Dorfpunks (film)

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Movie
Original title Village punks
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2009
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Lars Jessen
script Norbert Eberlein
Rocko Schamoni (novel)
production Florian Koerner von Gustorf
music Jacob Ilya
camera Michael killer
cut Sebastian Schultz
occupation

Dorfpunks is a German feature film directed by Lars Jessen . The novel of the same name was written by his friend Rocko Schamoni . The film premiered at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival and was released in German cinemas on April 23, 2009.

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It is summer 1984 in the small town of Schmalenstedt in Schleswig-Holstein on the Baltic Sea. Malte Ahrens lives with his old left parents in a farmhouse. After dropping out of school, he trained as a potter. When the punk movement from England arrived in Schmalenstedt a little late, Malte, who was moved by it, called himself “Roddy Dangerblood”.

From then on, “being punk” determines Roddy's life. Hanging out with his friends Fliegevogel, Sid, Flo, Piekmeier and Günni in the forest hiding place with a campfire, drinking alcohol and witty conversations, skillful provocation of the Schmalenstedter philistine world and, last but not least, the tangible confrontations with the long-established rural youth are popular. But Roddy has to realize that being “punk” between forests and meadows can be quite varied, because the philistines he so hated get almost nothing of his revolt. In reality, the right-wingers in town are the only ones who see Roddy as punk. They regularly beat him up, something his extremely liberal parents observe with increasing concern. They, otherwise ready for every conceivable understanding, no longer come along and ask Roddy whether this is punk after he comes home again badly drawn from a brawl.

Annoyed by the monotony of his everyday life, Roddy decides to start a punk band with his friends Fliegevogel, Sid, Flo, Piekmeier and Günni. His buddies love it. After a long search one is really happy about the band name "Warhead". While Sid immediately begins to think about the most profound texts possible, Roddy just wants to have fun. Consequently, even the first rehearsals are difficult for the inexperienced musicians. In addition, the band name changes almost every day and the first gig a few days after the band was founded ends in a catastrophe. But the band is far from giving up. Your second concert will be an even bigger disaster than the first. Again the question arises whether this is punk.

As the band approaches its end, the friendship and convictions of the village punks are put to a real test. Is bourgeois life beginning for you or something else going on? In the end, Roddy suddenly comes to his own understanding of punk.

Reviews

  • “For those who are old enough and have experienced the eighties themselves somewhere in the province, Dorfpunks is a bit like a class reunion after twenty years: The film is a reminder of a wild time, disillusionment because the euphoria of the youth has subsided and astonishment or fright about what has become of oneself. "(kino-zeit)
  • "There was once a movement which, under the name of punk, raised the wasting of youth to a principle of life and deliberately floated aimlessly on the fringes of society. With" Dorfpunks ", Lars Jessen draws on a novel by the musician Rocko Schamoni and varies motifs from his First film "On the day when Bobby Ewing died": the coming-of-age story; the boring life in the north German provinces; the eighties as an ironically broken and at the same time nostalgic, transfigured place of longing. It is both conventionally and nicely told. With conventionality and Punk was definitely not interested in niceness. " ( Der Tagesspiegel )
  • "The film shows a youth in the country, between anarchy and philistinism, a feeling of no future and the search for meaning and purpose in life. The view of cornfields and idyllic nature cannot hide what the young punks rebel against: against the supposed emptiness in their own life and against a feeling of lack of perspective in the face of a lack of opportunities. In the end, they find very different solutions to deal with their youthful desire to break out and break new life. Be it through political radicalism, through drugs or through music. The film also focuses on the latter . The sound of the 80s is reborn in "Dorfpunks". " ( Cinefacts )

Trivia

The exterior shots were made a. in Lütjenburg (on Niederstraße), in the pedestrian zone of the Baltic Sea resort Schönberg, in front of the real Schuhaus Pfeil, not far from the Panker estate at the forester's house Hessenstein and around the Sehlendorfer beach.

Awards

In 2010, Cecil von Renner won the New Faces Award for best young actor.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for village punks . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2009 (PDF; test number: 117 345 K).