Heavy Boys (2006)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Heavy guys |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marcus H. Rosenmüller |
| script | Philipp Roth |
| production |
Molly von Fürstenberg , Viola Jäger , Harald Kügler |
| music | Gerd Baumann |
| camera | Torsten Breuer |
| cut | Anne Loewer |
| occupation | |
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Schwere Jungs is a German comedy film directed by Marcus H. Rosenmüller from 2006 . Sebastian Bezzel plays a German bobsleigh driver who tried to achieve sporting success in the early 1950s. The premiere was at the Hofer Filmtage 2006, the cinema release on January 18, 2007.
action
Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936: While the real Olympic Winter Games are taking place in the village, the village youth are holding their own Winter Games. During the sled race, a screw loosens Gamser's self-made sledge, which is why he and his team have to admit defeat to the villager.
16 years later Gamser is now a carpenter, but inherited a debt-ridden business, which is why he and his wife Rosi have to lead a modest life. The villager, on the other hand, always living in prosperity, inherited his father's successful brewery. The childhood rivalry between Gamser and Dorfler still continues. The situation is difficult for the befriended wives of the two arch-rivals, Gamser's pregnant wife Rosi and Dorfler's newly wed wife Anna from Northern Germany. They want to settle the dispute between the two and thus reunite the village. But they did the math without the wealthy brewery owner Dorfler and the eternal loser Gamser.
After Dorfler won the bobsleigh world championship with his team and is now taking part in the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo , Gamser decides to set up a bobsleigh team himself to show the Dorfler. He convinced his three old friends, the landlord Franzl, the conductor Leusl Peter, who suffers from his dominant wife, and Gustl to found a team. After some training and against the mockery of the opposing team, the four manage to qualify for the games in Oslo, in which German participants are allowed for the first time since the end of the war and two German teams are allowed to take part.
Finally the games begin in Oslo. But besides the purely athletic obstacles, there are also a lot of other problems to deal with, such as marital quarrels, deep-seated animosities and financial difficulties. After the training runs, Gamser's team is actually better than Dorfler's, but overall both German teams are only in the middle of the field. Gamser then realizes that although he is the better driver of the two, both teams would have to work together if they want to win a medal for Germany. The bobsled run in Oslo has many straights, which is why heavy athletes have an advantage. Gamser came up with the idea of combining the heaviest drivers of both teams in order to be able to use the weight. After some reluctance and misgivings from all the drivers and despite the fact that Gamser will not be able to ride himself, this cooperation comes about and two teams become one. The drivers are weighed position against position, and the heaviest of each drive together. In the race this calculation works out and so the bobsleigh team, completely surprisingly, wins gold for Germany. This success leads to Gamser and Dorfler burying their feud and Dorfler even commissioning Gamser with a major order for his brewery cellar.
Film music
The soundtrack comes from Gerd Baumann.
- Bob the bobsledder
- Give me a chu-chu
- Green bag
- The pearl of Aloa
- Patent twist
- I am king in love
- One for you two for me
- The first golden one
- Backwoods fairytale forest
- Wooden sledge march
- The Goas in the ice channel
- Gamserbeat I.
- The trip to Oslo
- West St Louis Scubadou
- Gamserbeat II
- separation
- Gamser's idea
- of hare
- Twelve-end polka
- Loisl to the bone
- Hasenberghof march
- The final race
- Waiting for the time
- gold
- Radio Ørebro
- Cupid
background
The film is loosely based on a true story. In 1952, Andreas Ostler won the gold medal in the four-man bobsleigh with his team at the 1952 Winter Olympics . At these games, Ostler's German team weighed a proud 472 kg. Subsequently, a fixed weight limit was introduced for the first time in bobsleigh , which is still valid today (max. 420 kg).
The shooting took place from January to March 2006 in St. Moritz , Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Wamberg, Munich and the surrounding area as well as in Liberec and the surrounding area. For the soundtrack, was as with die sooner Who is longer dead , Gerd Baumann responsible. This music was composed in the style of the hits and popular music of the 50s. The song Give me a Chu-Chu , sung by Julia von Miller of the Odeon Dance Orchestra , achieved greater fame .
The Constantin Film rentals brought the film in theaters. By the end of 2007 there were 564,782 moviegoers in Germany.
The BR produced in collaboration with Constantin Film also audio description . The speaker is Bernd Benecke .
The image description was nominated for the German Audio Film Award in 2008.
Reviews
- Andreas Haaß from Moviemaster says that “Schwere Jungs” is wonderful entertainment , has a well-written story and is a pleasure to watch, for which one should also understand a bit of Bavarian dialect .
- Christoph Petersen from Filmstarts.de criticizes that the film offers little new apart from the typical sports film dramaturgy from the rise of the underdogs , but the numerous subplot strands are better, more entertaining and more charming, which would also make up the actual quality of the film . Here Rosenmüller's rustic humor comes through and the more Bavarian a scene, the better it is.
- The lexicon of international films judges: “ Sports comedy that has devoted itself with great enthusiasm to the retro look of the 1950s, whereby the rivalry and relationship stories are of selected harmlessness and only occasionally mix in parodic or even political undertones. The film works with the means of the trivial entertainment cinema of that time with a sure sense of style, but all too often succumbs to its stuffy stuffiness. "
Web links
- Heavyweights in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Heavy guys at filmportal.de
- "Heavy Boys" - Official Site
- Stern article "Schwere Jungs" - The miracle of Oslo
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for heavy boys . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2006 (PDF; test number: 107 965 K).
- ↑ Age rating for heavy boys . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Schwere Jungs at filmportal.de , accessed on December 19, 2012
- ↑ Schwere Jungs in the LUMIERE film database, accessed on December 19, 2012
- ↑ Guys in Hörfilm database of Hörfilm e. V.
- ↑ 6th GERMAN AUDIO FILM AWARD 2008
- ^ Critique by Andreas Haaß
- ^ Critique by Christoph Petersen
- ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007 . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9