Back straight
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Back straight |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tarek Ehlail |
| script | Tarek Ehlail Moses Arndt Stephanie M. Blum |
| production | Tarek Ehlail Stephanie M. Blum |
| camera | Mathias Prause |
| cut | Lars Doneith |
| occupation | |
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Gegengerade - 20359 St. Pauli (DVD cover title: Gegengerade - Nobody wins at Millerntor ) is a feature film by director Tarek Ehlail from 2011, the action of which takes place in the vicinity of FC St. Pauli . In addition to numerous amateur actors from the club's fan scene, Denis Moschitto , Fabian Busch , Moritz Bleibtreu , Natalia Avelon , Timo Jacobs and Mario Adorf play the main roles in the film.
action
The episode film described the fate of several people who are more or less connected to the FC St. Pauli fan scene: The three friends Magnus, Kowalski and Arne are part of the fan scene and stick together despite their different social backgrounds. Their common passion is the club. You are involved in brawls with Nazis outside the stadium. In one of these brawls, they defeat a group of Nazis and film their humiliating defeat. Shortly before the kick-off of an important promotion game for St. Pauli in the 1st Bundesliga, the scrapyard employee Kowalski was targeted by investigators. Magnus' relationship with the attractive Natascha is heavily burdened by his football fanaticism. She is a real estate agent herself and suffers from her ruthless boss who wants to promote the gentrification of St. Pauli .
At the end of the film, St. Pauli rises and Kowalski and Arne are beaten up by the police. One of the policemen - probably one of the Nazis who once clashed with Magnus, Kowalski and Arne - murders Arne and films it. The good-natured Baldu's little room is deliberately set on fire by the police.
Type of representation
The plot jumps back and forth between the individual people. Again and again the stadium announcer and the protagonists turn directly to the audience and break through the fourth wall . In doing so, they describe their fascination with the stadium and football and express their attitude towards life. Topics such as fan culture, ultra culture , prostitution and gentrification are shown or mentioned. The film closes with the song You'll Never Walk Alone .
backgrounds
It is the second feature film by director Tarek Ehlail . The work was sponsored by Saarlandmedien , in coproduction with Norddeutscher Rundfunk , Saarländischer Rundfunk and Studio Hamburg . Production companies are Sabotakt Films and Triple Beat .
The film premiered at the Max Ophüls Preis 2011 film festival in Saarbrücken . Back straight took part in the festival's feature film competition.
At the time of the Berlinale 2011 , the film was shown as a Berlin premiere in the Berlin Kant cinema. During the subsequent celebration in the Hotel Esplanade , at which the punk band Slime , who appeared in the film, also played, riots broke out, which were ended by the police.
It was released on March 31, 2011.
Reviews
“[…] Hardly anything can be seen of the game itself, but that's not the most important thing. The most important things are the fans, the counterculture on St. Pauli and the fight against the commercialization of the district, which makes living space affordable only for rich yuppies. Even more decisive, however, is the fun that this protest provides, the celebration of a counterculture in which fights, binge drinking and punk hammering merge into an anarchic rage orgy. A film for those who love it loud, wild and rough. "
“Actually, the director Tarek Ehlail wanted to set a monument to FC St. Pauli. In the end he showed a film in the style of gross assault and only to be endured with several bottles of Astra . It is questionable whether the Hamburg district association, which insists on its reputation as a refuge for resistance against racism, sexism and commerce and on its otherness, actually wants to adorn itself with this unusually ordinary beating film. It's mostly about punches, fists, fake blood. Not about depth or poise. "
“An overloaded episode film could be criticized. But perhaps the mutual relationship between the St. Pauli district and its club can only be portrayed in exactly the same way: as a wild collage of different life plans, coincidences and strokes of fate. "
Web links
- Official website
- Everything is allowed - Interview with Tarek Ehlail at 11 Friends on January 16, 2011
- I hate drawers - Interview with Stephanie M. Blum in the TAZ from January 20, 2011
- Backstretch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Kati Degenhardt, Peter Oldenburger: "Gegengerade" - Premiere: Riot at a film party in a Berlin luxury hotel. In: Berliner Morgenpost . February 17, 2011, accessed October 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Chaostage on St. Pauli. In: Kino-Zeit.de. Retrieved February 22, 2011 .
- ^ Christian Spiller: Film "Gegengerade": St. Pauli loses in the cinema. In: Zeit Online . March 29, 2011, accessed October 28, 2015 .
- ↑ 11 Friends, Issue # 113, April 2011, page 92