Sure, it's a novel about wanderlust, searching for support and friendship, but Herrndorf had the rare gift of infusing his writing with authentic youth slang without it coming across as forced or artificial. But the strange thing was that on this trip, Tschick and I had run into almost only people from the one percent who weren't bad." And maybe it was true, maybe ninety-nine percent of people were bad. " My parents drilled that into me, my teachers drilled that into me, even TV drilled that into me.People were bad. Don't trust anyone, don't talk to strangers, all of that ," says Maik. There are tumultuous scenes, and yet it is more about inner yearning, about the beauty of every little moment. With Why We Took the Car, Wolfgang Herrndorf created a literary dreamscape and let two boys escape to Romania and find their own lives. Maik and Tschick drive east through corn fields in their old Lada, a scene portrayed in "Tschick," the 2016 film adaptation of the novel directed by Fatih Akin Image: Studiocanal GmbH It was the weirdest and most beautiful thing I'd ever experienced," describes the narrator, Maik. We were driving at a leisurely pace through pastures and fields as the sun slowly rose somewhere beyond Rahnsdorf. " I had hung my arm out the window and put my head down on it. They dance in the rain and meet people as odd as the alienated landscapes through which they journey. The duo leave alcoholic parents, prefab high rises and love sickness behind them as they travel through fields of wheat, landfills and lunar landscapes. They are soon heading east without a plan. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 videoīut then the summer holidays arrive and the two plunge into the adventure of a lifetime after Tschick arrives to pick up Maik in a badly beaten-up Lada Niva that he stole. Angelika wins out, despite her husband’s objections and a culture-clash ensues, including rising xenophobia from their spooked German neighbors.'Why We Took the Car' by Wolfgang Herrndorf ![]() Plot: The movie stars veteran actor Senta Berger as Angelika Hartmann, a well-to-do Munich socialite who decides, in the wake of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-border policy of 2015, to take in an African refugee. Plot: Directed by Markus Goller, the movie centers on a young man who takes his mentally handicapped brother to Hamburg to search for their father. But soon it becomes clear that Falk is pursuing his own objectives. ![]() Plot: Jochen Falk and two other former Stasi agents embark on a dangerous mission to rescue the kidnapped president of Katschekistan. Plot: Adapted from a stage play written by Ferdinand von Schirach, the movie follows a German fighter pilot who shoots down a passenger jet, killing all 164 people on board, to prevent the terrorists who have hijacked the plane from crashing it into a soccer stadium packed with 70,000 civilians. Jobless and under financial pressure, she is forced to look for alternatives, but in order to achieve her goal, she is ready to disregard her body, social relationships and even her own feelings. When she is fired without notice, her dream is suddenly postponed for an uncertain future. Plot: Marija, a young Ukranian woman, earns a living as a cleaner in a hotel in Dortmund but dreams of having her own hairstyling salon. It was adapted from Wolfgang Herrndorf’s bestselling cult novel “Tschick” whose English title is “Why We Took the Car.” Plot: A comedic coming of age road movie, “Goodbye Berlin” turns on a 14-year-old misfit who hits the road with an unruly classmate in a stolen car. Plot: The movie charts the years of exile in the life of famous Jewish Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, his inner struggle for the “right attitude” toward the events in war-torn Europe, and his search for a new home. ‘Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe’ (2016)《黎明之前》 In each, a character recites parts of manifestos from various political and artistic movements. Manifestos are depicted by 13 different characters, among them a school teacher, factory worker, choreographer, punk, newsreader, scientist, puppeteer, widow and a homeless man. ![]() Plot: The film integrates various types of artist manifestos from different time periods with contemporary scenarios. The movies are in German with English and Chinese subtitles. ![]() Nine German movies are now being shown at Broadway Cinema.
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