SYLVI´S BUMERANG

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Kategorie: Extra Regional
Show: Thursday, 30. March 2017, 05:30 p.m., Mousonturm // Studio 1

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(Documentry, D 2016), German Original, 87 min.Director: Thomas Lawetzky
Director of Photography: Matthias Lawetzky
Production: Thomas Diehl
Editor: Matthias Lawetzky

A heavy curtain, people who seemingly live in the pub and wads of smoke – the reasons to go to the Bumerang are simple: one goes because one knows that the one and only Sylvi works behind the bar. You go because you wait for a date about whom you know nothing. It is certain that you always get a cold drink and if desired, get a heated discussion. For fifty years, the Bumerang was a meeting place and refuge in one. In post-war Germany, the place was particularly popular among young leftists. Content-wise, the ’68 generation had plenty to discuss and thanks to Sylvi, politics were celebrated as much as sport was. The real Hessian woman had managed to create a place which people enjoyed visiting again and again. By choice, she then decided to retire after a long time. What remains is the pub as a place of longing.

Filmmaker THOMAS LAWETZKY, a former regular himself, and his son MATTHIAS raise an eternal monument to the former cult pub.

This film received support from the HESSISCHE FILMFÖRDERUNG.