The little ones and the bad guys

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Movie
Original title The little ones and the bad guys
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2015
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Markus Sehr
script Xaõ Seffcheque ,
Martin Ritzenhoff
production Christine Kiauk ,
Herbert Schwering
music Paul Eisenach ,
Ryan Robinson
camera Leah Striker
cut Dirk Oetelhoven
occupation

Die Kleinen und die Böse is a German feature film directed by Markus Sehr . The cinema release was on September 3, 2015.

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The probation officer Benno, who once started his social profession with great ideals, has meanwhile established himself comfortably and pragmatically in the sadness of his life. He has been looking after his client Hotte for what feels like an eternity and is no longer under any illusions. Because Hotte is not only a habit drinker, but also a habit criminal: whether burglary, fraud, theft or coercion, with his choleric and unteachable manner he staggers from one catastrophe to the next. When this ticking time bomb is unexpectedly awarded custody of his two children Dennis and Jenny, Benno realizes that this cannot go well. But what should he do? Lots of hopeless cases! So there is only a very half-hearted attempt to convince the youth welfare office employee Pohl to give the two teenagers to a supervised living group.

Hotte doesn't want to know anything about it anyway. He decides to take custody and moves in with his children in the comfortable apartment of the recently deceased grandma. He doesn't care that he hasn't seen her since the birth - Hartz IV plus child and housing benefits are arguments enough for him. When Dennis had a fatal accident shortly afterwards, Benno suspected that Hotte wanted to “train” his son on a robbery. Hotte vehemently denies this. And although he is somehow involved in the nightly accident, for once it is really not his fault - which you hardly believe him because of his biography.

The incident changes everything for Benno. He admitted complicity in Dennis's death. And something awakens in him that he thought he had long since lost: He begins to stand up for others and is determined to withdraw Hotte's influence from Jenny. Since the youth welfare office employee Pohl remains stubborn, Benno sees only one way out to save the girl from her father: He sets a trap for Hotte to put him back in his second home - the prison.

Benno exceeds his professional and moral skills. Logically, his plan goes wrong and he sets things in motion that he can no longer control. When he temporarily quartered Jenny at his home, his girlfriend Tanja reacted extremely annoyed - she imagines the addition of her family to be different, namely classically self-produced. If only Benno had told her a little earlier about his infertility. The house blessing hangs mightily crooked. And then Jenny falls in love with Ivic, a young Kosovar criminal and also a client of Benno.

In this chaotic situation, Benno finds comfort with Anabell, the Portuguese waitress from his local bar, whose feminine, fragile appearance attracts him and whose courage and optimism do him good. And he can use support, because Hotte sees through Benno's plan and takes up the fight for his daughter. What he would hardly have expected himself: something like father feelings are slowly setting in him. Together with Ivic, he is planning a big coup in order to then leave for Mallorca with the captured money and Jenny. It's just stupid that Jenny suddenly doesn't want to play along with this plan.

When Benno finally gets the chance to snatch the looted coal himself, he has to make the most difficult decision of his life. But because the disaffected, cynical officer has meanwhile become Benno who believes in something again, he even manages to turn his own life - to some extent - for the better. So he ends up with a beach restaurant in the Azores. Even his dream of a family has somehow come true, just very different from what he had imagined: He is surrounded by a blended family made up of more or less hopeless cases: Anabell with her disabled daughter Inez, Jenny and even the crazy Ivic are there. And the powder keg with the very short fuse - Hotte. The social work for Benno continues.

background

According to their own statements, the authors Xaõ Seffcheque and Martin Ritzenhoff oriented themselves both in terms of style and content on the one hand to Italian neoverismo ( the dirty, the ugly and the mean ), and on the other hand to the modern British social tragic comedy ( Brassed Off - Mit Pauken und Trompeten , Mein Name is Joe ). They developed the script back in 2004, but found neither financiers nor supporting television networks. There were also considerable problems for the producer Herbert Schwering with the casting of the roles and the direction : In addition to the sometimes daring mix of serious to brutal and comedic elements, the sometimes extreme character drawings and the often dirty slang language, it was above all the one for a German film rather unusual genre crossover, and here again especially the sudden death of the not yet sixteen-year-old Dennis, who put off several producers, financiers, distributors, actors and editorial offices. Only when Christoph Maria had agreed to play the main role in autumn 2012 did things move forward: After the Federal Ministry of Culture, which had also funded the script, granted start-up funding, the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW also got involved. Nordmedia and DFFF were added, the WDR, but above all Arte as co-producers, finally completed the support ranks. After Axel Prahl's cancellation at short notice , director Markus Sehr decided on Peter Kurth , whose interpretation of the chubby-evil-devious Hotte earned him a lot of praise.

The budget was only around 1.75 million euros, which is why the film had to be shot in just 26 days. This happened in June and July 2014 in Cologne and Hanover and in November 2014 in Tenerife.

The film premiered at the Munich Film Festival in May 2015. At the beginning of September 2015 it was released in German cinemas, albeit only in a modest number of copies.

Awards

On the occasion of its premiere at the Munich Film Festival , the film was nominated for the FIPRESCI Prize of the International Film Critics, Markus Sehr for “Best Young Director” and Emma Bading for “Best Young Actress”.

Markus Sehr was nominated for the German Director Prize Metropolis for his production .

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  1. ↑ Release certificate for the little ones and the bad guys . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2015 (PDF; test number: 153 054 K).