North curve

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Movie
Original title North curve
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1993
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Adolf Winkelmann
script Michael Klaus
production Adolf Winkelmann
Christine Schaefer
music Piet Klocke
camera David Slama
cut Adolf Winkelmann
occupation

Nordkurve is a German football film from 1993. After Die Abfahrer and a lot of coal , Nordkurve is the third part of the Ruhr trilogy by director Adolf Winkelmann .

action

A Bundesliga Saturday in the Ruhr area : Union Dortmund is fighting against relegation and ruin in the home stadium. Different people prepare for the decisive game in the afternoon. The young substitute player Clemens Niebisch is looking forward to his first appearance, and the host Teddy, whose wife Uschi has an affair with Niebisch, grapples with fans who get drunk in his pub before the game. Teddy, a former star of the team, is a quiet, conflict-averse guy. This morning he and an old fan moved dogs to a cosmetics company in the truck for animal experiments, while his wife was having fun with Niebisch. Niebisch's ambitious father, who gave up his job for his son's career in order to “manage” him, turned up angrily at the whore and returned him to the hotel. Uschi basically still loves Teddy, she wants to get him to do more for the business. Meanwhile, the thoughts of the club president Vischering revolve around a possible invitation to the current sports studio and the attractive journalist Nicole Hassel. She wants to interview some important people and report on the situation of the club. A newspaper reporter, the radio presenter Szestecki and the player Kaukureit are involved in a betting fraud . Treasurer Dennemann tries to appease the banks; The seedy player agent Roland F. Beyer is pursuing his own plans: the Kotzbrocken is striving for a favorable position in the club and wants to get Uschi to bed. In return, he offers the prospect of obtaining her license to operate the stadium. Uschi doesn't think about getting intimate with Beyer, but drives off with him in the afternoon - just to incite Teddy's jealousy. Despite all the surveillance cameras and a large number of people, the police cannot prevent rioting fans instigated by the police-known rowdy Hupsi from setting a chip shop on fire. The fire brigade advises demolition and evacuation of the stadium, which is dismissed by management.

The game begins and Union quickly falls behind, but can score the next goal. Uschi is in the stadium with Beyer, while Teddy is standing behind the bar of his bar, brooding and indulging in the teasing of some old regulars. When the score was 1: 2, Niebisch should actually be substituted for the heavily fouled striker Kaukureit. Besides himself, the Union coach calls for the red card, fans riot and climb over the fence, the game is interrupted. In view of the high emotions, however, the young Niebisch's nerves run away. He lost his courage and he left the stadium unnoticed. Another player comes on in his place and can still equalize with a header, which eases the tense situation somewhat. After the game, Niebisch wanders through the city center, still in his shirt. Eventually he is picked up, ridiculed and abused by Hupsi and his crony. In Teddy's pub there is a disagreement about whether to hoist the club flag, which is actually only intended for victories, in view of the tie. To the annoyance of President Vischering, the invitation to the gym is not available for the time being. Even with Nicole, the pushy macho, who thinks he is irresistible, cannot land. Dennemann can at least avert immediate bankruptcy; however, the association's financial position remains uncertain. Roland F. Beyer then puts the club's management under pressure: an announced star named Carabacho is already under contract with him, as are most of the team's players. The club could basically only borrow the star from him. Vischering goes into the blackmail and tells Beyer that he is going to be treasurer. The previous treasurer initially disgusted and disapproved of this business practice as frivolous, but then realizes with resignation that his time is up. Beyer's private machine is useful for the short-term invitation to the sports studio. Alcohol is now flowing freely in Teddy's pub. When Beyer shows up - he wants to take Uschi with him to Mainz - Teddy takes heart, beats him up and puts him in the car to the Vischerings. With this appearance, Teddy won Uschi's heart back, while Beyer, badly battered, can be seen in the gym with Vischering; In anger, the former treasurer Dennemann crashes the television on the floor. The day is now rounding off, the fans in the pub are singing and slowly drinking themselves into a trance. For poor Clemens Niebisch, too, it ends in a friendly way when the daughter of the house takes care of the wounds of the prodigal son.

Reviews

  • The magazine prisma writes in its online edition: “A decisive game is coming up and the people in the north curve only have their pleasure in their heads [...] Director Adolf Winkelmann addressed this milieu in his film. In doing so, he goes overboard, but can compensate for this with stylized images and sound effects. "
  • Cinema online: "Insane kaleidoscope of German reality."

Awards

Renate Krößner was awarded the German Film Prize in 1993 for best actress , Adolf Winkelmann for the best director and the best editing . The film was also nominated for best film , but the award went to Sönke Wortmann's Kleine Haie .

Others

  • The Union 86 club is fictional, but strongly based on Borussia Dortmund . The Westfalenstadion served as the location for the events in the stadium and its immediate surroundings . However, Nordkurve does not authentically portray everyday fan life , but rather wants to " describe the attitude towards life in football fever in effective pictures" .
  • The location of the Westfalenstadion was rectangular at the time of shooting and had no corners or grandstands. The narrow sides are straight and are still called grandstands today, so there is no north curve at all; In addition, the home fans in Dortmund are at home on the opposite south side. Interestingly, instead, the north curve in the Veltins Arena and previously in the Parkstadion forms the backbone of Dortmund's arch-rival Schalke .
  • The length of the film corresponds to that of a football game: 90 minutes.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ North curve. prisma online, accessed October 4, 2009 .
  2. ↑ North curve. Cinema online, accessed October 4, 2009 .

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