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AWARDS Out-Filmfest, Los Angeles: Outstanding Emerging Talent-Award of the Directors Guild of America 1999 World Filmfestival, Montréal: Air Canada People Award 1999 Int. Filmfestival, Leeds: Audience-Award 1999 Max Ophüls Filmfestival, Saarbrücken: Film-Award of the Governour of the Saarland 1999 Film Kunst Fest, Schwerin: NDR Young Talent Award 1999 Int. Festival du premiere Film, Annonay ( France ): Prix Spécial du Jury 2000 Jungle World, Berlin: "The Reding-brothers changed the authentic touch of their movie into something strangely unauthentic:A highly stylized piece of art, an extraordinary movie about youth, this film is an event. Oi!WARNING is one of the most intensive and surprising movies of our time.The cast is outstanding." Neueste Nachrichten Potsdam: "The film does not show THE
punk or THE skin, but the individual behind the label. Oi!WARNING brings
together very differnt roups of german society: The cinema-expert, who
can admire the excellent cinematography of Axel Henschel ( nominated
for the German Cinematography Award for Oi!WARNING ) and the young ones
from the backstreets, who feel understood by this movie." REVIEWS Los Angeles Times: "visceral and commanding" Freitag, Berlin: "Since Tom Tykwers (director of "Run Lola run") "Tödliche Maria" there was no first-feature, which was as visual, as delicate constructed, as believeable, as powerful directed, as Oi!WARNING." Schweriner Express, Schwerin: "After the credits one has to breathe deeply, the brain works like mad." Stuttgarter Zeitung, Stuttgart: "Not many german films are able to tell a story as powerful and at the same time as detailed as Oi!WARNING." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Expressionistic black and white photography. Showing a game of fire: aggression and regression, excesses in sex and violence." Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin: "A breathtaking black and white feature about the german skinhead scene. It has the strenght to show the archaic skinhead-rituals before only criticising them." Film-Dienst, Cologne: "Outstanding black and white photography, powerful acting, the directing comes straight from the heart." The Hollywood Reporter: "remarkaly talented: a disturbing porttrait of the angry fringes of german society." Screen International, Los Angeles: "A stunning-looking black and whit feature debut from the Reding duo." Ruhrnachrichten, Dortmund: "A movie abaout youth, skinheds, punks, about group-pressure and voilence. A kind of Trainspotting in blanck and whit." Marabo-Magazin, Bochum: "Catchy pictures, true acting." EDP-Fim, Cologne: "This movie is voilend in the best sense of the word: Powerful images, fast timing, believeable characters and intense soundtracking. A movie that grabs the audience" |
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Just expelled from school, Janosch trashes his mother's book- filled house and sets out on his scooter to find his older pal, Koma, who has moved to the town of Dortmund. Tall, muscular, and violent, Koma works at a menial job in a beer-bottling factory by day. By night he is a star of the skinhead scene: kick-boxer, singer, all-round beer drinker, and street brawler. And after a night of carousing and fighting, he returns to his well-ordered apartment and Sandra, a pretty, pregnant, peroxide blond. Janosch moves in with Koma, and as he tries to fit in with his new family, comes to shave his head, starts drinking and brawling with the skins, acquires a girlfriend, and loses his virginity. But soon there is trouble in paradise. The punks confront the skins, and Koma's secret hideout in the woods is destroyed. And when Janosch goes to get a tattoo from Zottel, a gentle, longhaired, fire-eating hippie, emotional forces are set in motion which lead to the shocking climax. Shot in superbly artistic black-and-white photography, Oi!WARNING combines action, image, and a perfect ear for dialogue in a powerful study of skinhead subculture, male tribal violence, and the instability of the male character as it matures from adolescent to adult: sexual tension, possible excursions into homoeroticism, need for acceptance, and drive for a distinctive identity. Also remarkable is the insightful contrast the film draws between male and female desires. Oi! WARNING is a stunning feature-film debut for its young codirectors, Dominik and Benjamin Reding. Nicole Guillemet, Sundance-Filmfestival
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