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The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

This is my first movie that I watched from Fatih Akin. Shame on me! I am deeply impressed his innocent language in telling the story of two boys and the other characters. Tschick (Goodbye Berlin) tells a very ordinary story around two teenagers with an amazing beautiful way. I think that the success of the movie is not trying to tell the story from an adult view, on the contrary, telling like a teenager who talks about what happened during the last summer. The tune between sadness and happiness is very balanced. I like movies that not trying to exploit / (ab)use audience's weak points and Tschick (Goodbye Berlin) is also not trying to do this and set the audience free. For me, the main outcome (if we need a message from every movie that we watched) is "to be yourself" and "to accept life and people around you as well as yourself". There are many upsetting around two boy characters but all are experienced not in a melodramatic way but very truthful way like all we experienced when we were young. Anand Batbileg (Tschick) and Tristan Göbel (Maik) play their role perfectly. As I was watching the movie, I have never thought on their performances as "Oh no it is too exaggerated way" or "they are short for the role". I like this movie. It is honest, cheerful, hopeful and very very sentimental. I like sentimental laughter. (*) Mylast note for the admin. It is not possible to write Fatih Akin's surname in its original way. In Turkish we have small "I" and this field doesn't accept it. His surname is not written with "i" but with small "I". You may need fixing this. Thank you!

Charming, amiable teen-age comedy with a few moments of sadness thrown in as well. Two 14 year old 'outsider' boys in Berlin form a friendship, and take off for the country in a stolen car, seeking adventure. The odd couple of friends here are pretty endearing. There's no big, obvious reason Maik is an outsider. He's OK looking, not a bad kid, not a teacher's pet or a bad boy. He just has the bad luck of not standing out enough to make him cool, so he's become a non-entity in his class. His counterpart – the very hard to overlook Tschick -- is an extremely tall Russian immigrant 'new-kid' with a silly hair cut and a bad-ass tough attitude. Their bond is sweet, and somehow believable. Based on a popular young-adult German novel, "Tschick" is not as edgy, odd and original as most of Akin's films, but has just enough quirk and personality to keep it from falling into feeling too familiar, even if the basic story is a variation on something we've seen many times. Of all Akin's earlier films probably the closes analog is "In July" (2000) – a familiar rom-com story given a personality through Akin's approach. If not the revelation I was hoping for given the brilliance of Akin's best films ("Head-On", "The Edge of Heaven") it's still a likable coming of age film with it's own bittersweet take on the world.

German road movie about two teenage boys going on German roads during summer vacations. It is a simple movie but very well executed and with a great cast. It makes you want to become young and fearless again, nostalgia, nostalgia, always a powerful sentiment. In background it tackles important topics including dysfunctional families and races.

"Tschick" is a German-language movie from this year and the newest Bork by successful Turkish/German filmmaker Faith Akin. He has not yet made a kids movie in his career and even if this one here is certainly also a film for grown-ups, the focus is still on two teenage boys and their time on the road. This one here is really the epitome of a kids-oriented road movie. Both boys are somewhat outsiders, but they join forces and spend the most interesting summer holidays one can imagine. This especially refers to Maik as he is really the central character here in the story. The film starts with him and ends with him and we also find out a lot more about his life, his parents, his love interest etc. compared to Tschick. It takes us two thirds into the film to even get to know about Tschick's sexual identity while we learn about Maik's crush in the very first minute of the film. The lead actor here is Tristan Göbel and he has worked in a solid deal of films already given his age, certainly pretty experienced for a 14-year-old boy. The actor who plays the title character (Anand Batbileg) may be the exact opposite almost as, apparently, he is still a rookie when it comes to acting and performing.But that is perfectly fine as these slightly over 90 minutes here are much more about the story and also the coming-of-age than about individual performances. And if you hear about this subject, then you will not be surprised to see Hark Bohm working on the screen play as the topic of coming-of-age was also very present in his most known works, even if they are already from several decades back. His adoptive son Uwe also acts in here. Speaking about the cast, you will find several somewhat known names appearing in here, even if they (like Friederike Kempter for example) only play very small roles. The only ones with more screen time are the actors who play the protagonist's parents and like others these are familiar faces too, at least to German movie buffs, even if I only recognized the father. You may not know the names, but you may know the people who act in there and realize that you have seen their faces in several other works. Then again, it's not really important who they are. What is much more important is that Akin once again brings us a convincing work and you can describe pretty much all of his works as bold and relevant, even if you are age-wise and society-wise far away from the main characters. Finally, he has shown us that he can delivers also in terms of children's films, a genre that is truly popular right now. This one here, based on the novel by late writer Wolfgang Herrndorf, is definitely worth seeing. I recommend you check it out.