Kleinruppin forever

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Movie
Original title Kleinruppin forever
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2004
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Carsten Fiebeler
script Sebastian Wehlings ,
Peer Klehment
production Dirk Beinhold
music Norman Nitzsche ,
Masha Qrella
camera Bernhard Jasper
cut Antje Zynga
occupation

The film Kleinruppin forever is a German East - West comedy from 2004 . It is set in 1985 and is directed by Carsten Fiebeler , with Tobias Schenke and Anna Brüggemann in the leading roles .

action

The film tells the story of the 19-year-old twins Tim Winter and Ronnie Panzer, who were separated and adopted as infants after their parents' accidental death in 1967. While Tim's adoptive family fled to the West and became successful in Bremen , Ronnie stayed in the GDR , in the (fictional) town of Kleinruppin. Years later, Tim is a budding tennis professional and lives in prosperity as the son of a wealthy family of architects. Ronnie, on the other hand, grows up with the single-parent weird and bizarre night watchman and former photographer Erwin.

The two are visually different: Tim, a sunny boy with a popper hairstyle and Lacoste clothes. Ronnie, a long haired blues guy who runs a rock band.

During a school trip to the GDR in April 1985, Tim unexpectedly meets his twin brother Ronnie, who, like him, did not know anything about the existence of a brother. Since Tim does not volunteer to swap roles, Ronnie beats him unconscious with a bottle and slips into the role of his rich twin brother. When Tim regains consciousness in the polyclinic , it is too late, the bus drives back to Bremen with his twin brother. Nobody in Kleinruppin believes him, and his constant claims that he comes from West Germany lead to an arrest by the People's Police . Only through relationships with his new foster father and bribing a police officer with bananas can he avoid arrest and be released. However, the Stasi has now kept an eye on him. But Erwin, clever and experienced in dealing with the Stasi, beats them with their own weapons.

After a failed attempt to escape, Tim comes to terms with his situation, especially since he met the pretty and quick-witted nurse Jana and fell in love with her. Over time, Tim also got used to life in the GDR: nudists at the bathing lake, the rock band in the basement of the state- owned company , trips with the swallow , the cohesion of colleagues from work and his new foster father Erwin, who made him like his own son loves, although he is the only one who has long known that he is in reality Tim and not Ronnie.

Although Tim has to do without the usual luxurious standard of living in Kleinruppin, he feels a previously unknown happiness.

When Tim had the opportunity to go to a competition in Bremen with the Kleinruppin swimming team, he only thought of fleeing the GDR. But when saying goodbye to Jana, he realizes that he has found the love of his life in her. Tim is faced with a difficult decision: stay in the west or go back to Jana? He decides on the second way, so the happy ending can take place at a concert of his rock band in the arms of Jana.

background

The premises of the former sewing machine factory in Wittenberge

Many of the film scenes were shot in Wittenberge . During the GDR era, the factory building in which Tim works was the site of the former Singer factory, where sewing machines were manufactured. (In the GDR they were known under the name Veritas.) The colorless and ramshackle building symbolizes the decay of the structural fabric in the GDR, which the GDR citizens ironically characterized as "creating ruins without weapons". The prefabricated housing estate in which Jana lives symbolizes the same desolation. In reality, however, the settlement (called Wittenberge Nord) was about to be demolished, which was only postponed due to the shooting.  
Other locations had to be recreated. These include the bus station, where Tim and Jana get to know each other, a May 1st grandstand and the works canteen. The filming locations were the old "Packhof", Bahnhofstrasse, Wittenberge Nord, the sewing machine factory and the old "Ölmühle", also known as Märkische Ölwerke.

There is no place in Kleinruppin . The word creation is based on different places in Brandenburg , which are supposed to stand with the name Ruppin for the Brandenburg area. The scenes of the film that take place in Bremen were actually shot in this city.

Film music

By the La Boum popular films in the 1980s Hit Reality by Richard Sanderson was the Swedish band Eskobar set to music and is available exclusively appeared on the soundtrack of the film. The hit Reality was also very popular in the GDR and is used in films a. a. played by Tim's band in the version of Eskobar. In one scene the song title Forever young by Alphaville is played during the band rehearsal . In a disco scene, the film makes a chronological error. Although the action takes place in 1985, the play Showing Out (Get Fresh at the Weekend) by the British - Jamaican pop duo Mel & Kim can be heard in the background , which was only released in the fall of 1986.

Reviews

  • With charming young actors and courageous humor, the director newcomer Carsten Fiebeler managed a truly magical romance. - Mirror online
  • A real "2 in 1" film for everyone who has succumbed to both the Ostalgie and the "back to the 80s" trend. - Hamburger Morgenpost
  • Where “Good Bye, Lenin!” Was clever, charming and soulful, “Kleinruppin Forever” only appears flat and implausible. - Cinema
  • This film does not rely on over-the-top slapstick, but on charm and heart. The absurdity of a work like “Sonnenallee”, which wanted laughter at all costs and therefore constructed an unrealistic idea of ​​life in a walled-in state, is hardly served. Director Carsten Fiebeler, who grew up under socialism himself, sticks to the truth and looks at his own past with a smile. - The world
  • In this film, the nostalgia is in the parody. "Kleinruppin forever" longs not for the socio-political conditions of the GDR, but for a youth and love life without calculation and career thoughts. - FAZ
  • One could argue that “Kleinruppin Forever” juggles commercial clichés in a particularly negligent manner, but in fact they were dusted off, polished and displayed like trophies for admiration. - taz

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.kultura-extra.de

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