrown out the window with Lee, but survives injured while Lee dies.
Robyn becomes Elwood's boyfriend and he is transferred to a base in Hawaii to promote his recovery , where he can rebuild his black market.
criticism
For film-dienst , “Army Go Home!” Is “a film that is as bizarre as it is romantic about life in a world without fixed borders, which meets the human weaknesses of its protagonists with irony and sympathy and at the same time celebrates love and decency as permanent values”. Steven Rea said at Philly.com by a "hard-boiled [n], mean [n] movie" ( crafty, cutting movie ).
Awards
The film received five British Independent Film Award nominations in 2003 , including one for Best British Independent Film , one for Joaquin Phoenix and one for the screenplay. The script received the Evening Standard British Film Award in 2004 . Oliver Stapleton was nominated for the Golden Frog of the Polish Camerimage Festival in 2001.
background
The scene with the exploding gas station was filmed in Jockgrim . The now demolished US barracks in Knielingen , parts of the Paul Revere Village in the northern part of the city, Tullabad, Marienstrasse and Kriegsstrasse in Karlsruhe and the market square in the nearby town of Königsbach were used as additional locations. Some scenes were also shot in the former US Army ammunition depot in Siegelsbach . The climax, the battle for heroin production, was staged in the old, meanwhile demolished industrial buildings of the Danzas in Maximiliansau ( Wörth am Rhein ).
In the book of the same name by Robert O'Connor , the story takes place in Mannheim shortly after the end of the Vietnam War .
The US Army refused to support the film. Vehicles therefore had to be borrowed from commercial distributors and private collectors. Therefore, Dutch YPR armored personnel carriers and modified German Leopard 1 main battle tanks can be seen in the film.
Due to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , the release of the film in the US was largely delayed by two years. During a screening at the Sundance Film Festival , angry viewers accused the film of anti-Americanism and unpatriotic ideas, and at a press conference a woman threw a water bottle at Anna Paquin.
Robert E. Lee is also the name of the most famous general in the American South during the Civil War of 1861–1865.
Web links
- Army Go Home! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Army Go Home! at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Army Go Home! at Metacritic (English)
- Review of the film on filmstarts.de .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Army Go Home! In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Steven Rea: 'Buffalo Soldiers' are so out of step, military will fume. (No longer available online.) August 8, 2003, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on February 16, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ "Army Go Home!", Robert O'Connor , Heyne, 2002, ISBN 3-453-19779-8
