the big dream
The Big Dream is a German feature film by director Sebastian Grobler from 2011. The film is about the German teacher Konrad Koch , who introduced football in Germany in 1874 .
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Konrad Koch was hired as an English teacher at the Martino-Katharineum in Braunschweig in 1874 . To attract the attention of his students, he teaches them the new game of soccer , which he got to know during a long stay in England. The new sport is well received by the students, but Koch meets with resistance from conservative teachers and parents and is finally fired. But the students stand up for their teacher to help him.
Production and film launch
The film was partly shot in and around Braunschweig and had a budget of almost 5.5 million euros. In particular, most of the recordings were made in the high school in the castle in Wolfenbüttel .
The world premiere took place on February 22, 2011 in the Sony Center in Berlin . The film opened in German cinemas on February 24, 2011 and in Austrian cinemas on April 1, 2011. It is marketed internationally under the title Lessons of a Dream . The theatrical release in South Africa was in April 2012. In Italy, the film was broadcast under the title Lezioni di sogni in June 2012 on Rai 1 .
The plot of the film is only vaguely oriented towards the real events, some of which have been heavily modified for educational effect and the creation of a non-existent contrast between a “progressive” England and a “backward” and chauvinistic Germany. So Koch's colleague, the sports teacher August Hermann , was completely ignored, who got Koch the first ball - a rugby ball - from England (in the film a farewell present for Koch for his time in England) and also played a key role in the beginnings of football was. Koch was also not an English teacher, but a German and classical language teacher, precisely the subject that was shown to be rather backward in the film. Accordingly, he did not try to bring the English terms closer to his students, but endeavored to Germanize them. Nor did he spend a long time in England.
In the film, medicine balls are made in Schricker's workshop - an anachronism , because the first medicine ball did not come to Germany until after 1900.
Awards
- 2011 : Nomination for the German Film Prize in 3 categories (best film, best camera / image design, best costume design)
- 2011: predicate particularly valuable the FBW German Film and Media Review Wiesbaden
- 2011: New Faces Award for Theo Trebs (also for battering ram )
- 2011: Audience Award of Generation of the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival
- 2012: 1st prize at the 26th Children's Cinema Festival in Düsseldorf
- 2012 : Theo Trebs and Adrian Moore were each nominated in the category Best Representation in an International Feature Film at the Young Artist Awards .
Festival participation
- November 2013: German Film Week in North Korea
- September 2012: Berlin & Beyond Film Festival , San Francisco, USA
- September 2012: Pyongyang International Film Festival, North Korea
- July 2012: Giffoni Film Festival, Italy
- April 2012: 30th International Film Festival Cine-Jeune de l'Aisne, France
- February 2012: 10th International Debut Film Festival of Cinematography “Spirit of Fire” in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia
- February 2012: Glasgow Youth Festival, Scotland
- December 2011: Goethe Institute Boston, USA
- November 2011: International Film Festival of India in Goa
- November 2011: 10th Festival of German Film in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Novosibirsk, Russia
- November 2011: German Film Festival Singapore
- October 2011: Goethe Institute Hong Kong
- August 2011: World Film Festival Montréal, World Competition
Reviews
“In the film The Great Dream, director Sebastian Grobler works his way around Koch's pioneering story. He catches the conflicts between the educator and his students, his colleagues, also between parents and children well. [...] All the resistance to more modern educational methods are very reminiscent of another, world-famous school film, the Dead Poets Club. The really big dream, however, is less tragic and more touching. "
“The equipment, costumes and acting are impeccable. The camera work was particularly successful in the well-arranged and choreographed scenes that celebrate the conquest of the sport with successful images - the first goal, the first ball held. Only the script sometimes drew the characters in a cliché way. […] Daniel Brühl stays. [...] Its intensity is the big plus of the film. "
"A fine line-up of actors [...] ultimately alludes in vain to a kitschy script that doesn’t resist a commonplace."
literature
- Rainer Moritz: The really big dream ... or how the teacher Konrad Koch brought football to Germany. rororo paperbacks, Reinbek 2011, ISBN 978-3-499-25692-9 .
Web links
- Official website
- Lessons of a Dream in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The really big dream at filmportal.de
- Critical film review on kinofenster.de, the film website of the Federal Agency for Civic Education
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The very big dream . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2011 (PDF; test number: 126 410 K).
- ↑ Age rating for The Big Dream . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ The big dream on kino.de
- ↑ Daniel Brühl brings football to Germany
- ^ Evaluation of the FBW
- ↑ 33rd Annual Young Artist Award - Nominations . In: Young Artist Award . Retrieved April 3, 2012.
- ^ First German Film Week in North Korea. In: goethe.de. Retrieved January 4, 2016 .
- ↑ When football was still subversive , Zeit-online from February 21, 2011.
- ↑ Peter Claus: The very big dream (Sebastian Grobler) , accessed on April 4, 2012.
- ↑ Critique of the Filmstarts.de editorial team , accessed on April 4, 2012.