Forwards Ever!

Name: Vorwärts immer!
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2017-10-12
Duration: 1 h 34 min
Rating: 5.6
Cast: Jörg Schüttauf, Josefine Preuß, Jacob Matschenz

Original title: Vorwärts immer!

20172017
1h 34m

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5.6/10

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Comedy

Berlin 1989, shortly before the fall of the Wall: While the actor Otto is rehearsing for his role as head of state and party leader Erich Honecker, the regime is fighting for survival. The m... Read allBerlin 1989, shortly before the fall of the Wall: While the actor Otto is rehearsing for his role as head of state and party leader Erich Honecker, the regime is fighting for survival. The military and police are preparing to use force to crush the Leipzig Monday demonstration in... Read allBerlin 1989, shortly before the fall of the Wall: While the actor Otto is rehearsing for his role as head of state and party leader Erich Honecker, the regime is fighting for survival. The military and police are preparing to use force to crush the Leipzig Monday demonstration in the evening. To protect his pregnant daughter Anne, who wants to get forged papers for he... Read all

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Trivia
The movie title is based on the Erich Honecker quote "Vorwärts immer, rückwärts nimmer!" (Forward ever, backward never!)

Goofs
In a scene where Leipzig is showed from the top the church "Probsteikirche" can be seen in the background, which was built between 2013-2015. The scene takes place in 1989.

Quotes
Rettungssanitäter: [mistaking the fake Honecker for the real one] It is impressing how good his shape is. This skin, so young. Touch it.
Margot Honecker: We haven't been touching each other for a very long time.

Crazy credits
The opening closing credits are showed in the style of a TV broadcast with interferences.

Connections
References To Be or Not to Be (1942)

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Review

Featured review

10/10

It's true. You need to know the era.

Having said that, if you do know it then it is a ridiculously funny film.

I'm a non-german but with ties to the GDR and I lived in the BRD for years. I'm amazed how they (all involved) carried it off so 'convincingly', the whole sound and feel of the film. I've just watched it again mainly because there wasn't much else on that evening, given covid and all. I'm so glad I did. I'd forgotten quite how silly it is and I really needed a good laugh.

It takes away nothing of the hard and serious times people were going through. It doesn't make a mockery of them. It's target is the party/state centre. I'm aware that I'm repeating most of what another reviewer has already said, but it wants saying again. This film is worth seeing because it's a funny film and because, whilst I understand there are many who might not want to be reminded of the period, we need to remember it. And we may as well be laughing when we do it.

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