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Boxhagener Platz

  • 20102010
  • 1h 43m
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Boxhagener Platz (2010)
ComedyDramaHistory
Feature adaptation of Torsten Schulz's novel set in East Berlin in 1968.Feature adaptation of Torsten Schulz's novel set in East Berlin in 1968.Feature adaptation of Torsten Schulz's novel set in East Berlin in 1968.
IMDb RATING
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    • Matti Geschonneck
    • Torsten Schulz(screenplay)
    • Matti Geschonneck
  • Stars
    • Gudrun Ritter
    • Michael Gwisdek
    • Samuel Schneider
    • Matti Geschonneck
    • Torsten Schulz(screenplay)
    • Matti Geschonneck
  • Stars
    • Gudrun Ritter
    • Michael Gwisdek
    • Samuel Schneider
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    • 2User reviews
    • 14Critic reviews
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    Boxhagener Platz (2010)
    Klaus Manchen in Boxhagener Platz (2010)
    Klaus Manchen in Boxhagener Platz (2010)
    Michael Gwisdek and Klaus Manchen in Boxhagener Platz (2010)
    Horst Krause and Samuel Schneider in Boxhagener Platz (2010)
    Michael Gwisdek and Samuel Schneider in Boxhagener Platz (2010)
    Gudrun Ritter and Samuel Schneider in Boxhagener Platz (2010)
    Meret Becker, Thomas Bading, Hans-Uwe Bauer, Hermann Beyer, Winnie Böwe, Claudia Geisler-Bading, Michael Gwisdek, Volkmar Kleinert, Horst Krause, Thomas Lawinky, Klaus Manchen, Matthias Matschke, Dieter Montag, Milan Peschel, Gudrun Ritter, Jürgen Vogel, Ingeborg Westphal, Daniel Krauss, Sebastian Hülk, Samuel Schneider, Vincent Krüger, and John Venzke in Boxhagener Platz (2010)

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    Michael Gwisdek
    Michael Gwisdek
    • Karl Wegner
    Samuel Schneider
    Samuel Schneider
    • Holger
    Meret Becker
    Meret Becker
    • Renate
    Jürgen Vogel
    Jürgen Vogel
    • Klaus-Dieter
    Hermann Beyer
    • Rudi
    Klaus Manchen
    • Harry Kupferschmidt
    Dieter Montag
    • Paule Lehmann
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    Volkmar Kleinert
    • Dr. Klemm
    Ingeborg Westphal
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    Hans-Uwe Bauer
    • Jochen Gundorff
    Matthias Matschke
    Matthias Matschke
    • Oberleutnant Weber
    Claudia Geisler-Bading
    • Frau Stolle
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    Sebastian Hülk
    Sebastian Hülk
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    Horst Krause
    Horst Krause
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    Milan Peschel
    Milan Peschel
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    Daniel Krauss
    Daniel Krauss
    • Berthold
    Winnie Böwe
    Winnie Böwe
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      • Torsten Schulz(screenplay) (novel)
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    Evocative meditation on history
    An evocative meditation on history, Boxhagener Platz moves at an effecting pace through a Brechtian degree of character study towards the resolution of the 'who-dunnit' that drives the plot forward.

    As a film, several elements come together to manifest the film's focus which is preoccupied with the nature of History. The high standards of recreation of 1960s inner city East Berlin with an exemplary attention to detail contrasts with the constant call and recall the characters make to the recent Nazi past and it's ghostly spirit uncannily pervades the very air these people breath. The conflict and all defining issue of Ideology which defined the fate of the German people living in those decades is brought into high profile. The mostly wordless observations of the child protagonist acts to show the confusion of messages and cognitive processes required to adapt to that time and place.

    The film's self absorption does indeed make this a particularly German 'Heimat' film but the film is clear in it's indication of the complex social condition which demands such attention.

    Despite being an adaptation of a novel, the film is very evocative of Brechtian theatre in the pacing of itself primarily through intense character study. This aspect acts as the bind which synthesises the real and ghostly echoes of the Communist and Nazi reality whose spirited co- existence defines how the film presents History as it's main subject.
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      • March 4, 2010 (Germany)
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      • Babelsberg, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Claussen Wöbke Putz Filmproduktion
      • Studio Babelsberg
      • Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
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    • 1 hour 43 minutes
      • Color
      • Dolby SR

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