Radio Heimat (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Radio home |
| Original title | Radio home |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Matthias Kutschmann |
| script | Matthias Kutschmann |
| production | Christian Becker , Martin Richter , Markus Zimmer |
| music | Riad Abdel-Nabi |
| camera | Gerhard Schirlo |
| cut | Georg Soering |
| occupation | |
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Radio Heimat (collective title: Frank Goosens Radio Heimat. Back then it was shit too! ) Is a German comedy about growing up in the Ruhr area in the 1980s . The script is based on short stories from the book of the same name by Frank Goosen .
action
Four young friends, Frank, Spüli, Mücke and French fries, try to make contact with women. In the Ruhr area of the 80s it is not so easy. The advice of parents and teachers is of little help to the four friends in this situation. Frank would like to end up with the pretty Carola and there are also impressive encounters with possible partners for the other three. Now the four youngsters have to come up with something, but dance interludes and considerations to create an impression by making music do not lead to the desired success.
background
Up until now, Matthias Kutschmann was mainly known for his directorial work with the ensemble of the vulture evening in Dortmund and for his short films. With Radio Heimat he not only celebrated his debut as a director of a full-length feature film, but also contributed the script based on motifs from the short stories by Frank Goosen . In the volume Radio Heimat - Stories from Home Goosen published 45 short stories from the Ruhr area and about his hometown Bochum . The author, born in 1966, was still a teenager himself in the early 1980s. A coherent narrative thread first had to be woven from the humorous short stories, all of which have the Ruhr area as the setting, but no continuous protagonists . Frank Goosen's autobiographical novel Mein Ich und seine Leben also offered instructions . The role of the first-person narrator "Frank" in the film Radio Heimat is also taken from this volume .
production
Radio Heimat was shot almost exclusively at locations in North Rhine-Westphalia from June to August 2015 . The production was funded by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW , the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) and the German Filmförderfonds (DFFF). Radio Heimat is distributed by Concorde Filmverleih , a Tele München Group company .
In the film, the four friends are repeatedly confronted with TV appearances by the then well-known show greats such as Gunter Gabriel , Ilja Richter , Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff or Vico Torriani , who reflect the zeitgeist and public taste that was prevalent in the 80s.
The premiere took place on November 10, 2016 in five halls of the UCI Kinowelt in the Ruhr-Park in Bochum . The cinema release in Germany was on November 17, 2016.
Reviews
Sascha Westphal from the editorial team of the online portal Filmstarts compares Radio Heimat with the film Junge Licht by director Adolf Winkelmann , who has also dealt with the history of the Ruhr area several times: “Winkelmann quotes the familiar in order to finally transcend it. The screenwriter, director and cabaret artist Matthias Kutschmann does not have such an ambition. His cinema debut "Radio Heimat", a free adaptation of individual motifs from Frank Goosen's short stories, only wants one thing: to meet the expectations of a teen comedy set in the Ruhr area. "
Birgit Roschy from epd Film describes the archive recordings of collieries and “old miners' glory”, which are intended to give the film local color and nostalgia : “There are wonderfully impaled and decorated moments of recognition with goose bumps guaranteed. But in terms of content, this coming-of-age film hardly ever surpasses the impression of a moving photo album from the early eighties. "
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
literature
- Frank Goosen: Radio Heimat - stories from home. Complete paperback edition, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2012. ISBN 978-3-453-40837-1 .
- Frank Goosen: Me and my life. Complete first German paperback edition, Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 2005. ISBN 978-3-453-40108-2 .
Web links
- Radio home in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Doris Rehhausen: Radio home enthusiastic spectators at the premiere in Bochum . Kinofans.com, the movie fanatic, November 14, 2016, accessed November 17, 2016.
- ^ Sascha Westphal: Radio Heimat . Review of the Filmstarts editorial team, accessed on November 17, 2016
- ↑ Birgit Roschy: Review of Radio Heimat . epd film from October 28, 2016, accessed on November 17, 2016.