Fallwurf Böhme - The wondrous ways of a left-hander
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Fallwurf Böhme - The wondrous ways of a left-hander |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Heinz Brinkmann |
| script | Heinz Brinkmann, Matthias Thalheim |
| production | Hartmut Schulz |
| music | Gustl Lütjens |
| camera | Hartmut Schulz |
| cut | Karin Schöning |
Fallwurf Böhme - The wondrous ways of a left-hander is a German documentary about the successful GDR handball player Wolfgang Böhme , who shortly before the XXII. 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow was retired. Heinz Brinkmann directed the film . The film is largely based on Boehme's diaries and had its world premiere in October 2012 at the Wismar Film Festival. It opened in theaters on July 2, 2015.
content
Heinz Brinkmann is looking for answers as to why Böhme fell out of favor with the GDR rulers despite systematic support and years of success. Böhme was discovered as a handball talent in the 1960s and when he was 13 he went to boarding school in Rostock. He attended a sports school and received training in the merchant navy.
Over the years, Böhme was systematically built into a world-class handball player - during the Cold War, when sporting tournaments always had the character of a political test of strength. Over a period of 10 years, Böhme played with great success in the GDR national team and was team captain for four years. Shortly before the 1980 Olympic Games, however, Böhme was taken out of the team for “political and moral unreliability”, charged on flimsy grounds and finally declared “non-person”.
From then on, Böhme worked as a sports teacher and later as a bouncer, until his application to leave the country was finally approved in 1989 and he moved to Switzerland.
criticism
Marie Anderson wrote on kino-zeit.de that with Fallwurf Böhme “in an appealing and thoroughly humorous form, especially at the beginning of the film, [...] a very personal portrait of a man embedded in political history, the victim of a man, is created repressive system and has overcome his resignation through his positive attitude to life ". The "documentary with atmospheric jazz sounds" represents "a very special appreciation of this impassable fate, also with critical nuances" and also transports "plenty of zeitgeist and local color of the GDR from an unusual perspective, which produced a lot of thought".
Carsten Moll summed up on spielfilm.de, "Heinz Brinkmann's sober and yet humorous documentary film" proved to be a coherent portrait especially in the combination of politics, sport and private life [...] and rated the film with 4 out of 5 stars. The film service judged: "With the help of archive images as well as interviews with Böhme and some of his companions, the athlete's biography is traced, whereby the film repeatedly reveals gaps in important areas and sometimes moves unconvincingly between family and contemporary portraits."
Web links
- Fallwurf Böhme - The wondrous ways of a left-hander at filmportal.de
- Film profile for the filmkunstfest MV (stills, pictures)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Böhme drop - the wondrous ways of a left-hander . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2015 (PDF; test number: 153 025 K).
- ^ Marie Anderson: Portrait of a sawed-off handball professional. In: kino-zeit.de. Retrieved November 3, 2017 .
- ↑ Carsten Moll: Review: Fallwurf Böhme (2012). In: spielfilm.de. Retrieved November 3, 2017 .
- ↑ case throw Boehme. Film service, accessed on November 3, 2017 (short review).