Like fire and flame
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Like fire and flame |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Connie Walther |
| script | Natja Brunckhorst |
| production |
Stefan Arndt Maria Köpf |
| music | Rainer Oleak |
| camera | Peter Nix |
| cut |
Ewa J. Lind Harald Brendel |
| occupation | |
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Wie Feuer und Flamme is a German drama by director Connie Walther from 2001.
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Well-bred Nele from West Berlin would like to travel to the USA in 1982 on a school exchange program . Before that, however, she has to go to East Berlin for her grandmother's funeral . There she meets the rebellious punk captain and falls in love with him. He is repeatedly interrogated by the Stasi because of his views that were interpreted as subversive in the GDR . When Nele smuggled a video cassette showing a self-portrait of Captain's punk band across the Friedrichstrasse border crossing - which was then broadcast on western television - the GDR punks were arrested again.
After their release, the punks decide to correct the picture of them shown on television and organize a spontaneous anti-fascist action with a wreath-laying ceremony in the Neue Wache . The participating Nele is arrested and deported to West Berlin with the ban on re-entry into the GDR. Meanwhile, the Stasi tries to split the jailed punks and creates the impression that the captain is a traitor. In reality, however, another band member is working with the Stasi.
Nele can no longer stand the separation and illegally arrives in East Berlin via a building rubble transport, where she appears unsuccessfully to the Stasi and wants to take all the blame for the captain to be released. In a brief encounter she sees Captain for the last time before the turn. After she was deported again, Nele contacted the captain's parents by phone, but was turned away with the message that the captain was dead.
Nele uses the student exchange to stay in the US. While at work, she saw the pictures of the fall of the Berlin Wall on television on November 10, 1989, and found out about the fall of the Berlin Wall and the peaceful revolution in the GDR . She travels to Berlin to look for a captain. When she finally finds him after a while, she realizes that he was already looking for her.
criticism
“This could have been a great movie! The living conditions of punks in the former GDR are mentioned here very well, but could have been improved a lot. The love story in the foreground damages the film considerably. If the whole RTL TV novel kitsch had been thrown away while cutting, an excellent film about sub-cultures would have been made under hammer and sickle. The film is still recommended for friends of punk, as the rocker's heart beats faster in some scenes (e.g. Crass and DK). Unfortunately, the unsuitable happy ending gives the film the ultimate fatal blow. "
Web links
- How fired up in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Like fire and flame in the online film database