Angel & Joe

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Movie
Original title Angel & Joe
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2001
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Vanessa Jopp
script Kai Hermann
Vanessa Jopp
Oliver Simon
Christoph von Zastrow
production Michael Eckelt
Hieronymus Proske
Volker Stolberg
music Michael Beckmann
camera Judith Kaufmann
cut Martina Matuschewski
occupation

Engel & Joe is a German feature film by Vanessa Jopp that was released on October 25, 2001. It was shot based on the book of the same name by Kai Hermann .

The book

The book is about Joe, whose real name is Johanna. She's fifteen and fed up with family life: with a mom who is upset about Joe's ripped jeans but has no idea how her daughter is doing, and gross Mike who poses as a wannabe stepfather. Joe grabs the bag and runs away. And like everyone in Berlin who doesn't know where to go, she goes to Alexanderplatz. On the way there, she meets Engel for the first time, who asks her for some change for an ambulance because he had previously been badly beaten by the police. At this point, Joe takes no notice of Engel because he has mocking eyes and the eyes of a person are most important to her. When Joe is turned on by a group of bald heads on the Alex, Engel steps in. His correct name is Egbert Engel and his friends refer to him as Zorro. It's love at first sight between Joe and the seventeen year old outsider. Joe has decided to fight for her happiness - against her mother, the youth welfare office and also against the drug scene, which threatens to drag her into the abyss. But as in almost all love, there is quarrel and love falls apart.

Plot of the film

Joe is 15 and wants to run away from home. Her dog runs to a group of punks on Cologne's Domplatte. This is how she gets to know angels. He's 17 and his life revolves around underground concerts and hanging out and scrounging around the cathedral. When Joe goes to a concert with the punks, she is turned on by the Nazis, whereupon Engel defends her. As a result, the two get closer and Engel takes Joe to his home, a demolished building, where they smooch and Engel wants to sleep with Joe, which she refuses. When both of them are back with the other punkers, Asi, another punk, pushes her way between the newly in love couple. Joe keeps his distance, but Engel wins her back and they spend the night together.

They want to meet again in the evening. Joe's pill-addicted mother, however, intercepts her after school and collapses there, leaving Joe to take care of her. When Joe does not come, Engel is desperate and accepts Asi's advances.

When Joe's mother's boyfriend shows up again, Joe runs away again. When she found angels, they clash with their different problems without being able to respond to each other. Engel smoked a tin again , which could have meant death for him as an ex-junkie.

When they meet again later, the problems are forgotten and the love is intense as never before. Joe now lives with Engel.

This is the prelude to a love story. Engel and Joe have to free themselves again and again from the external conditions in order to be able to take a short breath before the next test is due. The degree of tolerance, ability to suffer and perseverance that is required of the two makes them stumble deeper and deeper into misery. As gray and cold as the concrete on which the two of them fall asleep exhausted, the environment reacts to the unwanted romance in a hostile and hostile manner.

Later in the film, the two of them have to deal with blows of fate and other problems: Joe becomes pregnant (but doesn't know by whom exactly), Engel, in his desperation of not having a job, robs a kiosk and ends up in jail. Joe then has to take care of her baby alone, whom she and Engel have named "Moses", with help from Alex (apart from Engel, the possible birth father of Moses) and her mother. At Christmas, Engel is released from prison and visits Joe. Joe then goes with him. The next morning, Engel and Joe are discovered sleeping by the police and the children's emergency services. Since Engel had injected heroin, the police took Moses away from them.

Out of sheer desperation, Joe goes to buy somehow to get money, although Engel is against it. With the money they have earned, the two disappear from the city after kidnapping Moses from the children's home and take the train to the mountains. That was Engel's greatest wish that they can now live out together with their little son Moses.

music

The song for the film "Engel und Joe" is "Black Eyed" by Placebo . In their music video for the song, there are also excerpts from the film and specially filmed scenes of Engel and Joe at a placebo concert, who mess with the security to get to the front of the stage.

Background of the book

The book of the same name by Kai Hermann is based on a true story and received the Egon Erwin Kisch Prize . There are rather minor differences between the actual events, the book and the film.

Angel and Joe are called "shaggy" and "witch" in real life. In the film, the name of the child (Moses instead of David Che) and the scene (Cologne instead of Berlin and Hamburg) were changed.

A short sequel should also explain the outcome of the story left open in the book and film: After a total of three years with aborted withdrawal attempts, the witch and the shaggy parted. Both took heroin and later the substitute methadone. The child, whose biological father was never known, grows up in a home.

Witch probably lived clean and in normal circumstances with another man for some time. During this time she was allowed to see her son more often. Eventually, however, she relapsed, went on the baby slick again, and died of an overdose just weeks later at the age of 20.

Zottel no longer cared about the child he thought was his. Despite or perhaps because of the methadone and an internship at a junk shop, he is still deeply rooted in the scene and continues to have problems with the law. He probably never looked as neat as the angel in the film.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zeit Online: We children from Alex

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