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2016 film by Fatih Akın

Tschick

Directed by	Fatih Akın
Written by	Lars Hubrich, Hark Bohm, Fatih Akin
Produced by	Marco Mehlitz
Cinematography	Rainer Klausmann
Edited by	Andrew Bird
Music by	Vince Pope
Production company	Lago Film
Distributed by	StudioCanal
Release dates	12 September 2016 (2016-09-12) (World premiere) 15 September 2016 (2016-09-15) (Germany)
Running time	93 minutes
Country	Germany
Language	German

Tschick (German: [ˈtʃɪk]; English: Goodbye Berlin) is a 2016 German comedy-drama film directed by Fatih Akın, based on Wolfgang Herrndorf's bestselling 2010 novel Tschick (released as Why We Took the Car in English-speaking countries). The film depicts two teenage outsiders from Berlin who steal a car and go on an eccentric roadtrip through Eastern Germany during the summer holidays. Tschick received mostly positive reviews in Germany.

Plot

14-year-old Maik faces a boring summer vacation – his mother in detox clinic, his father on a trip with his affair, and worst of all, Maik being the only one in class who’s not invited to his pretty classmate’s birthday party he is secretly in love with.

Then, Tschick (pronounced chick) turns up with a stolen car. Tschick (short for his last name Tschichatschow) is the second outsider in class, looking like a bully and disliked by everyone. Tschick manages to get Maik out of his dull mood, and they set off for an adventurous roadtrip through Eastern Germany. They have most different encounters, pick up the homeless girl Isa and become close friends.

The trip ends in a road accident with the boys badly injured. While Tschick runs away to avoid being put in an orphanage, Maik is taken by the police and sentenced to community service. When school starts again, he is aware this was the best vacation of his life after all.

Cast

Tristan Göbel as Maik Klingenberg
Anand Batbileg as Andrej "Tschick" Tschichatschow
Mercedes Müller as Isa Schmidt
Aniya Wendel as Tatjana Cosic
Anja Schneider [de] as Maik's mother
Uwe Bohm as Maik's father
Xenia Assenza as Mona, father's secretary
Udo Samel as Herr Wagenbach, teacher
Claudia Geisler as Mother of child-rich family
Marc Hosemann as village policeman
Alexander Scheer as the judge
Friederike Kempter as Maik's lawyer

External links

References

^ "Tschick". filmportal.de. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
Höbel, Wolfgang: "'Tschick' on Speed". Der Spiegel, September 10, 2016, No. 37, page 130.
Tschick review in Die Zeit, September 14, 2016
Rebhandl, Bert: "Wo liegt nochmal Nichts-wie-raus-hier?" Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 14, 2016, No. 215, page 9.

v t e Films directed by Fatih Akin
Narrative features	Short Sharp Shock (1998) In July (2000) Solino (2002) Head-On (2004) The Edge of Heaven (2007) Soul Kitchen (2009) The Cut (2014) Goodbye Berlin (2016) In the Fade (2017) The Golden Glove (2019) Rhinegold (2022)
Documentaries	Denk ich an Deutschland – Wir haben vergessen zurückzukehren (2001) Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005) Polluting Paradise (2012)
Short films	Sensin... You're the One! (1995) Weed (1996) Visions of Europe (2004) New York, I Love You (2008)

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