Keep surfing

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Movie
Original title Keep surfing
Country of production Germany
original language German
English
Publishing year 2009
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Bjoern Richie praise
script Björn Richie Lob,
Benjamin Quabeck
production Björn Richie Lob,
Tobias N. Siebert
music Lee Buddah
camera Lars R. Liebold ,
Björn Richie Praise
cut Benjamin Quabeck
occupation
  • Dieter Deventer : as himself
  • Steffen Dittrich: as himself
  • Mark Gassert: as himself
  • Markus Knörringer: as himself
  • Florian Kummer: as himself
  • Carsten Kurmis: as himself
  • Eli Mack: as himself
  • Matthias Ramoser: as himself
  • Quirin Rohleder: as himself

Keep Surfing is a multiple award-winning German documentary from 2009 by Bjoern Richie Lob . The film celebrated its world premiere at the Munich Film Festival in 2009 and won the audience award by a large majority . The international premiere took place on that of Robert De Niro launched Tribeca Film Festival held in 2010 in New York.

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River surfing has developed into a new sport in Munich . Ocean surfing , the mother of all board sports like windsurfing , skateboarding, and snowboarding , has been around for over 1000 years and has its origins in Hawaii . River surfing, probably the most closely related board sport, has its origins in the heart of Munich, the Eisbach on Prinzregentenstrasse, right next to the Haus der Kunst .

The film , which is told here, is structured according to the motto: “people are more interested in people than anything else” and tells itself to a large extent about its protagonists , character figures of the special kind that are all connected by the sport of river surfing and them again and again in the center of Munich , on the Eisbach. The film is also about the search for other surfing opportunities away from the sea, including in Skookumchuck Narrows .

Reviews

“A great film. [...] With his low budget budget, the director has succeeded in making an impressive film that reveals more about the soul of surfing than many American productions worth millions. "

- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

“Björn Richie Lob's“ Keep Surfing ”is a look at a sports subculture - one that's fascinating, frivolous or both - that should be an audience favorite. Mr. Lob hangs out with the river surfers of Munich, a politely bohemian bunch who drop in on the standing waves created when streams pass over rapids or through obstructed channels. It's an oddly stately endeavor: the practitioners more or less surf in place, facing upstream and doing 360s and cutbacks across the face of the oncoming but stationary wave. "

- New York Times

“With his fabulous scene documentary about Munich's river surfers, Björn Richie Lob, who is familiar with the area, can inscribe himself in the ancestral gallery of surf movies without hesitation. His intimate portrait of a hermetic subculture has become so captivating, informative, entertaining and wistful, from the hard core of which he takes six Brettl crazy people and accommodates their passion, their private life and their views in a fast-paced and multifaceted way. Famous recordings and a stimulating score are fun. "

- Focus on film

“The young men portrayed over several years tell about themselves and their lives, although the fast-paced and rhythmic film with its aesthetic borrowings from the surf film genre exaggerates it a bit; nevertheless, the rousing images cast a spell. The cinema debut also captures a lot of contemporary history and impresses with its closeness to the protagonists, even though a female perspective would have put the pathos of masculinity into perspective. "

- Lexicon of International Films

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Eder: "Rock'n'Roll in Eisbach" , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 23, 2010
  2. ↑ Mike Hale: "River Surfing, Rugby Bonding and Bicycle Soaring" , New York Times 15 April, 2010
  3. ↑ BF.de: “Many hectoliters of heart blood” , Blickpunkt Film , May 17, 2010
  4. ↑ Keep Surfing. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 23, 2015 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used