Project gold

Movie
Original title	Project gold
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2007
length	106 minutes
Age rating	FSK without age restriction
Rod
Director	Winfried Oelsner
production	Frank Stephan Limbach
music	Rainer Michel
camera	Frederik Walker
cut	Henk Drees
occupation
Trainers Heiner Brand , Martin Heuberger , Lars Schröder Tom Schneider German national handball team Markus Baur , Johannes Bitter , Henning Fritz , Holger Glandorf , Michael Haaß , Michael Hegemann , Pascal Hens , Rolf Hermann , Torsten Jansen , Lars Kaufmann , Florian Kehrmann , Dominik Klein , Andrej Klimovets , Michael Kraus , Carsten Lichtlein , Sebastian Preiß , Oliver Roggisch , Stefan Schröder , Christian Schwarzer , Oleg Velyky , Christian Zeitz as well as Gerhard Delling , Horst Köhler , Stefan Kretzschmar , Klaus Wowereit

Projekt Gold is a German cinema documentary by the director Winfried Oelsner . It shows the German national handball team on their way to winning the title at the 2007 World Cup in their own country. In addition to scenes and stations from the games, the film shows the team traveling to and from the venues, in the team hotel and in the team cabin, and also shows the fans' emotions in the country.

Movie reviews

The Süddeutsche Zeitung notes that in contrast to the media-trained footballers in the summer fairy tale , “who like to dig ready-made sentences out of their heads”, the protagonists are “friendly, naturally occurring handball players”, “with whom popular team athletes identify much more easily can ". This can be seen, for example, in a scene after the opening game in which the players in the ICE politely ask for a seat on the instructions of Heiner Brand because the organization had forgotten to reserve seats. In addition, the film also addresses the less beautiful aspects of sport.

“While Sönke Wortmann always stayed on the surface despite all the attention to detail, Oelsner managed to gain deeper insights into the soul of the team and the individual players, which may well be due to the fact that many of the handball players appear more withdrawn and thoughtful than their kicking colleagues. Even Heiner Brand, with his huge Nietzsche mustache, seems less adept at dealing with the media, but no less charismatic, compared to the agile and smart Jürgen Klinsmann. "

- Joachim Kurz

" Project Gold - A Handball World Cup in Germany is a thoroughly successful documentation of the German World Cup triumph."

- Carsten Baumgardt

“It is true that he introduces interesting player personalities and insights and, in his strongest moments, gives insights into moves and tactics; However, over long distances it does not do justice to the dynamics of this team sport and is rather limited to conventional game summaries. "

- Lexicon of International Films

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the documentation the title valuable.

technology

The film was shot entirely on high definition video . In an interview with the trade journal “Film & TV Kameramann”, Winfried Oelsner explained that the HVR-Z1E camcorder from Sony was used.

Web links

• Official website
• Project Gold in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Project Gold at filmportal.de
• Press release from the film distributor (PDF file; 91 kB)
• Declaration of the DHB on the film ( memento from January 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Review by Carsten Baumgardt
• Photo documentation of the presentation of the film in Dresden

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1. ↑ Project Heroes. In: sueddeutsche.de. May 17, 2010, accessed August 26, 2018 . 
2. ^ Project Gold - A German Handball World Cup
3. ↑ Review by Carsten Baumgardt
4. ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007 . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9
5. ^ Film & TV cameraman: "Project Gold: The Handball World Cup in the cinema" . September 2007, p. 157.