Tobby
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Tobby Fichelscher
Tobby by Hansjürgen Pohland
BRD 1961, Retrospective
© Deutsche Kinemathek / Pohland
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Tobby Fichelscher, Eva Häußler
Tobby by Hansjürgen Pohland
BRD 1961, Retrospective
© Deutsche Kinemathek / Pohland
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Tobby Fichelscher, Danny Fichelscher
Tobby by Hansjürgen Pohland
BRD 1961, Retrospective
© Deutsche Kinemathek / Pohland
Jazz singer and bongo player Tobby Fichelscher has received a tempting offer. He’s been invited to join a tour abroad, which would be well paid. But Tobby hesitates to accept. Because he wouldn’t be playing “his” music. Caught in a quandary about whether to choose art or career, he roams the city. He goes to a basement jazz club, a snack bar, the Wannsee beach; he meets fellow artists, an admirer, friends and acquaintances – and finally makes a decision… “The people and locations are real”. The film seems to be as improvised as its protagonist’s music. The associative editing, jump cuts and high shots made Tobby a pioneer of cinematic modernism, so of course it could not find a distributor. Whereby the documentary images do more than just give us a look at Berlin’s artistic niches and urban wastelands. In Tobby’s sessions with musician friends, the palaver within Kreuzberg’s bohemian world – especially during the five-minute drum and scat solo performed in the Gropius Bau, which had been destroyed in the war – the city becomes an echo chamber for his attitude towards life.
With
- Tobias Fichelscher
- Anik Fichelscher
- Ed Fichelscher
- Danny Fichelscher
- Eva Häußler
- Francis Conrad Charles
Crew
Director | Hansjürgen Pohland |
Screenplay | Hansjürgen Pohland, Siegfried Hofbauer |
Cinematography | Wolf Wirth |
Editing | Christa Pohland |
Music | Manfred Burzlaff |
Sound | Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein, Günther Genth |
Producer | Hansjürgen Pohland |
Additional information
DCP: Deutsche Kinemathek
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Screening
Tobby · Retrospective · Feb 16, 2024
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Gudi Fichelscher
The wife of the main actor in the Kino International.
Tobby · Retrospective · Feb 16, 2024
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Britta Braun-Pohland, Danny Fichelscher, Rainer Rother, Gudi Fichelscher, Peter Möhle, Mareike Palmeira, Annika Haupts
The director's daughter with the actor, the section head, the wife of the main actor, the trumpeter, the managing director of the Modern Art Film Archiv and the programme coordinator.
Tobby · Retrospective · Feb 16, 2024