White Star (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | White star |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1983 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roland click |
| script | Roland click |
| production |
Renée Gundelach , Roger Corman |
| music | Bernhard Jobski |
| camera | Jürgen Juerges |
| cut | Eva Schlensag |
| occupation | |
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White Star is a German fiction film from 1983. Directed by Roland Klick , Dennis Hopper played the leading role .
action
The worn-out music manager Ken Barlow in Berlin in the early eighties was once a successful rock 'n' roll tour manager, but his heyday is long over. As a last chance he wants to push the mediocre musician Moody and his album White Star into the charts. When success fails, he uses increasingly unusual methods to achieve his goal. In order to force the breakthrough of the rather colorless and weak-willed musician, Barlow tries to use his old contacts in the music business. He penetrated the headquarters of the big record company Eurosound several times , but in the end he was dismissed. The only last resort he sees is the staging of an assassination attempt on Moody in order to get it into the headlines and thus achieve the sales figures he had hoped for.
criticism
"This film is my business!"
"A film about lifelong dreams and their collapse, whereby the high level of emotionality of the staging seems too strained in places."
Remarks
Roland Klick shot with Hopper in English and then had him dub it in German, with the voice of the well-known dubbing actor Christian Brückner . Hopper himself was in a state of excessive cocaine consumption that left little room for long filming. There were also incidents on the set, such as a car accident in which Hopper ran Roland Klick over the foot. Klick was then seen on television with his foot in plaster when he gave an interview on his new film. The shooting dragged on for two years, but in the end only part of the shooting schedule could be realized. The director, together with cameraman Jürgen Jürges, tried to save the film with additional shots of West Berlin, especially at night, after only one series of explosive and hardly calm scenes could be shot with Hopper. Nevertheless, the film makes a fragmentary impression. It only works because of Hopper's extremely strong performance, which has very personal traits.
Awards
- In 1984 the film received the silver ribbon in the category “Other feature films (production)”
Web links
- White Star in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- White Star in the online film database
- White Star at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Quote in the film gallery 451
- ↑ White Star. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Michael Strauven in conversation with Roland Klick, 1981
- ^ Ulrich von Berg: The cinema of Roland click . ISBN 978-3-9807175-5-7