Hell tour

Movie
Original title	Hell tour
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2004
length	120 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0 ; JMK 0
Rod
Director	Pepe Danquart
script	Pepe Danquart
production	Mirjam Quinte, Claudia Schröder, Werner Schweizer
music	Josef Bach , Till Brönner , Arne Schumann
camera	Michael Hammon, Wolfgang Thaler , Filip Zumbrunn
cut	Mona Bräuer
occupation
	Erik Zabel; Rolf Aldag; Andreas Klöden; Alexander Vinokurov; Steve Zampieri; Dieter "Owl" Ruthenberg; Mario grief;

Hell Tour is a 2004 documentary by Pepe Danquart about the Tour de France 2003 .

Till Brönner provided the soundtrack for the film .

action

Erik Zabel (2005)

For his film, director Pepe Danquart accompanied all stages of the Tour de France 2003 with three camera teams at the same time and in particular the professional cyclists Erik Zabel and Rolf Aldag , who have been on friendly terms for years. Above all, Danquart shows the human side of the athletes, in which he also reports on the pain and weaknesses of the riders and the media hype surrounding the world's largest cycling event.

Reviews

Critics accused Danquart of a nicely colored, little distant view of cycling, which at that time was already under suspicion of widespread doping. When Zabel, Aldag and other Team Telekom drivers confessed to systematic doping ( Team Telekom doping affair ), the doping scandal Fuentes exposed many prominent cyclists as dopers and the 2006 Tour de France was shaken by serious doping scandals, Danquart distanced himself from his film.

“The 'Tour' is observed with three camera teams, which leads to a visually and musically impressive film that is gripping in many individual observations, but whose proximity to the individual drivers obscures the view of the fascination of the 'Tour de France' somewhat."

- Lexicon of international film

“Maybe I just didn't want to believe it. Maybe I was the only one who still believed in it. [Hell Tour] was probably the last monument that was erected for this sport. "

- Pepe Danquart on systematic doping in cycling, 2007.

Individual evidence

↑ Release certificate for hell tour . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2004 (PDF; test number: 98 191 K).
↑ Age rating for hell tour . Youth Media Commission .
↑ ^a ^b The last believer , DIE ZEIT.
↑ Hell tour. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 2, 2017 .

Web links

Hell Tour in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Hell tour at Filmportal.de
official page
“Mr. Danquart, this year's Tour de France is polarizing like never before. Which side are you on? ” Der Tagesspiegel , July 17, 2007

[FSK-1] Release certificate for hell tour . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2004 (PDF; test number: 98 191 K).

[JMK-2] Age rating for hell tour . Youth Media Commission .

[zeit-3] The last believer , DIE ZEIT.

[4] Hell tour. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 2, 2017 .