Soul Kitchen

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Movie
Original title Soul Kitchen
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2009
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Fatih Akin
script Fatih Akin,
Adam Bousdoukos
production Corazón International
music Klaus Maeck ,
Pia Hoffmann
camera Rainer Klausmann
cut Andrew Bird
occupation

Soul Kitchen is a comedy film by the German director Fatih Akin based on a script written together with the main actor Adam Bousdoukos . The film had its world premiere on September 10, 2009 at the 66th Venice Film Festival , where it won the special prize of the jury. The film opened in German cinemas on December 25, 2009. It shows people affected in the vicinity of a restaurant threatened with closure, the Soul Kitchen , and is at the same time a declaration of love from the director to his hometown Hamburg .

action

The Soul Kitchen

Zinos is the operator of the Soul Kitchen , a moderately running schnitzel and meatball restaurant in an old factory building in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg . His girlfriend Nadine , a journalist who comes from an upper-class Hamburg family, moves to Shanghai for a job lasting several months , and the two of them stay in contact via webcam . At work, Zinos - without health insurance - suffers a herniated disc and is unable to continue working. The physiotherapist Anna mediated by Nadine treats him, but can only help him little.

His brother Illias , who after many years of imprisonment clearance is obtained and shows up at Zinos want, though but only pro forma, expand employment with him to his clearance times. Now Zinos hires the rather eccentric cook Shayn , who recently fired in a posh restaurant , who immediately switched the menu of the Soul Kitchen to top cuisine - which permanently pissed off the regular customers who are focused on sausage and schnitzel. Then real estate shark Thomas Neumann , a former schoolmate of Zinos', shows up and makes a plan to buy the building from Zinos cheaply in order to tear it down and market the property. When Zinos does not respond, Neumann tries everything to ruin the store. On the other hand, it turns out to be a great idea to allow Kellner Lutz and his band to rehearse in the Soul Kitchen , because the people around the band think Shayn's extravagant cuisine is great and the restaurant is becoming a hit in the scene.

Marked by his back pain and worried about the continuation of his relationship, Zinos decides to move to Nadine in China. For this reason he appoints his brother Illias as managing director with full powers. At the airport he meets Nadine, who has returned to Hamburg after the sudden death of her grandmother. When Zinos realizes at the funeral that the Chinese in Nadine's company is her new lover, there is first a scandal, then a separation.

Meanwhile, Neumann has persuaded Illias to play a high stakes poker game. Illias loses € 100,000 that he doesn't have. In order to pay the debts and to keep Neumann's thugs at bay, he notarized Neumann over the Soul Kitchen . In desperation, Illias and Zinos decide to break into Neumann's company and the notary's office in order to destroy the notarial contracts. On the run, they are caught by the police. While Zinos is being released, Illias meets Neumann in prison - the tax office has taken down his real estate company.

From the bankruptcy estate, the Soul Kitchen is now up for foreclosure auction. Zinos - meanwhile healed from his very painful and paralyzed herniated disc by a traditional Turkish chiropractor practicing privately in his apartment , called the "bone breaker" - receives from Nadine, who has become rich through her grandmother's inheritance, who is responsible for her shabby behavior Zinos opposite is ashamed of receiving a check for € 200,000 to bid for the Soul Kitchen .

This succeeds, and Zinos and his new love, physiotherapist Anna, look hopefully into the future.

background

Fatih Akin dedicated the film, which, according to the filmmaker, “deals with our topic, the relationship between brothers among one another”, to his brother Cem.

The film is dedicated to Monica Bleibtreu

He is also “in memory of” Monica Bleibtreu , the actress who died in 2009 and who has “her last big appearance” here in the role of grandma Nadines.

Furthermore, the director dedicates the film to his hometown Hamburg.

Akin calls the film set in Hamburg a modern Heimatfilm because of its themes . It is about "family and friends, about love, trust and loyalty - and about the fight for home as a place that has to be protected in an increasingly unpredictable world". In the film, many familiar from earlier productions Akins actors are seen alongside Moritz Bleibtreu, who already in July and Solino thing was Birol Ünel ( In July , Gegen die Wand ), and Adam Bousdoukos ( Sensin - It's you! , Short and painless ). Akin's film company calls it a "best-of" cast.

