Gibbi West Germany

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Movie
Original title Gibbi West Germany
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1980
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Christel Buschmann
script Christel Buschmann
production Eberhard Junkersdorf
music Paul Millns
camera Frank Bruhne
cut Jane Seitz
occupation

Gibbi Westgermany is a German film drama by Christel Buschmann and at the same time her feature film debut. The movie was on 14 March 1980 in Germany premiered and the first time on German television (on August 15, 1982 ARD broadcast). Gibbi Westgermany was also nominated for the Gold Hugo , the main prize of the festival, at the 1980 Chicago International Film Festival .

action

After the sailor Gibbi has been at sea for a long time, the longing for his mother drives him back to his hometown Hamburg and its St. Pauli district . Gibbi’s mother runs a snack bar there with her boyfriend. Gibbi wants to visit her, his old friends and his little daughter. His daughter's mother is now married.

However, Gibbi has become very far alienated from his environment over time. So he doesn't care about social constraints and conventions and, despite the ban, secretly picks up his daughter and strolls with her on Hamburg's Reeperbahn .

The relationship with his mother is also very difficult. Their relationship is extremely tense and is becoming increasingly aggressive, especially since Gibbi's mother's friend stands in the way of Gibbi's plans to move in with her. In the course of the action, the relationship with the mother becomes more and more violent. With increasingly crazy actions and attacks, Gibbi tries to win his mother's love, which means support and orientation in life for him. But that all fails, instead he ends up in psychiatry. After Gibbi is released there, his situation improves briefly. But since he is neither able to live with his mother nor without her, he kills her and then takes his own life.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack for the film comes largely from the British musician Paul Millns . Among them are two traditional pieces, the song Bino by Renate Vaplus (a pseudonym of Drafi Deutscher) in a shorter and longer version and Lila Diva by Kiev Stingl and Sterea Lisa. The soundtrack was released on vinyl in 1980 and was released on CD in 1990 . It comprises 13 titles.

Title list of the soundtrack

  1. Gibbi's Song 4:05
  2. Down In The Danger Zone 3:05
  3. Mama Leone 3:50
  4. Purple Diva (Backing Track) 4:55
  5. Sweet Is The Wine 3:20
  6. Out Of Tune - Out Of Time 2:40
  7. Look At The Madman 3:45
  8. Accordion 0:38
  9. Stormy Moon 5:10
  10. Harmonica 1:23
  11. Mama Leone 1:50
  12. Till The Morning Comes 4:55
  13. Gibbi's Song 3:30

criticism

The film service describes Gibbi Westgermany as a “gloomy, formally idiosyncratic outsider story.” For Cinema.de , the film is also a portrait of West Germany in 1979, which the director Christel Buschmann developed with “merciless radicalism.” Robert Matthies from TAZ takes this approach looks even further and sees the tragic “ slacker film” not only as a radical expression of social changes in the late 1970s, but also that the films “fit perfectly into the ranks of those cult films that have been since Klaus Lemke's “ Rocker ”- The film will operate under the trademark “ Hamburg Films ”. ” In its review of the film, Der Spiegel also states that Christel Buschmann's film depicts“ a stylized picture of Hamburg ”that“ can be followed like a melancholy record. ”He praises, that the "actors from the scene (Eva-Maria Hagen, Kiev Stingl, Eric Burdon)" would bring an authentic atmosphere into the film.

Awards

Trivia

  • The artist and musician FM Einheit , who co-founded the Hamburg punk band Abwärts in the year the film was made (1979) , can be seen in a supporting role.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Various, Featuring The Music Of Paul Millns - Gibbi Westgermany (original film soundtrack). In: Discogs . Retrieved on April 2, 2020 (English, entry on the soundtrack by Gibbi Westgermany ).
  2. ^ Filmdienst: Gibbi Westgermany In: Filmdienst .
  3. ^ Editorial review : Gibbi Westgermany - A complicated mother-son relationship ends fatally. Drama with Eva-Maria Hagen In: Cinema.de .
  4. ↑ Robert Matthies: Heimat: Outside - Homage to the city and weird types: The fourth “Elbblick” festival shows Hamburg films for 12 hours non-stop. In: TAZ , January 23, 2010.
  5. ↑ Der Spiegel: Gibbi on the Kiez. In: Der Spiegel , March 17, 1980.