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1st of May: All Belongs to You

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1st of May: All Belongs to You
Film poster
German1. Mai – Helden bei der Arbeit
Directed by
Written by
  • Carsten Ludwig
  • Michael Proehl
  • Oliver Ziegenbalg
  • Jakob Ziemnicki
Edited by
Music by
Release date
  • 30 April 2008 (2008-04-30)
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman

1st of May: All Belongs to You (German: 1. Mai – Helden bei der Arbeit) is a 2008 German film. It was premiered as the opening film of the series "Perspektive Deutsches Kino" ran May 1 - Heroes at Work at the Berlinale 2008.

Plot

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Three episodes are interwoven in the film: "Uwe" is about a provincial police officer, "Excursion" is about two adolescents from the small town and "Yavuz" is about an eleven-year-old Turk. All three experience May Day in Kreuzberg.

Provincial police officer Uwe, deployed to Berlin with his colleagues to provide crowd control during the May 1 demonstrations, is cheated on by his wife at home. He visits a brothel. Ending up between the fronts during a demonstration, he gets hit by a water cannon and is injured on the nose.

Jacob and Pelle, two middle-class youths from Minden, go to Berlin in the hope of some drama, but can't make up their mind whether they are tourists or rioters. Scoring drugs turns out to be harder than expected.

The young Turk Yavuz wants to grow up, prove his masculinity and take part in the May 1 turmoil for the first time with his brother. On his journey through the oncoming chaos Yavuz gets to know old man Harry, with whom he builds a street barricade. Harry develops protective instincts for the boy.

The end of the day brings them all together in a Kreuzberg hospital.

Cast

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