Fire for the great dragon (film)
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| Original title | Fire for the great dragon |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1984 |
| length | 105 minutes |
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| Director | Eberhard Itzenplitz |
| script | Horst Bosetzky |
| production | SFB |
| camera | Gérard Vandenberg |
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Fire for the Big Dragon is a German TV film from 1984 based on the novel of the same name by Horst Bosetzky . The film was produced by the broadcaster Free Berlin after a script adaptation by the novelist itself and was broadcast on January 25, 1984 during prime time on Erste . In the year the film was first broadcast, the thriller was also released on video cassette .
content
"Against the background of Berlin-Kreuzberg with its many foreigners and the latent xenophobia, the story of these people takes place, who advocate international understanding and tolerance, but who are driven into an almost foreseeable catastrophe after attacks by right-wing circles."
Berlin, early 1980s: In the Kreuzberg district, there are numerous foreigners who endure the subliminal xenophobia of Berliners. Against this background, the lawyer Hanna falls in love with the Turkish engineer Tugrul who works there. After attacks by neo-Nazis, however, he and other Berlin Turks take up the organized fight against the right. All attempts by tolerant mediators fail. Internal disputes among the criminal police do not improve the situation, which has resulted in civil war-like conditions.
Film reception
The film adaptation of fire for the great dragon is covered in publications on migration issues. In times of increasing xenophobia in the Federal Republic of Germany, it is said to have triggered “horror and solidarity” with the Turks living in Germany in parts of the population. Most recently, Jochen Neubauer named them in his book Turkish Germans, Kanakster and Deutschländer (2011) as an example of the portrayal of characters of Turkish origin in films of the 1980s. Here "a German-Turkish love story [...] with the topic of xenophobia" is connected.
Web links
- Fire for the big dragon in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b On TV this week . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 1984, pp. 194 ( online ).
- ↑ Claudia Cippitelli, Axel Schwanebeck: The new seducers? Right-wing populism and right-wing extremism in the media . Documentation of the 22nd Tutzinger Medientage 2003. p. 112
- ↑ Stefan Ulbrich: Multiculturalism . Arun Verlag, 1991
- ↑ Jochen Neubauer: Turkish Germans, Kanaksters and Deutschländer . Königshausen and Neumann, 2011, p. 181