Chiko
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Chiko |
| Country of production | Germany , Italy |
| original language | German , Turkish |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Özgür Yıldırım |
| script | Özgür Yıldırım |
| production |
Fatih Akın , Klaus Maeck , Andreas Thiel |
| music | Darko Krezic |
| camera | Matthias Bolliger |
| cut | Sebastian Thümler |
| occupation | |
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Chiko is a 2008 gangster film - drama starring Denis Moschitto . Directed by Özgür Yıldırım , who also wrote the screenplay for the film.
action
The film is about drug crime in Hamburg . The focus of the plot is Issa, called Chiko, the son of a Turkish immigrant family , and his best friend Tibet. They dream of making a great career in the drug industry and thus gaining honor and fortune. Brownie, a music producer who is also involved in drug trafficking and prostitution , is already a big hit in the neighborhood and introduces the title hero, who has earned him respect, into the drug scene. First, Chiko and Tibet are supposed to sell him a few kilograms of marijuana . Tibet secretly branches off a small amount from every bag sold and then sells the "grass" on its own account. Brownie learns about this and punishes him with a nail in the foot with a hammer. Chiko now plans to avenge his friend Tibet and shoot Brownie. When the opportunity presents itself, he aims at the unsuspecting Brownie but cannot pull the trigger and hides the gun again before Brownie notices. Instead, he accepts an offer from Brownie to enter the far more lucrative cocaine trade . Tibet, on the other hand, wants revenge. He lies to their mutual friend Curly so that he can drive him to Brownie. Tibet wants to shoot Brownie; they follow him, but when Chiko appears at the destination and sees the two of them, they drive away. Then there is an argument between Chiko and Tibet, with Tibet threatening him with a weapon and accidentally injuring Curly. A rapid rise begins for Chiko: he buys a large apartment, an expensive car and becomes the owner of a restaurant with his name. At Chiko's request, Brownie even fires the prostitute Meryem from his service. Meryem, with whom Chiko fell in love, moves into the apartment with him.
Tibet, on the other hand, with which Chiko has no longer had contact, is still living with his mother, who has kidney disease and is dependent on regular dialysis , and is sinking more and more into the drug swamp. He also seeks revenge for what Brownie did to him. He ambushes Brownie in front of his recording studio and fires several shots at him, but does not hit him. Thereupon Brownie, who got away with the horror, demands that Chiko kill Tibet. Chiko pretends to be involved, but instead hides Tibet in a mosque with the help of an imam . Brownie, who has learned that Tibet is still alive, sends his thugs to Tibet's mother to find out from her where he is. Since they do not find out from her, they beat the woman, who was also like a mother to Chiko, to death. After telling Tibet the news of his mother's death, Chiko drives to Brownie and shoots him in the presence of his wife and child. At first Chiko wants to flee alone, but then decides to go to Tibet to take him with her. Before Chiko can tell his friend, who is close to madness with grief and pain, the news of the completed vengeance, Tibet stabs him while Chiko hugs him.
background
- Chiko is the feature film debut of director Özgür Yıldırım, who previously directed three short films. For supporting actress Reyhan Şahin it is the first role in a feature film.
- Shooting began on February 27, 2007 and ended on April 16, 2007. Shooting took place in Hamburg and Hanover.
- The production costs were estimated at 1.5 million euros. The film was produced by the Hamburg film production company Corazón International in coproduction with NDR and in collaboration with the Italian Dorje Film .
- The first screening of the film was on February 9, 2008 as part of the Berlin International Film Festival 2008 , where it was shown in the Panorama section. It was released in Germany on April 17, 2008, in Turkey on May 30, 2008. It was first broadcast on television on July 25, 2011 on ARD .
