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Guys and Balls (Männer Wie Wir)
Sherry Horman / Germany 2004 / 101 min / DVD
With: Maximilian Brückner (Ecki), Lisa
Maria Potthoff (Susanne), Dietmar Bär (Gerd), Saskia Vester
(Renate), David Rott (Sven), Carlo Ljubek (Udo), Rolf Zacher
(Karl), Christian Berkel (Rudolf), Billey Demirtas (Ercin)
Turku: Fri Nov 18 at 19.00 / Kino Thalia, sali 1
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Helsinki: Fri Nov 25 at 19.00 / Andorra
Do you have the balls?
The optimistic drama comedy Guys
and Balls stars twenty-something Ecki, who while working at the
family bakery is the popular goalie of
the football team of his small hometown. Then at the season
finale match he makes a crucial mistake and on the top of
that he ends up kissing a guy at the finale party. This is
too much for his community, which values working-class heroes
and real men.
Ecki's goodhearted parents are confused with Ecki being
gay, and the community makes sure they get their share of the
rude gay jokes aswell. Forward Udo, who has had a crudge towards Ecki ever
since they were kids, influenses the team to turn their back
to the gay goalie, and so Ecki is kicked out of the team. In
the heat of the moment Ecki challenges his now former team
to a match against an all-gay team. Now there's only one problem:
where to find the ten other players?
Ecki leaves for Dortmund, where together with his sister
Susanne he spreads the joyful tidings of football to the gay
scene. The hilarious mission features many gay stereotypes
from Beckham-loving queen to a bear threesome.
Films about teams often have one-sided supporting characters,
but Guys and Balls gives dimensions to them aswell. Acting is
solid, and use of camera angles in the game scenes is inventive.
Evenly directed by Sherry
Hormanin, Guys and Balls will amuse alose them,
who really couldn't give a damn about football.
NOTE!
English subtitles.
www
www.movie.de/filme/maennerwiewir
Text by
Marko Rumbin
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