Asphalt gorillas
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Asphalt gorillas |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK |
| Rod | |
| Director | Detlev Buck |
| script | Detlev Buck, Cüneyt Kaya , Constantin Lieb |
| production | Viola Hunter |
| music |
Bowen Liu , Pierre Baigorry , Torsten Reibold |
| camera | Marc Achenbach |
| cut | Dirk Gray |
| occupation | |
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Asphaltgorillas (working title Gorillas ) is a film drama by Detlev Buck that was released in German cinemas on August 30, 2018. The film is based on motifs from a short story by Ferdinand von Schirach about a young man who no longer just wants to be his boss's handyman, but expands it with additional characters, storylines and motifs. The premiere took place on July 4, 2018 at the Munich Film Festival .
action
Atris works as a drug dealer for the Berlin gang boss El Keitar. By chance he meets his childhood friend Frank at night, whose glamorous appearance makes a strong impression on Atris, who, however, does not know that this is just a facade of Frank's impostor. Frank offers Atris an opportunity to finally break free from his (small) criminal environment by helping him with a large-scale counterfeit money deal that he wants to pull off with the Triads. At the same time, Atris gets to know the shoplifter Marie, who moves confidently and without fear in Atri's macho “gorilla” world and does not follow their patriarchal power structure. Atris decides to stand by her and break away from El Keitar. He agrees to take part in Frank's counterfeit money deal as a messenger in order to be able to travel to Tokyo with Marie with his promised share. However, when Frank does not get the necessary equity for the counterfeit money deal from his girlfriend Oxana as he had hoped, he hatches a plan together with the half-silly criminal Ronny, how they can get the counterfeit money of the Triads without having to pay for it. Frank's idea of exchanging the counterfeit money wallet with a staged diversion and delivering it to his former friend Atris in Oxana's apartment, the agreed place where the money was handed over, seems to be working at first. Because Ronny is not waiting for Frank, but is bringing the flowers back to Oxana's apartment, the situation slips away from him. At the same time, Atris has to fight against being betrayed by his friend and gets deeper and deeper into a chaotic spiral of dangers and absurdities, from which only Marie can help him in the end, who takes half of the counterfeit money and uses it to show him that he shouldn't believe that he is the hero of the story. At the end of the film you can see the two of them together in Tokyo, where they exchange the counterfeit money for real banknotes.
production
The film is based on a short story entitled The Key by Ferdinand von Schirach . This was published in 2010 in his anthology entitled Guilt . The film is about a grotesque that is settled in the Berlin gangster milieu and demonstrates this with means of exaggeration, irony, playing with genre clichés and erratic narration. Directed by Detlev Buck .
The film project was funded with 800,000 euros from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg , 655,200 euros from the Deutscher Filmförderfonds, 409,500 euros from the Filmförderungsanstalt and 200,000 euros from the Bavarian FilmFernsehFonds.
The shooting took place from February 22, 2017 to March 31, 2017 in Tokyo and Berlin. Among other things, AVUS was filmed in Berlin . The last stone fell in Berlin at the end of March. Marc Achenbach acted as cameraman .
The music for the film was contributed by Bowen Liu , Pierre Baigorry and Torsten Reibold .
A first trailer was released in May 2018. The premiere took place on July 4, 2018 at the Munich Film Festival . The film was released in German cinemas on August 30, 2018. Asphaltgorillas received a distribution grant of 50,000 euros from the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and around 48,000 euros from the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg .
