The Dasslers - Pioneers, Brothers and Rivals
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The Dasslers - Pioneers, Brothers and Rivals |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 2 × 89 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 (part 1) FSK 0 (part 2) |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Cyrill Boss , Philipp Stennert |
| script |
Christoph Silber , Cyrill Boss, Philipp Stennert |
| production |
Quirin Berg , Max Wiedemann |
| music | Karim Sebastian Elias |
| camera | Philip Peschlow |
| cut | Lucas Seeberger |
| occupation | |
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The Dasslers - Pioneers, Brothers and Rivals is a two-part German television film that was broadcast on April 14th and 15th, 2017 on Das Erste .
action
part One
In Part 1, Adi and Rudi Dassler convince their father to change the family shoemaker's business and manufacture sports shoes. Despite their differences, the brothers complement each other at work: while Rudi drives expansion with risky loans, his perfectionist brother develops better and better models.
A conflict breaks out when Adi decides to do an apprenticeship again - Rudi feels left alone with the company during the economic crisis. Rudi's wife Friedl and Adi's wife Käthe are loyal to their husbands' side, but that too sometimes causes discord. At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, the Dasslers finally want to see winners in their shoes. The fact that they are equipping the “colored” American athlete and multiple gold medalist Jesse Owens in a secret operation snubbed the Nazi officials.
When the Second World War broke out in 1939, Rudi was called up to the front and the company was put to a severe test. The distrust between the brothers begins to grow.
part two
In part 2 Rudi returns from the war and the conflicts between the Dassler brothers harden. They decide to split up their company. Adidas and Puma are born. A fierce competition for athletes, medals and market shares ensues.
When Sepp Herberger knocks at both of them to get paid for his services, Adi does business with him because Rudi had messed with the enterprising soccer coach. The “ Miracle of Bern ” made Adidas the winning brand and the “Shoemaker of the Nation” a legend. The competition between the companies becomes more and more fierce and the ambition of the fathers is transferred to the two sons Horst and Armin.
Both sons take the conflict to another level. Black money, corruption and manipulation in sports associations are now part of the business for both sides. The two founding fathers set something in motion that they can no longer stop. Rudi's progressive cancer may become the brothers' last chance to finally reconcile.
background
The film was shot from September 21, 2015 to December 5, 2015 in Prague and Franconia (Bavaria). It premiered on June 24, 2016 at the Munich Film Festival .
reception
Reviews
“The Dasslers - Pioneers, Brothers and Rivals” succeeded in creating a two-part series that is worthy of awards in many ways. This success is based on a great script that relates the character predispositions of its protagonists to historical developments and thus gives the viewer a feeling for their motives and actions. At the same time, "Die Dasslers" has plenty of visual and narrative nuances to make the film a stylistic delicacy. "
“Better than the shorter RTL movie, ARD production found the ideal format for the material. And almost everything is right in the details: cast, dialogues, ellipses, metaphors, narrative rhythm; there are pictures and sentences that you will not forget. To let the actors age through the mask (Birger Laube!), Instead of casting them twice, was perhaps the best production idea - with an award-worthy result. "
“In many large institutions, be they economically, politically or culturally oriented, you will find a special kind of dual leadership: a brilliant technician who does the actual work in the background; and a charismatic bon vivant who makes the whole thing look good on the outside. Schröder and Steinmeier. Jobs and Wozniak. Simon and Garfunkel. To tell this dynamic (and why it inevitably has to break) credibly, that is the real merit of this two-parter. […] It shows good instincts that the author Christoph Silber and the directors Cyrill Boss and Philipp Stennert have agreed on a clear story and tell it through stringently. "
“And so everything is so closely geared towards brothers and sons that the rest can only have been about name-dropping that is effective in advertising - Król, Gastdorf, Levshin, Herzsprung, they are so unimportant in the 180 minutes that you wonder why they are even there. Your acting force gets no space. In addition, the sentences have a quality that it is like an insult when such great actors have to recite them. Advertising poetry, as brittle as old leather falls from the mouths of the figures. "
Audience ratings
The broadcast of the first part of Die Dasslers - Pioneers, Brothers and Rivals on April 14, 2017 was seen by 3.52 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 10.8% for the first. The second part on April 15, 2017 saw 3.23 million viewers and also achieved a market share of 10.8%.
Awards
- 2016: Bernd Burgemeister TV Award for the best TV film at the Munich Film Festival
- 2017: German Business Film Award 1st place for The Dasslers - Pioneers, Brothers and Rivals
- 2017: Award from the German Academy for Television for the best costume design . The award went to Gabriele Binder.
See also
Duel of the Brothers - The Story of Adidas and Puma , TV film from 2016 (RTL)
Web links
- The Dassler - pioneers, brothers and rivals in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summary of the action by Die Dasslers on the ARD website
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Dasslers - Pioneers, Brothers and Rivals (Part 1) . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ^ Certificate of Release for The Dasslers - Pioneers, Brothers and Rivals (Part 2) . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ^ The Dasslers - pioneers, brothers and rivals at crew united
- ↑ The Dasslers - Pioneers, Brothers and Rivals. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on April 15, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Timo Nöthling: The Dasslers - Pioneers, Brothers and Rivals. Quotemeter.de , April 10, 2017, accessed April 10, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach: Multi-part “The Dasslers - Pioneers, Brothers and Rivals”. tittelbach.tv , April 16, 2017, accessed April 16, 2017 .
- ↑ DJ Frederiksson: Fratricidal War among the Dasslers. In: Culture. Frankfurter Rundschau, April 13, 2017, accessed on April 6, 2019 : "The next big German TV history event two-part family saga can convince."
- ^ Anne Haeming: ARD film "The Dasslers". 180 minutes of advertising. In: Culture. Spiegel Online , April 14, 2017, accessed on April 15, 2017 : "Stupid that the ARD has made a two-part advertising film out of it."
- ↑ The winners of the 2017 awards. German Academy for Television, 2017, archived from the original on November 7, 2017 ; accessed on April 6, 2019 .