Berlin is in Germany

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Movie
Original title Berlin is in Germany
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2001
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Hannes Stöhr
script Hannes Stöhr
production Gudrun Ruzicková-Steiner
music Florian Appl
camera Florian Hoffmeister
cut Anne Fabini
occupation

Berlin is in Germany is a German tragic comedy by director and screenwriter Hannes Stöhr from 2001 .

action

After eleven years in prison for manslaughter , the former GDR citizen Martin Schulz was released from prison in 2000. In the meanwhile reunified Germany, which he only knows from television, he can hardly find his way around at first and his family has also become a stranger to him. Manuela, his wife, is now in a relationship with Wolfgang, and Martin has not seen their 11-year-old son Rokko for years at his own request. His wish to spend as much time as possible with his family meets with resistance from Wolfgang, who is skeptical and dismissive of the foreign ex-convict.

Meanwhile, Martin meets some of his old friends again, including his former locksmith colleague Enrique, who now works as a taxi driver. Martin decides to take up this profession and learns with Manuela's help for the entrance examination. On the side, he takes a job in the sex shop of his former inmate Victor. With the money he earns there, he wants to go on vacation with his son. He secretly dreams of winning Manuela back.

At first everything seems to be going well, but then Martin learns that he is not allowed to take the taxi driver test because of his criminal record. His dream is shattered, Martin is completely devastated. A short time later, he is arrested for Victor's illegal child pornography business. At the last moment, the fugitive Victor surrenders to the police to exonerate his friend.

Martin feels like in a time machine.

background

The film premiered on February 8, 2001 at the Berlin International Film Festival . Berlin is in Germany is a co-production by ZDF ( Das kleine Fernsehspiel ) and rbb as part of the Ostwind project . In 2003, ZDF also produced an audio description of the film in collaboration with 3sat , which is spoken by Uta-Maria Torp.

The title refers to an entry in Rokko's English notebook. Berlin is in Germany is Hannes Stöhr's directorial debut.

In 1998 Hannes Stöhr wrote and shot a short film (15 minutes) with the same story at the Berlin Film School. The short film was also called Berlin is in Germany and received the main prize at the Potsdam Film Festival in 1999.

The film with Jörg Schüttauf, Julia Jäger , Edita Malovcic , Tom Jahn , Óscar Martínez, Robert Lohr , Udo Kroschwald and Carmen-Maja Antoni in the leading roles was awarded the Panorama Audience Award at the Berlinale 2001. The leading actor Jörg Schüttauf was also awarded the 2001 German Film Critics' Prize. Florian Appl received the Rolf Hans Müller Prize in 2002 for the best film music and Hannes Stöhr received the Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award in 2001 as well as the New Faces Award in 2002. The film also received the audience award at the 2001 Schwerin Film Festival, the Prix Special de Jury at the French up-and-coming festivals in Poitiers (2002) and Annonay (2002), the German Critics' Prize (2002), a nomination for the First Steps Award 2002 and also screened at numerous international film festivals such as Moscow (2001), New York - Museum of Modern Art (2001), Los Angeles - AFi (2001) and Istanbul (2002). The film also hit theaters in Spain, France, Turkey and other countries.

The film is now available in a new, digital version. This version of the film with selectable English, French, Spanish and Turkish subtitles is also in the archive of the Deutsche Kinemathek for international partners.

From 2013–2014, the film was part of the Germany and Brazil partnership in preparation for the 2014 World Cup under the direction of the Goethe Institute.

The film is available as a copy in the following Goethe Institutes: Boston, New York, Abidjan, Shanghai, Seoul, Copenhagen, Athens, Bangkok, Bogotá, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Caracas, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Cairo, Kolkata, La Paz, Lille, Lima , Lisbon, London, Madrid, Mexico City, Montréal, Moscow, Rabat, Rome, Santiago de Chile, Sao Paulo, Stockholm, Tel Aviv, Tehran, Tokyo, Toronto, Sydney, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Jakarta, Prague, Vilnius, Tbilisi .

