The whole stadium
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The whole stadium |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 63 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Felix Grimm |
| script | Felix Grimm Ascan Breuer Sven Langner |
| production | Josef Wutz Academy of Media Arts Cologne |
| music | div. |
| camera | Julia Berg, Laura von Bierbrauer, Markus Fiedler, Oliver Gemballa, Felix Grimm, Kai Hager, Jessy Herden, Christian Hornung, Tim Kaiser, Carsten Knoop, Karsten Krause, Bernd Schoch, Ole Wendel, Benjamin Werth, Marc Witkowski |
| cut | Sönke Saalfeld |
The whole stadium is a documentary by the German director Felix Grimm from 2011 . The film shows a fictional football match of FC St. Pauli based on two documented home games. The premiere was on October 4, 2011 as part of the Hamburg Film Festival . The film was released on DVD in two editions by Aries Images .
action
The football film shows the fans of FC St. Pauli playing a home game in the 2nd Bundesliga during the 2009/10 promotion season in the Millerntor Stadium . There are mainly recordings during the game against TuS Koblenz on the 32nd matchday (final result 6: 1) and during the evening game against FC Augsburg (30th matchday, final result 3: 0).
During the film, no game scenes or goals are shown, the course of the game can only be determined from the comments and reactions of the fans. The recordings are supplemented with pictures in front of and from the stadium and the police control center. In addition to the live recordings during the game, the film is accompanied by comments from the active environment of the association and the blind radio of the Supporting Members department (AFM) .
production
A total of up to 12 cameras and recording devices were used. The film was cut for 63 minutes from the total of 80 hours of film material. The production was funded by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW , producers are Aries Images, Hamburg, and the Art Academy for Media Cologne .
criticism
“The camera hops with the ultras in the south curve, hangs on the megaphone in front of the whip on the fence, tracks the beer transport of shortened waiters to the VIP booths or hovers back and forth high above the heads of the flag-throwers. A well-made documentary from the art college in Cologne about those who are responsible for the atmosphere in the stadium and who really make football what it is. For people who have never been to the stadium, it's loud and strange, for real football fans it's almost like being on the back straight. "
“It's not just the pictures that stick - also the idiosyncratic design of the film. Felix Grimm refrains from showing the fan representatives he interviewed. As a result, what happens in the stands and only indirectly on the grass is the focus of the 60 minutes. A film about fans and critical fan culture that no club has to offer. "
Web links
- The stadium in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview with the director . In: Basch # 4 . September 23, 2011.
- A documentary by Felix Grimm . In: Aries Images .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The whole stadium . In: Zitty . No. 03 , 2012, ISSN 0179-9606 .
- ^ Knut Henkel: local shortcuts. In: The daily newspaper . September 29, 2011, accessed November 6, 2015 .