Red and Blue (2003)

Movie
Original title	Red and blue
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2003
length	122 minutes
Rod
Director	Rudolf Thome
script	Rudolf Thome, dialogues: Peter Lund
production	Rudolf Thome
music	Wolfgang Böhmer
camera	Michael Wiesweg
cut	Dörte Völz-Mammarella
occupation
Hannelore Elsner : Barbara Bärenklau Serpil Turhan : Ilke Adriana Altaras : Samantha Hanns Zischler : Samuel Eisenstein Karl Kranzkowski : Gregor Bärenklau Bastian Trost : Frank Joya Thome : Sarah Bärenklau Nicolai Thome : Sebastian Jan Kleihues : Homeowner FJ Krüger : Car salesman Idelstein

Rot und Blau is a German film by the Berlin filmmaker Rudolf Thome from 2003 with Hannelore Elsner in the leading role. The film is the prelude to the trilogy “Time Travel”, which was completed with a woman drives, man sleeps  (2004) and smoke signals  (2006).

The premiere of the film was at the Munich Film Festival on July 4, 2003. The German theatrical release was on January 15, 2004, the first broadcast on November 17, 2004 on ARD.

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The architect Barbara lives in Berlin with her husband and two children. Surprisingly, she is confronted with her past: her now grown-up daughter Ilke comes to Berlin after her father's death and tracks down her mother with the help of the shady private detective Samuel Eisenstein.

Reviews

The film service saw a "simple story with fairytale features, set in the fashionable ambience of the upper middle class, based on coincidences and an affected staff". "The casual mastery of storytelling: confident and with a wink at the same time" was highlighted. Thome pulls the strings and ties them together, creating a “subtle examination of lifestyles, attitudes and attitudes”. The epd film generally praised the film and said that Thomes films “always float a little above the ground of reality”. Nevertheless, his "people and their behavior appeared extremely concrete, attentive and precise".

The film magazine Schnitt , on the other hand, criticized the film's wealth of ideas, which “after a short time only becomes exhausting”. The plot is “too tightly knitted”, and at the same time the “essential information that brings the characters closer to the viewer is missing”. In the same way, the “film music would go nowhere”. They seem to herald a "calamity that will never happen".

Web links

• Red and blue in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Red and blue at filmportal.de
• Interview with Rudolf Thome in the taz
• Katja Nicodemus: In the end a lot of wine . Die Zeit , December 11, 2003.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Red and Blue. film service , accessed September 19, 2014 . 
2. ^ Karlheinz Oplustil: Red and Blue. epd Film , No. 1, January 2, 2004, accessed on September 19, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Franziska Nössig: colors. Cut , accessed September 19, 2014 .