Motown (film)

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Movie
Original title Motown
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2003
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Stefan Barth
script Stefan Barth
production Ivo-Alexander Beck Mirko Schulze
music Peter Hinderthür ,
Stefan Knoess
camera Andreas Doub
cut Bernhard Wießner
occupation

Motown is a German movie from 2003. Stefan Barth led directed and wrote the screenplay .

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Motown tells the story of four friends in their mid-twenties and takes place at Christmas time, from December 1st to December 24th (periods of time are marked in the film by the little doors of an Advent calendar).

Duke ( Nikolas Wackerbarth ) returns to Germany after a year in the USA. His best friends Vince ( Steffen Groth ), Oli ( Oli.P ) and Pat ( Thorsten Grasshoff ) pick him up at the train station and drag him straight to Motown, their old favorite bar. Motown is the four friends' microcosm, their world, in which much of the film's plot takes place.

Duke is surprised to learn that Pat, a successful advertising manager, is about to get married. The chosen one is called Diaz ( Doreen Jacobi ) - and when Duke sees her for the first time, it hits him like lightning - it's love at first sight. Diaz also quickly senses that she feels something for Duke - more than for her future Pat. Both try to suppress their feelings for each other. Duke doesn't want to hurt his best friend, and he's just announced to his friends that he's going back to the US after Christmas - probably forever. But at some point Duke and Diaz can no longer resist mutual desire ...

At the same time, the eternal student Oli has a very similar problem. He has always been in love with Ria ( Anne Brendler ), the wife of his half-brother Vince, but has accepted that this love will have no chance. He doesn't want to hurt Vince either. But when the shameless womanizer Vince once again tramples Ria's feelings and Ria seeks consolation from Oli, it happens: Oli and Ria sleep together ...

Love versus friendship - true to the subtitle of the film: “Women come and go. Real friends don't. Or? ”Four weeks until Christmas Eve, in which people laughed, suffered, drank a lot and loved passionately, until the explosive finale at the Christmas party in Motown, where the friendship between Duke, Pat, Oli and Vince is put to the test. ..

Trivia

Motown was originally supposed to take place in the Ruhr area , but was then shot in Erfurt due to film funding .

Due to the low budget, the film was shot on mini-DV and then copied onto film.

Oli.P's ex-wife, Tatiani Katrantzi , plays the waitress Meike in the film.

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