2023-09-27 14:25:16
Movie “Weekend Rebels”
Autistic person is looking for a football club
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Jason (Cecilio Andresen) quickly becomes overwhelmed
Which: © NIK KONIETZNY
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A father travels with his autistic son to a different one of 56 stadiums every weekend in search of a favorite football club. Because the son has high demands. Florian David Fitz and Sportfreunde Stiller bring the true story to the screen in a clever and funny way.
If something doesn’t meet his expectations, Jason freaks out. For example, when the conductor in the dining car, despite all his efforts, is unable to serve the pasta and sauce completely separately from each other. Or when the old lady at the bus stop doesn’t want to comply with the ten-year-old’s request to sit somewhere else: she sits in his usual seat. Spoiled, the lady complains. “He’s autistic,” replies Jason’s mother.
The great strength of the film “Weekend Rebels” is that it allows all perspectives to stand side by side: it shows the overtaxing of the autistic Jason, for whom the world quickly becomes too much, as well as the excessive demands of his parents and his environment, for whom Jason quickly becomes too much.
From left to right: Cecilio Andresen, Florian David Fitz, Baby, Aylin Tezel
Which: © NIK KONIETZNY
When the teachers threaten to throw the boy they can’t control out of school, he and his father Mirco make a pact. When Jason promises to get his anger under control, the duo travels through Germany weekend after weekend. The mission of this family comedy corresponds to that of many romance films: it’s about finding the right match.
But the father-son team embarks on a slightly different search for the love of life. Because Jason (Cecilio Andresen) wants a favorite football club. When does it click, when do sparks fly? Mirco’s boss recommends Bayern Munich, where the chances of winning are great, while Jason’s parents, on the other hand, are in a friendly marital dispute between Borussia Dortmund and Fortuna Düsseldorf.
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The boy without a club cannot rely on the laid-in-the-cradle strategy. Because Jason doesn’t want to leave his choice to chance, he creates a list of criteria that his favorite club must meet: for example, it can’t have an embarrassing mascot or Nazi fans, and sustainability and accessibility are also extremely important.
Then it gets to work: all 56 stadiums in the first, second and third professional leagues want to be visited, a delicate undertaking. Because what Jason can hardly tolerate are disruptions to his regulated processes and structures. But how can you watch a football game in a sold-out stadium if the child is not allowed to be touched by strangers under any circumstances? Can the unpredictable – the outcome of a game as well as the question of where the heart is left – be calculated?
How Jason’s precise, individualistic planning meets the mass frenzy of community sports creates touching comedy. The title song “Rebellenherz” by Sportfreunde Stiller echoes supportively from the stadium walls.
True story
The film is based on the autobiographical book “We Weekend Rebels”, which Mirco von Juterczenka wrote together with his autistic son Jason, who was six years old when their groundhopping career began in 2012. The film gives them an enchanting guest appearance in the stadium stands. As for the other fan actors, the casting agency was looking for “real fans” as extras who could apply with a photo “in a fan outfit”.
In the background: Mirco von Juterczenka with his son Jason
Which: © NIK KONIETZNY
Florian David Fitz, who already demonstrated his talent in playing the father of a child who deviates from the norm, alternating between alienation and care, in the problem comedy “Oskar’s Dress”, received the “Best Actor” award for both roles at the 2022 Bavarian Film Prize . Joachim Król also embodies the loving grandfather Gerd with iron-clad fan loyalty.
In addition to the boy’s school status and the parent’s house blessing – which was lopsided due to the previously one-sided educational burden – the project also saves the reputation of the increasingly commercialized football. Because money and size don’t interest Jason. It is precisely the lesser-known stadiums that provide him with the most beautiful viewing experiences.
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At one point everyone cries, not just the audience, but also the father and son. The father reassuringly says that this is completely normal when you watch your own club and assumes that the son has chosen the same club as him. But Jason counters, his eyes watering just because of the smoke. The search for the right club is not yet over.
“Wochenendrebellen” does not have the shocking radicalism of Nora Fingscheidt’s drama “System Sprenger” from 2019, and the genre film doesn’t want that at all. Rather, director Marc Rothemund (“Sophie Scholl – The Last Days”) transforms the script by Richard Kropf (“Kleo”) into a finely humorous tragicomedy that is similar to the autism series “Atypical” and Til Schweiger’s therapy fun “The Rescue “the world we know” manages to neither appear too well-behaved nor make fun of those affected.
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