Fate game
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Fate game |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bernd Schadewald |
| script | Bernd Schadewald |
| production |
Studio Hamburg Norddeutscher Rundfunk |
| music | Loy Wesselburg |
| camera |
Klaus Eichhammer Randolf Scherraus |
| cut | Annemarie Bremer |
| occupation | |
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Schicksalsspiel (title abroad: Soccer love ) is a German television film by director Bernd Schadewald from 1993, which was first broadcast on August 31, 1994 in the ARD program.
action
For the away game of the second division soccer team FC St. Pauli at FC Hansa Rostock, Roland travels to Rostock with other Sankt Pauli supporters. The clash between the two clubs is considered a risk game due to the St. Pauli fan scene, which is considered to be active left-wing politically, and right-wing extremist tendencies in Rostock, which had become apparent a few months earlier during the riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen . So the four-person fan group around Roland also gets into an argument with Hansa fans. When visiting a Rostock pub, Roland meets the waitress Conny, with whom he immediately falls in love. After a short time there is a provoked scuffle, whereupon the group around Roland flees the restaurant. After a short chase, the Rostockers are found by the police and taken into custody, while the guests from Hamburg can watch the game.
After the game, Roland tries to see Conny again, to whom he finally gives his fan scarf as a souvenir at a short meeting. Roland soon goes back to Rostock and spends a day with Conny, but in the meantime her brother Lalla, who is himself a staunch Hansa fan, discovers the Sankt Pauli scarf in his sister's room. In the evening, the couple is put in a disco by Lalla and his friends, whereupon Roland is knocked down by them. In doing so, Lalla also injures himself, which is why he continues to escalate into the conflict.
Roland travels back to Hamburg with Conny and shows her the city - much to the displeasure of his best friend Manni, who fears that the friendship with Roland could be neglected because of Conny, and even put himself and the couple in mortal danger in a provoked car accident to get Conny to return to Rostock. Roland insults Manni and can convince Conny to stay in Hamburg for the time being.
In Rostock meanwhile, Lalla instigates his companions to travel to the following home game of FC St. Pauli against Fortuna Düsseldorf and take revenge. In fact, the two groups meet in the stadium area, and Conny cannot prevent Roland from being stabbed by Lalla. Roland's injury in the atmosphere of a football game is also the final scene of the film. It is not known whether he will survive.
Reviews
"A critically entertaining East-West tragedy that plausibly conveys the flight from social injustice into extremism, violence and also into feelings."
"Bernd Schadewald used the common prejudices that young people from the old and new federal states have of each other to tell a love story that begins accidentally, hastily and very carelessly and, according to Shakespeare, comes to an abrupt end."
Awards
- 1994 Adolf Grimme Prize for Bernd Schadewald, Niels-Bruno Schmidt and Nicolette Krebitz
- German Camera Prize 1994 for Klaus Eichhammer
- Special award directing to Bernd Schadewald at the Baden-Baden days of the television game 1994
Web links
- Game of Fate in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Destiny Game in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ Elzbieta Tittelbach: pure life and love. In: Berliner Zeitung . September 1, 1994, accessed November 14, 2015 .