Chaostage - We Are Punks!
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| Original title | Chaostage - We Are Punks! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 18 |
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| Director | Tarek Ehlail |
| script | Tarek Ehlail Moses Arndt (template) |
| production | Tarek Ehlail Benjamin Eicher Timo Joh. Mayer |
| music | Alec Empire |
| camera | Marc André Misman |
| cut | Lars Doneith |
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Chaostage - We Are Punks! is a German independent film by director Tarek Ehlail . The episode film is based on the novel Chaostage by Zap publisher Moses Arndt . For the realization of the film Ehlail was able to win numerous well-known actors inside and outside the punk scene.
action
The film has no strict plot, but develops from several episodes into a street battle between neo-Nazi skinheads , punks and the police. The individual scenes are represented by various scene icons, such as Moses Arndt (editor of the Zap fanzine and author of the novel of the same name), Wolfgang Wendland , Karl Nagel , Ben Becker , "Tommy" Koeppe ( Molotow Soda ), Willi Wucher (singer from Pöbel & Gesocks ), Dirk Jora ( Slime singer ), Wally Walldorf ( Toxoplasma singer ), Tobias Scheiße ( Hammerhead ), Mike Spike Froidl , Archi Alert , Mirco "Micro" Bogumil (formerly Falling Carrier Pigeons ) and Babette G. ( The Vageenas ) commented .
The individual episodes deal with:
- Didi, who has been suffering from depression since his girlfriend broke up with him and now lives out her nymphomaniac existence and earns her living as a striptease dancer. He gets drunk alone in his punk flat and drowns in the full bathtub. The ceiling of the supermarket collapses due to the weight of the water.
- Mitch, who has a bill to settle with the police and shoots his adversary Commissioner Brunner and his colleague Severin (brother of Anita) with a sniper rifle .
- Anita, playmate of Nazi skin Eddie and sister of Severin, who also flirts with Mitch
- a group of punks on their way to and at a concert by the German punk band Toxoplasma
- a Nazi clique leader Eddie with S / M - gay porn makes money
After the ceiling of the market collapses, the punks inform all their friends and hold a free beer festival, which is disrupted by the police and neo-Nazis (who want retribution for beating a “comrade”). There are riots that reduce the city to rubble and ashes. The punk band Pestpocken plays to this. Mitch and Anita want to run away together and see the riot outside Didi's apartment. Mitch steps on the gas. The film leaves open how it goes with the two.
Literature template
Even if the title of the film refers to the days of chaos and some excerpts from these punk meetings can be seen, the film is primarily a cinematic adaptation of the novel by Moses Arndt.
background
Chaostage was realized with a minimum budget of 70,000 euros by Sabotakt Films (Ehlails Filmproduktion), Los Banditos Films ( Benjamin Eicher and Timo Joh. Mayer ), and Claude-Oliver Rudolphs DeChristo Media . In addition, the film was supported by a number of sponsors and also by the Saarland film funding . Most of the shooting took place in Homburg and around Saarbrücken . The appearance of Toxoplasma was realized as a free concert in the old AJZ Homburg at the Homburg train station and was one of the last events before the move to the Homburg district of Erbach . Most of the actors come from the punk scene and were part of a national casting or on site two free concerts, found. With Ralf Richter , Claude-Oliver Rudolph, Stipe Erceg , Martin Semmelrogge and Helge Schneider , well-known guests can also be seen in the actual film scene.
The soundtrack was created by Alec Empire ( Atari Teenage Riot ). In addition to the bands appearing in the film, other bands from the punk scene are represented. The soundtrack CD includes 24 songs and was released by Nix-Gut Records . The album was indexed on May 21, 2013 by the federal inspection agency for media harmful to minors .
publication
The film premiered on October 3, 2008 in Hanover, the city of real chaos. In the run-up, there were riots between disappointed visitors to a punk concert, who were refused entry, and the police. 74 people were arrested in the riot and 22 were injured, including four police officers. The subsequent premiere, however, was calm. The actual premiere took place on January 30, 2009 at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival. However, the film did not run in the competition.
Chaostage was approved by the FSK with an age rating of 18 and over and was released on DVD via Sabotakt Film.
criticism
Chaostage - We Are Punks! is primarily a film made by punks for punks. But even with these, the film did not meet with approval everywhere. Director Tarek Ehlail was criticized for the fact that the police and Coca-Cola appeared as sponsors. In the scene, however, the film was largely positively received. By the general film critics, however, it was largely rated negatively.
“The interviews are served in such mini-bites that there is hardly anything interesting to learn. Of course, the fast, aggressive editing is the program, and every now and then, in combination with the collage-like, 'dirty' aesthetics, it creates a coherent transfer of the music into the visual language - but this remains purely external, little is conveyed in terms of content. At least one insight can be taken away: Where fascists and punks are in no way inferior to each other, at least if you take this film as a basis, is the image of women. That is defined in one as in the other milieu by the purely sexist view. "
“To make it short: Chaostage - We are Punks! is not a good film - at least not in the traditional sense. And probably doesn't want to be either. True to the do-it-yourself punk motto , which made amateurism its active principle, the classy film seeks - and finds - trash and will certainly reach its target group. Chaostage, according to Tarek Ehlail in an interview with Jan Sedelies of the Peiner Allgemeine Zeitung , 'should either be watched with a wink or three per thousand.' Well then, cheers! "
Web links
- Chaostage - We Are Punks! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Chaos days in power cinema
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Chaostage - We Are Punks! Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2009 (PDF; accessed on February 13, 2018).
- ↑ a b CHAOSTAGE - THE FILM. Ox-Fanzine , No. 72, 2007, accessed February 28, 2011 .
- ↑ Chaostage - The magazine. (PDF) Official website, accessed February 28, 2011 .
- ^ OST: Chaostage - We Are Punks. Discogs , accessed February 28, 2011 .
- ↑ Federal inspection agency for media harmful to minors : Announcement No. 6/2013 on carrier media harmful to minors of May 21, 2013.
- ↑ Punkerrandale in Hanover. Express , October 4, 2008, accessed May 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Chaostage- We are Punks! At the Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival! (No longer available online.) Lifepr, January 13, 2009, archived from the original on February 21, 2011 ; Retrieved February 28, 2011 . 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.
- ^ Festival premiere of Chaostage - We Are Punks. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis , January 23, 2009, formerly the original ; Retrieved February 28, 2011 . ( 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.
- ↑ Chaostage - We Are Punks in the online film database
- ↑ Ullah: Back straight - shooting report and interview . In: Plastic Bomb . No. 74 , 2011, pp. 60-61 .
- ↑ quoted from review review CHAOSTAGE. (No longer available online.) Film time, archived from the original on January 21, 2015 ; Retrieved February 28, 2011 . 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.
- ↑ Joachim Kurz: Criticism. Kino-Zeit.de, April 9, 2009, accessed on February 28, 2011 .