Reviews
“Originally cast, well-acted milieu sketch. The often extremely hard set pieces from the genre fundus of gang tragedy are, of course, all too obviously compiled; the simple morals also seem too sobering to give the film a more lasting effect. "
“If you want to buy marijuana of acceptable quality in this film, you ask the dealer for" correct ot ". This mixture of German slang and the Turkish word for "grass" or "herb" immediately identifies a specific mixture of cultures, a precisely localizable scene with flowing transitions between neighborhood cosiness and hard drug crime. [...] Denis Moschitto may have built on some muscle mass for this role, but of course he couldn't train the softness of his face, his reflexive intelligence. Why also! This is exactly the perennial " Scarface " dream of climbing the hierarchy of crime, which has made the equally slender Al Pacino alias Tony Montana an icon of the hip-hop generation: That it is not your biceps size that matters, but rather the size of your cojones, obsession and personal courage. To see this dream lived once and for all, in the middle of German cinema, with the necessary clarity, hardness and speed, is definitely an amazing effect. "
“What is shown here is not a detailed copy of German reality. Yıldırım interweaves beautiful observations from German-Turkish everyday life, but “Chiko” has just as much absorbed the rough American genre cinema - including violence as an aesthetic means. Yıldırım borrows from Coppola's “ Godfathers ” and Scorsese's “ Mean Streets ”. Another role model is “ Short and Painless ” by Fatih Akın, who himself is a great admirer of Scorsese and who co-produced “Chiko”. As is so often the case with genre cinema, the references to reality are more likely to be found in the repressed, unconscious fears and longings of the film. And the gangster film - always a social genre par excellence - exposes the symptoms with particular clarity. On the one hand, the gangster embodies the pariah on the fringes of society, which is why the protagonists of the gangster film are mostly recruited from Italian-Americans, Jews or blacks. On the other hand, it is precisely his radical drive to succeed that underpins the ideals around which the gangster is deprived of by society. So you should pay attention when a German-Turkish director focuses on rude leather jackets and three-day beards like Chiko and shows their struggle for recognition and status symbols regardless of losses. Even if it sometimes hurts to look. "
“Yıldırım begins his gangster ballad as a lively genre piece with rough sayings and lots of gags, before he turns his film into a spiral of violence, at the end of which a lot of blood flows. The straightforwardness with which the young filmmaker explains how authentic his characters are and how wonderfully immune he is to the tendency towards social education that is rampant among German directors is impressive. […] In the current debate about youth violence, “Chiko” cannot be easily classified, for that he follows the genre laws too much and revolves around the usual questions of honor and conscience. "
“Life as a drug dealer is complicated, only the violence is clear: always too much of a good thing. Özgür Yıldırım's film debut sparkles with intelligence and drawn knives. An authentic brutality dominates the conditions that are not so (unambiguous). Moritz Bleibtreu plays Obermacker Brownie with perfidious joviality, who is a torturer, music producer and loving family man. As Tibet, Volkan Özcan retreats to an aggressive infantility that demands the cohesion of the family while it is responsible for the death of his mother. Reyhan Sahin, known as "Lady Bitch Ray", points out in her role as a prostitute Meryem that money and hatred alone do not make you happy. "
“Chiko” is set in Hamburg, Fatih Akın is one of the producers, the film has a high degree of the “credibility” that a drama needs that doesn't want to be sluggish. The focus is on the question of what "respect" is and in which currency (money, girls, material) it is expressed. [...] All in all, the boundaries between the world of ambition and the world of support run pretty much along the German-Turkish dividing line: here Brownie's swanky domicile, there the tea rooms where Turkish men show their solidarity. […] After an hour Özgür Yıldırım is already a prisoner of his own dualism: he has so strictly divided the world into good and bad, hard and ridiculous, streetwise and decadent that his charismatic heroes only have to flee to the front. Violence is followed by more violence; in its unconditional rhetoric, the film does not want to be inferior to its own soundtrack. "I want to go up", declaimed Karim and Bonez MC feat. Ceza , when it's all over. The attempt to gain respect on the streets of Hamburg failed not only because of one's own illusions, but also because of the illusions of a tough German film that exploits ethnic clichés from the "right" side, because they are minority , and looks old almost as quickly as Moritz Bleibtreu. "
Awards
- At the 2009 German Film Awards ceremony , Özgur Yıldırım won a prize in the Best Screenplay category and Sebastian Thümler in the Best Editing category . In addition, Denis Moschitto was nominated for Best Acting Achievement - Male Leading Role, and the film was nominated for Best Feature Film .
- Cinematographer Matthias Bolliger was nominated for the German Camera Prize 2008 in the feature film category.
- At the Nordic Film Days Lübeck 2008, Özgür Yıldırım won a prize in the Best Screenplay category .
- At the 13th Turkey / Germany Film Festival in 2008, Denis Moschitto won a prize for best leading actor , and Volkan Özcan the “Special Jury Prize” for best newcomer .
- At the 2nd Hachenburger Filmfest 2008 the film won the Young Lion .
- The film evaluation agency Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating valuable .
Web links
- Official website for the film
- Chiko in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Report from the press conference on the film: "Thank you, Roland Koch!"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chiko. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Tobias Kniebe: On golden rims. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. April 17, 2008, accessed July 27, 2011 .
- ↑ Julian Hanich: Short and painful. In: Der Tagesspiegel. February 9, 2008, accessed July 27, 2011 .
- ^ Andreas Borcholte: Scorsese scenes in the Hamburg ghetto. In: Der Spiegel. February 9, 2008, accessed July 27, 2011 .
- ↑ Heike Kühn: It hurts. In: Frankfurter Rundschau. April 17, 2008, accessed July 27, 2011 .
- ^ Bert Rebhandl: German-Turkish gangster film "Chiko": gangsters in the midlife crisis. In: The daily newspaper. April 17, 2008, accessed July 27, 2011 .