Lord of the Toys
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Lord of the Toys |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pablo Ben-Yakov |
| script | Pablo Ben-Yakov, Andre Krummel |
| production | Pablo Ben-Yakov ( Film Academy Baden-Württemberg ) |
| camera | Andre Krummel |
Lord of the Toys is a German documentary by director Pablo Ben-Yakov about the life of a clique , the Pfandangels , around the web video producer Adlersson (Max Herzberg) from Dresden . The film crew accompanies the clique for one summer. Lord of the Toys was released in theaters in May 2019 .
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The documentary Lord of the Toys deals with the life of the Pfandangels , a clique around the German web video producer Max “Adlersson” Herzberg. The members of the clique, who often have just come of age , are partly unemployed, drink a lot of alcohol and do not know what to do with their lives. Lord of the Toys offers an insight into the life of bored, helpless and often drunk adolescents. Several members of the group are also self- influencer and let their often underage fans on YouTube or Instagram to their daily lives to participate. On their YouTube channels, Herzberg and his friends spread videos and photos in which they poke around, consume alcohol, make unboxing videos about knives, or even find a bottle of urine in Herzberg's fan mail. The Herzberg gang is quite successful with their work . Herzberg himself has over 400,000 subscribers, and some of his friends also have followers in the tens of thousands. The film team shows those scenes uncritically and without comment. The film magazine epd Film describes the film as saying that Lord of the Toys is not a portrait of a generation, but just a recording of a microcosm and a film about social marginalized groups and social injustices.
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At DOK Leipzig 2018, Lord of the Toys won the main prize in the German competition and was awarded the Golden Dove. The win caused criticism due to the partly racist , anti-Semitic and sexist statements of the Dresden group.
The selection committee of the DOK Leipzig justified the selection of the documentary film as follows: “This topic is rarely presented and for many is new territory. The filmmakers convey a language and codes of their own to these young people, an attitude towards life. The film leaves the protagonist room to develop - more than interviews could. "
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The film shows scenes in which anti- constitutional slogans such as “Sieg Heil!” Or insulting statements in a dispute with an Asian student group such as B. “We are Nazis and proud of it. Fuck yourself, you pussies! ”Can be heard. Herzberg himself asserts that the statements were meant sarcastically and only served to provoke the Asian group.
Der Spiegel criticized the filmmakers' alleged downplaying strategies. Conversations about NPD contacts and the attack on the student group were left uncommented. The Leipzig Cinémathèque distanced itself from the content shown and called for a critical examination of the film.
Filmdienst is of the opinion that "Lord of the Toys [...] makes it oppressively clear that it is likely to be a long way from the deradicalization of these lost youth to their rehumanization."
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) feels that “Yakov and Krummel's documentary film ... [is] just as depressing as it is revealing. Well structured dramaturgically, the authors present their viewers with societal and perhaps socially relevant, contemporary phenomena of disintegration. They show how dangerous it is to neglect social fringe groups, but also what potential the social channels have. "
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for Lord of the Toys . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Lord of the Toys (2018) | Film, trailer, review. Retrieved May 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Josa Mania-Schlegel: Waste your youth. In: The time . November 8, 2018, accessed May 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Lord of the Toys (2018) | Film, trailer, review. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Lord of the Toys. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Critique of Lord of the Toys. In: epd film. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Der Spiegel: Dok.Leipzig: "Lord of the Toys" wins the main prize in the German competition. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Dresden's thick right lip on YouTube. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Wolfgang M. Schmitt: "Lord of the Toys": The crazy world of the controversial influencer Max Adlersson. In: Rhein-Zeitung . May 16, 2019, accessed May 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Mr. X: Adlersson statement, "We are proud Nazis" on YouTube , January 19, 2019, accessed on July 23, 2020.
- ↑ Hannah Pilarczyk, Der Speigel: Doc . Leipzig: Discussion about Lord of the Toys, state and terrain. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Lord of the Toys. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 11, 2020 .
- ↑ Lord of the Toys. Retrieved May 11, 2020 .