Tschick roadmovie6/12/2023 ![]() With little more than a couple of frozen pizzas, a Swiss Army knife and a Richard Clayderman tape, they hit the backroads, evading the Polizei and picking up the spirited, if slightly feral, Isa (Mercedes Muller) along the way. It turns out Tschick has a penchant for stealing cars, and it’s not long before he manages to get his hands on a blue Lada, convincing Maik to go south to visit his grandfather. When a new kid, the inelegant but street-smart Russian emigrant Andrej "Tschick" Tschichatschow (Anand Batbileg Chuluunbaatar), arrives at his school, the two outsiders quickly become friends. Translated into English as Why We Took the Car, it has now been brought to the big screen by German-Turkish film-maker Fatih Akin under its original title, yet is being released here with the more marketable name of Goodbye Berlin, making it sound like a World War 2 spy thriller rather than the irresistibly sweet, simple and often very funny road movie that it is.įourteen-year-old Maik Klingenberg (Tristan Gobel) is a somewhat awkward loner who lives with his alcoholic mother and wealthy frustrated father in the sole property on an otherwise empty Berlin subdivision, while pining for the most popular girl in his class. ![]() Angelika wins out, despite her husband’s objections and a culture-clash ensues, including rising xenophobia from their spooked German neighbors.The late German writer Wolfgang Herrndorf’s 2010 coming-of-age novel Tschick was a huge success in the author’s home country, selling more than 2 million copies and drawing comparisons to such classic works as Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye.Ĭast: Tristan Gobel, Anand Batbileg Chuluunbaatar, Mercedes Muller, Anja Schneider, Uwe Bohm Plot: The movie stars veteran actor Senta Berger as Angelika Hartmann, a well-to-do Munich socialite who decides, in the wake of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-border policy of 2015, to take in an African refugee. Plot: Directed by Markus Goller, the movie centers on a young man who takes his mentally handicapped brother to Hamburg to search for their father. But soon it becomes clear that Falk is pursuing his own objectives. Plot: Jochen Falk and two other former Stasi agents embark on a dangerous mission to rescue the kidnapped president of Katschekistan. Plot: Adapted from a stage play written by Ferdinand von Schirach, the movie follows a German fighter pilot who shoots down a passenger jet, killing all 164 people on board, to prevent the terrorists who have hijacked the plane from crashing it into a soccer stadium packed with 70,000 civilians. While his mother is in rehab and his father is on a business trip with his assistant, Maik spends his time during the summer holidays. Jobless and under financial pressure, she is forced to look for alternatives, but in order to achieve her goal, she is ready to disregard her body, social relationships and even her own feelings. The story centers on 14-year-old outsider Maik Klingenberg. When she is fired without notice, her dream is suddenly postponed for an uncertain future. Plot: Marija, a young Ukranian woman, earns a living as a cleaner in a hotel in Dortmund but dreams of having her own hairstyling salon. Two young teenage boys steal a car and embark on a road trip that will probably change their lives. It was adapted from Wolfgang Herrndorf’s bestselling cult novel “Tschick” whose English title is “Why We Took the Car.” Plot: A comedic coming of age road movie, “Goodbye Berlin” turns on a 14-year-old misfit who hits the road with an unruly classmate in a stolen car. Plot: The movie charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the “right attitude” toward the events in war-torn Europe, and his search for a new home. ‘Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe’ (2016)《黎明之前》 In each, a character recites parts of manifestos from various political and artistic movements. ![]() Manifestos are depicted by 13 different characters, among them a school teacher, factory worker, choreographer, punk, newsreader, scientist, puppeteer, widow and a homeless man. Plot: The film integrates various types of artist manifestos from different time periods with contemporary scenarios. The movies are in German with English and Chinese subtitles. September 2010 im Rowohlt Berlin Verlag und hält sich bis heute in der Spiegel-Bestsellerliste. Nine German movies are now being shown at Broadway Cinema. Tschick, Wolfgang Herrndorfs Hymne auf das Erwachsenwerden, erschien am 17. ![]()
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