Oi! Warning

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Movie
Original title Oi! Warning
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2000
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Benjamin Reding ,
Dominik Reding
script Benjamin Reding,
Dominik Reding
production Benjamin Reding,
Dominik Reding
music Tom Ammermann
camera Axel Henschel
cut Margot Neubert-Maric , Dominik Reding
occupation

Oi! Warning is a German feature film from the year 2000 that describes how a young person deforms his character to the point of giving up himself in order to become part of the skinhead / Oi! -Scene to find access and recognition. It was directed and based on the script by twin brothers Dominik and Benjamin Reding . The Reding brothers are also the producers of the film. The movie Oi! Warning is the first part of a “Germany Trilogy” based on three films by the Reding brothers. In 2007 they released the second part of the movie For the Unknown Dog .

action

In the center of Oi! Warning is 17-year-old Janosch, who lives with his mother on Lake Constance. At the beginning of the film, Janosch runs away from home to flee to his longtime friend Koma in Dortmund. Koma, who has meanwhile changed from a harmless scooter driver to a well-known and feared skinhead and passionate kickboxer , takes Janosch in. Through him Janosch gets to know the Oi skinhead scene.

Janosch finally goes to school again under pressure from his mother. There he befriends Blanca, who falls in love with him. During an excursion to a quarry pond, in which Koma's pregnant friend Sandra takes part in addition to Janosch, Blanca and Koma, Koma starts a fight with the punk Linus, in which he threatens to succumb. Janosch arrives and knocks down the punk, who then falls into the water.

A short time later, a private retreat room set up by Koma with boxing trophies and Oi skinhead posters in a quarry is destroyed by an explosion. Koma suspects an act of revenge by punks behind the attack and blames Janosch for this escalation, because he, Koma, “only petted” the punk before Janosch came in. (In retrospect it turns out that either Koma or Janosch Linus, who admitted threatened to drown, pulled out of the lake). Koma takes Janosch's promise to "flatten" the culprit. In truth, however, Sandra is responsible for the destruction of his hiding place.

Janosch begins to get bored with the increasingly repeated skinhead rituals of concerts, binge drinking and brawling. Thereupon he gets to know the punk Zottel, who is about the same age, who lives on a site trailer and earns his living with fire-eating and acrobatics. Zottel shows Janosch a freer, creative, unprejudiced life. A friendship is cautiously developing between the two. When Janosch kisses Zottel in his enthusiasm during a scuffle in a mud-filled, disused swimming pool, the two are secretly observed by Koma. Frightened and furious with jealousy, Koma develops the delusion that it must have been Zottel who destroyed his hiding place in the quarry, especially since he finds a photo of Zottel and Linus while rummaging through Zottel's things.

Some time later, Koma found Janosch in a bar and reminded him of his promise to severely punish the person responsible for the explosion. Janosch initially defends himself half-heartedly, but eventually goes with him. When he arrives at the site, Zottel believes Janosch is alone and opens the door. Suddenly Koma hits Zottel's head against the wall of the car and drags him to the campfire of the wagon castle. For fear of the aggressive coma, Janosch denies his friend and denies Koma's question whether he knows Zottel.

Koma then prepares the so-called curb kick on a stone , in which the victim lying on the ground is forcibly forced to press his upper jaw onto the curb. Finally, the victim's teeth are broken out by a targeted kick on the back of the head. Koma asks Janosch to be the first to enter as proof of his friendship. But this refuses. Over this supposed betrayal beside himself with anger, Koma now kicks himself with full force and breaks Shaggy's neck. Janosch then grabs a stone from the fireplace and fatally injures Koma with it. The film ends with Janosch crouching in front of the burning trailer with the murdered shag in his arms. In a quiet conversation with himself, he asks himself whether there is still a second chance for him despite this disaster.

backgrounds

Eike Schmidt (role punk "Linus"), Simon Goerts (role skinhead "Koma") and Axel Henschel (camera) during the shooting.
Actor Jens Veith (role: trailer punk "Zottel") during a sound recording.

The film is based on intensive research by the author duo within the youth subcultures shown. Some of the actors were cast from the punks and skinheads scene.

The shooting took place over 36 days in Dortmund (in the former Institute for Social Research on the Rheinlanddamm and in the port of Dortmund ), Hagen (on Hohenhof ), Hamburg , Haltern (on the Silberseen ), Iserlohn , Bochum (in the Moritz Fiege private brewery ), Castrop -Rauxel (in the Parkbad Süd ) and on Lake Constance .

