The heartbreakers
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The heartbreakers |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1983 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter F. Bringmann |
| script | Matthias Seelig |
| production | Michael Wiedemann |
| music | Lothar Meid |
| camera | Helge Weindler |
| cut | Annette Dorn |
| occupation | |
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The music film Die Heartbreakers is a German production from 1983.
action
The film is set in the Ruhr area in the mid-1960s . The beat wave has swept over Germany, and numerous amateur bands emulate their heroes by. In Recklinghausen the friends Freytag, Schmittchen, Uwe and Guido found the band Die Heartbreakers . Little Pico becomes their manager, with the ambitious goal of making them as successful as the Beatles or the Rolling Stones . The pretty Lisa really wants to be part of the band. However, the guys think that a girl doesn't fit in a beat band. At the same time, Lisa still has a problem with her abusive father. She flees from him to Freytag, who wants to be grown up and cool, but has not yet learned to express his feelings.
Pico organizes a first appearance in his uncle's inn in Haltern . However, the performance turned out to be a failure, as the narrow-minded guests of the pub would rather hear hits than loud rock music. To make matters worse, the band's audio system is stolen. So they do not have good prerequisites to win at the Ruhr Beat Festival for amateur bands against their toughest competitors, Die Lightnings from Herne . Another competitor is Lisa, who, unhappily in love with Freytag, takes part in the festival as a singer of the Lightnings out of spite and actually wins the festival. Freytag finally realizes that he made a mistake as a band leader and as a friend of Lisa.
music
The pieces Bring it on home to me and the winning track Lisa's Song , which are presented in the film by actress Mary Ketikidou, are actually sung by Ingeburg Thomsen . Matthias Kartner , David Hanselmann , Kim Merz and the bands Pille Palle and the Ötterpötter from Berlin also sing as Die Fünf Tornados , X-Rays from Dortmund as Die Lightnings and the student rock group Treff from Herne as Die Short Boys . There is no actual band name for the group appearing under the name Die Raiders . The Quartettverein Stahl und Eisen 1934 from Dortmund also made a guest appearance in the film .
production
The film is a co-production by tura-film , Munich with Pro-ject in the film publishing house of the authors , Munich and the WDR in Cologne.
Reviews
- “A cinema story told warmly with humor and tension with an occasional tendency towards a somewhat loyal and trivial romanticization, which gently and energetically reveals the difficulties young people have in dealing with their feelings.” - “ Lexicon of international film ” (CD-ROM edition ), Systhema, Munich 1997
- "Beat film (...); for friends of the scene. ”(Rating: 1½ stars = moderate) - Adolf Heinzlmeier and Berndt Schulz in Lexicon“ Films on TV ” (extended new edition). Rasch and Röhring, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-89136-392-3 , p. 346
The Wiesbaden film evaluation agency awarded the production the title valuable .
Awards
In 1983 the film won the German Silver Film Prize , the Gilde Film Prize in silver and the Bavarian Film Prize for the best newcomer production.
DVD release
- The Heartbreakers , TV Jewels, 2011
Web links
- The Heartbreakers at filmportal.de
- The Heartbreakers in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ This is how her name is written in the credits of the film. Source (also for the information about the musicians): Copy of the film available to me.