To mark the 25th anniversary of the Ruhrpott comedy “Bang Boom Bang”, a cinema in Bochum is showing the cult film simultaneously in all 14 cinema halls on Friday evening. Around 2,300 die-hard fans have already secured tickets for the special evening with supporting program, said a spokeswoman for the UCI Multiplex cinema in Bochum. The remaining tickets are becoming increasingly scarce.
The gangster comedy by director Peter Thorwarth, which was released in German cinemas in 1999, still attracts loyal fans after a quarter of a century: The UCI in Bochum has been offering the opportunity to see the film every Friday since its release. The film is now in its 1309th week in cinemas. “Die-hard fans can often recite it along with the film, and sometimes come to the events in costume,” says the spokeswoman. She says that younger fans are now also growing up, who probably only got to know and love the film years after its release.
More important than the story: Ruhrpott types and their dialogues
There is therefore no alternative program for the special anniversary: On all 14 screens of the big cinema, the wannabe crooks from Unna, who have long since become cult, are filming their supposedly “dead-proof thing”, as the film is called in the subtitle. The makers and some of the actors also want to watch and celebrate, it was said: According to the UCI, the actors Ralf Richter, Oliver Korittke, Christian Karmann and director Peter Thorwarth have announced their attendance.
The trash comedy “Bang Boom Bang” is one of the cult films of the Ruhr area. Saying lines like “I’m working on something myself right now,” goofy opportunists try to make their fortune as gangsters. Of course, everything goes wrong.
More important than the story are the characters who cavort between the gas station and the mining settlement: Ralf Richter as a villain with a mullet, Jochen Nickel as a video store owner and producer of absurdly bad sex films, Oliver Korittke as a pot-smoking petty criminal and Martin Semmelrogge as an underexposed “slob” have played their way into the hearts of the audience. For Diether Krebs, who plays a sleazy freight forwarder, it was the last film he appeared in before he died in January 2000. Ingolf Lück, Til Schweiger and Michael Brandner also star.
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