Give me the cherry! - The 1st German football role

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Movie
Original title Give me the cherry! - The 1st German football role
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2004
length 82 minutes
Age rating FSK without age restriction
Rod
Director Oliver Gieth
Peter Hüls
script Oliver Gieth
Peter Hüls
production Annette Pisacane
music Dinesh Ketelsen
camera Reinhard Köcher
cut Fritz Busse
occupation

Give me the cherry! - The 1st German Football Roll is a documentary football film from 2004 by Oliver Gieth and Peter Hüls .

content

Using image documents and radio reports from the archives of broadcasters and clubs, the first decade of professional football in West Germany from the founding of the Bundesliga in 1963 to winning the 1974 World Cup in one's own country is presented. The film presents the image material (which is partly also available in black and white ) without a continuous storyline or its own commentary, but lets the sequence of scenes speak for itself.

Some bizarre TV appearances, interviews, excerpts from match broadcasts and sports reports, films about the private life of the footballers of the time and reports about fans are shown. This shows the profound change in the once locally rooted football culture and the commercialization of sport, as a result of which sporting events have become events for the entertainment industry. The first Bundesliga scandal also shows the downsides. The film adds to the amusement by juxtaposing statements from the past with the present. Franz Beckenbauer said with regard to the foreseeable end of his active playing career: "I don't want to have anything to do with football later."

background

  • The grammatically incorrect title “Give me the cherry” is based on the popular anecdote that Lothar Emmerich used these words in 1966 to call on fellow players at Borussia Dortmund to pass him the ball. However, the filmmakers stressed that there was no actual evidence to support this legend.
  • The film was made over a period of 10 years, with the filmmakers watching over 1,000 football films and contributions for two and a half years and editing them for three and a half years. The remaining four years required the rights research and approval, as well as the efforts to bring the film to the cinema.
  • The world premiere took place on September 28, 2004 at the Hamburg Film Festival . The film only had its theatrical release in Germany around two years later on June 1, 2006.
  • In the credits, the film is dedicated to Reinhard Libuda and Werner Kohlmeyer .

Reviews

"Above all, the film is a collection of mostly well-known scenes committed to the principle of fun and pleasure and does not strive for analytical depth, but indirectly illustrates the change of the players from street kicker to today's star."

- Lexicon of international film

"When football could be weird."

- The daily newspaper

"A wealth of impressions, but not necessarily a documentary."

- Süddeutsche Zeitung

"If you like, you can understand the embarrassing pictures from back then as a comment by the directors on the world championship spectacle of today."

- The mirror

“The fact that football talent can now collect sums of millions is largely due to the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963. Since that year, football has grown into the ramified business it is. [..] What is even more serious: The distance between the actors and the fans has meanwhile become huge. The life of one is far from the everyday life of the other. "

- star

",Give me the cherry!' is above all a nostalgic and very funny look back at a lost football culture. [...] Football is not yet a business, at most a profession. [...] Basically, you are always laughing at things that are not funny at all. You want football again as it used to be, without the commerce and the huge spectacle. "

- Flood magazine

“The two filmmakers must have evaluated more archives than Guido Knopp . Anyway, they found a lot of very interesting material and put it together pretty intelligently. […] ,Give me the cherry!' is not meant very seriously, but takes its subject seriously enough. "

- Bert Rebhandl , Berliner Zeitung

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ When football could still be funny: "Give me the cherry" by Oliver Gieth and Peter Hüls . In: taz , June 1, 2006
  2. ↑ National players in fur - From the early history of football . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 1, 2006, beginning of article readable on January 27, 2016.
  3. ↑ Cinema in a nutshell: Give me the cherry! . In Der Spiegel 22/2006, May 29, 2006, p. 129
  4. ^ Wolfgang Huebner: Cinema start: How football lost its innocence . In Stern , June 1, 2006.
  5. ↑ Philipp Bühler: Declaration of love: Give me the cherry! - The 1st German football role . ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Fluter-Magazin , June 1, 2006 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / film.fluter.de
  6. ↑ Bert Rebhandl : “Give me the cherry! - The 1st German Football Role “tells of the beginnings of German professional football: The round must go into the square . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 1, 2006