COMBAT SIXTEEN

KOMBAT SECHZEHN

Directed by Mirko Borscht

SUNDAY JANUARY 14 9:00PM CASTRO

Sixteen-year-old Georg, in moving to Frankfurt/Oder from Frankfurt/Main, finds himself radically uprooted: he has lost his friends, his chance at the local Taekwondo championship, and his mixed-race girlfriend. Now he is surrounded by right-wing cliques and racial violence and must find his own way, since his sister is fully absorbed in her art studies and his father, a single parent and architect, is fully immersed in, for him, the once-in-a-lifetime project responsible for the move—designing a new shopping mall. Gang leader Thomas, who for the first time senses a challenge to his authority in Georg’s warrior poise, sets about recruiting him, and the two face violent challenges in an environment whose deficits feed Neo-nazi extremism.

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US Premiere

Country
Germany
Year
2005
Run Time
35mm, 96 min, color
German with
English subtitles
Cast
Florian Bartholomäi
Falk Rohstock
Ludwig Trepte
Max Mauff
Max Oelze
Camera
Alexander Fischerkoesen
Screenwriter
Jana Erdmann
Mirko Borscht
Printsource
Cine International
Email
email@cineinternational.de
Awards
Max Ophüls Award
Nomination 2005.

Director

Mirko Borscht
was born in 1971 in Cottbus, East Germany. At seventeen, he quit his tailor’s apprenticeship, headed for Berlin, and began acting, assisting directors, and producing short films. COMBAT SIXTEEN is his first feature film.