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Combat Sixteen (Kombat Sechzehn)

Rusia título: Бой 16
Título original: Kombat Sechzehn

Título alternativas:
Main Frankfurt Oder

Jugendfilm – Alemania
Año de producción: 2004
Duración: 90 minutos

Dirección: Mirko Borscht
Guionista: Mirko Borscht, Jana Erdmann
Fotografía: Alexander Fischerkoesen
Música: Alexander Istschenko

Sinopsis:

Sixteen-year-old Georg has to move from Frankfurt am Main to Frankfurt an der Oder in former East Germany because his architect father Andreas, a single parent, has been given the chance to build a shopping centre there. In Frankfurt am Main Georg was surrounded by good friends, was in love with his girlfriend Jasmin and had a good chance of realising his big dream of winning the regional championship in taekwondo. He has to give up all this and start over in a completely unfamiliar environment. Georg, the new boy in town, quickly attracts the attention of Thomas, the leader of a radical rightwing clique in Georg’s new school class. Since Georg is unable to find a new taekwondo club, he takes the bait Thomas throws out for him and sets up a provisional training room at Thomas’ place. Despite initial opposition, Georg soon becomes more and more involved in the clique – until it comes to the big fight. Propelled by a mixture of fear, hopelessness and envy, Georg and Thomas soon find that the difference between them is not all that great.
»I wanted to convey an authenticity that is not fed by a documentary view from without, but rather by the inner life of the protagonists«, says Mirko Borscht about his feature film debut. »I am less interested in a precise stocktaking of the present situation than in showing the deficits we have in our relations to one another.«

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