The white one with the black bread
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The white one with the black bread |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 76 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jonas Grosch |
| script | Jonas Grosch |
| production | Jonas Grosch |
| music | Madou Coulibaly |
| camera | Miriam Troescher |
| cut | Antje Lass |
| occupation | |
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The white with black bread is a documentary from the year 2007 by director Jonas Grosch about the actor and writer Christof Wackernagel , who used to be RAF was -member.
action
Christof Wackernagel, a man full of humor, idealism and plans, lives with the musician Madou Coulibaly and his housekeeper Assa in Bamako , the capital of Mali, in West Africa . There he also works on projects and books and organizes street concerts with the musician Madou Coulibaly in the evenings.
One of his projects is - since he lacks black bread in Africa - to found a wholemeal bakery on site together with the Malians, but the oven specially brought from Germany explodes and the project fails.
His nephew Jonas Grosch accompanies him on his black bread project and in everyday African life with his camerawoman Miriam Troescher. His uncle keeps telling us about his life in Mali and earlier in Germany, how he came to the RAF and then went into hiding, his imprisonment, his departure from the RAF and the encounter with the Dutch police officer Herman van Hoogen, who took him over in 1977 arrested after an exchange of fire in Amsterdam and later wrote a letter to the Higher Regional Court to advocate the early release of Wackernagel.
background
- The film premiered on January 13, 2007 in Berlin . The theatrical release in Germany was on June 12, 2008. On November 28, 2008 the film was released on DVD.
- Director Jonas Grosch is the nephew of Christof Wackernagel and brother of Katharina Wackernagel .
- In addition to Jonas Grosch, Katharina Wackernagel, Philipp Grosch and Ulrike Zimmermann co-produced the film. The production budget was 8,000 euros.
Reviews
“Grosch encounters a Don Quixote in a white turban, who succeeds in taking his past hard into judgment and yet remaining true to himself. Wackernagel tells of the painful shame that followed the purification, and one understands why he had to start over at the other end of the world. There is an incredible amount of excess energy in him, which sometimes breaks out of him in a rather uncontrolled manner, but is ultimately held in check by healthy self-irony. The emigrant continues to fight for a better world, intensifies himself into speaking as well as acting and tries to establish recycling ideas in Mali in addition to German black bread. Wackernagel accepts his repeated failure almost calmly that his idea of a caravan of peace was not taken seriously by then Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer, but still upsets him. Among the memorial films on the 1968 movement and its consequences, this is certainly the most unusual. "
“Once a terrorist, always a terrorist, that's how they'd like it. He, the offspring of a theater and actor family, started at 15 as the main actor in Johannes Schaaf's ' Tattoo ' and appeared much later in ' Moving Man ' and all sorts of television films, where he writes and paints and is assistant director to Claus Peymann after all, he was in Bochum too. [...] But the sometimes wildly exuberant desire to improve the world still drives him today. "
“The film stands out from the conventional veteran narratives of ex-terrorists of the last few years because here no old comrades-in-arms are dragged in front of the camera, no glorioles from past battles are woven, no revolutionary nostalgia is practiced. Instead, the film tells of how someone lives a damaged life, how mistakes are learned and new mistakes are made over and over again. 'The fight continues' here in a completely different way, and it can be pretty creepy to watch. "
“The recording quality leaves a lot to be desired in many sequences, and one often has the feeling that the camera was simply held on. However, this also has the probably unintended, but then positive, effect that Africa is not shown in this film as exotic and sunny as in almost all other documentaries by western filmmakers, who can never completely strip the tourist gaze and are therefore often hungry themselves Exotically glorify illness and misery. Here, on the other hand, Africa is simply there. [...] 'I would never have told a stranger or the press anything about it' says Wackernagel with a laugh. His nephew has a similar sense of the absurd, and that benefits his film a lot. "
Awards
Film + Editing Award 2008
- Nomination for the editing award in the documentary category for Antje Lass
Web links
- The white with black bread in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The white man with the black bread in the dictionary of international films
- Official website of Christof Wackernagel
- Official page for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The White One with Black Bread . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2007 (PDF; test number: 111 947 K).
- ↑ Film review The windmills are not getting any smaller
- ↑ Film review sky over the desert
- ↑ film service. No. 12, 2008, published in the filmzentrale.
- ^ Film review My Uncle in Africa