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Movie
Original title Tough
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2006
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Detlev Buck
script Zoran Drvenkar ,
Gregor Tessnow
production Claus buoy
music Bert Wrede
camera Kolja Brandt
cut Dirk Gray
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Knallhart is a German feature film by Detlev Buck from 2006 based on a script by Gregor Tessnow and Zoran Drvenkar . The novel Knallhart by Gregor Tessnow served as a template for the film .

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Fifteen-year-old Michael Polischka and his mother Miriam have to move from a villa in the well-off Berlin district of Zehlendorf to the socially disadvantaged district of Neukölln . Dr. Peters, his mother's long-time lover, finds her too fat and therefore throws her out of the apartment without further ado.

When Polischka arrived in Neukölln, a youth gang extorted protection money . With his new school friends Crille and Matze, he breaks into a villa in Zehlendorf, his former home, in order to be able to pay the gang with the money. But that is not enough for Erol, the leader of the gang. He and his gang often brutally beat Michael up. The situation is getting worse and worse: While Michael is becoming more and more estranged from his mother - she tries to regain wealth through new male acquaintances - the police are now at the door to investigate the break-in at Klaus Peters. His buddy Crille, who is beaten by his father, introduces him to the world of petty crime in Neukölln and introduces him to various fences and also to the dealer Hamal. The film takes a dramatic turn when Michael defends himself against Erol and breaks his nose. Erol pulls out a knife to avenge himself, but Barut, Hamal's right hand, appears and saves him. Since Hamal finds Michael trustworthy and needs a drug courier with an "honest face", he hires Michael.

Michael finds his way in his new role as a courier better and better, but loses his friends Crille and Matze in the process. The relationship with his mother continues to deteriorate. One afternoon he was given the job of delivering not only hashish but also cocaine worth 80,000 euros. He gets a shocking insight into the world of addicts. After this drug delivery he is surprised on the way back by Erol and his gang, who throws Michael's backpack with the drug money and Michael's ID card on the roof of a S-Bahn that is just leaving. Michael becomes a problem for Hamal because the money in his backpack could call the police to the scene.

Hamal believes that everything he has to do to solve the problem is a “gesture”: Surrounded by his wealthy “contractual partners”, he is given a bag of revolver at night on the city limits of Berlin to Erol, who is tied to the ground or, alternatively, shoot yourself. Michael is put under great pressure and unsettled by Hamal and Barut (the gun may not have been loaded at all and this is all just a test) and he shoots Erol after hesitating all night.

Instead of escaping with Hamal, Michael stays behind and goes to the police alone to make a confession. At the end of the film, his mother picks him up at the police station.

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The film portrays the social milieu of the Berlin district of Neukölln and the daily struggle for survival of its residents, but also the weak relationships of the other so-called normal structures in a drastic way that many viewers perceive as clichéd. The conflict-laden network of relationships between the population groups of different social and ethnic origins forms a basic theme of the film, although the main focus is on the criminal milieu as an established structure due to the diffusion. This very realistic representation of the living conditions in a socially disadvantaged part of the city led to some fierce controversies among politicians and in the press.

The film can not only be viewed under the theme “Berlin-Neukölln”, but also with a view to how a human individual comes under social influence and is ultimately worn down by it. The very ending, in which Michael hesitates to kill a person, represents an ultimatum to society. It is questionable whether he has given up his humanity with the murder and should have shot himself.

The lexicon of international film sums up: “A compelling film adaptation of a realistic youth novel, which is characterized by precise milieu drawings and authentic actors. Apart from the individual case, the rough film portrays the image of a 'lost generation', which for its part counteracts the general brutalization of conditions through violence ”.

In response to the portrayal of migrant violence in this film, the 2003 film Urban Guerillas by Neco Çelik was brought back to the cinemas in order to position an equally realistic counter-model .

In 2009 the film was shown on Turkish television.

Awards

2006

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Knallhart . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2006 (PDF; test number: 105 083 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Knallhart . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Rock- hard. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 15, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used