One Day in Europe (2005)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Hannes Stöhr

Writer:

Hannes Stöhr (writer)

Release Date:

7 April 2005 (Germany)

Genre:

Comedy

Plot Keywords:

Football | Moscow | Turkey | Penalty Shootout | Berlin

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Megan Gay	...	Kate (Episode Moskau)
Luidmila Tsvetkova	...	Elena (Episode Moskau)
Andrei Sokolov	...	Andrej (Episode Moskau)
Oleg Assadulin	...	Asian officer (Episode Moskau)
Vita Saval	...	Female officer (Episode Moskau)
Nikolai Svechnikov	...	Highranking Officer, Moscow
Luis Tosar	...	Deportivo Fan
Boris Arquier	...	Claude (Episode Berlin)
Florian Lukas	...	Rokko (Episode Istanbul)
Erdal Yildiz	...	Celal (Episode Istanbul)
Nuray Sahin	...	Female Officer, Istanbul
Ahmet Mumtaz Taylan	...	Highranking Officer, Istanbul (as Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan)
Péter Scherer	...	Gabor (as Peter Scherer)
Miguel de Lira	...	Sargento Barreira (Episode Santiago de Compestela)
Mónica García	...	Agente Ana (Episode Santiago de Compostela)

Also Known As:

Galatasaray - Depor (Germany) (working title)
Galatasaray-Dépor (Spain)

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

Germany | Spain

Language:

Russian | Turkish | English | French | German | Spanish | Hungarian | Galician

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Argentina:Atp | Singapore:PG | UK:15 | Germany:o.Al.

Filming Locations:

Berlin, Germany

Company:

Filmanova

Trivia:

Some Deportivo La Coruna fans are shown holding Turkish flags during the movie. This is not because they are playing against a Turkish team and they want to look friendly, Deportivo fans are called "Los Turcos" by their fiercest rivals, Celta de Vigo fans. Celta fans initiated this nickname to humiliate the Deportivo fans thinking that the "Turks" are lower people, but instead the Deportivo fans liked this name even decided to call themselves "Los Turcos", most probably because the Turks have a notorious history over Europe. Because of this, Deportivo La Coruna is a very popular team among Turkish people.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: During the Moscow part, everyone in the police station is watching the final game, but the scenes briefly shown on the TV (which are supposedly from the actual final game) are actually from the Galatasaray-Deportivo Champions Leauge 2nd Group, Group B match from 14.02.2001. This game ended 1-0 in favor of Galatasaray, thanks to an 8th minute goal from Suat Kaya.

Quotes:

Sargento Barreira: You know Hungary, every year come in lot of pirgrims. I like. But you know, Santiago de Compostela Holy place before Catholics church come? Yeah. Celta place, Celta people. Think... Via Láctea - Milky Street. Stars from the sky proyect onto Earth Camino de Santiago. You know? Because erm, Milky Street? Stars from sky proyect onto Earth Camino de Santiago. You know? Catholic's Church's like new enterprise. Giving new name to a rather Holy place. You understand?

Soundtrack:

Picos Remix(Remix)

Helps enjoying being European with a cute humor

I watched the movie in Istanbul Film Festival with the presence of the director Hannes Stöhr - I was sitting just three rows up from where Mr. Stöhr sat. Anyway, I liked the movie's sense of internationality, its funny but balanced approach towards national differences, its respect to the nationalistic views and its notion of Europe not being a continent just constituted by EU-countries.

The humor of the movie is built upon international differences and similarities. It bears some bias on nations but it doesn't emphasize them, it just plays with them to create humor. At the end, I liked the movie and I liked Mr. Stöhr after listening to his conference about his movie. Not an important movie after all, but helps enjoying being European with a cute humor.