Back to go!
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| Original title | Back to go! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 92 minutes |
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| Director | Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss |
| script | Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss |
| production |
Frank Löprich , Katrin Schlösser |
| music | Pascal von Wroblewsky |
| camera | Thomas Plenert |
| cut | Gudrun Steinbrück-Plenert |
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Back to go! is a tragicomedy filmed in 2000 by the director and actor Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss . The film was produced by ö Filmproduktion GmbH in cooperation with ZDF (Das kleine Fernsehspiel). The focus is on the tragic-comic everyday experience of a homosexual clique in Berlin / Prenzlauer Berg. The film takes up the themes of love , AIDS , friendship , death , disability and racism with ease . Back to go! After its world premiere at the Berlinale 2000, it ran at over 60 international festivals around the world. B. in San Francisco, Montreal, Amsterdam, Sydney and South Africa.
action
The 30-year-old colored East German Sam is a life artist and lives in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg . He spent a childhood and adolescence, as it was common in the GDR in the 1970s and 80s, and then completed his army service. Then he had an urge to live out his creativity and freedom. So he made his way through, sometimes with more, sometimes with less success in the reunified Germany after 1989. As a passionate singer, he would like to record earlier evergreens of the GDR music business in his version. He is also writing a script. Again and again he comes up against his limits, and so he cannot find a producer for the project for the time being and lives on state support. He lives with the Belgian construction worker Manne in Berlin . Their relationship is not very profound; over time they have drifted apart. So Sam decides to part ways with Manne and look for a new apartment. The blonde, former dancer Bastl, who makes his living as a discarded dancer through small engagements, is soulmate with Sam and has known him very well for years. He is also there for Sam when, shortly after the breakup, he learns that a man has infected him with HIV . This shocking news brings the two close friends Bastl and Sam together even more. From now on they form a shared apartment. In the meantime, Sam meets the West German nurse Rainer, who goes blind shortly afterwards in an accident and is accepted into the shared apartment. Shortly afterwards, Sam's ex-boyfriend dies of AIDS. Both Sam and Rainer approach their worries and illnesses with black humor. Initially unnoticed by his roommates, Bastl becomes increasingly dissatisfied with the situation. He tries unsuccessfully to drown his worries in alcohol. Eventually he meets Mike, an English painter, whom he also takes into his apartment. Despite all the setbacks, life goes on, with Back on Los! stands for a constant new beginning.
Remarks
Despite the turbulent events and the very different personalities in terms of characters, the main characters still retain their courage - to live and look self-ironically at their situation. The tragic comedy shows how a life in a seemingly hopeless situation is nevertheless possible. Also important social issues (to racism , discrimination of AIDS luxation and homosexuals, death and disability ) processes that ensure the viewer thoughtfulness.
Back to go! has a running time of 92 minutes and has been broadcast on ZDF in 2000 in the film series Das kleine Fernsehspiel and in selected cinemas since March 2001. The film has now been released on DVD-Video . In addition to his portrayal of the main character Sam, Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss is also active as a screenwriter and director for this film.
Press reviews
"The main characters are all so sexy and charming that the film has an artfully light-handed intimacy despite all the seriousness of the topic." ( Der Spiegel )
“Because he wasn't offered good roles, Sanoussi-Bliss wrote one himself. His debut as a screenwriter and director is a wonderful tightrope walk - a Berlin film about gays: sentimental, kitschy, sarcastic and full of sympathy for the resilience of the marginalized groups. Absolutely worth seeing! "( TV feature film )
“Just be happy with Hans… Sanoussi-Bliss has put together a good package of problems in his film. Nevertheless, there is no sadness, only a slight nostalgia for the 'old pig' life, as he scolds as Sam in the film, arises. He managed to create a beautifully melancholy sketch of gay life in Prenzlauer Berg. "( Stern )
"Sanoussi-Bliss plays an HIV-infected, East German, unemployed homosexual ... an acting dream!" ( Rtv )
“With his directorial debut, Sanoussi-Bliss proves that you can still apply it as thickly as possible if only the atmosphere and characters remain credible. It is thanks to the coherent staging, the self-ironic tone and the wonderful actors (besides Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss, especially Matthias Freihof as Bastl) that this bittersweet story does not sink into lard and pathos, but is brilliantly entertaining. And no matter how bad fate may strike, Sam and Bastl always have a dry saying ready. With its pointed dialogues and great actors, the film creates something very rare: real life on the screen. "( Zitty )
“Sanoussi-Bliss loves his extremely sympathetic characters and maintains the balance between irony and tragedy, profundity and carelessness; he is sentimental, but never lewd. Almost as real as real life. "( Cinema )
"After this film, you trust Sanoussi-Bliss, as an actor anyway, to have really big cinema." ( Taz )
Soundtrack
The soundtrack of the film consists mainly of GDR hits (some of which are new recordings), which are not mentioned in the end credits of the film. Song list in the order:
- Veronika Fischer : Smoky Summer (sung by Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss)
- Holger Biege : It could be
- Barbra Streisand : Happy Days are here again
- Veronika Fischer : Do you have a friend (sung by Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss)
- Veronika Fischer: In That Night (sung by Pierre Sanoussi-Bliss)
- Veronika Fischer: Hans in luck