Russian disco (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Russian disco |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Oliver Ziegenbalg |
| script | Oliver Ziegenbalg |
| production |
Arthur Cohn , Christoph Hahnheiser |
| music | Lars Löhn |
| camera | Tetsuo Nagata |
| cut | Peter R. Adam |
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Russendisko is a German comedy film by the director Oliver Ziegenbalg from 2012 with Matthias Schweighöfer , Friedrich Mücke and Christian Friedel in the leading roles. It is about three young Russians, Vladimir, Mischa and Andrej, who after the fall of the Wall in the summer of 1990 decided to emigrate from the Soviet Union to Germany.
action
Vladimir, Mischa and Andrej came to Berlin as Russians of Jewish descent in the summer of 1990. Mischa receives a residence permit for only three months because, unlike the other two, he does not come from a Jewish family. Your first point of contact is the residence for foreigners in Marzahn. They earn their first money selling canned beer. In an amateur dance theater, Vladimir sees the pretty Olga and is fascinated by her.
Andrej is continuously expanding the mobile sales of spirits. Meanwhile, Vladimir and Misha try their hand at street musicians. During an appearance in a small bar, the three friends meet Olga and her friends, they spend the day together and Vladimir flirts with Olga. However, she blocks his advances as she is going back to Moscow.
When the three months of his visa have expired, the police are supposed to pick up Mischa from the dormitory. However, the three friends are able to flee. To avoid the police, they live in the car before they find shelter in an apartment with the help of Olga. Meanwhile, Vladimir and Olga finally get closer. Mischa and Hanna, a friend of Olga, also get closer and decide to get married. However, Mischa gets a guilty conscience and tells Hanna that his visa has expired, that he can only stay by marrying a German and that Hanna does not love Hanna at all. Since Vladimir knew about the plan with the wedding, Olga is disappointed with him and leaves him, which leads to an argument between the three friends.
To prevent Misha from being deported, Vladimir and Andrei try to turn him into a Jew. The rabbi who is supposed to give the necessary testimony cannot be deceived. But since he is looking for an organ player for his community and Mischa can play the organ, he issues him the necessary certificate. Olga can't forgive Vladimir for a long time, only when he confesses his love to her over the radio does she return to him.
One day Vladimir discovers the abandoned lounge in the pub on the corner. The three friends decide to hold a Russian disco there, which is a great success.
background
The film is based on the novel of the same name by Wladimir Kaminer from 2000 and the script by Oliver Ziegenbalg. Since the original director Oliver Schmitz left the project after five days of shooting, Ziegenbalg also stepped in as a director.
The shooting of the film took place in the Babelsberg studio in Potsdam . Among other things, the local so-called " Berliner Straße " was used. The animation scenes were drawn by animator Alla Churikova in Munich.
Writer Wladimir Kaminer himself made short guest appearances in the film as a radio doctor and supplier of colorful fragments of the wall.
publication
The cinema release in Germany was on March 29, 2012, and around 150,000 viewers were reached on the first weekend. With 653,745 visitors by the end of the year, the comedy placed ninth in the most-watched German cinema productions of 2012.
Reviews
Critic Gregor Quack wrote in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : “Love, the art of living and alcohol: The film adaptation of Vladimir Kaminer's autobiographical novel Russendisko was a success. Above all, the authentic soundtrack is convincing. ”His colleague Bert Rebhandl once again described the film as“ embarrassment across the board ”, while the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) awarded the title“ particularly valuable ”.
The lexicon of the international film said: “Very loosely based on Vladimir Kaminer's short story band Russendisko , the film only offers fragments of Kaminer's ironic highlights from Berlin shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall and tells a rather simple buddy story about Eastern Europeans without verve or esprit Friends and their adventures in the 'West'. "
The TV magazine Prisma said: “After the bestseller by Wladimir Kaminer, director and screenwriter Oliver Ziegenbalg immersed himself in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall. But what is written quite fresh and cheeky appears bland and artificial in the film version. Berlin in transition does not want to convey itself here any more than the adventurous existence of the three friends. "
Web links
- Russian disco in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
- Russian disco at filmportal.de
- Christian Friedel: "The Russians are pretty party animals!"
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Russian disco . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2012 (PDF; test number: 131 434 K).
- ^ Fritz Göttler: A film from another time. Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 29, 2012, accessed on June 18, 2012 : "It took nine years for the film to be made, but it was worth the wait."
- ^ "Shooting for Russendisko in Studio Babelsberg" , Potsdamer Latest News , undated
- ↑ Cinema charts: "Russendisko" starts properly , Meedia , accessed April 5, 2012
- ↑ Film hit list: Annual list (German) 2012 . In: Filmförderungsanstalt . FFA.de. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
- ↑ Film review "Russendisko" , down. April 2, 2012.
- ^ FAZ, March 30, 2012.
- ^ Russendisko , German Film and Media Assessment (FBW), accessed April 5, 2012
- ↑ Russian disco. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Russendisko , prisma.de