Wholetrain (film)

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Movie
Original title Wholetrain
Country of production Germany / Poland
original language German
Publishing year 2006
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Florian Gaag
script Florian Gaag
production Christoph Müller ,
Sven Burgemeister
music Florian Gaag
camera Christian Rein
cut Kai Schröter
occupation

Wholetrain is the first German cinema film with a documentary background that is about graffiti and the milieu of graffiti sprayers. The film was released in cinemas across Germany on October 5, 2006.

action

The KSB graffiti crew consists of four young men who paint graffiti on trains at night but neglect their other surroundings such as school (Achim), work (Elyas) or fatherhood (Tino). When a competing crew named ATL appears on the scene, fights and artistic confrontations arise between the groups.

David is paroled and immediately meets with his crew to spray. In the following, he often considers getting out of the graffiti scene. This idea solidifies through renewed confrontation with the state authority. Because of his conviction, he is heavily in debt. His probation officer draws his attention to an art professor. David is the leader of the group and mentor of the young Achim, who comes from a well-sheltered home, draws during class and skips school. As a result, his parents want to place him in a boarding school.

Tino is the father of the young Kenny, whom he takes care of sporadically and negligently. He leads a chaotic lifestyle that is completely devoted to graffito, lives with his sister and mother and has already been caught driving dodgy several times, which is why his mother gives him money to finally buy a monthly pass. Tino successfully woos Tamara, who is connected to both of the warring crews. After a clash with ATL , the two fall out. When dealing with his friends, Tino talks disparagingly about his remarried father, who lives in America, but he longingly awaits letters from him.

Elyas works both in a car paint shop, where he steals spray cans, and in his father's diner. He is suspicious of the young Achim, especially with regard to his reliability and silence.

After having drawn the shorter one several times in confrontations with ATL , the KSB group tries to paint a train completely ( wholetrain ). The attempt fails because they are surprised by the police. David is saved from a passing train by one of the police officers. The policeman then tries to pull off his mask and is knocked to the ground by David. All four can escape, but Tino loses his ticket when he escapes. The police then searched Tino's family's home. Tino returns, sees a policeman in front of his apartment door and successfully escapes. The police show his mother the monthly pass that she brought to them. Tino is then checked on the bus. He escapes from the controller and has a fatal accident. The rest of the group receives the news at a barbecue on the occasion of Elyas' birthday, for which a forgiving Tamara appears.

After visiting Tino's grieving family, David goes to art college and presents his drawings. The professor judges his works very positively in terms of methodology and style. In the middle of a sentence David leaves the room without a word. He gets the group's spray cans out of their locker and starts spraying Berlin with obituaries for Tino in broad daylight. He uses both Tino's real name and his sprayer name in the same lettering. In the evening, the two warring crews KSB and ATL meet and spray an entire train together, including the likeness of the crashed Tino. The film ends in cuts of the train's journey through the city, mixed with pictures of Deutsche Bahn employees who chemically clean the train.

Emergence

The screenplay was written by Florian Gaag , who also directed and produced the soundtrack . Gaag used to work as a sprayer himself and completed a four-year film degree at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York . After he returned to Germany, he started working with Wholetrain . The implementation of his film turned out to be difficult. The first hurdle to find a production was made easier by the support of Christian Cloos from ZDF - Das kleine Fernsehspiel . The golden child film production saw the potential and took over the production activity. The next hurdle was to find a railway company that was willing to have its trains painted, as Deutsche Bahn refused to support him with this project. They also wanted to stop the project across Europe and warn other transport companies. Ultimately, the city of Warsaw agreed and gave him permission to shoot, with a few scenes also being shot in Munich . The film was shot from August 24th to October 9th, 2004.

Around 3000 people were sought for the cast by street castings in large cities such as Berlin , Hamburg , Munich and Cologne . The aim was to find actors with graffiti experience. When the cast was established, the actors were subjected to so-called training . They had canvases available and had to learn to tag . The experienced writers involved had a free hand and created a few sketches for this film, which they implemented in full size with spray cans. The "writers" responsible for the "pieces" in the film are Cemnoz, Neon, Won , Ciel , Mons and Pure.

The sales start for the DVD and the soundtrack was December 7, 2007

The trains are of the EN57 series from Koleje Mazowieckie , a subsidiary of the Polish State Railways .

Awards

music

The soundtrack was produced by Florian Gaag. In production continue to have Roger Rekless (Cutz) and Hitfarmers ( premastering ) participated. The vocals controlled u. a. the following artists at: KRS-One , Afu-Ra , Freddie Foxxx, Grand Agent, Planet Asia , OC, El Da Sensei, and Tame One.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for Wholetrain . Youth Media Commission .