According to the filmmaker, Billy Wilder was the “patron and orientation point” for the film . Akin had hung his poster over his desk while he was working on the comedy.

According to the Welt , the director Fatih Akin is also supporting the occupation of the Hamburg Gängeviertel, which is threatened with demolition, by around 200 artists. “The planned demolition of the historic quarter is an example of how the city of Hamburg is spoiling its legacy. Whenever he advertises his new film Soul Kitchen , he also advertises the monuments of the Hanseatic city, ”Akin is quoted as saying by the daily newspaper.

After Akin had already worked on the screenplay of Kebab Connection (2005), the film is the director's first self-staged full-length comedy. Akin repeatedly emphasized the particular difficulty that this genre ("comedy is the supreme discipline") causes him.

New chef Shayn's unusual dishes at Soul Kitchen are from Isabel Allende's cookbook Aphrodite. A Celebration of the Senses (1997) inspires. Birol Ünel was coached in the role of chef by Joern Martens and Hamburg's top chef Ali Güngörmüş .

It is thanks to the fact that Ünel read Arthur Rimbaud on the set that the Rimbaud quote “What cannot be sold is sold!” Was subsequently written into the script.

The heavy horse fall scene seen in the film is a shot of a real fall by rider Katharina Werning during a horse race in Neuss in early 2008 . After this, she had to temporarily interrupt her career.

In the Soul Kitchen band waiter Lutz is the Bad Boy Boogiez , the actual volume of Lutz embodying actor Lucas Gregorowicz .

Although Soul Kitchen is a film adaptation of an original screenplay, the film was one of the four titles on the shortlist for the best international literary film adaptation at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2009, which was due to the prequel in the form of a novel, Soul Kitchen. The story first part of the previously unknown author Jasmin Ramadan was founded. Juergen Boos underpinned the decision he identified as an "experiment":

“This film is exciting for me because it shows how the industries are growing together - blogs, pictures, original sounds, it is tweeted. At 'Soul Kitchen' by Fatih Akin, book and film are created together and influence each other. The great thing is that the book, which deals with the genesis of the film, is published by a literary publisher (...). "

Soul Kitchen is the first Fatih Akin film that was also released in a radio play version with the original voices from the film version and an additional first-person narrator (zinos, voiced by Adam Bousdoukos). It went on sale at the start of the film.

History of origin

The film Soul Kitchen was actually planned as a direct follow-up project to Gegen die Wand in 2003/2004 . The first phase of work on the film falls before Akin's international breakthrough as a director.

According to Akin, he wanted to try out a new text program on his computer and wrote “without a vision, without an idea (...) straight away”. At the time, his friend Adam Bousdoukos had just been left by his girlfriend at the time and was also having professional problems. At that time he was the owner of the Greek tavern Sotiris at Barnerstrasse 42 in Hamburg-Ottensen and ran the Glam Slam Music Club at Bahrenfelder Strasse 237. Akin took Bousdoukos' life crisis as an opportunity to write his story:

“I just jammed around with the new program. On the very first day I had written 20 pages of the script. The first version was available after five days. I gave it to my partner, Andreas Thiel […]. He read it and said, 'Let's make a movie out of it!' "

the director describes the first phase of the script. After Gegen die Wand was awarded the Golden Bear , however, he had doubts about the project; it suddenly appeared “no longer important enough”. A "snotty comedy" now apparently no longer lived up to the expectations of him, so he preferred to "add something more serious, awesome".

During the filming of the music documentary Crossing The Bridge - The Sound of Istanbul in 2004, however, Akin's plans to cast the comedy with Hanna Schygulla in the role of the band's pianist as the leading actress were announced. The 2004 yearbook of the DEFA Foundation Apropos, Film already announced another phase of script work on the film. It was created as the second part of the trilogy planned by Akin about love, death and the devil. Then the project was finally postponed entirely and even discarded in connection with the film trilogy. In the drama On the Other Side (2007), which was instead realized as the second part of the trilogy , it remained solely with the planned leading actress Schygulla.

Between these and other projects (initially without any further specific plans for a film adaptation), Soul Kitchen was “occasionally developed further out of whim. Whenever we had nothing better to do or wanted to distract ourselves, we had a lot of fun at Soul Kitchen, ”says Akin. When Andreas Thiel died shortly before the end of the filming of On the Other Side , Akin changed his view of the postponed project. Thiel always said about Soul Kitchen : “It does n't matter what people say. Do it anyway! ”But only after his friend's death was he able to heed these words.

