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Kerkeling-biography “The Boy must come to fresh air” to the movies

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Oscar-winner Caroline Link has filmed the Childhood of the comedian Hape Kerkeling: colorful, touching, funny and sad. Who says that the German cinema can be no real Christmas film that is deceptive.



Horst Schlämmer, Uschi Blum, Queen Beatrix: many of the characters, a man. Hape Kerkeling is one of the most popular comedian in Germany and has written many sketches of German television history. His appearance as Queen Beatrix in the Schloss Bellevue, the residence of the Federal President – is just as memorable as his concert in a music school, where he was unsettled with a Dadaist song (“And the lamb screamed HURZ”) the present for the culturally inclined audience. Germany laughs today, and collective about this funny man who has ended his active career for a long time.

From the beginning, excited: Hape Kerkeling on the Set

At the beginning of the 2000s Kerkeling took a break and went to the North of the Spanish way of St. James – more than 600 miles to Santiago di Compostela. An experience he described later in one of the most successful German-language nonfiction books (“I’m gone”). 2015/16 two million viewers watched nearly the film in the cinema.

Wonderfully crazy family

Almost to the day, exactly three years later – at the 25.12.2018 – comes of the next autobiographical Kerkeling movie in the cinema: The template for “The Boy needs fresh air” is kerkeling’s eponymous book of 2014, in which the Entertainer goes back to his Childhood.

At the beginning of the 1970s in the Ruhr area: The small Hans-Peter Kerkeling growing up in a wonderfully crazy family – the kindred likes to celebrate and holds together like pitch and sulfur. Here the women have to Say, as colorful satellite circling around grandma’s and aunts and the little Hans-Peter. The Boy is a bit chubby, full of but self-confidence and always manages to bring its environment in order to Laugh.

Scene from the movie: dancing at the merry families-garden party

The light-heartedness has caves to an end, when Hans-Peter’s mother Margaret after a botched Jaw surgery lose their taste and sense of smell, and in a deep Depression. Even her funny son won’t make it to the end, to tear you with his Joke out of the gloom. She’s going to kill eventually. A drastic experience for the 8-year-old Hans-Peter.

Touching without Kitsch

In the cinema hall, the tears do not flow but only now. The tracks in the case of especially emotion susceptible audience already on their way. Because all of the actors play their roles very affectionate and Director Caroline Link, approaching with your camera woman Judith Kaufmann the characters with tenderness, without going into the Kitschy by playing. The characters of the mad family are carefully traced. The Sunny childhood days at grandma Bertha on the Land are happy to set the scene, even the dismal gray of the town house, the family moves, finally, may be said to have, in Caroline Link’s a bit of romance.

Happy Childhood in the Ruhr area

Luise Heyer, Hans-Peter’s mother Margaret, a pretty, delicate, cheerful woman, the breaks on the ever-increasing pressure, after the extrovert of the family matriarch Grammy Änne (is robust and at the same time fragile played by Hedi Kriegeskotte) died. The father (Sönke Möhring), is not in principle present, as it is because of your job, constantly on the move, can be observed at the end of the expiry of his wife only as a spectator – a particularly tragic role. Joachim Król plays grandpa Willi, the to grow after the death of his feisty wife.

A talented “bundle of joy”

And finally, the main role: Julius Wake-up calls, embodies the small Hans-Peter. An absolute stroke of luck. The ideal candidate for this role was found in March 2017. In a Germany-wide casting call was looking for “a small, blond-haired, chubby Boy who has the special ability to make others Laugh, and trying to save this gift for the world.” Julius Wake-up calls has convinced everyone with his love of the game and his comedic Talent. So that little “bundle of joy” has gotten his first cinema role at all.

Hape Kerkeling is impressed by the young actor. Deeply stirred he had been, he said in an ARD Interview, and on the other hand, very excited. “Julius has a great Talent and an incredible charisma.”

At the beginning of children’s films were

Director Caroline Link began with documentaries and children’s films. Her first cinema success was in 1996 “Beyond silence” is the story of a girl who in the deaf world of their parents, must find their way. Poet staged, intelligently designed, praised at the time, critics and audiences. In 1999, a modern adaptation of the children’s classic “annaluise and Anton”.

Director Caroline Link gives instructions from the Director

And then, the biggest success of for the today 54-year-old filmmaker came to 2003, she was awarded for “Nowhere in Africa” and the Oscar for best foreign Film for the first Time after 23 years, a German film-makers has been awarded with the most important movie award in Hollywood.

With “The Boy in the fresh air” is Caroline Link made a moving Film, very touching and very funny – a family film for the Christmas season. To young spectators. The tragic movie moments for younger viewers, with security to be sad or not really understandable.

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