Boy 7

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Movie
Original title Boy 7
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2015
length TV version: 99; Cinema version: 108 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Özgür Yıldırım
script Özgür Yıldırım,
Philip Delmaar ,
Marco van Geffen
production Dorothe Beinemeier
music Timo Pierre Rositzki
camera Matthias Bolliger
cut Sebastian Thümler
occupation

Boy 7 is a German Action - Thriller by Özgür Yıldırım , who on the novel Boy 7: Trust no one. Not even yourself based on the Dutch author Mirjam Mous . David Kross and Emilia Schüle can be seen in the leading roles . The German theatrical release was on August 20, 2015.

The film tells the story of the boy Sam, who has lost his memory, but with the help of his diary is slowly beginning to remember that he wanted to uncover a conspiracy in a rehabilitation facility.

action

Sam wakes up disoriented in a subway tunnel and has no idea how he got there, nor does he know who he is. He can barely escape a policeman who wants to arrest Sam. Sam goes to a restaurant whose address he found on a business card in his pocket. A short time later he meets Lara, who also can't remember anything except the fact that Sam is suspected of murder. He accidentally discovers a diary in the restaurant's toilet and quickly realizes that it was his own. In it he recorded events that now help him to bring back memories of what happened in the past. With the help of these notes, he delves into the past and sees in flashbacks how it came about that he woke up in a subway tunnel without memories.

After Sam had committed a criminal offense, he was assigned to the futuristic "Cooperative X", a mixture of elite boarding school and reformatory, where his rehabilitation should take place. Negative character traits should be transformed into positive strengths. Time and again there were inexplicable deaths in the institution after inmates collapsed with severe nosebleeds. Sam was Boy 7 and Lara Girl 8 there . Together they gradually uncovered a large-scale conspiracy, which was associated with mortal danger for both of them.

publication

The film was presented at the International Film Festival in Munich on June 26, 2015 , before it was released in German cinemas on August 20, 2015. Boy 7 also ran on July 29, 2015 at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Canada and on December 3, 2015 at the Other Worlds Austin Festival in the USA. The film was released in Poland on May 5, 2017.

The film was released on DVD by Koch Media on February 25, 2016.

criticism

Oliver Kaever summarized his rating for Zeit Online in the sentence: “Smooth as a commercial popo.” He continued: “After the intoxicating start, he [the director] clings to the standards of cinematic storytelling for a young audience: fast cuts, sequences that are resolved into as many camera settings as possible, a clean look, exaggerated sound effects, an all-commenting score. With this constant squint at the international generic film language, there is no room for your own, creative approaches. ”Finally, it was said that the staging would remain“ as placeless and faceless as a commercial ”.

Cinema's verdict was consistently positive. It said: “The atmospherically captivating dystopia is perfectly cast with Jörg Hartmann […], Liv Lisa Fries […] and Jens Harzer in the supporting roles and is consistently excitingly staged. In any case, 'Boy 7' provides enough reasons to trust German genre cinema a little more in the future. ”Conclusion:“ A cleverly constructed future thriller that skillfully varies familiar genre motifs. ”

24bilder.net speaks of a "wild trip into a dystopian world - thrilling, surprising and incredibly exciting". There is also talk of the fact that director Özgür Yildirim succeeded in creating “an atmospheric and intelligent thriller, visually extraordinary and with a first-class cast”. With David Kross and Emilia Schüle, two “of the most sought-after young German actors have been won”.

Another film adaptation

In the same year a film by Lourens Blok called Boy 7 was released in the Netherlands , which is also based on the book by Mirjam Mous, but is set in a dystopian police state in the near future. Both novel adaptations were deliberately developed in parallel to demonstrate the different approaches of different countries in the implementation of a subject.

Awards

For this film, producer Dorothe Beinemeier received the highest endowed German Young Producer Award of 60,000 euros from the collecting society for rights of use to films on January 15, 2016 as part of the Bavarian Film Award ceremony .

The composer Timo Pierre Rositzki received the German Film Music Award in the Best Song in Film category for the title song Alive , which he produced especially for Boy 7 and which he released under his stage name Cellar Kid together with the singer Camilla Daum . The award ceremony took place on October 28, 2016 in Halle.

David Kross was nominated for the Jupiter Award for his performance in the “Best German Actor” category.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Boy 7 see page fsk-online.de
  2. ↑ Boy 7 see illustration of DVD case
  3. ↑ Oliver Kaever: Boy 7 - Glatt wie ein Werbespotpopo In: Zeit Online, August 17, 2015. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  4. ↑ Boy 7 (2015) adS cinema.de (with trailer and 40 film images)
  5. ↑ Boy 7 adS 24bilder.net. Retrieved October 23, 2017.
  6. ↑ Background & information about Boy 7. In: Moviepilot.de. Retrieved January 10, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Film award for the “Boy 7” producer. In: Sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved January 10, 2017 .
  8. ^ German film music award for Timo Pierre Rositzki . October 29, 2016 ( dubisthalle.de [accessed February 10, 2017]).