Dawn of the Dorks

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Movie
Original title Dawn of the Dorks
Movie poster Dawn of the Dorks.png
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2006
length 22 minutes
Rod
Director Eric Esser
script Almut Heider
production Tobias Weishaupt
music Françoise Cactus
camera Nadja Kurtz
cut Fabian Spuck,
Christian Schottstedt
occupation
  • Franziska Dick: Francine
  • Oliver Dresselhaus: Kurt
  • Carolina Emilia Galetti: Monique
  • David Bredin : Hauke
  • Chris Vlug: Jojo
  • Françoise Cactus : sausage woman

Dawn of the Dorks is a satirical short film made in 2006 by director Eric Esser . The low-budget - zombie movie was created during the football World Cup in Germany and is a satire on the so-called World Cup euphoria in 2006 and also discussed rise of nationalism in Germany.

action

After harmless students eat contaminated rotten meat in the park during their graduation ceremony, they mutate into German football fans. Anyone who comes into contact with her vomit also mutates. The esoteric Francine, as a vegetarian, didn't eat any of the meat. When one of the already mutated soccer zombies vomits over her shoulder, she runs away, taking Monique with her, screaming in horror , whose affair has just turned into a soccer fan zombie before her eyes. The partygoer Jojo, who has just turned up at the party, runs after the two of them because he suspects more action there.

On their escape through the park, which is now full of soccer fan zombies, they meet the impetuous Hauke ​​and the intellectual Kurt. The five decide to hide in the nearby football clubhouse. When night falls, Hauke ​​and Jojo make their first attempt to break out by fighting the zombies like in Mars Attacks! want to sing down. Hauke ​​is overwhelmed by the zombies and also mutates, Jojo also comes into contact with the vomit, but makes it back to the clubhouse. A second attempt to break out with a diversion by Monique also fails.

While Francine discovers beer cans in Hauke's rucksack and forges another escape plan, Jojo, who has now mutated into a football zombie, gets up and opens the door of the clubhouse, through which the zombies stumble in. Francine and Kurt can hide in a back room. While the zombies push the door in, the two of them dress up as football fans with the fan articles found there. Their plan works and they leave the club house unharmed.

Shortly afterwards, Kurt gives himself away because he throws his beer can into a trash can instead of on the floor and has to flee from the crowd that is slowly chasing after him. Francine is now wandering alone through the city, which is now a sea of ​​soccer zombies and German flags. In front of the Federal Chancellery she meets Kurt again, who managed to escape the zombies. When he suggests hiding in the museum because that is the only safe place, he realizes that she has mutated too.

background

The artist and musician Françoise Cactus , who also wrote the title song, has a guest appearance as "sausage woman" in a scene in the park. The mass scenes of the film, in which thousands of "soccer zombies" can be seen, were shot on June 9th during the broadcast of the Munich opening game of the 2006 soccer World Cup (Germany - Costa Rica) on the Berlin fan mile.

The film pays homage to the genre classics Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead by George A. Romero and Invasion of the Body Snatchers by Philip Kaufman and contains numerous references to these and other films. For example, the entire closing scene is a quote from the ending of Invasion of the Body Snatchers . In the background, however, you can see the Berlin Federal Chancellery instead of the San Francisco City Hall .

Already on June 17, 2006, one week after the end of shooting and during the second week of the World Cup, a 30-minute preliminary version was premiered under the name The Night of the Living Idiots . Under the title Dawn of the Dorks , the film premiered on November 26, 2006 in its final 22-minute version. The working title of the film was Die Welt zu krass bei Freunde .

Dawn of the Dorks was created as a first-year graduation film from the 2006 class of the self-organized Berlin film school Filmarche . He had a budget of € 2500.

reception

Jan-Paul Koopmann writes about the film in BeatPunk Webzine: Dawn of the Dorks now shows them [the Zombies] as a German fan mob, which is so obvious that it is hardly possible to say with any certainty who actually offered whom the template . Although no one needs such increased expressiveness, the film is surprisingly really funny. It must be due to the gruesome experiences of the »Summer Fairy Tale« World Cup 2006, when isolated survivors suddenly found themselves locked in their apartments and trembling hoped for an end to the epidemic, while more and more friends were caught outside.

The Berlin science fiction author Jakob Schmidt writes on his blog that the director, under the influence of the World Cup and the rotten meat scandal, was inspired by the great social realism of George A. Romero (Dawn of the Dead) and transplanted the zombie genre onto the topic who owns it (in my opinion).

In his book Deutschpop Halt's Maul! The Bamberg pop theorist Frank Apunkt Schneider refers to the film for an aesthetic of tension : The major football events of recent years patiently provided information about how grudgingly and tense the new ease really is. [...] Your looseness is only pop insofar as it is a quote from a Romero film (Eric Esser's Dawn of the Dorks shows us everything there is to be said about it).

Awards

  • Dawn of the Dorks took 2nd place on September 15, 2007 at the 3rd fantastic trash film festival in Kassel.
  • At the Trashfilmnacht of the 34th Würzburg Film Weekend on January 26th, 2008 the audience voted for 1st place.
  • Since 2011 the film has been part of the film series "Forever - the ball" curated by Wilfried Agricola de Cologne and was shown at CologneOFF 2011 Mexico (Mexico), as well as at special series of the festivals Digital Marrakech Festival (Morocco), CeC - Carnival of eCreativity ( India) and the 9th International Auteur Film Festival Quest Europe (Poland).
  • In total, the film had around 40 screenings at festivals around the world, including the Cortasatira in Vienna, the International Film Weekend in Würzburg and the Open Air Film Festival Weiterstadt .

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ Jan-Paul Koopmann: When there is no more room in hell. BeatPunk Webzine, June 17, 2010, accessed May 29, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Jakob Schmidt: It's that time again: Dawn of the Dorks! blogsport.de, June 11, 2014, accessed on June 11, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Ventil Verlag: ventil verlag - German pop shut up! Ventil Verlag, April 28, 2016, accessed April 28, 2016 .
  4. ^ Dawn of the Dorks - MakeShiftMovies. Eric Esser, accessed February 22, 2020 .