FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE Klaus Lemke - Kein Grosses Ding

  Isn't this a great movie? There's a lot to laugh about, the characters inside are real and that's why they touch us! We see some streets and shops we know (Kreuzberg)! And above all the feeling of the Nouvelle Vague and the young German movie when he was still wild and sexy! Klaus Lemke is a great romantic and obviously he also loves Berlin. Lemke is also a survivor of the 60's when film was still an adventure! No great thing breathes the spirit of this time of awakening. Henning Gronkowski plays a young Berliner who wants to be a stripper. Thomas Mahmoud plays a film projectionist who just got out of prison and carries around an old Lidl bag as his most important possession. Mahmoud is a scrounger who never has anything and always demands everything. Mahmoud thinks he's entitled to it. In reality, however, he is rich - in talent! A gifted James Brown impersonator! By the way, the real Mahmoud is a great actor, who gives here with bravura a neurotic. A male bitch no one can stand. Except for Henning, who's practically vying for the loner. That's the couple that Lemke's movie revolves around. They love each other, argue and reconcile. Like an old married couple. At some point Lemke came to the Filmkunstbar Fitzcarraldo to shoot some scenes for us. You could learn something: Lemke's camera, which is constantly in motion and gives his films this swing. And his dialogues, which he scribbles on small pieces of paper to bring them to life on the screen. The two girls were Tini-Kristin Bönig and Leila Lowfire. Tini from Hamburg plays the main female role and even has her own Lemke story, because he already shot with her father. Leila has obvious qualities and that must also be in a Lemke film. Finally I introduced him to a customer, Olivia Kundisch. Lemke reacted enthusiastically and shot a few scenes with the new girl. It is very important to him to take people with him spontaneously. Under no circumstances should they know in advance that he wants to shoot with them! One day is enough and they become a "star" - useless for Lemke's world. After all, he is interested in those who are normally regarded as failures, but who are heroes to Lemke. The survivors that still exist in our silly district. That's why the Munich native comes to Berlin to discover such types as Olivia Kundisch. Maybe because they're not corruptible? Just like Lemke herself.