Germany. A summer fairy tale
Germany. A summer fairy tale is a German cinema documentary by director Sönke Wortmann . It shows the German national team on the way to and during the 2006 World Cup .
On December 6, 2006 at 8:15 pm, ARD showed the film for the first time on television. Around eleven million viewers watched the broadcast.
The title is based on Heinrich Heine's verse epic Germany. A winter fairy tale . In addition to the look behind the scenes, this documentary shows a football-loving Germany.
content
Since the Confederations Cup in 2005 , Sönke Wortmann ( Das Wunder von Bern ) and his cameraman Frank Griebe ( Das Parfum ) have always been with the team. The decision to be allowed to film during the 2006 World Cup was made later, however. As a member of the DFB delegation, Wortmann had the opportunity to shoot behind the scenes, while Griebe was responsible for the exterior shots on the field.
Wortmann and Griebe accompanied the German national team during the preparation period and all country and friendly matches. At the beginning, the film shows the preparations for Sardinia and Geneva , where Michael Schumacher is visiting the national team. This is followed by the further course through the various World Cup episodes up to the closing ceremony on the fan mile in Berlin .
The cameras captured everyday situations of the players, the coaching staff and the team supervisors. The film shows the 2006 World Cup from the perspective of the DFB selection . Typical scenes for the film are glimpses behind the scenes such as recordings from the changing room , the team bus or the hotel rooms of the players, some of which were allowed to have their say in various interviews. Wortmann filmed Klinsmann's energetic, motivating speeches, the exuberant celebrations and also the disappointment after the defeat in the semi-finals against Italy .
background
Wortmann came up with the idea for the film through the documentation of the French film Les Yeux dans les Bleus (for example "Eyes on the Blues") by Stephane Meunier. This film showed the French national football team on their way to the 1998 world championship . Sönke Wortmann wanted to make a similar documentary. He asked a wide variety of people, but always received rejections, especially from those around the then team boss Rudi Völler . When Jürgen Klinsmann became national coach in 2004, he asked him and after a long wait the new national coach agreed to the project.
Film music
- Marcel Barsotti - A Summer Fairy Tale (main theme)
- Marcel Barsotti - Sardinia
- Herbert Grönemeyer feat. Amadou - time for something to turn
- Marcel Barsotti - The Punt and the Portuguese
- Xavier Naidoo - This way
- Marcel Barsotti - black pants, white socks
- Marcel Barsotti - Strong men dance salsa
- Max Raabe , Heino Ferch , Peter Lohmeyer & the palace orchestra - shoot the ball into the goal
- Marcel Barsotti - From Costa Rica to Ecuador
- Marcel Barsotti - Pig's World
- Sasha - This Is My Time
- Marcel Barsotti - Little Heroes
- Gunslinger - home game
- Marcel Barsotti - From Sweden to Argentina
- Drafi Deutscher - marble, stone and iron breaks
- Marcel Barsotti - Italy
- Marcel Barsotti - Great suffering, new hope
- Baddiel & Skinner & The Lightning Seeds - Three Lions (Football's Coming Home)
- Marcel Barsotti - ping pong
- Marcel Barsotti - Fit for Argentina
production
Germany. A summer fairy tale , actually planned as a television production, developed into a movie due to the exuberant, summery World Cup atmosphere in Germany and the success of the German team . The editors Melanie Singer and Christian von Lüpke cut this film together from more than a hundred hours of film material with a running time of approx. 108 minutes. The title The Scottish Roses was chosen as the production name in order to avoid an early publication in the media. The film was produced by Wortmann's company Little Shark Entertainment .
Recovery
On October 3, 2006, the day of German unity , the film was shown in a preview in the World Cup cities of Berlin , Stuttgart , Hamburg and Kaiserslautern , and it was shown regularly in German cinemas on October 5, 2006. The film immediately made it to number 1 in the German cinema charts and attracted more than a million visitors to the cinemas in the first week. Two weeks later, with 2.7 million viewers, it left Die Reise der Pinguine as the most successful documentary film at German box offices to date . A total of almost 4 million cinema viewers saw the film.
The big cinema operators threatened a boycott because the release dates of the cinema film and the TV version were too close together. The film was financed 100 percent by WDR and WDR mediagroup . There was disagreement about the timing of the first release on public television and the start of sales of the DVD. As a compromise, the exploitation chain was stretched, so that the ARD broadcast the work on December 6, 2006 at 8:15 p.m. 10.46 million viewers saw the film on this occasion. This corresponded to a market share of 31 percent.
The DVD double box appeared in stores on February 8, 2007 and also reached number 1 in the German charts. In addition to the main film DVD, it contains another DVD with u. a. 105 minutes of previously unpublished scenes by Wortmann, who recorded a total of 100 hours of film material.
At the request of the players, one euro per ticket or DVD should go to the joint project 6 Villages for 2006 by FIFA and the SOS Children's Villages .
In October 2006, a paperback of the same name was also published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch as the “World Cup diary” by Sönke Wortmann and Christoph Biermann .
Movie reviews
Florian Haupt criticized in the newspaper Die Welt that the film never leaves the surface. The German World Cup adventure would gain in anecdotes but lose in magic. Kathrin Buchner from Stern found that Wortmann had captured the summer's euphoria not in a fairy-tale way, but magically. Reinhard Mohr from Spiegel also rated the film mostly positive and described it as touching and moving, but mostly unpretentious and without a juicy, melting, and certainly not at all patriotic soundscape. In the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , Peter Körte compared Wortmann's film with Stéphane Meunier's documentary Les yeux dans les bleus about the French national team's title win at the 1998 World Cup and came to the following conclusion: “ Wortmann films the Klinsmann era like you did in the Völler era Football played: a lot in width, often backwards, too hesitantly to the top, only fixated on the result . ”ProSieben found on the double DVD:“ You also get an idea of the logistical effort of the whole company, of the professionalism of the fitness trainers, Psychologists and nutritionists. You get respect for Joachim Löw's knowledge of tactics and Jürgen Klinsmann's motivational skills. "
Awards
- Bambi 2006: Documentation category
- Leibniz-Ring-Hannover 2006: for Sönke Wortmann
- Bavarian Film Award 2006: Audience Award
- Grimme Prize 2007: Information & Culture category
- "Valuable" rating: awarded by the German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden
literature
- Judith Keilbach: Germany. A summer fairy tale. In: Kai Marcel Sicks, Markus Stauff (Ed.): Film genres. Sports film. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 2010, ISBN 978-3-15-018786-9 , pp. 287-291.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for Germany. A summer fairy tale . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ Information from the RP from December 2, 2006
- ↑ (according to the picture from October 12, 2006)
- ↑ Germany. A summer fairy tale report from Cinema magazine .
- ↑ Florian Haupt: We give them in the face ; The world . September 30, 2006
- ↑ Kathrin Buchner: In bed with Poldi ; Star . October 5, 2006
- ↑ Reinhard Mohr: This is our game! This is our game! ; The mirror ; October 3, 2006
- ↑ Peter Körte: In bed with Ballack. Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung from October 1, 2006
- ↑ Cinema & DVD: ProSieben from February 28, 2007
Web links
- Germany. A summer fairy tale in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Germany. A summer fairy tale at filmportal.de
- Press release from the film distributor (PDF; 55 kB)