Reuber (film)

Movie
Original title	Robber
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2013
length	72 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Axel Ranisch
script	Dennis Pauls ; Heiko Pinkowski; Axel Ranisch ; Peter Trabner
production	Dennis Pauls, ; Heiko Pinkowski, ; Axel Ranisch
camera	Dennis Pauls
cut	Milenka Nawka , ; Guernica Zimgabel
occupation
	Tadeus Ranisch : Robby Reuber; Heiko Pinkowski: Rüdiger Reuber; Peter Trabner: Stefan, the magician; Sibylla Rasmussen : Franziska; Lena Zipp : Pauline Pilz; Ruth Bickelhaupt : Very good fairy;

Reuber is a German children's film by Axel Ranisch from 2013.

action

Robby's birthday party ends in chaos after he and his father and his brother come home three hours late and completely over-excited. As a little compensation, his father tells him a bedtime story :

Robby is supposed to take care of his little sister, who doesn't stop screaming. So he leaves her in front of the supermarket and when he comes out again she has disappeared. In fear he runs into the forest with his accordion and decides to become a robber.

In front of the forest he meets Pauline Pilz, who wants his accordion, but he can trick her and disappears into the forest. There he first met Stefan, the magician, who explained to him that he only had to sleep one night to meet the robber.

Robby follows the instructions and in fact he meets the robber the next day, but he drives him away. Stefan takes the boy under his wing, wins his trust and lets him sign a devastating contract: a body swap. Stefan promises the boy to find his sister and bring her back. But the contract contains quite a bit of fine print. Stefan runs away and leaves the boy scared.

Rüdiger Reuber, however, smelled the fuse. He apprentices Robby and teaches him how to be a real robber. Together they steal the contract, but find that everything is even worse: the body swap takes place at a full moon and is forever, unless the robber leaves the forest. But Rüdiger refuses. When the moon is full, Stefan turns into Robby and vice versa.

Rüdiger decides to confront the magician. On the spot he finds out that Robby's mother doesn't believe him. The little sister has long been back in the family. To his horror, he also has to discover that Robby's mother is no stranger to him. It turns out that Rüdiger is Robby's father. After some hesitation, he decides to leave the forest for his son. With that the spell is broken. But the renewed relationship between Rüdiger and Robby's mother does not last long.

During a raid through the local supermarket, he is caught by the department store detective , who turns out to be Stefan. The two decide to move back into the forest together.

background

The film was shot in 2011 in the Brandenburg forest within a week. As with Ranisch's debut film Big Girls (2011), which he completed shortly before, the film belongs to the German Mumblecore genre. The film was made without a fixed script, most of the scenes are improvised . The main youth role was taken by Ranisch's nephew Tadeus Ranisch . Like in Big Girls, Heiko Pinkowski and Peter Trabner took on the other leading roles again. Ranisch's grandmother Ruth Bickelhaupt also took on another role.

The film had its premiere on July 3, 2013 at the Children's Film Festival Munich 2013 . It was released on DVD on November 27, 2015 via Indigo / Missing Films.

Reviews

At the Lünen cinema festival, it was awarded the rocket as “Best Children's Film”.

Rudolf Worschech praised the film on epd-film.de and awarded it four out of five stars: "Reuber is a family film in the best sense of the word : you don't have to be a child to like it."

The film service sums up: “The amateurish and emphatically 'amateurish' staged children's film, which was made without a fixed script, thrives on its anarchic humor as well as the playfulness and spontaneity of its actors. Set pieces from fairy tales are linked to an original story told from a child's point of view, which of course takes getting used to, especially because improvisation is at the expense of the dramaturgy. "

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Release certificate for robbers . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2015 (PDF; test number: 149 105 V).
^ Reuber in the online film database . Retrieved April 23, 2019
↑ Previous winners. Kinofest Lünen , accessed on April 23, 2019 .
^ Rudolf Worschech: Critique of Reuber. Epd Film , April 17, 2015, accessed April 23, 2019 .
↑ Reuber. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .

[FSK-1] Release certificate for robbers . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2015 (PDF; test number: 149 105 V).

[2] Reuber in the online film database . Retrieved April 23, 2019

[3] Previous winners. Kinofest Lünen , accessed on April 23, 2019 .

[4] Rudolf Worschech: Critique of Reuber. Epd Film , April 17, 2015, accessed April 23, 2019 .

[5] Reuber. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 22, 2020 .