Run if you can

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Movie
Original title Run if you can
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2010
length 116 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Dietrich Brüggemann
script Dietrich Brüggemann ,
Anna Brüggemann
production Stefan Schubert ,
Ralph Schwingel
Sabine Holtgreve
music Milena Fessmann
camera Alexander Sass
cut Vincent Assmann
occupation

Run if you can is a German tragic comedy by Dietrich Brüggemann . The film started in Germany at the Berlinale 2010 in the ninth edition of Perspective German Cinema . The German theatrical release was on July 29, 2010.

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Ben is a comparative literature student and is in a wheelchair. He lives, looked after by community service providers and now and then also by his single mother, in a Duisburg high-rise apartment, from whose balcony he observes Annika with a telescope, who comes by bike on the way to the music academy, regularly crossing a red light crossed. When she almost collides with Ben's new community service worker, Christian, a love triangle begins to develop. Christian looks for Annika at the university without Ben's knowledge and neglects his duties as a community service provider, Annika, on the other hand, is also interested in Ben and is appalled by his pessimistic attitude towards life, but on the one hand does not always cope with his physical and mental situation and on the other hand suffers himself under her possibly failed educational path: she has decided to study the cello, but botches every performance with her blockages.

Only in an emergency, when her flatmate and fellow student discovers during a concert that she cannot play her solo because of a hand injury, does Annika manage to step in for her and overcome her inhibitions. The friend made the cut in her hand on the splinters of a window pane through which clumsy Annika had dropped a bust ; the constant falls of this bust are a running gag in the first part of the film. The bust - whether it is supposed to represent Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schopenhauer or Goethe, has not been clarified until the end - landed directly on Ben's car, along with other shards, one of which got stuck in Ben's thigh.

This gives the prospective medical student Christian the opportunity to prove his skills, because since Ben strictly refuses to see a doctor, the community service provider has to sew up the wound. It turns out that Christian also seems to be on the wrong path with his career aspirations, as he can't stand the sight of blood. While Annika decides after her success at the concert to continue studying with an anti-authoritarian professor in Moscow and thus still be able to become a cellist, Christian begins to harden himself through the targeted consumption of horror and war films.

While Annika and Christian are put on the “right path” by broken glass and blood, the motif of water plays a major role for Ben. It first appears in a side episode about a goldfish that is relocated from a smashed glass container to a cut open Tetra Pak , where it later has a partner and finally even has a boy, then reappears in the form of films that Ben consumes - including, in particular, one A one-minute cartoon made by children about a couple in love rescued from the dangers of the deep - and finally takes on dramatic form when Ben, intent on suicide, steps onto the ice of a frozen lake and collapses there. While the rescue workers try to reanimate him, he stands in front of the heavenly gate in a dream sequence, but is not allowed in, but is given the task of making something of his life first - whereas his former girlfriend is allowed to pass through the gate. Annika's repeated questions about the origin of his handicap are finally answered: Ben's car landed in this lake in a car accident seven years ago. While Ben himself was thrown out of the vehicle beforehand, his girlfriend drowned in the car.

The rather gaudy sky gate scene is apparently said to have resolved Ben's trauma. At the end of the film you learn that instead of his own master's thesis, which he had finished after several extensions of deadlines, but which was then blown out the window and destroyed, he submitted a work he had downloaded from the Internet and received a good grade for it , and that he plans to tour the United States in his new supervisor Lisa's motorcycle sidecar. He wants to finance them through legal actions that he intends to bring in the event of breaches of accessibility .

Reviews

Ekkehard Knörer certified Dietrich Brüggemann's ability to prevent the film from becoming predictable, but also had tangible objections: "Unfortunately, he occasionally has one too many ideas and then snaps towards the end of [...] The film doesn't know what to do with its story, rescues itself into the over-ambitious, only to dare a formally somewhat cocky dangling at the last minute [...]. "According to Knörer, the work is" a film that wants more than it can. But there is something about the sound, the rhythm, the dialogues and the music that is right and that always makes you curious about Brüggemann's next project. "

Margret Köhler wrote on kino.de: “Without exhausting the handicapped card too much, it is also about external attractiveness as a sales value, about the fulfillment of an almost impossible dream, the aimlessness of a generation. [...] The trump card is Robert Gwisdek [...], who balances the emotional scale from misanthropic humor to the greatest despair, pushes the complexity of this figure to the limit and does not rely on the pity effect for a second. "

"Exquisitely played, lively staged tragic-comic triangle story, which cleverly and extremely entertainingly sets off a cascade of ideas, twists and turns and accurate dialogues, and at the same time negotiates taboos, friendship and love without any confusion ."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

Audio film

An audio description was also created for this film and appeared on the DVD. It was commissioned by Arte , produced by the German Hörfilm GGmbH and nominated for the German Audio Film Award in 2011 . The spokesperson for the description is Uta Maria Torp.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for racing, if you can . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 608 K).
  2. ^ Film data sheet Run, if you can , accessed on July 28, 2010
  3. ↑ perlentaucher.de
  4. ^ Film review kino.de
  5. ↑ Run if you can. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 13, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ↑ Prize Winners 2010 ( Memento from March 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Run, if you can in the Hörfilm database of Hörfilm e. V.
  8. ↑ 9th German Audio Film Award 2011