The downhillers
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The downhillers |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Adolf Winkelmann |
| script | Adolf Winkelmann Gerd Weiss |
| production | Michael Braun |
| music | The butterflies |
| camera | David Slama |
| cut | Helga Schnurre |
| occupation | |
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Die Abfahrer is a German feature film from 1978, directed by Adolf Winkelmann .
A budget of 200,000 D-Mark was available for the production financed by the WDR .
action
Atze, Lutz and the Greek Sulli are three young unemployed people who pass the time in the backyard of a working-class district in Dortmund in the late 1970s . The circumstances are shaped by the progressive withdrawal of heavy industry from the Ruhr area , which also significantly limits the chances of the three protagonists to find work.
One evening, when a dispute broke out between Atze and Lutz as to whether or not one should watch the international soccer match in the nearby restaurant, Atze suggests instead taking the truck of a furniture company temporarily parked in the driveway to the backyard for a spin Companies.
Atze, who has obtained the appropriate driver's license from the Bundeswehr , gains access to the driver's cab and finds a spare key in it. The three set off with the vehicle, albeit without first knowing that the parking brake is defective and therefore occasionally comes off.
The men give up their original plan of just driving a short lap when they meet young Svea at a gas station, who has just fallen out with her boyfriend. Without further ado, the quartet drives to Svea's home town of Münster to drop her off there. Once there, she decides to continue with the others. Together you drive spontaneously to Siegen , which is assumed to be a planned destination for the furniture truck based on the freight documents found in the vehicle.
In the meantime, a warning is being sent to the drivers of the stolen truck on the radio that its brakes are defective and that it is dangerous to continue driving. When he called in Dortmund, Atze found out that the iron and steel works , in which large parts of the population of the home district are employed, will be closed. Then you decide to return.
Reviews
Hellmuth Karasek judged in the Spiegel that "Romanticism is not a question of exotic geography, but something that happens in the head of the refugee and is transferred to the viewer".
Die Zeit wrote: “One thing develops from the other, the film is as casual and funny as its characters and their sayings”. The film-dienst found: “With humor, spontaneity and authenticity, the debut film describes the situation and the lifestyle of young unemployed people in simple and clear images; a contribution designed with a lot of realism in detail to characterize the people in the Ruhr area, their longings and problems. "
Awards
In 1979, Adolf Winkelmann received the film tape in silver of the German Film Prize for this film in the category “Other full-length feature films”, which was still valued at the time. In 1980 the film was awarded the DAG television prize.
DVD release
- The downhill riders as part of the DVD box The Adolf Winkelmann Edition / The Ruhr Area Trilogy (3 DVDs). Turbine Media, 2006
Book publication
- Adolf Winkelmann, The Downhill Riders. The original script and the film . Henselowsky Boschmann Verlag , Bottrop 2015, ISBN 978-3-942094-55-9 .
Web links
- The downhill in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The downhill riders at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The downhillers . cinema.de, accessed on February 27, 2012.
- ↑ Hellmuth Karasek: Escape without brakes ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2009 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. . PDF; 91 kB; Retrieved September 1, 2008.
- ↑ Hans-Christoph Blumenberg : The little escape . In: Die Zeit , No. 25, 1979.
- ↑ The downhillers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ German Film Prize from 1951 to today ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . deutsche-filmakademie.de, accessed on September 5, 2008.
