Leader Ex
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Leader Ex |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 107 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Winfried Bonengel |
| script |
Anne Brauck's Winfried Bonengel Ingo Hasselbach |
| production |
Clementina Hegewisch Laurens Straub |
| music |
Loek Dikker , Michael Beckmann |
| camera | Frank Barbian |
| cut | Monika Schindler |
| occupation | |
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Führer Ex is a German film from 2002 . It addresses the German neo-Nazi scene at the time of the political change in the GDR and after reunification . The film is based on the book Die Abrechnung by Ingo Hasselbach , in which the author tells his life story.
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The two friends Heiko and Tommy live in the GDR , they dream of a life in Australia. When they break into a football stadium together, Tommy is arrested by the People's Police and subsequently sentenced to imprisonment, while Heiko is not discovered by the security forces. After Tommy's release from prison, his friend appears to have changed a lot. Tommy appears extremely irritable, behaves aggressively and molests against foreigners.
When Tommy gets his hands on an alleged map of the border strip, the two plan their escape. It turns out that the map is not complete, they are arrested and convicted of fleeing the republic . In prison, Tommy joins a group of neo-Nazis under Friedhelm Kaltenbach, with whom he had contact during his first stay in prison. Heiko, on the other hand, has to share a cell with the murderer Eduard Kellermann, the criminal Bonzo and the young Freddy. Freddy has to be of sexual service to Bonzo in the evening (forced, homosexual anal intercourse, called building a bus in the film ). Disgusted by Bonzo, Heiko joins fellow prisoner Hagen, who enjoys special privileges due to his role as inmate supervisor. When Bonzo tried to force Heiko to have sex, he refused and Bonzo attacked him. At that moment, Hagen comes into the cell with the guards and Hagen helps Heiko. Heiko now confides in all of Hagen. But one day Hagen rapes the young man in the shower, and Heiko calls for Tommy for help. Tommy comes with his comrades, they find Heiko lying on the floor and beat Hagen half to death. Meanwhile, Freddy hangs himself. Now Bonzo demands that Heiko be sexually at his will. Heiko gives in to the pretense of sexual coercion, but then inflicts considerable injuries on Bonzo with a screwdriver previously stolen from the workshop. Therefore he is put in a dark solitary cell.
Several weeks later, an officer of the Stasi (Stasi) approaches Heiko's friend Tommy and lets him take a look into Heiko's solitary cell, where Heiko is now apparently close to madness. He puts Tommy end of Heiko's solitary confinement in prospect, but only under the condition that the Stasi Tommy future information about the leader of the neo-Nazis, Friedhelm Kaltenbach supplies. Because he does not want to let his friend down, Tommy finally accepts the offer and reluctantly signs a corresponding declaration, whereupon Heiko is released from solitary confinement.
After a while, Tommy develops an escape plan to escape from prison. He persuades Heiko to come with him, but due to an incident, only Tommy manages to escape from prison. After escaping, Tommy ends up in West Germany.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Tommy went to Heiko and found him in a neo-Nazi headquarters in Berlin. He finds out that Heiko has become the leader of the neo-Nazi scene there. When there is an organized attack on a group of punks , in which a girl known to Tommy and Heiko from GDR times dies, Tommy decides to get out of the scene. Heiko von Kaltenbach then receives a pistol and the order to shoot Tommy. As evidence of Tommy's betrayal, Kaltenbach presents Heiko Tommy's declaration from prison, which identifies Tommy as an IM of the Stasi. In his fanaticism , Heiko is initially ready to obey Kaltenbach's orders and carry out the execution . But when he points the gun at his friend, he has scruples that prevent him from carrying out his mission. There is a heated discussion between the two friends, at the end of which they both decide to emigrate to Australia. A few minutes later, Tommy is seriously injured by the neo-Nazis from the headquarters and dies in Heiko's arms.
After this experience, Heiko leaves the neo-Nazi scene.
Reviews
“Excitingly narrated feature film that stimulates critical examination of the German past and present. Its potential for violence as well as some theatrical and dramaturgical inadequacies are disturbing; the motivations of the protagonists are not always convincingly developed either. "
“'Führer Ex' is not a particularly clever or even elegant film. He affords himself a directness that otherwise only B-films allow themselves [...] “Lack of differentiation”, “showmanship”, “one-dimensional characters”, “simplified schemes of cause and effect” - these and similar phrases are the two [Winfried Bonengel and Ingo Hasselbach] so often that the nausea made further conversations impossible [...] But it could be that Bonengel and Hasselbach, after years of dealing with right-wing youngsters, simply didn't feel like making a film for critics and TV editors close. That they saw their audience elsewhere, perhaps on the street, and that they wanted to get into heads that the prevailing discourse is no longer reaching. "
Web links
- Ex leader in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Leader Ex at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Leader Ex. In: Lexicon of the international film . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .