Berlin Chamissoplatz
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Berlin Chamissoplatz |
| Country of production | Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rudolf Thome |
| script |
Jochen Brunow Rudolf Thome |
| production |
Hans Brockmann Isolde Jovine |
| music |
Ohppst Evi and the Evidrins |
| camera | Martin Schäfer |
| cut | Ursula West |
| occupation | |
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Berlin Chamissoplatz is a film by Rudolf Thome from 1980. The world premiere took place on November 1st, 1980 at the Hofer Filmtage . The film received the Gilde Film Prize in silver in 1982 from the Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater .
The film was shot in Berlin and Policoro (Italy).
action
The film begins with a pan over the roofs of Berlin. There is a street festival down on Chamissoplatz . The sociology student Anna Bach uses a video camera to interview the architect Martin Berger, who is responsible for the renovation program for this residential area. At a meeting of the group, which is campaigning for a tenant-friendly renovation, Anna demonstrates her material. Your friend Jörg is one of the spokespersons for the tenant group. To get more information about the renovation program, for example which houses should be demolished, Anna goes to Martin's office. Since he still has to work, he asks her to wait. He wants to go out to dinner with her later. At the restaurant he promises to help her and to ask around for unofficial information.
After going to a bar, Martin takes Anna home in the car. You can tell that the two of them feel drawn to each other despite the huge age difference - he is 43, she 24. At a meeting of the tenants' group in the Chamissoladen, Jörg secretly recorded Martin's statements with a tape. When Anna later notices this, there is an argument with her boyfriend. She meets Martin again in a bar. When she comes home, she has another argument with Jörg. He goes and gives her back his key to her apartment. Meanwhile, Martin cannot sleep with himself, he gets into his car and spends the night in front of her house. The next morning he gets a sumptuous breakfast. When Anna leaves the house, she discovers him. They have breakfast in bed and sleep together for the first time.
Anna and Martin spend a lot of time together. In one scene he sings a love song for her on his piano. Are you happy. One night he sprays “Anna I love you” in red paint on the firewall, which she can see from her bed. Martin takes a short term time off and they go to the sea in Italy. They arrive at sunrise. On the beach, Anna tells him that she is pregnant. But she doesn't think the child is his. Both are undecided whether to keep the child.
The “Chamissoblatt”, the information brochure for the tenant group, is distributed at a residents' festival. Martin discovers that his statements are falsified and quoted under his name. He pours a mug of red wine in the face of Jörg, the author of the article. Then he drives away. Anna follows him, but he doesn't stop. She borrows a car and drives after him.
background
Rudolf Thome about the film: ““ BERLIN CHAMISSOPLATZ ”is in a certain sense my most private and then again my most impersonal film. It has to do with the actors - Sabine Bach and Hanns Zischler. Zischler became so present as a person, gave himself up so much that it wasn't just about me anymore. After he annotated the first script with comments like “hahaha - blablabla”, I wrote a new version in which I included his criticism. He liked that and it worked - we had fun together. It was a challenge for both of us to work together - also later while shooting - where everyone was ready to give everything. and the nice thing was that it worked that way with Sabine Bach. "
criticism
"In his statement, an open, calm and cautious film made with gentle irony, which observes and describes the attempts of people to realize a dream of romantic love without obscuring the reality."
"[...] whose qualities as a simple love film, atmospherically located in its milieu and its time, reveal themselves slowly as well as gently and unspectacularly."
“'Berlin Chamissoplatz' is a film with a delicate radicalism. He turns away from the conventions of the significant. It tells a story that can be found unreasonably banal, but in its forms it retains an all-round longing that can only smile at those who have already given up. "
Web links
- Official website
- Berlin Chamissoplatz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of Gild Prize winners ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 59 kB)
- ↑ Imdb: Berlin Chamissoplatz (1980) Filming Locations ( En ) Retrieved September 25, 2014.
- ↑ Rudolf Thome in the press booklet for the film on moana.de
- ↑ Berlin Chamissoplatz. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Berlin Chamissoplatz ( Memento of the original dated June 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on kino-zeit.de
- ↑ A love in Germany In: The time of December 19, 1980
