Rico, Oskar and the Deep Shadows (film)
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| Original title | Rico, Oskar and the deep shadows |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 96 minutes |
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| Director | Neele Vollmar |
| script |
Andreas Bradler , Klaus Döring , Christian Lerch |
| production |
Philipp Budweg , Robert Marciniak |
| music | Oliver Thiede |
| camera | Torsten Breuer |
| cut | Bernd Schlegel |
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Rico, Oskar und die Tieferschatten is a German children's film that was directed by Neele Vollmar and premiered in German cinemas on July 10, 2014. The film is based on the book of the same name by Andreas Steinhöfel , published by Carlsen Verlag in 2008 , which was awarded the German Youth Literature Prize in 2009 .
action
Ten year old Rico, who describes himself as “gifted”, lives alone with his mother at Dieffenbachstraße 93 in Berlin-Kreuzberg . One day when he met Oskar, who was two years his junior, he quickly realized that this boy was very different from him. Oskar knows a lot for his age and can quickly combine. He is considered highly talented, but unfortunately he is constantly afraid of the big and small dangers of everyday life. Despite these differences, the two boys become friends. Meanwhile, a child kidnapper is up to mischief in Berlin. He is called “Mister 2000” because he demands a ransom of 2000 euros for his victims. Oskar decides to uncover this scoundrel on his own without Rico noticing.
And then all of a sudden Oskar disappeared and Rico is at a loss. However, he concludes that Mister 2000 must have abducted Oskar because Rico found a pin that came from a former victim and that only Oskar could have left behind as a clue. So he sets out on the kidnapper's trail, which initially leads him to Berlin-Schöneberg . He meets with the girl who owned the pin and finally realizes that Oskar is being held captive in the secret annex of "Dieffe 93". The “deep shadows” that Rico could always observe there came from the kidnapper and the kidnapped children. Rico quickly frees Oskar, but the kidnapper is already on their heels. It is Mr. Marrak, who also lives at Dieffe 93. After a wild escape and an awkward scuffle, Mr. Marrak is hit in the head by a falling flowerpot. Grouchy Herr Fitzke wanted his peace and quiet and threw him down.
Mister 2000 is exposed and the children are celebrated as heroes. Rico only finds out about this when he wakes up in the hospital. He had passed out while fighting with Mr Marrakech.
production
The shooting of Rico, Oskar and the Tieferschatten began on September 3, 2013 and took place in Berlin and Leipzig until October 26, 2013 .
Awards
The two main actors Juri Winkler and Anton Petzold each won a white elephant in the category of best newcomer cinema-film actors at the Munich Film Festival .
Both main actors also received the “Emo” for the best performance by a child in a German children's film or a children's film produced in Germany at the Children's Film Festival in the Ruhr area. The film itself was honored with the “Emmi”, awarded by a children's jury.
He was awarded the Gilde Film Prize for the best children's film in 2014 by the Gilde Deutscher Filmkunsttheater .
In addition, the film received the award in the category Best Full-Program Children's Film at the German Film Prize 2015 .
On November 18, 2015, the film won the second prize worth 10,000 euros at the eighth presentation of the Kindertiger screenplay prize awarded by Vision Kino and KiKA .
Differences from the book
- The Kiesling doesn't drive a Porsche, but a Mercedes.
- The scene with the unfriendly ice cream seller actually belongs to the second book. In the first part, Rico and Oskar only plan to have an ice cream, but that doesn't happen because Oskar is kidnapped.
- Even before meeting Oskar, Rico's mother tells that she has to go to Stuttgart because of her brother's cancer. In the book, that happens afterwards. Here she also wants Rico to come with her, but after he defends himself because he doesn't want to miss his goals with Oskar, she leaves him there. In the book, since Rico is disappointed that Oskar didn't come anyway, she wants to drive alone, Rico is just disappointed that the bingo evening is canceled.
reception
The film was given the rating of "particularly valuable" by the German Film and Media Assessment . The reasoning states that Vollmar has succeeded in creating a contemporary film for children: "Without any kitsch or pointing fingers, Vollmar takes children's problems and conflicts seriously without placing them too much in the foreground." In the film, Rico throws them in addition, questions that other children and adults would not even ask themselves, which means that the film is “not just superficial”. The jury also rated the cinematic implementation of the deep shadows as successful, as well as the performance of the main actors and the adult ensemble in the supporting roles.
continuation
In 2015 a sequel was produced under the title Rico, Oskar und das Herzgebreche . Another sequel was released on April 28, 2016 under the title Rico, Oskar and the theft stone .
Web links
- Official page for the film
- Rico, Oskar and the Deeper Shadows in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Rico, Oskar and the Tieferschatten at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Rico, Oskar and the deep shadows . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2014 (PDF; test number: 145 344 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Rico, Oskar and the Tieferschatten . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ rental. fox.de, accessed on March 5, 2014 .
- ^ German Youth Literature Prize. djlp.jugendliteratur.org, accessed March 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Start of shooting for "Rico, Oskar and the Deep Shadows". lieblingsfilm.biz, September 3, 2013, accessed March 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Start of shooting for the movie RICO, OSKAR AND DIE TIEFERSCHATTEN. regie.de, September 3, 2013, accessed March 5, 2014 .
- ↑ White Elephant for RICO, OSKAR AND DIE TIEFERSCHATTEN. (No longer available online.) Munich Film Festival , June 29, 2014, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; Retrieved July 1, 2014 . 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.
- ↑ Prize winners of the Children's Film Days in the Ruhr Area 2014 (PDF, 83.3 kB) Children's Film Days in the Ruhr Area 2014, accessed on November 10, 2014 .
- ↑ Winner: German Film Prize 2015 ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2015 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. , deutscher-filmpreis.de
- ↑ Children's Tiger for "Ostwind 2". In: mediabiz.de. Blickpunkt: Film , November 18, 2015, accessed on November 18, 2015 .
- ↑ Rico, Oskar and the deep shadows. German Film and Media Rating (FBW) , accessed on July 1, 2014 .
