Duel of the Brothers - The Story of Adidas and Puma
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| Original title | Duel of the Brothers - The Story of Adidas and Puma |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Oliver Dommenget |
| script | Christian Schnalke |
| production |
Daniel Mann , Michael Souvignier , Uwe Kersken |
| music | Frederik Wiedmann |
| camera | Georgy Pestov |
| cut | Ingo Recker |
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Duel der Brüder - The Story of Adidas and Puma is a German television film directed by Oliver Dommenget , which premiered on March 25, 2016.
action
At the beginning of the 1920s , the brothers Adi and Rudolf Dassler jointly set up their own shoe manufacture in Herzogenaurach . The two complement each other perfectly in the company: Adi is a visionary and tinkerer, Rudolf, on the other hand, is a talented salesman and takes over the commercial part. During the Second World War , their production permit was withdrawn. Rudolf has to go to the front, his brother Adi is allowed to stay in Herzogenaurach because he was classified as indispensable. When the war is over, they want to make shoes again, but the Allies find out that the company made weapons for the Nazis during the war. It was only when they found out that adidas was making shoes especially for Jesse Owens , with which he won four gold medals at the 1936 Olympic Games , that they abandoned their plan to destroy the factory.
The tensions between the brothers nevertheless increase. Rudolf thinks that his brother was able to avoid military service through his political connections and was only too happy to see him go to the front. Rudolf then blackened him to the Allies by telling them that Adi had employed slave labor in the factory during the war. The relationship of trust between the brothers is then completely damaged. Overnight, the brothers therefore decide to inform the company's workforce that they want to continue operations in two separate companies in the future. Most of the employees stay with adidas, including the majority of the shoemakers. The sales department almost completely follows his brother, who is now trying to set up a rival company under his nickname Puma.
During a soccer game, Adi Dassler had the idea of adding three white stripes to his house's shoes. In these shoes, the German national team finally won the final of the soccer world championship in 1954 , for which Adi is the equipment advisor. After the game, he discovers a message from his brother in the changing room of the Bern stadium, in which he congratulates him on having done everything right.
Historical background
Adolf Dassler took over his father's business in 1920, who until then had specialized in the production of felt slippers. In 1924 his brother Rudolf Dassler also joined the company. Like his brother Rudolf, Adolf Dassler was a member of the NSDAP from May 1933 . Adolf Dassler was drafted into the Wehrmacht at the beginning of the Second World War, but was able to return to his company after just one year. Rudolf Dassler had to go to the front and was released from US captivity one year after the end of the war. In the further course, Adolf Dassler and the company became the subject of investigations as part of the denazification process because the Panzerschreck anti-tank weapon was manufactured in the shoe factory and French forced laborers were used. The brothers quarreled during this time until their death. Adolf Dassler led the Adidas company to success, Rudolf Dassler the Puma company .
production
Staff and cast
In September 2015, it became known that RTL was planning a film about the Dassler brothers, initially under the alternative title Die Turnschuhgiganten . The film was produced by Zeitsprung Pictures and G5 fiction and directed by Oliver Dommenget based on a script by Christian Schnalke . The specialist advice was taken over by the documentary filmmaker Stefan Lamby and the historian Gregor Schöllgen from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. The leading roles of the brothers Adi and Rudolf Dassler took on Ken Duken and Torben Liebrecht .
Filming
Among other things, the film was shot on 21 days in the spring of 2015 in North Rhine-Westphalia . Here, the city of Bad Münstereifel was staged as Herzogenaurach due to the historical structure and the almost completely preserved city wall . The filming location for the various Dassler factories was a former factory in Wermelskirchen . The interior shots of the villa of the Dassler couple took place in Wuppertal . In Jülich-Barmen , the location scouts discovered a natural lake and a churchyard , which the production facility used for various outdoor shots of the film. Further filming took place in the greater Berlin-Brandenburg area , including on original locations such as the area of the Berlin Olympic Stadium and in the municipality of Gramzow in the north-east of Brandenburg in the Uckermark district . The exterior shots of the 1954 World Cup final shown towards the end of the film were reproduced in the Solingen Jahnkampfbahn .
Finance and Success
The Film- und Medienstiftung NRW supported the film project with 1.5 million euros, additional funds came from the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg .
