We can do it differently ...
| Movie | |
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| Original title | We can do it differently ... |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Detlev Buck |
| script | Detlev Buck Ernst Kahl |
| production | Claus buoy |
| music | Detlef Petersen |
| camera | Roger Heereman |
| cut | Peter R. Adam |
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We can do it differently ... is a comedy by Detlev Buck . The film shows in a satirical form the upheaval in East Germany after the turn of the year 1989.
content
Two West German illiterates, the brothers Rudi and Moritz Kipp (“Kipp” and “Most”), drive an old Hanomag L 28 flatbed truck to Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , where they inherited their grandmother's house. Since they cannot decipher car maps and street signs and the already slow car causes technical problems, the journey takes longer than expected. At a petrol station, the fugitive Soviet Army soldier, Viktor, with a Kalashnikov held up , forces them to take him away. The only way the team escapes a physical threat from five highwaymen on a lonely country road is through Viktor's intervention. They turn the tables and force the bandits to get into their car and drive it into a lake. Only two of them manage to get out of the sinking car.
On the way to Wendelohe, the planned destination of the trip, the strangest complications arise due to the naive, thoughtless behavior of the two brothers. For all their money they have an almost worthless rowing boat tricked into them, dismissed out of pity, but without permission, the thirsty occupants of a pig truck and steal the box office of a food stand. The longed-for legacy in Wendelohe turns out to be by no means a magnificent mansion, but a burned-down day laborer's cottage .
When Most, Kipp and Wiktor realize that they are wanted by the criminal police for the murder of the drowned highwaymen, they take the landlady of a village pub hostage.
In the further course the events precipitate: Kipp und Most display an unusual criminal energy. They change the escape vehicle several times and swap their old truck for a luxury limousine, this for two horses and this for an apparently ownerless fishing cutter. Only thanks to Viktor and the hostage do they escape the police several times. Finally the hunt comes to an end in a completely unexpected place.
Stylistic devices
In a peculiar and therefore all the more effective contrast is Detlev Buck's laconic, North German-influenced humor to the action, which is deliberate at the beginning, but accelerates in the course. There is a subtle, often subliminal comedy in the dialogues in particular.
In addition to the acting performance of the camera, special attention is paid. The shot / reverse shot principle, minutes of filming without editing and other techniques are deliberately used pointedly.
The soundtrack does the rest: As the deserting soldier Viktor happily, but a little melodiously, intones the Russian soldier's song В путь ( W put ) (On the Way), which sings of the loyalty and loyalty of the Russian soldier, the text is reduced to absurdity . Accompanied by his companions more grumbling than singing, the singing is finally taken over by a heroically polyphonic male choir accompanied by dramatic orchestral accompaniment. The motif sounds several times modified in other scenes.
In a film of contemporary history in which there are no prominent figures, one suspects a modest role of the mask . Here, however, there are examples of a frugal, but at crucial points deliberately satirically exaggerated visage.
A special feature of the film is a cameo by Detlev Buck as a scary skinhead in a village pub. In addition, the screenwriter Ernst Kahl appears in the pub as a lonely drinker. Ingo Naujoks made one of his first film appearances here as a pig truck driver.
meaning
After his short films and his first longer film, Karniggels , Detlev Buck became known to a larger audience with Wir kann auch anders .
Reviews
"Comedy peppered with numerous Western allusions, which derives its charm largely from the lovingly drawn and convincingly played main characters who, as naive dreamers, become unwilling outlaws."
“After his flatland comedy Karniggels (1991), which made it an insider tip, this bizarre comedy with strong ties to westerns was Detlev Buck's first big box-office success. At the same time, Joachim Król, who later also made a great impression in The Moving Man , experienced his breakthrough as Rudi, who was both dumb and witty. Detlev Buck's humor is, as (almost) always, characterized by understatement. Laughter is created here by omitting direct action, from constantly downplaying the most absurd events. In this point, too, Buck is based on models from the Western genre (such as Howard Hawks ). "
"Like its predecessors ( First work, then? , 1984 Karniggels, 1991). Bucks survived the third feature film by the dry humor and loving drawings of the main characters"
"Buck's German contemporary comedy has its strongest points in the drawing of the aptly cast main characters."
useful information
The Wendelohe estate in the film is in reality Tornow Castle , which is over 100 years old , the seat of the von Buch family until 1945 , and a former estate where horse breeding was practiced. An ecologically oriented association has been running a meeting place here from 1993 to the present day and rents the house for various occasions.
The scene with the highwaymen was filmed on the lonely country road between the towns of Burgwall and Zehdenick , the highwayman's car is sunk in an adjacent clay cast.
The scene with the pig truck was filmed in Marienthal , which is directly adjacent to Tornow, on the parking lot in front of the village's former consumer shop , which still houses a small supermarket today.
The restaurant scene with the funeral party was also filmed in Burgwall: The three of them come through the beer garden of the restaurant “Zur Fähre” with their pockets full of change from the slot machine.
Awards
- German Film Award 1993: best film film tape in silver
- German Film Award 1993: best actors Joachim Król and Horst Krause
- German Film Award 1993: Best Screenplay Detlev Buck and Ernst Kahl
- German Film Award 1993: Best Music Detlef Petersen
- Berliner Morgenpost reader award
Film festivals
- International Film Festival Berlin 1993 - Participation in the competition
- Special mention by the jury 5th Film Festival Potsdam 1997
- Nordic Film Days Lübeck 1999
- Chonju International Film Festival 2000 (South Korea)
Web links
- We can also different ... in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- We can do it differently ... at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ We can do different things ... in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ The Chronicle of the Film . Chronik Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1994, ISBN 3-86047-132-5 .
- ^ Walter Schobert, Horst Schäfer (eds.): Fischer Film Almanach 1994. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-596-12229-5 , p. 380.