Boxhagener Platz (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Boxhagener Platz |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Matti Geschonneck |
| script | Torsten Schulz |
| production |
Jakob Claussen Ulrike Putz Nicole Swidler |
| music | Florian Tessloff |
| camera | Martin Langer |
| cut | Dirk Gray |
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Boxhagener Platz is a German tragic comedy by director Matti Geschonneck from 2010. It is the literary film adaptation of the novel of the same name from 2004 by Torsten Schulz , who also wrote the screenplay.
action
The action takes place in 1968 in the area around Boxhagener Platz in East Berlin . Holger often visits his grandmother Otti Henschel because his parents, the hairdresser Renate and the police officer Klaus-Dieter, often quarrel. Otti has survived several of their partners during their lifetime than they in the cemetery with the former Spartakusbund anbändelt fighters Karl Wegner and fell in love with him. She tries to confess this to her current partner Rudi, who dies shortly afterwards.
The fishmonger Winkler is also interested in Otti. She takes his fish gifts, but otherwise gives him the cold shoulder. Shortly afterwards, Fisch-Winkler, who also sells beer in his shop, is found dead. The investigating people's police arrested Karl Wegner by flogging his father during the family's Christmas party. Karl admits that he intervened in a tussle between Fisch-Winkler and Rudi with a beer bottle. After writing one last letter to Otti and Holger, Wegner dies of heart failure in his cell .
Holger is fascinated by Karl's stories and lies about his idealistic true socialism and the struggle that goes with it. That gets him into trouble in political class at school. Holger's friend Burkhard takes advantage of such developments and posts leaflets against the occupation of Prague to his violent father in order to get rid of him.
Reviews
“ Boxhagener Platz is a lively homage to little people with great worries and hopes - so many owls and weird types have not been gathered in a single film for a long time. [...] Wonderful milieu study between love films, backyard thriller and anti-Ostalgie. "
“Around Boxhagener Platz in East Berlin , a panorama of petty-bourgeois existences unfolded in 1968: while the youth revolt raged in the West, old Nazis and leftist idealists, critics and followers alike, came to terms with the GDR regime. The focus is on a feisty grandmother, family entanglements and an enigmatic murder. The excellently played 'Heimatfilm' brings the lifestyle back then to life, whereby the political is largely dissolved in private and a pointedly entertaining tone is struck. "
" Particularly valuable - the 'Heimatfilm' fits in with a distinctive cinematic moral image of the GDR. It is not a garish, bold drawing, not a gesture of hysterical polemics or bathing in dismay. It is a rather quiet, brooding reflection, a reflection on inner sensitivities that have outlived the system. The 'narrowness' of Boxhagener Platz is not the narrowness of the film. The film opens up spaces for associations and reflections. He gives z. B. An occasion to meditate on Adorno's famous sentence "There is no right life in a wrong one."
“Geschonneck creates a tableau of everyday life with a heart but without heartiness and without Ostalgie, a generational contrast to Leander Haußmann's exuberant Sonnenallee . In the end, the viewer knows a lot about the political situation, but even more about the construction sites of life and the desire for love, from which age and wrinkles do not protect. The courageous Gudrun Ritter and the elegantly elegant Michael Gwisdek would like to watch and listen for hours in this homeland film, which makes everyone happy even without a conventional happy ending. "
background
- The film is set in 1968 on and around Boxhagener Platz, but was not shot on the original location, but among other things in the outdoor setting on the outdoor area of Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam , as Boxhagener Platz had changed too much after more than 40 years.
- In 2004 the Roman Boxhagener Platz by Torsten Schulz and in 2005 the corresponding radio play was published by Ullstein Verlag.
- The remark by Karl Wegner: "Goebbels and Ulbricht stood together on a platform.", Which later causes trouble for Holger at school, refers to the strike at the Berlin transport company in 1932 .
Awards
In 2011 Meret Becker received a nomination for the German Film Award for Best Supporting Actress .
Web links
- Boxhagener Platz in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official German website
- Interview with the director
- Reviews of Boxhagener Platz on Moviepilot
Individual evidence
- ↑ Film review at cinema.de
- ↑ Boxhagener Platz. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Critique of the German Film and Media Rating
- ↑ Criticism on kino.de
- ↑ 100 years of Babelsberg: The Berliner Strasse . tip-berlin.de; Retrieved February 27, 2012