The working title of the film was Fettes Gras . The final title is an artificial name that is made up of the call "Oi!", Which is common in the Oi! Scene, and the English word "Warning".

The Oi band Smegma , which is popular in the German punk and skinhead scene and appears in the film under the name “rOi! Mkommando”, was won over for the shoot .

The Berlin punk band Terrorgruppe composed the title song "Stay away from the good guys / Oi! WARNING", LC02576, for the movie.

In 2001 the Vielklang label released the film soundtrack “Oi! WARNING / Original Soundtrack ", LC08711.

The actors Sandra Borgmann and Simon Goerts performed in Oi! Warning her acting debut in a movie. After Oi! Warning was Sandra Borgmann u. a. in the movies Im July (directed by Fatih Akın ), Der Baader Meinhof Complex (directed by Uli Edel ), Here comes Lola (directed by Franziska Buch ) and in the TV series Berlin, Berlin . Simon Goerts worked a. a. starred in the movies Chiko (Director: Özgür Yıldırım ) and Soul Kitchen (Director: Fatih Akin).

In December 2007, the Reding brothers released a new movie in Senator Filmverleih entitled For the Unknown Dog . The film describes the entanglement of a young concrete worker journeyman in personal guilt and the attempt to make amends in the scene of traveling craftsmen during their traveling years and thus ties in thematically to Oi! Warning on.

criticism

The movie Oi! Warning was discussed intensively in the media both nationally and internationally due to its topic. The US trade journal Variety writes that the film is amazing to watch and reveals an over-real, feverish tone that sometimes evokes influences from Kenneth Anger to Fassbinder , but always reveals an independent, bold vision of the Reding brothers ("striking to look at, the film has a hyper-real, fevered tone that at times recalls influences from Kenneth Anger to Fassbinder, but always finds the brothers Reding in bold control of their vision ").

In the German criticism, the skinhead theme of the film was clearly in the foreground. The news magazine Der Spiegel calls the film "a classic coming-of-age story". Oi! Warning shows "in expressive black-and-white images [...] the charm exerted by alcoholic pogo group ecstasies and mass brawls, but the narrative of the film always keeps a distance from the anarchic rituals of bald heads."

The Frankfurter Rundschau takes a film screening in Stuttgart as an opportunity to comment critically on the visual aesthetics of the film: “The Stuttgart preview releases an unexpected culture of debate. It's about the opening scene: Koma poses naked in front of his blonde girlfriend in a light-flooded forest. The camera (Axel Henschel) circles around the couple, silent and shadowless. A comparison is drawn with Leni Riefenstahl , whose Olympic film still shapes the broadcast culture at sporting events. The brothers are forewarned. You argue, you defend. But the best reasons are provided by Oi! WARNING: The film is a complex, obsessive masterpiece, the most important cinema debut in a long time. "

The images of youthful freedom, sexuality and violence in Oi! Warning, on the other hand, uses the image to boldly criticize the film: “The film is the hardness. A man is tortured, has to drink urine from a skinhead. There is sex, gay sex and homoerotic jealousy. A punk is murdered. His bald opponent lays the unconscious man's head on a brick and crushes his neck. Scenes from Oi! WARNING, by far the most brutal film from the skinhead milieu. "

The lexicon of international film states: “With blatant naturalism without any glossing over of the respective scenes, the superbly photographed film illustrates the fatal dead ends of a collective madness that discharges into hatred and destruction and thus explodes every form of youth-specific rebellion. A bulky, "uncomfortable" and painful film about homelessness and disorientation; played vehemently and staged powerfully. "

Awards

Exhibitions

  • 2002 on the development history and set design of Oi! Warning in the Babylon cinema , Berlin-Mitte

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dennis Harvey: Oi! Warning  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Variety , July 19, 1999@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.variety.com  
  2. ↑ Susanne Weingarten: rituals of skinheads , Der Spiegel , issue 40/2000, October 2, 2000
  3. ↑ Ulrich Herrmann: The stuff from which anger arises , Frankfurter Rundschau , October 18, 2000
  4. ^ Anne Barthel: Murder, torture, brutal sex: Do you want to prevent violence? , Image - Hamburg, October 18, 2000
  5. ↑ Oi! Warning. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ^ Annual report of the Filmförderungsanstalt for the 2001 calendar year
  7. ^ Monthly program of the Filmkunsthaus Babylon Berlin for October 2002