The goalie am ig (film)

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Movie
Original title I am the goalie
Country of production Switzerland
original language Bern German
Publishing year 2014
length 92 minutes
Rod
Director Sabine Boss
script Sabine Boss ,
Jasmine Hoch ,
Pedro Lenz
production Michael Steiger ,
Anita Wasser ,
Theres Scherer-Kollbrunner
music Benedikt Fruttiger
camera Michael Saxer
cut Stefan Kälin
occupation

The Goalie bin ig is a feature film by the Swiss director Sabine Boss from 2014 . The action takes place at the end of the 1980s and shows how the bon vivant Ernst, known by everyone as a “ goalie ”, wants to start over after a year in prison. In the film, Bern German spoken.

The literary film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Pedro Lenz from 2010 won the Swiss Film Award for best feature film in 2014 .

action

After a short introduction, the film begins with a flashback before his stay in prison in Witzwil . The main character of the film, «Goalie», loses his job and is hired as a drug courier by Ueli, his best friend. After his first trip to France, the police arrested him on arrival.

Then the action jumps back to the present, to the fictional place Schlummertal. After the prison the goalie tries to lead a normal life again and takes a job in a porcelain factory as a warehouse worker. He also meets the waitress Regula for the first time in the “Maison” pub, with whom he falls in love. After a drug discovery, he was banned from the house by the landlord Pesche, but Regula's friend Budi was responsible for the drug depot. At the same time, the goalie is in contact with Ueli again, who gives him 5,000 francs after the first contact, which, however, has to spend most of it on the rent. During the course of the film, Ueli goes into drug withdrawal after a hospital stay. The film always contains recordings from Goalie's childhood that explain the origin of his nickname.

After Regula was beaten by her boyfriend, she leaves him and travels to Spain with Goalie. They live there in a house owned by Stofer, another colleague that he allegedly inherited from an uncle. Regula and Goalie approach each other and fall in love. Shortly before their return trip, Goalie learns that Stofer did not inherit this house, but bought it himself. Back in Switzerland, Goalie learns more about the background to the house purchase that Ueli, Stofer and Pesche were involved in and why he had to go to prison for a year.

In the end his love, Regula, decides against him and he moves to Bern. At the end, the main actor tells in a monologue that he will now take «poison» again at the weekend, but not «greedily», just because it is warm.

production

The film was produced in a co-production by Zurich-based C-Films AG and Bern-based Carac Film AG at locations in Langenthal and Italy . The title song of the film comes from the band Züri West , the film music was composed by Peter von Siebenthal and Richard Koechli .

Goalie bin ig premiered at the Solothurn Film Festival in 2014.

criticism

The Neue Zürcher Zeitung describes the film as a “lovingly nostalgic tragic comedy” that is more verbose than visually powerful. The Bieler Tagblatt locates “well-composed dialogues” in the film, and the slightly melancholy mood of the novel is well represented. Both the main actor Marcus Signer and the supporting roles are praised by the newspaper. The SonntagsZeitung speaks of a convincing film with an excellent leading actor. The Coop newspaper gives the film the highest possible rating as a masterpiece. Just like the novel, the film is a «jewel». The film could rely on “great character actors”. It is finally a Swiss film that was not "unnaturally written" in view of a possible High German dubbing.

The online portal Cineman gives the film 5 out of 5 stars. The film is described as entertaining and authentic, in which the main character is embodied “grandiose”. Outnow.ch rates the film more critically with 3.5 out of 5 possible stars, the film portal says that the film is “more dry”, it would “occasionally bob in front of it”.

Awards

The film was nominated for the Swiss Film Award in seven categories in 2014 . In addition to the main award for “Best Fiction Film”, the film received the award for “Best Screenplay” and “Best Film Music” and Marcus Signer was named “Best Actor”. There were further nominations in the categories “Best Supporting Role”, “Best Actress” and “Best Montage”.

The film also won the Zurich Film Prize endowed with 40,000 francs and the Bernese Film Prize endowed with 20,000 francs in November 2014 . At the end of the year, the Swiss film critics voted the film the best Swiss film.

At the 2015 Prix ​​Walo , the film prevailed against the Grüninger and Der Kreis files and won the prize for “Best Film”.

Varia

  • The film contains a cameo by the novelist Pedro Lenz , who is a French-speaking drug dealer who hands the drugs to Goalie.
  • The coach of the children in the film is the ex-professional footballer Gürkan Sermeter .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NZZ ( sda message): “Der Goalie bin ig” clears away , March 21, 2014, accessed on October 1, 2015
  2. ↑ a b c Geri Krebs: When losing and getting out was still easy . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . February 6, 2014 ( nzz.ch [accessed February 18, 2017]).
  3. ↑ I am the goalie. Swiss television , January 11, 2017, accessed on February 19, 2017 .
  4. ^ Sven Weber: Film review: The goalie bin ig . In: Bieler Tagblatt . February 2, 2014 ( bielertagblatt.ch [accessed February 18, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Matthias Lerf: Another goal for the goalie . In: Sunday newspaper . January 26, 2014, p. 38 ( goaliefilm.ch, archived on web.archive.org ( memento from September 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF; 2.2 MB ; accessed on February 18, 2017]). Another goal for the goalie ( memento of the original from September 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / goaliefilm.ch
  6. ↑ Martin Zimmerli: Film review: «Der Goalie bin ig» . In: Coop newspaper . February 6, 2014 ( coopzeitung.ch [accessed February 18, 2017]).
  7. ↑ a b Michael Lang: Ernst im Glück. February 14, 2014, accessed February 19, 2017 .
  8. ↑ a b Der Goalie bin ig (2014). outnow.ch, January 26, 2014, accessed on February 19, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Zurich Film Prize for “Electroboy” and “Der Goalie bin ig” . In: Limmattaler Zeitung , according to an sda report . April 18, 2014 ( limmattalerzeitung.ch [accessed February 18, 2017]).
  10. ^ Regula Fuchs: Bern, Schummertal and the world . In: The Bund . November 2, 2014 ( derbund.ch [accessed February 18, 2017]).
  11. ↑ Another trophy for “Der Goalie bin ig” . In: Tages-Anzeiger . December 15, 2014 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on February 18, 2017]).
  12. ^ Prix ​​Walo for Schawinski, Divertimento and Pegasus . In: Tages-Anzeiger . June 8, 2015 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed February 18, 2017]).