Only God can Judge Me
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Only God can Judge Me |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Özgür Yıldırım |
| script | Özgür Yıldırım |
| production |
Christian Becker , Moritz Bleibtreu |
| music | Peter Hinderthür |
| camera | Matthias Bolliger |
| cut |
Sebastian Thümler , Linda Bosch |
| occupation | |
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Only God Can Judge Me is a German gangster film - drama by Özgür Yıldırım with Moritz Bleibtreu and Edin Hasanović as unequal brothers. After the film had its world premiere on October 1, 2017 as a gala premiere at the Zurich Film Festival , it was shown in German cinemas on January 25, 2018.
action
The gangster Ricky leaves the prison after serving a five-year prison term. He's had enough of crime and wants to retreat to the Spanish island of Cabrera . A final raid planned by his long-time friend Latif is supposed to provide the necessary capital. Latif and Ricky are supposed to fake a robbery in consultation with Branko, one of the parties, during a drug delivery. Latif is arrested shortly before the attack because of his nephew, so Ricky has to carry out the attack with his brother Rafael, who reluctantly joins in. Rafael actually wanted nothing more to do with Ricky, for which he had already served a prison sentence.
The robbery succeeds, but Rafael and Ricky are checked by the policewoman Diana and her colleague because of a defective taillight. Rafael loses his nerve and flees with the captured heroin. Although he and Ricky manage to escape, they lose the bag with the drugs on the run. Diana, who was chasing Rafael and taking care of her injured colleague, hides the bag with the drugs from the forensic investigation. She plans to sell the drugs herself. She needs the money for an illegal organ transplant for her sick daughter.
Meanwhile, Rafael, Ricky and Latif are put under pressure by their client Branko because they cannot hand over the heroin to him. Branko forces them to reimburse him for the market value of € 100,000. However, they see no possibility - neither legal nor illegal - of getting the money in the short term. Diana, in which several sales attempts have failed, indirectly offers them the drugs for € 30,000 without knowing that their “customers” are the first-time offenders. This sum also seems inaccessible. Ricky, to whom the course of events has also become clear, plans to shoot Diana and take the drugs in order to satisfy her client. Rafael wants to prevent the murder of Diana and secretly meets with her beforehand. He assaults her, steals heroin, but at the same time warns her about his cronies. However, while trying to escape with drugs, Diana shoots Rafael.
When Latif and Ricky arrive at the agreed location, they discover Rafael's body. Ricky urges vengeance and finds out Diana's place of residence from the information. In a firefight, however, he only meets and kills Diana's daughter, who is also in the car. After the exchange of fire, Ricky flees. Meanwhile, Latif has been kidnapped by Branko, who urges the money to be handed over. In order to put pressure on Ricky, the two kidnap Elena, Rafael's pregnant friend. At the meeting, however, Ricky does not hand over any money, but shoots Latif, Branko and his companion. He is shot himself by Diana, who has thus avenged herself for the death of her daughter. She then faces the arriving police. Elena escapes without suffering any permanent damage. In her mail she finds a check for € 30,000 that Ricky had swallowed from his ex-girlfriend for the purpose of buying drugs and sent to Elena in Rafael's name.
production
The shooting took place from mid-September to the end of October 2016 in Frankfurt am Main , Offenbach am Main and Hamburg . On the last day of shooting, some scenes were shot in the boxing cellar of the Zur Ritze pub in Hamburg . The film is the first German cinema production to use the Panasonic Varicam. Cinematographer Matthias Bolliger used the Varicam 35 and the Varicam LT specifically for the shooting.
Moritz Bleibtreu , who plays the main role in the film and also acts as a producer , explained the choice of location in Frankfurt:
“We really wanted the story to take place in Frankfurt, because there is no other city in Germany that can bring such a cold urban world across. In the station district , drugs are consumed openly, and syringes are lying around everywhere. That reminds me of the St. George of the 80s. I grew up in Hamburg's Bahnhofsviertel, and it looked the same on my doorstep. In the meantime it has become a trendy district due to gentrification. The underworld part has disappeared. "
The soundtrack for the film was composed by Peter Hinderthür . The two rappers Xatar and SSIO also provided some songs for the soundtrack and took on cameo roles .
The world premiere of the film took place on October 1, 2017 in Zurich .
reception
The lexicon of international films sums up that the film tells its story "rapidly, but also with a lot of clichés and codes" and that it is "black-humorous to bilious, sometimes following in the footsteps of the Coen brothers ".
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating of particularly valuable .
Web links
- Only God can judge me in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Die Tageszeitung , February 1, 2018, Morticia Zschiesche: Hey, don't make films, man!
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Only God Can Judge Me . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Jens Balkenborg: Offenbach and Frankfurt provide backdrops for gangster films with Moritz Bleibtreu. In: op-online.de. January 24, 2018, accessed January 25, 2018 .
- ↑ Shoot with Varicam: "Only God can judge me". film-tv-video.de, November 8, 2016, accessed on January 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Kathrin Rosendorff: Shooting in Frankfurt: Frankfurt the perfect location for Bleibtreu. Frankfurter Rundschau , October 5, 2016, accessed on January 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Street rap on the big screen: SSIO and Xatar star in Moritz Bleibtreu film. Bayerischer Rundfunk , August 30, 2016, accessed on January 15, 2018 .
- ↑ Only God can judge me. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .