Tschick (film)

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Movie
Original title Tschick
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2016
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Fatih Akin
script Lars Hubrich ,
Hark Bohm ,
Fatih Akin
production Marco Mehlitz
music Vince Pope
camera Rainer Klausmann
cut Andrew Bird
occupation

Tschick is a German feature film by Fatih Akin from 2016 . The film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Wolfgang Herrndorf tells of two young outsiders from Berlin (portrayed by Tristan Göbel and Anand Batbileg ) who set off in a stolen car across Eastern Germany towards Wallachia at the beginning of the summer vacation .

Tschick premiered on September 12, 2016 at the Berlin Kino International , while the German theatrical release took place on September 15, 2016.

action

A grammar school in Berlin , shortly before the start of the summer vacation: 14-year-old Maik comes from a seemingly well-off but secretly broken and insolvent family in Marzahn . His mother is addicted to alcohol and regularly admitted to rehab. Maik's violent father, a real estate agent, prefers to spend the vacation with his young assistant and leaves the son alone in his parents' villa with 200 euros. At school, Maik is considered a boring outsider and is not invited to the birthday party of his attractive and popular classmate Tatjana. That hurts him especially because he is secretly in love with Tatjana. Maik drew an elaborate portrait of her that he actually wanted to give her for her birthday. When he spends the time bored by the pool, he meets his new classmate Andrej Tschichatschow, called "Tschick" for short. The Russian German , who also lives in neglected circumstances and was not invited to the party, invites Maik to drive a “borrowed” Lada .

Tschick is able to persuade the shy Maik to hand over the drawing to Tatjana at the party despite the missing invitation. The Lada that you brought with you caused great astonishment among the other party guests. Tschick then wants to visit his grandfather in Wallachia by car and invites Maik to come with him. Maik accepts the offer and together the two boys embark on an adventurous journey without a map across East Germany. They travel through lonely, beautiful landscapes and meet strange people like a group of nobles on bicycles, a friendly eco-mother and an angry village policeman. When they run out of fuel and are looking for a hose to suck up diesel for their Lada from other cars, they stop at a garbage dump. There they meet the homeless teenager Isa, who helps Maik and Tschick and joins them on their journey. Isa smells terribly and is thrown into a lake by Tschick at the next opportunity. She lets Maik cut her neglected hair, the two get closer. She offers him to sleep together, which the inexperienced Maik is not ready for. Isa leaves the boys when she discovers a bus to Prague , where her half-sister lives and where she wants to look for accommodation.

When Tschick injures his foot, Maik has to take the wheel of the Lada. Tschick reveals to him that he is gay. The two boys' journey ends roughly when, through no fault of their own, they collide with a cattle truck. Maik is interrogated by the police and brought to justice, whereby - contrary to the advice of his father, which is underlaid with threats - he does not place the blame on Tschick, but admits his partial guilt and even accepts complicity in the car theft. The father then beats Maik in the court yard and leaves the family to live with his affair. The mother and Maik sink their house inventory in their own swimming pool and happily dive into it. When the summer vacation is over, the police picks up Maik before his first day of school and asks him about Tschick's current whereabouts, which Maik cannot tell them. Driven up in the police car and still clearly marked by the accident, Maik suddenly enjoys respect in the schoolyard, and Tatjana also notices him and writes him a letter asking him where he was during the summer vacation. Due to what happened, Maik is now uninterested in her and only writes "In Wallachia". But Maik would like to see his friends Tschick and Isa again.

In the first section of the following credits, the events after the accident from Tschick's point of view are shown in cartoon style . Tschick was picked up by a lady in a BMW and taken to a hospital, from which he fled again after a short treatment, and finally left a new message in a parking lot with the second Lada that the police mentioned to Maik.

background

Fatih Akin had been trying to make a film version of Tschick since 2011 , when he first read it. He was particularly interested in the film adaptation of the “Star Scene” from the book. At the same time, however, numerous other filmmakers were after the film rights to the bestseller, plus Wolfgang Herrndorf's serious cancer and his ultimate suicide. Ultimately, the film rights did not go to Akin, but to producer Marco Mehlitz and director David Wnendt . There were obviously artistic differences between them and Wnendt left the project in summer 2015. Only seven weeks before shooting began, Akin was called to ask whether he would like to take over directing: “Of course I said yes. That was destiny. I wanted it that way. Then it shouldn't be like that. And in the end. "

Before his death in 2013, Wolfgang Herrndorf commissioned Lars Hubrich to write a script. Akin took over Hubrich's script, but together with Hark Bohm gave it the finishing touches. In 1976, Bohm shot Nordsee ist Mordsee, a classic of German youth films, the plot resembles Tschick in some places and also has actor Uwe Bohm in the cast. Therefore Akin's film was seen as a homage to North Sea is Mordsee .

For the role of Russian-German Tschick, the film production company initially looked unsuccessfully in Russia and Mongolia for a suitable actor. Ultimately, the Mongolian embassy was asked to look for a suitable young actor. Anand Batbileg's father was an employee of the embassy and gave his son the call sheet for the casting. He sent a short video in which he reenacted some scenes from the film and was convincing. There were also difficulties with the cast for the role of Maik. After taking over the direction, Fatih Akin was dissatisfied with the original candidate, and only a week before filming began he found a convincing replacement with Tristan Göbel .

reception

After its premiere, Tschick received almost exclusively praise from specialist critics. The film is "the perfect road movie" ( Spiegel Online ), "inspiring" ( Der Tagesspiegel ), "fast, funny and clever" ( Der Spiegel ), "terrific" ( Hamburger Abendblatt ) and "believable" ( Die Zeit ) “Stylishly his drive” ( Neue Zürcher Zeitung ) is a “lean film adaptation” and a rather “modest project” compared to the previous film Akins ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ). Everything “essential” from the novel was “contained” ( Süddeutsche Zeitung ), the “attitude to life” conveyed by the literary model was met ( Frankfurter Rundschau ).

One of the few critical voices came from Claudius Prößer ( Die Tageszeitung ). Tschick is "not a good [...], but at most a fairly mediocre" film; Akin stages "the story with the means of any German youth film". In addition to the camera work, Prößer criticized the main actors, who would “play the neglect” of the characters with difficulty, as they lacked their own experience.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Tschick . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; released September 2016). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ 'Tschick' celebrates its world premiere in Berlin . Accessed September 14, 2016. http://www.rbb-online.de/kultur/beitrag/2016/09/tschick-weltpremiere-in-berlin.html .
  3. ↑ Interview with Fatih Akin
  4. ↑ Review in the mirror
  5. ↑ Interview with Fatih Akin
  6. ↑ Interview with Fatih Akin
  7. ↑ Palma, Claudia: "First I ran into a wall" . In: Märkische Allgemeine , May 2, 2016, p. 9.
  8. ↑ Kurtz, Andreas: A Freak Out directs . In: Berliner Zeitung , September 13, 2016, No. 2015, p. 14.
  9. ↑ Interview with Fatih Akin
  10. ↑ Kaever, Oliver: Fatih Akin's film "Tschick": Hero's journey in the Lada . Accessed September 16, 2016. http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/tschick-verfilmung-fatih-akins-perfekter-roadmovie-a-1110512.html .
  11. ↑ Schwickert, Martin: Endstation Sehnsucht . In: Der Tagesspiegel . September 15, 2016, No. 22880, p. 3.
  12. ^ Höbel, Wolfgang: "Tschick" on Speed . In: Der Spiegel , September 10, 2016, No. 37, p. 130.
  13. ↑ Müller, Felix: Two boys set out into the world . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , September 15, 2016, No. 217, p. 4.
  14. ↑ Husmann, Wenke. "'Tschick': This summer is a whole life". The time. September 14, 2016. http://www.zeit.de/kultur/film/2016-09/fatih-akin-tschick-film .
  15. ↑ Tilmann, Christina: The outsider and the psychopath . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 15, 2016, p. 45.
  16. ↑ Rebhandl, Bert: Where is nothing-how-out-here again? . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 14, 2016, No. 215, p. 9.
  17. ↑ Kniebe, Tobias: And that was that summer . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 14, 2016, p. 9.
  18. ↑ Westphal, Anke: The best summer of all . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , September 15, 2016, p. 30.
  19. ↑ Prößer, Claudius: "Lively like fretwork" the daily newspaper , September 17, 2016, p. 50.