List of films related to Dortmund
The list of films related to Dortmund contains feature films with material reference to Dortmund . Dortmund is not considered a first-rate film city, but is still a regular location for film recordings.
Even documentaries are listed here. Not listed are the numerous documentation about the Borussia Dortmund football club and the numerous published recordings of concerts in the city, especially from the Westfalenhallen .
The list does not claim to be complete.
Feature films
| year | title | Director | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | In the village of the mountain apprentices | Friedrich Wollangk | Short film about the first Pestalozzi village in Dortmund |
| 1975 | Black ice in places | Wolfgang Petersen | TV film with Günter Lamprecht , Ortrud Beginnen , Claus Fuchs , Claus Theo Gärtner , a. a. |
| 1978 | The downhillers | Adolf Winkelmann | Award-winning film about three unemployed people in Dortmund in the late 1970s, under the sign of the withdrawal of heavy industry (also DVD). |
| 1980 | Panic times | Udo Lindenberg , Peter Fratzscher | Comedy about the musician Udo Lindenberg in a double role, alongside which a large number of well-known actors worked here; plays partly in Dortmund, u. a. in connection with a concert in the Westfalenhalle . |
| 1981 | Lots of coal | Adolf Winkelmann | The work about the miner Katlewski, which was awarded the Federal Film Prize 1981, was the first German film with the original sound in Dolby Stereo (also DVD). |
| 1981 | 5 bottles for Angelika | Frank Döhmann | Film shot in Dortmund, Bochum, Essen and Düsseldorf, a. a. with Hans Beerhenke . |
| 1991 | The aphid | Claudia Prietzel | TV movie |
| 1993 | North curve | Adolf Winkelmann | Football film, with Renate Krößner , Christian Tasche , Jochen Nickel and many more, received three prizes at the German Film Prize 1993 (also DVD) |
| 1997 | Migratory birds ... once to Inari | Peter Lichtefeld | Film set in Dortmund and Finland, with Joachim Król , Outi Mypenpää and Peter Lohmeyer in the leading roles (also DVD). |
| 1999 | Bang Boom Bang - a surefire thing | Peter Thorwarth | Cult comedy set in Unna and Dortmund (also DVD) |
| 2000 | Double pack | Matthias Lehmann | Dortmund cult comedy about three friends and a concert by Attila the Stockbroker , with Eckhard Preuß , Markus Knüfken and Jochen Nickel (also DVD) |
| 2000 | No more second division | Kaspar Heidelbach | Milieu comedy about three BVB fans and a sack full of counterfeit money, with Peter Lohmeyer , Jochen Nickel , Dietmar Bär , Nina Petri and Dieter Pfaff (also DVD) |
| 2000 | Oi! Warning |
Benjamin Reding Dominik Reding |
Drama playing in the skinhead and punk scene (also DVD). |
| 2001 | The ball is damn round | Jakob Ziemnicki | Short film about Anna, who only wants to see the final of BVB against Juventus Turin on her birthday (also DVD, in the box gangster & football ) |
| 2002 | Fucking fish | Almut Ghetto | Award-winning film about two young people and their relationship burdened by the HI virus , which was mainly shot in Dortmund (also DVD). |
| 2002 | What does not fit is made to fit | Peter Thorwarth | Construction workers' comedy (also DVD) filmed in Unna and Dortmund, which served as a template for the television series What does not fit is made suitable (2003-2007) for the TV station ProSieben , produced in Cologne . |
| 2004 | From the depths of the room | Gil Mehmert | Lovingly bizarre comedy about a Tipp-Kick figure that came to life in the 1960s (also DVD), filmed in Dortmund, Bochum and Gelsenkirchen . |
| 2004 | Men like us | Sherry Hormann | Internationally awarded football comedy about a gay football team (also DVD). |
| 2004 | Drechsler's second chance | Jobst Oetzmann | Tragic-comic love and friendship story with Dietmar Bär , Joachim Król and Sofie Lassen-Kahlke , a. a. |
| 2005 | North city | Michael Kupczyk | In the troubled Nordstadt in Dortmund , a film about a petty criminal looking for a new beginning (also DVD). |
| 2006 | Golden times | Peter Thorwarth | Comedy filmed in Unna and Dortmund, u. a. with Wotan Wilke Möhring , Dirk Benedict , Wolf Roth , Ludger Pistor and Alexandra Neldel (also DVD). |
| 2006 | Among wolves | Daniel Hedfeld , André Sydow | Thriller about a hunting party in which a hunter is suddenly found dead. |
| 2007 | Autopilot | Bastian Günther | Melancholic drama set in Dortmund, Bochum, Essen, Gelsenkirchen and Duisburg, with Manfred Zapatka , Wolfram Koch , Charly Hübner and many more |
| 2009 | A schnitzel for three | Manfred Stelzer | WDR TV film with Armin Rohde and Ludger Pistor in the leading roles |
| 2009 | Suburban crocodiles | Christian Ditter | Second adaptation of the children's book Vorstadtkrokodile by the Dortmund author Max von der Grün . Some scenes were also shot in Dortmund. |
| 2010 | On air | Carsten Vauth , Marco J. Riedl | Internationally awarded short film thriller, of which a long version was produced in 2012. |
| 2010 | Oh Fortuna | Johannes Klais | Low-budget gangster comedy about a regional league club and its threatened football pitch (also DVD) |
| 2012 | The dragonfly and the rhinoceros | Lola Randl | Comedy about the nocturnal encounter between an aging actor and a young actress in a luxury hotel in Dortmund, with Mario Adorf and Fritzi Haberlandt (also DVD). |
| 2013 | A schnitzel for everyone | Manfred Stelzer | TV film, continuation of the TV film Ein Schnitzel for three , again with Armin Rohde and Ludger Pistor in the leading roles |