At first Akin planned a western with Bousdoukos; after a trip to America for research purposes, however, it became clear that Akin would not be able to realize this western with his friend as the leading actor. According to the filmmaker, this was the final factor in resuming the Soul Kitchen project:

“At the end of the trip, we were sitting in a motel in Albuquerque . I said to (Bousdoukos): We won't make it together. I need a budget of 15 million for the film. I won't get that financed with you. I need someone like Johnny Depp for that. Sorry! He asked: What now? So I said: let's go to Hamburg and do 'Soul Kitchen'. "

Involved in the creation story: Jan Delay

Actual film work on the comedy dragged on for two years and was aimed at completion for the Cannes Film Festival in May 2009, to which the film had already received an invitation. However, due to a post-production not yet completed , Akin had to cancel participation in the festival. The director gave the reason for the Hamburger Abendblatt that Jan Delay only wanted to decide after a preview whether one of his songs could be used in the film that he believed was already finished for Cannes . After seeing the film, the musician said, “I don't think you're finished yet. The film doesn't have the right groove yet ”. Akin then began extensive post-production and partly shot scenes.

In order to be able to realize the film, Akin had to cancel incoming offers to shoot in Hollywood due to the international success of On the Other Side . His main actor Moritz Bleibtreu even decided not to play a role in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds (2009) for the already promised participation in Soul Kitchen .

At the beginning of 2010, Akin led a lawsuit against Alexander Wallasch who claimed to have seen "striking similarities" between his debut novel "Hotel Monopol" and "Soul Kitchen". Wallasch was defeated, so that an injunction remained against him.

Locations

A location: the former rooms of the Mojo Club

The shooting locations of Soul Kitchen are preferably locations in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg that are potentially affected by change . They thus reflect an overarching theme of the film, the fight of the Soul Kitchen workforce against gentrification . In the film, for example, “the Mandarin Casino, formerly Mojo Club , on the Reeperbahn , the Astrastube on the Sternbrücke , or a club in the Karstadt branch where Akin once bought his first record” can be seen. The Soul Kitchen restaurant , whose model is in Altona, was built especially for the film in a factory building on Industriestrasse in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg . Since June 18, 2010 the hall has been used for a variety of music and cultural events.

In addition, the film also shows the “beautiful and touristic sides of the Hanse metropolis with Speicherstadt, Elbe and Alster”. The cemetery scene was filmed at the Riensberg cemetery in Bremen. The prison scenes were filmed in the prison in Bremen.

Soundtrack

Michael Giltz (The Huffington Post) called the film's soundtrack "a lot of fun". It contains different versions of the song La Paloma , among other things it is played "live" in the Soul Kitchen. Furthermore, u. a. Heard songs by Quincy Jones , Kool & The Gang , The Isley Brothers , Mongo Santamaría , Markos Vamvakaris and Jan Delay . The film closes musically with Louis Armstrong with his interpretation of the song The Creator Has a Master Plan . Hans Albers is a popular hit with the Wirtschaftswunder . Unfortunately, the last shirt has no pockets . For the film, the song Soul Kitchen by The Doors of the same name was initially planned in one scene , but the filmmaker's rights to the track were ultimately too expensive, so he exchanged it for a song by Curtis Mayfield . The rights to an older song by Prince , who is the main character's absolute favorite musician in the Soul Kitchen novel, could not be acquired for the film due to long-standing differences between Prince and Warner Brothers .

A soundtrack CD was released by Universal Music and in the first week of 2010 it was the second highest new entry in the German album charts after the Avatar soundtrack. The double CD, released in several countries, was even in the top 3 of the general sales charts in Greece at times.

reception

Admission to the festival audience

Akin, Bederke, Roggan and Bousdoukos at the Venice closing event (2009)

At the “convincing” (dpa) world premiere with an international audience in Venice, there were laughs and long-lasting applause as well as applause from the scene. The Süddeutsche Zeitung stated: "The real heartbreaker of the festival is (...) the German competition entry". Akin's film was "so comically touching that the audience in Venice went crazy." The film later won the second most important award of the festival. Fatih Akin said: “We shot a comedy with local Hamburg flavor. If Italians and Americans jump on it, the first class goal has apparently been achieved ”. The film's humor was also well received at the press screenings the evening before; Katja Nicodemus from SWR noticed even better reactions in the Italian press than in the German.

