Rudi Assauer - doer. Human. Legend.
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Rudi Assauer - doer. Human. Legend. |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 05/04/2018 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Don Schubert |
| script | Don Schubert |
| production | Don Schubert |
| music | Carsten Rocker |
| camera | Ralf M. Mendle |
| cut | Patrik Gaertner, John David Seidler |
| occupation | |
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Karin Assauer, Huub Stevens, Bettina Michel, Sabine Söldner, Marcelo Bordon, Mike Büskens, Gerald Asamoah, Michael Knicker, and many more | |
Rudi Assauer - doer. Human. Legend. is a 2018 documentary by filmmaker Don Schubert . It traces the life of Rudi Assauer , the former manager of the Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04 . The film premiered on May 4, 2018 in the Veltins-Arena in Gelsenkirchen . With around 25,000 spectators (21,146 Reservix tickets, 2,792 S04 tickets plus employees, prize winners and invited guests) it was the largest film premiere in Germany . The attempt to set a world record for the largest number of viewers at a film premiere - the record was 43,624 visitors in 2015 in the Mexican city of Ciudad de Victoria - did not succeed.
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The life of Assauer is traced in archive clips, interviews and parts of the feature film using animatics . The main focus is on his work as a football manager - and especially the time between 1993 and 2006. On a private level, the relationship with his daughter Bettina Michel is also examined. Affairs and romances as well as the partnership with Simone Thomalla are not discussed.
Interview partners are the former soccer players Gerald Asamoah , Jörg Böhme , Marcelo Bordon , Mike Büskens , Klaus Fichtel , Lewan Kobiaschwili , Michael Knickel , Andreas Müller , Darío Rodríguez , Ebbe Sand , Olaf Thon and Tomasz Wałdoch , the soccer coach Huub Stevens , the soccer officials Reiner Calmund and Klaus Berster (President VfB Oldenburg ) as well as Assauer's twin sister Karin Assauer , his long-time secretary Sabine Söldner and the eldest daughter Bettina Michel .
Rudi Assauer could not be available for interviews due to his illness.
According to Prisma , “according to the filmmaker, a speaker was deliberately omitted to explain or classify facts from the off .”
reception
On Derwesten.de , the online portal of the Essen-based Funke media group , the verdict was: It is a "recommendable piece of contemporary history and not just for Schalke fans". It was also paraphrased that it was a “sometimes touching film” that showed Assauer's love for “the club, controversial decisions and Assauer's humanity towards employees and players” in 95 minutes, which is why the work was “not just die-hard Schalke fans [. ..] deeply touch ”.
In the reporting on the film premiere, dpa said that the documentary was a “moving homage”.
In the short review, the film service noted that archive images and “almost without exception praiseworthy statements” from companions remained uncommented and that the “empty spaces were filled with not always convincing animations”.
In the review of TV Spielfilm, on the other hand, the “charming, lavishly implemented animatics, ie the individual images of the storyboard” are referred to as the “secret highlight of the film” because a. "Assauer's crucial private moments" came to life. The overall conclusion is that the documentary is a “loving and lavishly executed homage”. The reviewer of Prisma saw it as equally positive , for whom the implementation of the feature film parts in "astonishingly emotional-looking, comic-like animations" was successful. Otherwise, it is already mentioned in the introduction that it is a "remarkable documentary".
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for Rudi Assauer - Macher. Human. Legend. . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 178261 / K).
- ↑ Auf Schalke: Emotional event without a world record , kicker.de, May 5, 2018
- ↑ a b dpa-infocom GmbH: “Makers, people, legends”: Assauer film celebrates its premiere. In: welt.de . May 4, 2018, accessed March 2, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Madeline Jäger: Documentary about Rudi Assauer: “Macher. Human. Legend “- we'll tell you whether it's worth going to the cinema. In: derwesten.de. July 21, 2018, accessed March 2, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Rudi Assauer - doer. Human. Legend. In: filmdienst.de. Retrieved March 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Uli Brünger, Hauke Richters: Rudi Assauer Is Dead: He lived football like hardly anyone else. In: nwzonline.de. February 7, 2019, accessed March 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Assauer-Film misses the audience record. In: morgenpost.de. May 5, 2018, accessed March 2, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Frank Rauscher: Rudi Assauer - Macher. Human. Legend: The film about his life. In: prisma.de. February 6, 2019, accessed March 2, 2019 .
- ↑ Björn Schneider: Review: Rudi Assauer - Macher. Human ....- 2018. In: spielfilm.de. Retrieved March 2, 2019 .