Pirate channel powerplay
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| Original title | Pirate channel powerplay |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Siggi Götz |
| script | Siggi Götz |
| production | Lisa Film ( Karl Spiehs ) |
| music | various |
| camera | Rolf Deppe |
| cut | Claudia Wutz |
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Piratensender Powerplay is a German comedy film from 1981 with Mike Krüger and Thomas Gottschalk . The world premiere took place on January 14, 1982. The film was one of the box office hits of German cinema of the 1980s. It was the first of four films in the Supernasen series that the duo Krüger / Gottschalk made between 1981 and 1985.
action
Friends Tommy and Mike regularly broadcast pirate channels on Mondays at 3:00 p.m. from a makeshift studio in an apartment in order to hold up the mirror to the public service broadcaster with its “stupid program”. The station is extremely popular with the population, and that is - besides the fact that there is a pirate station - entertainment chief Dr. Müller-Hammeldorf from Bayerischer Rundfunk a thorn in the side. In view of the ever-decreasing audience ratings for his own program, he longed to finally put an end to the hustle and bustle of illegal competition.
He is close to the goal when Tommy and Mike get unexpected help from Mike's sister Irmgard. She presents the stunned boys with a new mobile transmitter installed in a mobile home! With a range of 200 kilometers now and several advertising contracts to finance the project, Radio Powerplay is back on the air. A game of cat-and-mouse develops with the direction finder cars of the post office and the police, and soon the pursuers have recognized the true function of the inconspicuous vehicle. In order to be able to continue broadcasting, Tommy and Mike have to slip into new and sometimes bizarre disguises.
Finally there is a showdown at a girls' boarding school, where the whole thing is finally exposed. But instead of a punishment, the BR program director has a surprise for the two friends: he hires them for Bayerischer Rundfunk, and everything dissolves in a huge party for everyone's pleasure.
relation to reality
The film is related to Gottschalk's true career: He began as a radio presenter at Bayerischer Rundfunk, who was criticized by superiors at the time because of its modern broadcasts and relaxed style, but had a certain freedom from the listeners due to its success.
The film is set at a time when private radio did not yet exist in Germany due to legal restrictions. This has only been the case since 1984. The desire to change the “stupid” public service program, as it was initially formulated in the film, actually existed at the time, especially among younger listeners.
backgrounds
The producer Karl Spiehs got the idea for the film from Désirée Nosbusch . Spiehs selected Thomas Gottschalk, with whom he had previously worked several times as a music consultant, and Mike Krüger for the leading roles. In the Hotel Bachmair am See in Rottach-Egern , they reworked the script in such a way that the two male roles dominated, while the female role became meaningless. With a million moviegoers, the pirate channel Powerplay established the comedian couple Gottschalk / Krüger.
- The opening scene, in which Evelyn Hamann drives along country roads and finally into a farm, was filmed in Holzhausen in Upper Bavaria, municipality of Münsing , east of Lake Starnberg . The filming location of the (fictional) Lerchensee boarding school is today's Garatshausen district retirement home in the Feldafing community on the west bank of Lake Starnberg. The interior recordings of the Bavarian radio took place in the Dachau town hall. Other scenes were shot at Lake Achensee and in Munich .
- The second half of the film is inspired by Some Like It Hot ; numerous dialogues and gags come straight from Billy Wilder's film.
- The van converted into a radio station is a Chevrolet G20 .
- In the film there is also an allusion to the first Schimanski - Tatort Duisburg-Ruhrort . When the occupied house was stormed, an armchair was thrown out of a higher window (a television in the crime scene). Inspector Pluderer (in a beige jacket) bumps into a traffic sign when he tries to get to safety and shouts "Shit". These were also Horst Schimanski's first words (“You idiot, stop the shit!”).
criticism
"Unspeakably flat clothes with all the clichés of German film comedy."
Music and licensing issues
The following songs appear in the original version of the film:
- Contraband - Radio Power Play
- Sam & Dave - Soul Sister, Brown Sugar
- Otis Redding - Love Man
- Helen Schneider - Rock'n'Roll Gypsy
- Alan O'Day - Undercover Angel
- J. Geils Band - Give It To Me
- Passport - Rub-A-Dub
- Lucifer's Friend - star dancer
- Helen Schneider - Jimmy
- Wilson Pickett - In The Midnight Hour
- Rose Royce - Is It Love You're After
- Otis Redding - (Sittin 'On) The Dock Of The Bay
- The Doobie Brothers - Long Train Running
- Gary Wright - Dream Weaver
- Little Feat - Down On The Farm
- Lucifer's Friend - Old Man Roller
However, the licenses for the songs used in the film were only granted for a limited time. For this reason, the film has been reworked several times in the past and released in different versions. The soundtrack was released as LP (WEA 58 420) and MC (WEA 458 420) in 1981. The track Old Man Roller by Lucifer's Friend is not included on the soundtrack.
Further film versions
First video version (UFA, 1982)
When it was first released on video (including VHS , Video 2000 and Laserdisc ), the film was subjected to extensive post-processing. Numerous songs from the original version have been removed and replaced by other pieces of music. Introductions by Tommy and Mike that became inappropriate as a result were subsequently shortened or removed.
This version, which was also used by ZDF for the television broadcast, is considered to be the best known version. Many movie fans mistakenly mistake it for the original version.
Second video version (Marketing Film, 2001)
In 2001 the film was re-released (VHS and DVD). In this version, the last remaining original songs have now been exchanged. In addition, the scenes in which Thomas Gottschalk moderated the original songs were re-dubbed by a different speaker.
As bonus material, the DVD contains an interview with Mike Krüger and a photo gallery with pictures from the film.
Re-release on DVD (MCP Sound & Media, 2007)
At the end of 2007 the film was released in the unchanged original theatrical version on DVD. There are some film errors as bonus material .
Re-release on Blu-Ray (Lisa Film, 2020)
The film was released in January 2020 with all three existing audio versions plus the isolated film music from the original soundtrack.
Web links
- Pirates Powerplay in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pirate channel Powerplay at filmportal.de
swell
- ↑ Roman Schliesser: The super nose. Karl Spiehs and his films , Verlag Carl Ueberreuter, Vienna 2006, pp. 55/56
- ↑ Travel report on the locations ( Memento of the original from November 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at supernasen-fans.de , accessed on May 16, 2013
- ↑ Pirate station Powerplay. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 10, 2017 .
