Hotte in paradise
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Hotte in paradise |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 118 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dominik Graf |
| script | Rolf Basedow |
| production |
Dietrich Kluge Jutta Lieck-Klenke |
| music |
Sven Rossenbach Florian van Volxem |
| camera | Hanno Lentz |
| cut | Hana Müllner |
| occupation | |
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Hotte im Paradies is a TV film made by the film director Dominik Graf in 2002 . The premiere took place on October 25, 2002 at the Hof International Film Festival. The film premiered on September 10, 2004 on ARTE .
action
The film is about the rise and fall of Hotte the pimp . Hotte is a pimp in Berlin who cannot make big leaps with the money from his two buyers . He envies his colleagues for their gold watches and their convertibles. The group of pimps, in which Hotte moves, is presented as a community that is similar to the court society of the 18th century in terms of the values and norms applicable in it. Anyone who wants to gain reputation and prestige must show exclusive status symbols and be able to demonstratively spend large amounts of money. Hotte, like many other pimps, gets into a precarious situation. In order to gain reputation within the pimp group, he must spend significant amounts of money. The income is often insufficient. Hotte lives from hand to mouth and squandered what his women earned during the day and evening.
When he and Jenny buy a third female buyer, he begins to swim in the money and enjoys the luxury life with a convertible and a gold watch, both of which he buys on credit.
But happiness only lingers for a short time. Yvonne, one of his first two women, is burned out and is getting out. Jenny is lured away from him by a Russian pimp and his attempt to get her back ends with him being brutally beaten. Only his partner Rosa sticks to him, but she cannot raise enough money on her own to maintain her standard of living.
Since Hotte has no more money to buy a new buyer, he approaches the hairdresser Elvira with his engaging charm and spoils her with luxury and sex. Then he presents her with the alternative of separating from him and continuing her boring life, or buying something for him and continuing to enjoy the luxury. She first decides to live in luxury, but she cannot get used to working on the grain. After Hotte attacked Elvira's mother, who works as a cleaning lady, masked and brutally beaten up in her apartment, he takes all her savings from her and can use it to pay off his convertible. The positive side effect for Hotte is that Elvira now has to buy something because her mother is in the hospital and cannot earn any money. In a very drunk state, he rapes her and she successfully escapes from the milieu.
Then Hotte suddenly sees Jenny strangely changed again on the street and follows her unnoticed to the Sado-Maso-Club , in which she now has to work as a slave Madeleine. She begs him to buy her back, and a few days later he frees her from her situation and takes her to her father's farm. The revenge of Jenny's last pimp follows immediately: He lets Hotte's convertible explode and shoots him life-threateningly. When asked by the paramedic whether he could still speak, Hotte replied succinctly "I can, I don't want to."
background
Dominik Graf shot for Hotte im Paradies for the third time, after Der Felsen and Die Freunde der Freunde , on the cheap, digital format Mini-DV . The Berlin brothel operator Steffen Jacob allegedly advised the author Rolf Basedow for 300 hours to ensure the authenticity of the film.
Reviews
"With strong actors and apt dialogues, we succeeded in creating an authentic street epic about a milieu threatened with extinction and the rare feat of recommending such a contradictory figure like Hotte to the audience."
"The well-researched television film reflects the Berlin Kiez in an artistically often broken way, but loses its grip towards the end due to its close proximity to the main character."
Awards
- 2004 Baden-Baden TV Film Festival : TV Film Prize from the German Academy of Performing Arts
- 2005 German TV Award for Birge Schade for Best Actress Supporting Role , nomination for Best Actor for TV Film for Mišel Matičević
Web links
- Hotte in Paradise in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hotte in paradise at filmportal.de
- Hotte in paradise with crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ The authenticity is pure assertion An epd conversation with the director Dominik Graf. ( Memento from December 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) epd film
- ↑ The Prince of Berlin . In: Berliner Kurier , August 11, 2002
- ^ Review of Hotte in Paradise . TV feature film , accessed October 7, 2007
- ↑ Hotte in paradise. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 31, 2017 .
- ^ German Academy of Performing Arts : Prize to Dominik Graf for “Hotte in Paradise” . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. RP Online , November 28, 2004