In the top ten list of the best Berlin films compiled by Deutsche Welle, the film Berlin is in Germany took fifth place. The Berliner Morgenpost included the film in its Berlin Films Best of series in 2016 and showed it at the opening of the Berlin cinema Zoo palace. In 2018, Berlin is in Germany was shown again for the award of the 20th Panorama Audience Award at the Berlinale.

criticism

  • It is hardly surprising that the director won the 2001 Berlinale Audience Award with him. Hannes Stöhr refrains from prejudice and obscenity, and in this sense his film is perhaps a parable about East and West that could provide an example of good films. - Phillip Bühler , Berliner Zeitung
  • Supported by Florian Hoffmeister's open, direct and unadorned images of the capital, “Berlin is in Germany” is a precisely observed, credible milieu study in every scene, which also lives from its superb leading actor Jörg Schüttauf. His laconic but charmingly played odyssey into the supposedly golden west is both painful and amusing. - Carsten Baumgardt , film starts
  • There is not much talk in “Berlin is in Germany”, and if so, then only rarely about what needs to be discussed. So dryly told and full of understatement, Stöhr's first long feature film is reminiscent of Kaurismäki's best moments. - Thomas Winkler , Taz
  • But Hannes Stöhr's film is not a plaintive Ossi complaint story. It's a scruffy tragic comedy that draws on the traditions of American independent film rather than the local problem television game. - Thomas Klingenmeier , Stuttgarter Zeitung
  • The film skilfully balances between sarcasm and humanity, avoiding typical clichés of the time of change. - Ines Walk , Defa Foundation
  • “Berlin is in Germany” tells of these changes because they happen and not because they are important for the plot. Rather, the debut film by dffb graduate Hannes Stöhr reports how a modern simplicissimus maintains his attitude in the face of a collapsed world because he keeps his gaze. It is this inimitable mixture of defiance and naivety, rebellion and incomprehension, warmth and melancholy, laconism and joie de vivre with which Jörg Schüttauf shapes his character into a simple figure of sympathy in a complex world. Actually everything is to howl, but we happily walk straight ahead! The head is amazed, but the legs go. This is what the wonderfully sensitive, strictly composed, finely observed film tells of. - Eberhard von Elterlein , Die Welt
  • When staging the metropolis of Berlin, too, the director Stöhr seems to rely on the tried and tested, such as Piel Jutzi's Döblin film from 1931 and Slatan Dudow's "Kuhle Wampe" (1932). In fact, Hannes Stöhr's Berlin film uses precisely those perspectives that were used in the Weimar period to understand this city. Martin's long tram, train, taxi and subway journeys make smug tracking shots superfluous - the movement of the big city finds its appropriate expression, while the urban hustle and bustle remains outside the screen as an arching soundscape of street noise and mobile phone bells.
  • With a lot of sense of humor despite always lurking tragedy, Hannes Stöhr shows the new beginning of his main character, as gripping as in a good Ken Loach. His debut at the Berlinale won the audience award. And an East Berlin taxi driver was delighted: "This has finally got ma watt to do with us"

Awards

literature

  • Clarke, David: Representations of East German Masculinity in Hannes Stöhr's Berlin is in Germany and Andreas Kleinert's Wege in die Nacht . In: German Life and Letters. 55.4, October 2002, pp. 434-449.
  • Evans, Owen: Taking Stock of the Wende on Screen: Michael Klier's Ostkreuz and Hannes Stöhr's Berlin is in Germany . In: German as a foreign language Journal. Issue 1, 2006, pp. 60-75.
  • Kapczynski, Jennifer M .: Negotiating Nostalgia: The GDR Past in Berlin is in Germany and Good Bye, Lenin! . In: The Germanic Review. Volume 82, Issue 1, 2007, pp. 78-100.

