Kite food (film)

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Movie
Original title Kite food
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1987
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Jan Schütte
script Jan Schütte
Thomas Strittmatter
production Novoskop, Jan Schütte, Hamburg and Probst Film, Bern on behalf of ZDF
music Claus Bantzer
camera Lutz Konermann
cut Renate Merck
Andreas Schreitmüller
occupation

Drachenfutter is a German-Swiss feature film from 1987. The film, shot in black and white, is the cinema debut of the Hamburg film director Jan Schütte .

action

The film shows images from the world of Asian-African asylum seekers, their exploitation and their anger with the authorities and the police. The story is told by the Pakistani Bhasker; at night he sells roses, helps in the kitchen of a Chinese restaurant and is happy when he can put this undeclared work behind him. After his only friend Rashid was deported, he befriends the Chinese waiter Xiao, played by Ric Young. Together they try to open their own restaurant. With a lot of work and a few tricks, one day they are about to fulfill their dream.

background

The film title Dragon Fodder refers to the roses used by flower sellers in pubs in the 1920s. At that time they were mostly bought by drunk men on a drinking tour to bring them to their wives to appease. Today the roses in St. Pauli are mostly sold to lovers.

The film was funded by the Board of Trustees for Young German Film and the Hamburger Filmbüro e. V. produces. It started in cinemas on February 11, 1988 and was first broadcast on October 9, 1988 in Germany on ZDF.

Awards

In 1987, Drachenfutter received the Francesco Pasinetti Prize of the Italian Film Critics, in 1988 the German Film Critics' Prize for the best feature film and the TV Film Prize of the German Academy of Performing Arts . In 1989 Jan Schütte was awarded the Adolf Grimme Silver Prize for this.

Reviews

Harry Rowohlt wrote in Die Zeit : Two years ago Jan Schütte made a fifteen-minute documentary about flower sellers looking for asylum, and because he thought that was not enough, he is now submitting this feature film. In doing so, he thought carefully and did not take any genuinely affected amateur actors, but actors, and good ones, because there are now and then. (...) The film ends sadly, of course, but it makes you happy: finally a successful German film, not too long and not too loud, inconspicuous, but good. Like number 29 in the Chinese (won ton soup).

Wolfram Schütte wrote in the Frankfurter Rundschau : “The director's obvious partisanship for the miserable has Fassbinder's empathy; Jan Schütte also has the courage to be narrative laconic and astonishing naturalism when it comes to language. Pakistani and Chinese are spoken; Only when foreigners want to communicate with each other across their language barriers do they fall back on pidgin German, which is only heard in its pure form when representatives of the authorities speak out - or a German guest complains about the food Non-subtitled foreign languages ​​and basic German is perhaps even more exciting and irritating than the unsentimental but soulful poetry of the pictures of dragon food. The first feature film by Jan Schüttes is a promise that shows many beautiful possibilities that the director will really have to keep in other works later. It is, however, gratifying that the new generation of our film is so resolutely and thoroughly turning to areas of life in our society that lie on the periphery of bourgeois perception. "

Frauke Hanck wrote in tz : "Classic black and white pictures, little dialogue in many languages ​​and a lot of pathos in the feeling."

Werner C. Barg wrote in the Lexikon des Kinder- und Jugendfilms : “Schütte / Strittmatter is to be thanked for being one of the first in West German cinema to address the abstract problem of applying for asylum through very emotional, melancholy but also anger about the circumstances Have personalized movie narration. They give the audience the opportunity to identify with two refugees. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Just: Film-Jahrbuch 1989
  2. ↑ Club film library
  3. ↑ Club film library
  4. ↑ Jan Schuette's website
  5. ↑ Jan Schuette's website
  6. ↑ Frauke Hanck, cited above. according to Just: Film-Jahrbuch 1989, p. 44 f.
  7. ↑ Club film library