The film was shown to Puma employees before it was first broadcast , and a press screening took place in February 2016. At the television premiere on March 25, 2016 on RTL , the film had a total of 4.94 million viewers with a market share of 14.9%. Despite the high ratings, the film had received a lot of negative reviews from the press in the run-up to its first broadcast, with the main question being whether the film falsified the Dassler story.
reception
Reviews
Klaus Braeuer from DIE WELT thinks : The film offers good actors, great equipment, lively music, rapid cuts and a somewhat too modern language [...] Author Schnalke and director Oliver Dommenget take up a few historical truths, but they add all the more In more detail, add all kinds of fictional freedoms that don't offer too much space for depth.
Axel Wolfsgruber from Focus Online says: The true story of the Dasslers is complex and at the same time very emotional. That would have to be told slowly and calmly so that the psychology of the actors behind their actions can reveal itself. The flick's apparent tempo pressure doesn't do the narrative any good. The film wants a lot, too much, and cannot do everything it has set itself to do in this time frame.
However, there were also positive reviews, for example from Uwe Ritzer from the Süddeutsche Zeitung : The RTL film adheres entirely to the emotion: a brotherly quarrel, staged in soulful images by director Oliver Dommenget, as an exciting film in which brothers suspicious rivals and eventually become bitter, despising opponents. The famous actors Ken Duken and Torben Liebrecht embody Adi and Rudi Dassler as they undoubtedly were: as egomaniacs.
A critic from goldenekamera.de also emphasizes the performance of the two main actors: the opaque behavior of the Dassler brothers during National Socialism is shown realistically and not very nicely . [...] the actors Torben Liebrecht and Ken Duken convince.
Awards
- Nomination for best television film
- Nomination for Best Actor ( Ken Duken , also for Tempel )
- Nomination for Best Production Design ( Julian Augustin and Pierre Pfundt )
New York City International Film Festival 2017
- Award for best narrative feature film
- Award as Best Director ( Oliver Dommenget )
- Best Actor Award ( Torben Liebrecht )
- Award as best actress ( Nadja Becker )
- Award for best camera work ( Georgij Pestov )
- Award for Best Editing ( Ingo Recker )
- Award as best music ( Frederik Wiedmann )
- Award as best costume design ( Elisabeth Kraus )
Web links
- Duel of brothers - The story of Adidas and Puma in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Duel of the Brothers - The Story of Adidas and Puma . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 158083 / V).
- ↑ Duel of the Brothers - The Story of Adidas and Puma In: moviepilot.de, March 9, 2016.
- ↑ Puma and Adidas: The eternal brotherly conflict In: Stern Online, May 30, 2008.
- ↑ The sneaker giants - RTL filmed the life of the Dassler brothers In: RTL Online, September 2, 2015.
- ↑ a b c Made in North Rhine-Westphalia - 'Duell der Brüder - The story of Adidas and Puma' ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: filmstiftung.de, March 22, 2016.
- ↑ a b Invitation: Press screening and interviews for the RTL event movie 'Duell der Brüder - The story of Adidas and Puma' on Friday, February 5, 2016, in Hamburg ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: presseportal.de, January 29, 2016.
- ^ Antonius Wolters: RTL as a guest in Jülich: film about Dassler brothers is being shot. In: Aachener Nachrichten. September 10, 2015, accessed March 28, 2016 .
- ^ Filmland Brandenburg 2015 In: bbfc.de. Retrieved January 15, 2017 (PDF; 477 kB)
- ↑ a b 'The duel of the brothers': The bitter struggle for the sneaker In: goldenekamera.de. Retrieved March 26, 2016.
- ↑ a b Bernhard Panzer: RTL film about Adidas and Puma: falsified Rudolf Dassler story in 'Duell der Brüder'? In: infranken.de, March 25, 2016.
- ↑ Jens Schröder: Great numbers for the 'Duel of the Brothers' and 'Miss Marple', 'The Voice Kids' ends more weakly than ever In: meedia.de, March 26, 2016.
- ↑ Klaus Braeuer: Historical drama - The sneaker duel between two brothers In: DIE WELT Online, March 21, 2016.
- ↑ Axel Wolfsgruber: TV column: 'Duell der Brüder': RTL film orakelt: Who is the real father of the Adidas legacy Horst Dassler? In: Focus Online, March 25, 2016.
- ↑ Uwe Ritzer: RTL film Adidas versus Puma: Battle of Two Brothers In: sueddeutsche.de, March 24, 2016.
- ↑ Alexander Krei and Uwe Mantel: The Fiction Nominations for the TV Prize 2017 In: dwdl.de, December 19, 2016.
- ↑ DWDL.de GmbH: "Duel of the Brothers" wins eight times in New York - DWDL.de . In: DWDL.de . ( dwdl.de [accessed on January 10, 2018]).
- ↑ NYCIFF Winners 2017. Retrieved January 10, 2018 .
