No songs about love

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Movie
Original title No songs about love
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2005
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Lars Kraume
script Lars Kraume
production Lars Kraume,
Henning Ferber ,
Sebastian Zühr
music Reimer Bustorff ,
Max Schröder ,
Thees Uhlmann ,
Marcus Wiebusch
camera Sonja Rom ,
Alexa you
cut Barbara Gies ,
Julia Wiedwald
occupation

No songs about love is a German film drama from 2005 by Lars Kraume about the tour of the fictional music group Hansen . The actors acted without a fixed script.

action

The film is about Tobias who, as a budding director, plans to make a documentary about his brother Markus and his band Hansen.

In the back of his mind, however, he still has the meeting with his brother and girlfriend Ellen a year ago in Hamburg. He just can't get it out of his head that the two could have had something together.

So Tobias accompanies the band on their tour through northern Germany. Life on tour becomes extreme when Ellen joins and meets Markus again. At some point Tobias does not come to a performance by the band. After the performance, Ellen and Markus go to see Tobias; he is completely down and totally desperate. He expresses his fear: Did the two of them have something together in Hamburg a year ago?

First they try to calm him down and deny everything. But then Markus admits that he slept with Ellen because they were totally drunk. However, he also believes that he was the "driving force" and that Ellen did not want it (which she later denies).

Tobias doesn't know how to react. At some point he can't take it anymore, and when the band wants to move on to another city, he decides to leave Ellen out in the cold, which leads to a big argument between the three main characters.

Before the last appearance in Berlin, Tobias comes back to his apartment and finds everything empty: Ellen's things are gone.

Reviews

"A principally exciting film experiment that plays ambiguously with the camera presence in 'dogma' fashion, but reveals an irritating commercial calculation in the clear interaction of fiction and musical marketing."

- Lexicon of international film

“Lars Kraume presented an experimental film that is unfortunately not very exciting. Authenticity was mistaken for annoying wobbly images. In addition, the mixture of fiction and documentation seems more improvised than actually played. The real musicians were of no use either. "

- prism

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.

Remarks

The band and almost their entire repertoire were created especially for this film. The real reason and Jürgen Vogel as the singer were kept from the audience of the Grand Hotel van Cleef Night Tour .

A CD and a book were also released parallel to the film . The story is reported in the three media from different perspectives: the film from Tobias ', the CD from Markus' and the book from Ellen's point of view.

A special feature of this film is that the director did not specify any specific content development. Both the plot and the characters evolved during the shoot based on the real feelings of everyone involved. In order to let this effect really come into its own, the actors were only allowed to be together in front of the camera and were not allowed to speak to each other during the break. The distinguishing feature of the film is that it appears very realistic.

However, this made the shooting more difficult because a certain scene could not simply be repeated again and - as the action progressed - under certain circumstances it could not simply be cut out. Only the final scene was repeated once, but the first shot was used anyway.

Heike Makatsch and Max Schröder (the drummer of the Hansen band) have been a couple since filming and now have two children together.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for No Songs About Love . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2005 (PDF; test number: 103 912 K).
  2. ↑ No songs about love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ No songs about love. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on September 3, 2017 .