• Feature Film

Initiation

Filmplakat für "Blutsfreundschaft" mit der Darstellung eines älteren Mannes, der einen jüngeren Mann schützend hält, im Hintergrund eine Gruppe von Demonstranten mit Megafon und Transparenten, samt dem Text "Helmut Berger in Blutsfreundschaft, Ein Film von Peter Kern" und einem roten Berliner Bären-Logo mit dem Zitat "Der große Erfolg der Berlinale!".

16 year old Axel falls out with his step-father and becomes involved in a neonazi gang. To join the gang he has to prove himself by killing a social worker. He runs away and takes refuge in a dry-cleaning shop run by 80-year-old Gustav Tritzinsky. Axel reminds Gustav of the lover he had during the war, his first love whom he betrayed to the Gestapo, so to atone for that betrayal he takes Axel in. Now Axel has to choose between his homophobic street friends and the friendship and obsession of a homosexual old man.

Data

aka
Blaue Gitarre, Initiation
Category
Feature Film
Financing
Nationaler Film
Format
35 mm, 92 Min
Approximate cinema release
05.11.2009
Release
05.11.2009
Distribution
Stadtkino Filmverleih und Kinobetriebs Gesellschaft m.b.H.
Admissions
3.279
Funding program
ÖFI
Film location
Vienna, Stockerau
Shooting time
Winter 2008
Funding institutions Austria
Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien
Credits
Production
Film AG Produktions GmbH
Producer
Franz Novotny
Director
Peter Kern
Script
Peter Kern, nach einer Idee von Frank Maria Reifenberg
DOP
Peter Roehsler
Editor
Petra Zöpnek
Sound engineer
Odo Grötschnig
Costume design
Maurizio Giambra
Set design
Hannes Salat
Music
Boris Fiala, Andreas Hamza
Cast
Helmut Berger (Gustav), Harry Lampe (Axel), Melanie Kretschmann (Christina Thürmer), Michael Steinocher (Lippi), Manuel Rubey (Snoopy), Heribert Sasse (Willy)
Production manager
Sandra Gigerl
International distribution
EastWest Filmdistribution
German Title
Blutsfreundschaft

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