Zoff in the Berlin backyard - film criticism for 'Black Box' by Anke Sterneborg

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Filmkritik | „Black Box“ Zoff im Berliner Hinterhof Do 10.08.23 | 08:26 Uhr | Von Anke Sterneborg Streit um die Mülltonnen, ein Polizeieinsatz – und das in einem Berliner Altbau-Biotop. Mit feinem Gespür für das Mit- und Gegeneinander der Kulturen und einem grandiosen Ensemble seziert „Black Box“ die deutsche Gesellschaft. Von Anke Sterneborg Alles beginnt mit dem Rumms, mit dem ein großer Büro-Container von oben durch die Lüfte mitten in einem Altberliner Hinterhof platziert wird. Hier residiert künftig Herr Horn als Vertreter der Hausverwaltung. Verkörpert wird er von Felix Kramer, der zwischen der rbb-Serie „Warten auf’n Bus“ und Emily Atefs …
Film criticism | "Black Box" Zoff in the Berlin back yard Thu 10.08.23 | 8:26 am | By Anke Sterneborg Streit about the garbage cans, a police operation-in a Berlin old building biotope. "Black Box" dissolves the German society with a fine feeling for the miamenting and against each other of cultures and a grand ensemble. By Anke Sterneborg everything begins with the Rumms, with which a large office container is placed from above through the air in the middle of an old Berlin back yard. In the future, Mr. Horn will reside as a representative of the property management. He is embodied by Felix Kramer, who between the RBB series "Waiting for Bus" and Emily Atefs ... (Symbolbild/MB)

film criticism | "Black Box"

zoff in the Berlin backyard

Thu 10.08.23 | 8:26 am | By Anke Sterneborg

dispute over the garbage cans, a police operation-in a Berlin old building biotope. "Black Box" dissolves the German society with a fine feeling for the miamenting and against each other of cultures and a grand ensemble. By Anke Sterneborg

Everything begins with the Rumms, with which a large office container is placed from above through the air in the middle of an old Berlin back yard. In the future, Mr. Horn will reside as a representative of the property management. He is embodied by Felix Kramer, who has shown a large acting range between the RBB series "Waiting for Bus" and Emily Atef's literature adaptation "At some point we will tell everything".

horn initially looks polite and accommodating, but soon shows a jovially underpinned hardness. The second, even more everyday, annoyance for the residents are the garbage cans of the bakery, which are now also supposed to be in the back yard. While some tenants make a good face a good game, others defend themselves decided. Teacher Erik Behr (Christian Berkel) confronts Mr. Horn: "Look at it! A shame is that, under my window, I can't even open the window anymore because of the flying. And then the stench ..." He gets really angry when Mr. Horn then accused him of having thrown him at an egg. He also does not want to put up with the loose "Mr. Berk": "Dr. Behr, please!"

disguised truths

It is a great pleasure to observe the finely balanced game with gestures, facial expressions and voice modulation. At least as important as the one pronounced, this is not said. And each sentence contains at least a hidden truth. A neighborhood small war develops from openly held or subliminally seeping hostility in the back yard, in which arms and rich, left and right, bio -Germans and immigrants often become irritated and hostile.

The illustrious ensemble of actors, which also includes Luise Heyer, Inka Friedrich, Anne Ratte Polle and Hanns Zischler, can be melted on the tongue, discriminatory insults and attacks in many nuances. "Black Box" is a chamber game that spreads from the courtyard to the apartments, over the roof and to the basement.

Warrior siege

When the hooded police officers then come, a front between residents and the government becomes a question of national security from the small warrior of the neighborhood between residents and the government: the road is closed, nobody is allowed to leave the house. The irritated residents are asked to return to their apartments. No information is published for security reasons. How long it takes is uncertain.

In a gentle voice, Mr. Horn begins to make hints and scatter: "There is a hint, a problem apartment, the tenant, Iranian ... I speak of activities in apartments that do not belong to us ..." His sentences are peppered with trigger words, to which everyone has images, fears and suspicions in their heads. He is specifically sowing the discord and distrust of the tenants. Horn, that indicates