Even when America premiere at the following Toronto International Film Festival came Soul Kitchen "best of". The city's “open multicultural audience” had nothing else to be expected.

In Germany, the film was shown for the first time in 2009 as the opening film of the Hamburg Film Festival, in keeping with the focus on pulsating metropolises . Albert Wiederspiel said before the screening: “What could be nicer for a film festival director than opening with such a film!” In fact, in the Hanseatic city “never (...) an opening film has been so acclaimed” as this one. The Hamburger Abendblatt registered at least "30 times (...) enthusiastic applause from the scene, repeated collective laughter". The film festival already did

“I experienced many spectacular openings, but what […] happened in the Cinemaxx set new standards. […] Soul Kitchen ran in three halls , but the almost 1700 seats were hardly enough to provide space for all those who had managed to get hold of one of the coveted invitations. Long before the start, it was no longer possible to get to Cinemaxx 1 and 3, even with a ticket, where four of the audience sat on the narrow steps. "

Around the same time it became known that Soul Kitchen had been nominated for the North German Film Prize and would therefore also be shown at the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck in 2009 . In 2009 the film had already won several international awards. In 2010, further international nominations followed for some important film awards ( see section Awards).

From September 2009 the film was shown at festivals in Italy, Canada, Japan, Belgium, Brazil, Greece and France. In December he started regularly in Greece, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. This was followed by other screenings at international film festivals as well as regular starts in Turkey, Italy, Russia, Kazakhstan, France, Belgium, Brazil, Spain, Slovenia, Portugal, Australia, the Netherlands, Israel, Romania, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Hungary, Sweden, Estonia, Poland, Japan, Argentina and Hong Kong. A theatrical release in the USA was negotiated, but so far it has only been seen in New York and at festivals.

Reviews

Derek Elley from Variety saw in the film a “love letter to the place (Hamburg) and its people” with partly “explosive comedy”, tightly staged and edited. Mark Olsen ( Los Angeles Times ) described Soul Kitchen as a "boisterous comedy". It shows once again the versatility of the hamburger, one of the most powerful and exciting filmmakers in the world, who, despite all the fun, delivers sharply drawn characters and a clever story. Michael Giltz of The Huffington Post also called Akin one of by far the best directors of the day and hoped that this "easy" comedy that gave "a lot of cause for joy" would now also reach "the broader audience he deserves." can.

Peter Zander from Die Welt described the work, which Akin identified as “Dirty Heimatfilm”, simply as “enjoyment”. A "colorful, joyful narrative tone (...) that can find no end of sheer gags and ideas, relaxed, funny" prevails in Soul Kitchen for Christina Tilmann from Berlin's Tagesspiegel ago. In her assessment, however, the film is “nowhere near as weird and angry as it wants to be.” For Anke Westphal of the Berliner Zeitung, however, the comedy “bursts with energy.” A “big, colorful, swinging mess full of outbursts of temperament “Made the reviewer laugh“ tears ”. The German press agency reported that primarily “good actors, the humor that borders on the grotesque and some comedy situations (...) make up the charm of“ Soul Kitchen ””, even if it “drifts into the gaudy at times”. "Hart am Rand der Klamotte" even found the film Cristina Nord from taz , although she also found it to be "admirable nonsense" from time to time. Frank Olbert from the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger , on the other hand, warned against viewing Soul Kitchen only as a good-mood piece, because that “would mean shortening it. 'Soul Kitchen' is a tender homage to a place and its visitors, it is a home film with Germans, Greeks and Turks. ”The film also pays homage to“ the attitude towards life of young people, and that its actors are no longer so young and are slowly leaving Having to say goodbye makes the nice shot of melancholy. "Above all, it is also a" famous actor film ". The reviewer of the Frankfurter Rundschau particularly emphasizes Birol Ünel, who makes himself “unforgettable as a kind of samurai of culinary art” in his scenes. Daniel Kothenschulte compares the script “with a box of surprise eggs: there is a little trump card in every scene. The jokes in the dialogue are not artificial, but develop naturally from the characters and the situations they get into. "

The 3sat telecast Cinema Cinema called Soul Kitchen , a "totally unpretentious masterpiece" that was "simply great," and agreed with the filmmaker agreed: "a home movie!", As well as ttt - title, theses, temperaments in the ARD, where the Satisfied reviewer added, “I've seen what I want to see on a nice movie night. I cried, I felt, I was sad, I laughed a lot. So a great movie. Perhaps the most beautiful and best film by Fatih Akin ”.

