Breakout (2007)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Breakout |
| Original title | Breakout |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mike Eschmann |
| script | Thomas Hess, David Keller |
| production | Lukas Hobi, Reto Schärli |
| music |
Stress , Moritz Schneider, Mich Gerber |
| camera | Roli Schmid |
| cut | Michael Schärer |
| occupation | |
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Breakout is a Swiss film from 2007 by Mike Eschmann ( Ready, steady, Charlie! ). It is a youth film with music and dance scenes.
action
Marco Nia is 19 years old and lives in a social apartment in the Zurich district of Schwamendingen , whose youth scene is portrayed as being heavily influenced by hip-hop . He and his friends spend the day spraying graffiti , stealing, receiving stolen goods and rioting. In the evenings they often hang around in clubs and discos to get drunk and pick up girls. Nia's best friend Pulpo (17) and Vinnie (13), the baby of the gang, live with him. Both are avid break dancers .
One evening Pulpo has sex with the girl Foxy in a shabby club toilet. When the clique moves around the houses later that night, they are intercepted by a group of thugs around Spirit (22). Spirit used to be with Foxy and is upset that she does something with a member of a “hostile” gang. When Nia provokes Spirit, there is a fight in which Spirit beats Pulpo with an iron bar to cause paraplegia . When the police intervened, most of the people involved flee; only Nia is arrested.
Nia is suspected of having beaten Pulpo in this way, among other things because he does not want to name the other people involved. Instead, he hopes for personal revenge on Spirit. The youth prosecutor sentenced him to two years in a labor education institution. There Nia is visited by Vinnie, who tells him that Pulpo took his own life in the hospital. Nia meets his former buddy Blade in the institution and befriends the inmate Silenzio. At night he starts to breakdance again.
Nicole Frey, a young employee of the youth prosecutor's office, wants to help Nia. However, he does not reveal any names or details to her either and initially lures her on the wrong track. At the same time he plans to flee with Blade, Silenzio and the ridiculed pacifist Heinrich. Heinrich shows the three of them a long-term escape route, but demands in return that Nia smuggle out a cassette tape and publish it. He then gives examples of the bad treatment in the institution, calls for socialism and announces that he will commit suicide after publication.
Two neo-Nazis and their well-meaning prison supervisor Franz Schleier tyrannize the group around Nia. He breaks up with Blade when the latter tries to rape Nicole, who has now started an affair with Nia. Instead, Nia tries to break out with Silenzio alone. The previous afternoon Nia is visited by Vinnie, whom he gives Heinrich's tape, which is now being published on the radio. That same night Heinrich puts an end to his life. The escape plan fails and only Silenzio can escape. When Nia returns, he is intercepted by the neo-Nazis and Spirits meanwhile also imprisoned friend Rocket, who injure his face. Blade saves his former buddy, but is then knocked down by him. Nia collapses in the hallway and remains unconscious until dawn.
The prosecutor and the director of the institution cannot make sense of the events of the night. However, they believe that Nia helped Silenzio to escape and also suspect him of having participated in Heinrich's killing. Nia then takes Nicole hostage in order to flee and to enable his fellow inmates to break out. He's going to a breakdance tournament that Pulpo actually wanted to take part in. Instead, Spirit is the apparent winner. Nia threatens him with a pistol and challenges him to a breakdance battle, which he wins. He was arrested again immediately. In the end, Vinnie shoots Spirit with Nia's gun.
Reviews
"A hip-hop-influenced youth drama that features a number of protagonists from the Swiss music scene, but is as calculating as it is predictable."
According to the SonntagsZeitung, the bones are cracking “to the rhythm of gangsta rap” and “Eschmann is shocked by the way he gets“ breakout ”himself” .
background
Before the premiere on January 18, 2007, the film was heavily criticized in parts; not least due to various incidents of juvenile delinquency at that time. Above all, the scene in which Melanie Winiger is almost raped was criticized. These pictures should not be shown in public, it was said from various sides. Violence is glorified and not portrayed as repulsive; Showing such pictures carries the risk of imitation and is a new fuel for the youth in Zurich.
When asked directly about this, the director Mike Eschmann said: “The film is based on authentic cases that all happened in Switzerland. "Breakout" is intended to shake up and address what is currently occupying the whole of Switzerland: violence, sex and drugs among young people. "
After a number of discussions, the film was released from the age of 16.
Web links
- Breakout in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007. Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9
- ↑ Release certificate for breakout . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2007 (PDF; test number: 110 755 DVD).