As soon as possible to Istanbul
| Movie | |
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| Original title | As soon as possible to Istanbul |
| Country of production | GDR |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 43 minutes |
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| Director | Andreas Dresen |
| script | Andreas Dresen, Laila Stieler |
| production | Grischa Petry , Karl-Martin Lötsch |
| music | Jürgen Ehle |
| camera | Andreas Höfer |
| cut | Rita Reinhardt |
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As fast as it goes to Istanbul is a GDR fiction film by Andreas Dresen from 1990 based on a script written together with Laila Stieler based on motifs from the story "Romeo" by Jurek Becker . The black and white film with Yüksel Yolcu and Jana Mattukat in the leading roles, produced by the Konrad Wolf Academy of Film and Television with the support of DEFA Studio Babelsberg GmbH , describes a Berlin East-West romance shortly after the fall of the Wall. Dresen dedicated the film, made under the advice of director Günter Reisch , to the cameraman Werner Bergmann, who died in 1990 .
content
Berlin in the spring of 1990: The young Turk Niyazi, who lives in West Berlin, wants to go back to his hometown Istanbul as soon as possible after the fall of the Berlin Wall, but he just lacks the financial means for the trip. In order to get the money together faster, he has the idea of going to the east part of Berlin, where the cost of living and rents are much lower, but to continue to work in the west part for a higher west income. He is specifically looking for a large apartment in East Berlin that he can move into, preferably with a pretty girl in there too. He soon finds out that his plan is not easy to carry out.
Emergence
The student film originally produced for television under the working title "Romeo" by Dresen, who grew up and trained in the GDR, was presented in 1991 in the "New German Films" section at the Berlinale .
When asked how he, as a young East Berlin director, was able to portray the life of Kreuzberg Turks in a realistic film so shortly after the fall of the Wall, Dresen replied: "I was just looking for Turkish actors, they showed me their families and their world".
Awards
- 1991: Grand Prix at the XV. Rencontres Henri Langlois de Poitiers
- 1991: Prize of the signatories of the Oberhausen Manifesto and DGB Oberhausen Prize at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
- 1992: Audience Award at the Bamberg Short Film Festival
- 1992: Special Prize of the Prix Europa
DVD release
The film was published in 2007 by Filmgalerie 451 and the film magazine Schnitt in the debut film series on the double DVD Stilles Land under “Extras”.
literature
- As soon as possible to Istanbul (1990). In: David Lode: Adventure Reality. The films by Andreas Dresen. Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89472-690-4 , pp. 33-36.
Web links
- As soon as possible to Istanbul in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- As fast as you can to Istanbul at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jurek Becker: After the first future. Stories. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-518-02110-9 .
- ^ Uta Keseling: Berlin Walk. The eye catcher. (Conversation with Andreas Dresen), in: Die Welt , February 8, 2009.