“'Heimatkomödie' is about the search for security in a rapidly changing urban world that is less about a place than about being rooted in a community and an attitude towards life. With verve and a feeling for cinematic space, for music and sometimes rough situation comedy, the film rounds off to a harmonious and atmospheric celebration of human cohesion. "

- Lexicon of international film

Admission to the cinema audience

Akin at the presentation of Soul Kitchen in Vienna (2009)

Soul Kitchen was not only well received by the trade press and festival audience. In Germany, Akin's comedy had by far the most successful cinema release in terms of visitor numbers. 160,000 people saw the film on the first weekend. At the end of the first week, Soul Kitchen found itself at number 5 in the German cinema charts. After ten days, over half a million people had seen the film. The film was also in the top ten in the Swiss and Austrian cinema charts.

Akin had previously traveled with his main actors through the German-speaking region throughout December to advertise his upcoming comedy. On the so-called Soul Kitchen Cinema Tour, the film was presented in up to three cities a day.

In other countries such as Italy and Greece, the film was later shown successfully in theaters.

Festival participation (selection)

2009 to 2010

  • Venice International Film Festival 2009
  • Toronto International Film Festival
  • German film festival in Tokyo
  • Ghent International Film Festival
  • São Paulo International Film Festival
  • Thessaloniki International Film Festival
  • Les Arcs International Film Festival
  • Transilvanian International Film Festival (Cluj, 2010)

Awards

  • Soul Kitchen was invited to the 2009 Venice Film Festival , where Akin competed for the Golden Lion with his film . In the end, the film won the silver lion for the “Grand Jury Prize”, the second most important award in the competition.
  • In Venice, Soul Kitchen was also awarded the “Young Cinema Award” by an international audience jury.
  • "Art Cinema Award" from the international association of film art theaters (CICAE) at the Hamburg Film Festival 2009
  • Inclusion on the shortlist for the best international literature on the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2009.
  • North German Film Award 2009 in the "Best Screenplay" category
  • 3rd place Kulturnews -Awards 2009 (category: best book) for the book before the film
  • Nominations for the German Film Critics' Prize : Rainer Klausmann (camera), Andrew Bird (editor)
  • Nominations for the German Film Prize 2010 in the categories of best film and editing
  • Nomination for the David di Donatello 2010 as best film from an EU country
  • Nomination for the European Film Award 2010 for best film
  • North German Film Award 2010 in the category "best movie"

The "book before the film"

Open: The book before the film

Similar to Akin's predecessor On the other hand , the film promotes a book by a German author. Jasmin Ramadan at Blumenbar published novel Soul Kitchen is just as little as in On the other hand recommended novel The daughter of the blacksmith of Selim Özdogan the presentation of the film, hence no "book of the film" in the conventional sense. According to the subtitles, Ramadan's book is “the book before the film” and “the first part of the story”. In fact, it was released on September 10, 2009 months before the German theatrical release of the comedy of the same name, which was planned for Christmas 2009, and tells the story “between coming of age and road movie ” only. Ramadan's debut novel received wide critical acclaim.

An audio book of this work has also been published.

expenditure

  • Soul Kitchen. Screenplay by Fatih Akin , ed. by Mette Hermann and Merete Vonsbaek and an afterword by Oliver Möbert, Tyskforlaget, Greve (Denmark), 2012, ISBN 978-8-790755-75-1 .
  • Fatih Akin and Adam Bousdoukos: Soul Kitchen. The original radio play for the film. Audio CD. Jumbo Neue Medien, Hamburg December 2009, ISBN 3-8337-2511-7 .
  • Jasmin Ramadan: Soul Kitchen. The story first part - The book before the film. Blumenbar, 2009, ISBN 978-3-936738-64-3 .
  • Soul Kitchen. The story first part - The book before the film. Audio book read by Philipp Baltus. Jumbo Neue Medien, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-8337-2507-4 .
  • Various: Soul Kitchen. Soundtrack CD, Universal 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

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