reception
Age rating
In Germany, the film was approved for ages 12 and up . The statement of reasons for the release states: “The film works with numerous oversubscriptions and portrays its protagonists in a very ambivalent manner. Individual depictions of violence , in which irony and brutality are sometimes mixed, as well as the often vulgar and sexist use of language can irritate and overwhelm children under the age of 12. But 12-year-olds are already able to assign these aspects to the milieu and the characters, who are never characterized as 'heroes' worth emulating. The scenes of violence are sometimes so artificially staged that even 12-year-olds can distance themselves sufficiently and critically evaluate what is depicted. "
Reviews
Michael Müller von Blickpunkt: Film particularly highlights Uisenma Borchu in his review , who plays the killer who is put on Frank by the triads to monitor the handover of the money: “In two or three tough scenes full of adrenaline, with cool oneliners and on a sleek motorcycle to booming music, it is seriously recommended for Quentin Tarantino's eventual martial arts sequel Kill Bill: Vol. 3. "
Antje Wessels is enthusiastic about her criticism of film releases: “( Detlev Buck ) turns asphalt gorillas into a gaudy neo-noir thriller comedy and continues to tighten the screw of absurdity until the furious finale. That in turn does not prevent him from answering the central question of guilt as complex (or better: not answering!) As Schirach himself. ”The film critic goes on to say that the film is not stingy with borrowings from well-known genre representatives little Only God can judge me and John Wick , but there is always a touch of Wolf of Wall Street , not least thanks to the engaging performance of Jannis Niewöhner as Jordan-Belfort blend . Asphalt gorillas have not become a staged patchwork quilt , according to Wessels: “On the one hand, the film clearly bears the extravagant, visionary signature of Detlev Buck, on the other hand, the balancing act between the references works very well. The performances of a Keanu Reeves or a Charlize Atomic Blonde Theron are not simply copied in stylishly choreographed action scenes . They only serve as a role model, which Buck confidently approaches with a 'I can do that too!' Attitude. "
From the German Film and Media Review was asphalt gorilla with the predicate particularly valuable provided. The reasoning states: “The actors here are superbly cast down to the smallest roles. Buck's handling of sometimes extreme violence, which is highly aestheticized, but never remains without consequences, is more unusual. [...] The jury praised the film as an astonishing formal aesthetic achievement that enlivens the German genre film on a high level. "
Web links
- Asphalt Gorillas in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Asphalt gorillas at crew united
- Asphalt gorillas - official Constantin Film trailer onYouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for asphalt gorillas . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 179644 / K).
- ↑ Age rating for asphalt gorillas . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ https://www.moviepilot.de/movies/gorillas
- ↑ a b Ines Walk: Tough asphalt gorillas roam in the trailer through Berlin's gangster milieu. In: moviepilot.de, May 17, 2018.
- ↑ https://www.medienboard.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/Foerderentscheidungen/Foerderentscheidungen_2016_Stand_Oktober.pdf
- ↑ http://www.olgafilm.de
- ↑ https://www.medienboard.de/infothek/aktuelle-meldung/aktuelles/News/detail/News/bald-letzt-klappe-fuer-gorillas/
- ↑ Constantin Film: ASPHALTGORILLAS. Retrieved July 17, 2018 .
- ↑ https://www.presseportal.de/pm/12946/3990275
- ↑ https://www.filmportal.de/node/1355598
- ^ Munich Film Festival: Asphalt Gorillas . Retrieved July 5, 2018.
- ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved June 10, 2018.
- ↑ https://www.fff-bayern.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Vergabemeldung/FFF_Vergabem nearly_Film_Juli_2018_final.pdf
- ↑ https://www.media020.filmbiznews.de/m/medienboard/foerderzusagen-oktober-2018/MBB-Foerderzusagen-Oktober-2018.pdf
- ↑ Reasons for the release of asphalt gorillas In: Voluntary self-control of the film industry. Accessed August 31, 2018.
- ↑ Michael Müller: "Asphalt Gorillas" shred. In: Blickpunkt: Film, July 6, 2018.
- ^ Antje Wessels: Asphalt gorillas. In: Filmstarts.de. Retrieved July 13, 2018 .
- ↑ https://wessels-filmkritik.com/2018/08/21/asphaltgorillas/#more-25720
- ↑ Asphalt Gorillas In: fbw-filmbeval.com. German film and media rating. Retrieved August 25, 2018.