| 2013 | Green Frankenstein | Jörg Buttgereit | Theater film adaptation of Buttgereit's radio play of the same name at the Dortmund Theater . |
| 2013 | Sex monsters! | Jörg Buttgereit | Theater film adaptation of Buttgereit's radio play of the same name at the Dortmund Theater . |
| 2016 | Young light | Adolf Winkelmann | Coming-of-age story in the Ruhr area during the economic boom , film adaptation of the book Junge Licht by Ralf Rothmann (also DVD). |
| 2016 | Radio home | Matthias Kutschmann | Comedy about growing up in the Ruhr area in the 1980s; Film adaptation of short stories from the book of the same name by Frank Goosen by the director of the Dortmund ensemble Geierabend . |
| 2016 | Marija | Michael Koch | Resettled drama about a Ukrainian woman who works as a cleaner in a Dortmund hotel when her resignation threatens to destroy her dream of having her own hairdressing salon. |
| 2017 | Key moment | Martin Lukas | The young physics student Anna is rescued from an interrogation room by a man who comes from the future to warn her about her future invention of a new form of energy; Short film made at the FH Dortmund . |
| 2017 | Schnitzel always works | Manfred Stelzer | Third part of the television series, a social comedy about two unemployed people, again with Armin Rohde and Ludger Pistor in the leading roles. |
| 2019 | Schnitzel de luxe | Micha Lewinsky | Fourth part of the film series about the two unemployed friends, again with Armin Rohde and Ludger Pistor in the leading roles, Cristina do Rego , Therese Hämer u. a. |
TV Shows
| Broadcast years | title | Director | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981, 1983 | Tour de Ruhr | Reinhard Schwabenitzky | Six-part series by WDR based on an idea by Elke Heidenreich , in which a family and a couple from Dortmund undertake a turbulent bike tour through the Ruhr area |
| 1988 | Dortmund roulette | Kaspar Heidelbach | Six-part series of WDR, the completely in the Hohensyburg casino played |
| 1995-2006 | Balko | Changing (including M. Stelzer , Uli Möller , and 18 others) | Comedic crime series by RTL , with Jochen Horst , from episode 49 with Bruno Eyron as chief inspector Balko. |
| 2004-2006 | District class heroes | (unnamed) | The broadcaster Kabel eins accompanied the Dortmund district league club SSV Hacheney under its coach Manfred Burgsmüller in 45 programs. |
| since 2012 | Dortmund crime scene | Alternating (so far seven) | The Dortmund investigation team took action in eight (as of January 2016) episodes of the crime scene television crime story. |
| since 2016 | Phoenix lake | Bettina Woernle | WDR television series about the problems of two very different families on Lake Phoenix , with Stephan Kampwirth , Nike Fuhrmann , Felix Vörtler , Anna Stieblich , Robert Dölle and others (1st season 2016, 2nd season 2019) |
| 2019 | It doesn't work without schnitzel | Wolfgang Murnberger , Micha Lewinsky | WDR mini-series as a continuation of the previous WDR television films from the Schnitzel film series (since 2009). |
Documentaries
| year | title | Director | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | With the tram from Duisburg to Dortmund in 1969 | Martin Walser | The well-known writer observes people and their surroundings on tram rides from Duisburg to Dortmund (since 2014 also DVD). |
| 1996 | Adventure Zoo - Dortmund | Hiltrud Jäschke | Documentation about Dortmund Zoo from the MDR Adventure Zoo series (also DVD). |
| 2002 | Dortmund - the center of Westphalia | Monika Pöschke-Schröder | Documentary film from the WDR picture book series, u. a. with Max von der Grün and Fritz Eckenga . |
| 2005 | Ticket To Ride - International Model Show Dortmund 2003 | (unnamed) | Documentation about the Intermodellbau -Messe 2003 in Dortmund (also DVD). |
| 2006 | A village in the big city | Werner Ahlke | Portrait of the Kreuzviertel (also DVD). |
| 2006 | Losers and Winners - Work is part of life | Michael Loeken , Ulrike Franke | International award-winning documentary about the sale and dismantling of the Kaiserstuhl coking plant in China, Grimme Prize winner 2009 (also DVD). |
| 2008 | Dortmund and the Phoenix lake | Jens Tilmann | WDR documentary about Lake Phoenix , from the Bilderbuch Deutschland series (also on DVD) |
| 2012 | Dance! | Ivan Sertic | 3D documentary film about the city of Dortmund from the perspective of ballet dancers (also DVD). |
| 2013 | That's how it went | Adolf Winkelmann | From private recordings of readers of the Ruhr Nachrichten , Adolf Winkelmann put together a portrait of the city from the 1930s to the 1980s (published as a 5-DVD box). |
| 2013 | We the wall | Klaus Martens | Observing social portrait of the fans on the south stand in the Westfalenstadion (also DVD). |
| 2014 | Divine location | Michael Loeken , Ulrike Franke | TV documentary by WDR and arte on the change through Lake Phoenix , Grimme Prize winner 2016 (also DVD). |
| 2015 | Born on Borsigplatz - Franz Jacobi and the cradle of BVB | Marc Quambusch | German docu-drama about the founding history of Borussia Dortmund and the life of Franz Jacobi. |
Web links
- Films shot in Dortmund in the Internet Movie Database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article from February 25, 2014 about locations in Dortmund on Der Westen , the online portal of the Funke media group , accessed on April 16, 2016