Flaming heart

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Movie
Original title Flaming heart
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2004
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK without age restriction
Rod
Director Oliver Ruts, Andrea Schuler
script Oliver Ruts, Andrea Schuler
production Jens Meurer, Christiane Thieme
music The Dead Brothers
camera Lars Barthel
cut Regina Bärtschi
occupation

Flammend 'Herz (Blue Skin) is a German-Swiss documentary from 2004 that was presented at the 54th Berlinale in the section Perspektive Deutsches Kino. The film describes the life and tendency of three older men between 85 and 91 years of age to get tattoos and the compulsion to keep getting tattoos . The film contains stories from a total of 267 years of life, which are told in 95 minutes.

Production and performance

The production of the film was shared by Egoli Tossell Film , ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel , Cobra Film and DRS. The preview of the film, at which the main actor Herbert Hoffmann was personally present, took place in the Arthouse Le Paris in Zurich . The cinema release in Germany was October 14, 2004. It was broadcast on television. on December 12, 2005 on ZDF (Das kleine Fernsehspiel) and on January 4, 2006 on Swiss television on SRF 1 .

plot

Flammend 'Herz is a film about the tattoo artist Herbert Hoffmann (born December 30, 1919 in Freienwalde in Pomerania; † June 30, 2010 in Heiden) and his friends Karlmann Richter (born July 13, 1913 in Kiel; † June 16, 2005) and Albert Cornelissen (* 1913 in Rotterdam; † 2010), whose bodies are works of art. The men tell their life paths, which met by chance in Hamburg a long time ago. The three old men between 85 and 91 wear what connects them on their skin - tattoos. The film describes "three life stories and three fates that diverge again and again, only to find each other again through a shared passion."

Herbert Hoffmann talks about his work in Hamburg-St. Pauli , where at times he was the only tattoo artist alongside Christian Warlich . Karlmann (Karl-Herrmann) Richter reports from his early life as the son of one of the ten wealthiest families in Kiel and how he became homosexual for 57 years. had to hide with an arranged marriage. In the early 1970s, he left his wife and four children to become a freelance tattoo artist. Albert Cornelissen talks about his life as the first tattoo artist in the Netherlands after the Second World War , as a seaman and that he has many of his wives immortalized with needle and ink. Cornelissen explains, “My mother had ten sisters. They all married sailors. I had ten uncles, all of whom were tattooed and told wonderful adventure stories. I could never have imagined becoming anything other than a seaman and a tattoo artist. "

criticism

The tattoo researcher Manfred Kohrs and the editor-in-chief of Tattoo Kulture Magazine , Sabrina Ungemach, presented the film in a report with a subsequent interview in Tattoo Kulture Magazine No. 44 / April 2021. Kohrs met Hoffmann several times in the 1970s and since 2018, in collaboration with the art historian Ole Wittmann , has been working on Hoffmann's estate, which is in the cantonal library of Appenzell Ausserrhoden . Herbert Hoffmann met hard in October 2004 after the screening of the film in front of the cinema in Jena and took the opportunity to interview him. When asked how he thinks this film, Hoffmann said: “I'm not at all satisfied with it. At that time I was persuaded to participate. So many scenes are missing that really explain the story. [...] The film is too negative for me. "

“With Flammend 'Herz, named after Herbert Hoffmann's first tattoo - the directors Andrea Schuler and Oliver Ruts - tattoo artists themselves - have succeeded in creating a touching, cheerful and thoughtful documentary whose three protagonists sometimes move to tears and often smile on their faces conjure up. Whatever they do, whether they talk or undress, one is never embarrassed, but always very close to their life. "

- Joachim Kurz

Awards

On February 16, 2004 the broadcaster TV5 and the Franco-German Youth Office (DFJW) awarded the film the Dialogue en perspective . "The award goes to Flammend 'Herz because of the poetic, humorous and respectful handling of a very original topic."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ International Film Festival: Berlinale, 54 'International Film Festival, Berlin, 05-15.02.04, catalog. Publishing House International Film Festival 2004.
  2. ↑ Flammend Herz kino.de, accessed on February 22, 2021.
  3. ↑ Oliver Ruts & Andrea Schuler (eds.): Picture book people. Tattooed Passions 1878–1952. Memoria Pulp Verlag, 1st edition 2002, ISBN 978-3-929670-33-2 , p. 242.
  4. ↑ Oliver Ruts & Andrea Schuler (eds.): Picture book people. Tattooed Passions 1878–1952. Memoria Pulp Verlag, 1st edition 2002, ISBN 978-3-929670-33-2 , p. 112.
  5. ↑ Filmdatenblatt berlinale.de, accessed on April 6, 2021
  6. ↑ a b Manfred Kohrs and Sabrina Ungemach: Flammend Herz - A friendship that gets under your skin. In: Tattoo Kulture Magazine 4, April / May 2021, pp. 14-19.
  7. ↑ Stefan Volk: Flammend 'Herz Andrea Schuler, Oliver Ruts. In: Filmbulletin print edition 7/2004 of 1 October of 2004.
  8. ↑ Flammend 'Herz - Critique kino-zeit.de, accessed on February 22, 2021.
  9. ↑ Perspektive Deutsches Kino: Film “Flammend 'Herz” wins jury award , accessed on February 22, 2021.