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ACTOR
Moritz BleibtreuElsa Sophie GambardMilan PeschelGregor Bloéb
DIRECTOR
Hans Weingartner
SYNOPSICS
Free Rainer (2007) is a German movie. Hans Weingartner has directed this movie. Moritz Bleibtreu,Elsa Sophie Gambard,Milan Peschel,Gregor Bloéb are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2007. Free Rainer (2007) is considered one of the best Comedy,Drama movie in India and around the world.
Frustrated, because he is forced to produce bad TV-shows, a manager of a TV-station, enters the station and manipulates the ratings, to initiate a TV-revolution.
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Free Rainer (2007) Reviews
Wild and funny
We saw this film in a screening down at the film society. Loved it. This film is an excellent comment on the sick media world. Quite dramatic and brutal in the first part, warm and funny in the second. Full of mad ideas. A prankster movie and at the same time a political statement on the brainwash. Is it comedy? Drama? I don't know. Does it matter? Definitely worth seeing. I also really loved it, because it's so different from the standard European art-house flicks. More fun, more diverse, crazier. A raw film. Moritz Bleibtreu, the male lead, seems to be one of Germany's finest. Camera is doc style, hand-held, but never nauseating.
a step forward for weingartner!!!
I don't get where all these jealous people come from who are writing those bad comments... First of all, this is not a comedy, it's a drama about the modern television, how it manipulates us and our lives. The actors, as in DIE FETTEN JAHRE SIND VORBEI are very well casted and do a pretty good job here, especially Bleibtreu. The photography is manily realistic and in a documentary style and so is the acting. Some might think that its a bit overdosed showing the TV-producers doing nothing else than sniffing coke and being assholes but those who work in the business will recognize most of it. I really enjoyed watching the movie, even if it could have been a bit shorter and to the point. There are not many directors in Germany which are brave enough to write such explosive stuff!
Nice Message
I saw this movie yesterday in the San Sebastian Film Festival. I liked the message a lot.A German TV executive has a wake-up call and changes his life ,supporting a culture-driven society. In these days , TV programs are usually rubbish, and a lot people think in that way, it's difficult to find programs with real interest. So Reclaim your Brain for me is a very good title. We,Citizens, are very tired of this rubbish we are sold day over day. we can change the world!. But this change is not in the movies, but In our everyday's life. thank you to all the crew of this movie for doing this picture.
Original and funny
This film created quite some controversy. It really depends on how you see it. You shouldn't take it as a drama, that's for sure. I just loved it! It has a great sense of humor. Many really dark humored scenes that made me laugh out aloud, just like the rest of the audience in the cinema I was in. Some bourgeois critics didn't like it, but that for me is only a sign of the narrow mindedness of todays film critics. The film just doesn't follow any of today's rules of art-house cinema. Which is what made it such an refreshing experience to watch for me. A crazy, wild piece of cinema with a strong political message. I liked it much more than "The Edukators", because it's more honest in a sense that it doesn't camouflage it's intent, and also because it's much more satirical. Definitely fun to watch, positively a must-see.
not as good as expected
The acting was exceptionally well for a German movie - I don't know if I just notice bad acting more easily when it's in German (it is my mother tongue after all) or if it's really rare in the German film biz to have good actors. Anyway, in this movie it was well done (and if I think about Stipe Erceg in "Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei" that's also not always the case in Weingartner's movies). Unfortunately the actors had to fight with cliché after cliché being thrust upon them. The cocaine-sniffing, not giving a damn about anything media guy, the socio phobic computer nerd who spends his time with conspiracy theories (by the way, Weingartner should probably talk with the psychiatric association - he obviously has buried somewhere in his movie a miraculous cure for a psychosis, seeing as Philipp is socio phobic and then a couple of weeks later he isn't anymore, not really anyway) and the revolutionary who is just a hurt little girl inside. Characterisation gets a little better towards the end, at least for the main characters. Sadly, it's not enough to give them any depth. The directing style was very conservative - the initial characterisation of Rainer, the news paper clips or the raid - there's nothing we haven't seen before. It's not badly directed but in connection with the "revolutionary" content (not the content itself being revolutionary - we've all seen movies about the bad bad media biz, but the film being about revolution) it could have used some more revolutionary directing. As in "Die fetten Jahre sind vorbei" (I'm sorry for the constant comparison between those two movies but they are so similar, not only in style but also in content that it just forces itself on me :), Weingartner uses lengthy monologues to explain why revolution is good/necessary/the thing to do, which can and does get boring. Fortunately, there are some funny scenes, although he sometimes tries too hard. The morale of the story is inconsequential at best. Because it obviously is a victory for everybody that people stop watching TV altogether to read books or to go for a walk: So bad TV makes people stupid and good TV makes people stop watching TV? Also, Rainer stresses more than once that you should trust people to be able to handle intelligent TV. But by manipulating the quota, he doesn't even give them a choice. Isn't his approach to force-feed them the good stuff as bad as force-feed them the bad stuff?