Web links

  • Berlin is in Germany-Official Trailer
  • Berlin is in Germany at the Berlin International Film Festival. TV report 2001
  • Official film site - German & English Berlin is in Germany
  • Berlin is in Germany at Imdb

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hannes Stöhr: Hannes Stöhr. Website. In: http://stoehrfilm.de/ . Retrieved November 4, 2018 .
  2. ^ Hannes Stöhr: Berlin is in Germany. Official Site. In: http://new.stoehrfilm.de/berlin-is-in-germany . Screenwriter. Hannes Stöhr, 2017, accessed on November 4, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Berlin is in Germany in the Hörfilm database of Hörfilm e. V.
  4. ↑ vatmh.org
  5. ↑ First Steps: Berlin is in Germany. Awards and festivals. In: http://www.firststeps.de/filmkatalog/filme/filme-details.html?tx_e27firststepswfqbe_pi1%5BID%5D=C1A9E0D3-3646-4D3D-8D1C-E0DB66104601 . First Steps, October 31, 2018, accessed October 31, 2018 .
  6. ↑ El Pais. Ciro Krauthausen: Berlin is in Germany en los cines. In: https://elpais.com/diario/2001/12/14/cine/1008284409_850215.html . El Pais, October 2001, accessed October 31, 2018 .
  7. ^ Allo Cine France: Berlin est en Allemagne. In: http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=38043.html . Allocine, April 2002, accessed October 31, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Cineuropa: Berlin is in Germany. Movie. In: https://cineuropa.org/en/film/2218/ . https://cineuropa.org/en/film/2218/ , October 2001, accessed on October 31, 2018 .
  9. ^ Timeout London: Berlin is in Germany in London. In: https://www.timeout.com/london/film/berlin-is-in-germany . https://www.timeout.com/london/film/berlin-is-in-germany , 2002, accessed on October 31, 2018 .
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  11. ↑ New digital version. Berlin is in Germany: New digital version. Berlin is in Germany. In: https://www.facebook.com/berlinisingermanyfilm/ . https://www.facebook.com/berlinisingermanyfilm/ , 2012, accessed on October 31, 2018 .
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  15. ^ Pantanal: German cinema in Brazil. In: http://pantanalportal.de/pantanal-news/filmische-einblicke-deutsches-kino-im-pantanal/ . German Cinema in Brazil, 2013, accessed on October 31, 2018 .
  16. ^ Goethe Institute: Film Berlin is in Germany at the Goethe Institute . In: http://cms.goethe.de/pub/jsp/media.jsp?object_id=342424&ort_angebote=1&spr=de&banner=http://www.goethe.de/bilder2/banner/zt/328/recherch.jpg& Farbe= gainsboro & tab = 3 & titel = film catalog & sitemap_id = 297292 . 2017, accessed November 4, 2018 .
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  20. ↑ Philipp Bühler. Berliner Zeitung: Parable about East and West. Berlin is in Germany. In: https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/eine-parabel-ueber-ost-und-west---und-ein-sehr-guter-film---berlin-is-in-germany--von -hannes-stoehr-wiedergaenger-von-franz-biberkopf-16095262 . October 2001, accessed October 31, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Xenix Switzerland: Wendefilme-Berlin is in Germany. In: https://www.xenix.ch/programm/november-2009/1989-ist-jetzt-ueberall-westen--biografische-brueche-in-wendefilmen/berlin-is-in-germany/2009-11-15T19 : 15: 00 . Xenix Switzerland, November 2009, accessed on October 31, 2018 .
  22. ↑ IMDB Awards: IMDB awards. In: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0276820/awards?ref_=tt_awd . Retrieved March 11, 2018 .
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  24. ↑ Berlin is in Germany. Berlin Film Festival 2001. TV report: Berlin is in Germany. Berlin Film Festival 2001. TV report. In: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVko4_iR1os . Berlin is in Germany. Berlin Film Festival 2001. TV Report, 2001, accessed on October 31, 2018 .
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