
Initiation

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.
Filmdaten
- 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
- Admissions
- 3.279
- 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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