One Day In Europe
Dir: Hannes Stöhr Germany 2004 100 minutes
Starring: Florian Lukas, Erdal Yildiz, Péter Scherer, Miguel de Lira, Megan Gay, Rachida Brakni
Four stories
take place in different cities on the day of the Champions League final match
between Galatasaray Istanbul and Deportivo La Coruña in Moscow.
'West Meets East': Moscow. An elderly Russian woman comes to the aid of a
young English woman who’s been robbed. They go to the police to report the
robbery, but the policemen are busy keeping rival football fans from attacking
one another. 1:0 for Deportivo.
'Germans in the Orient’: Istanbul. To get insurance money, a young German
backpacker pretends he’s been robbed. At the police station, everything runs
according to plan... until he becomes acquainted with the methods of the Turkish
police. Galatasaray scores a goal and the teams are tied.
'The Pilgrim and the Native’: Santiago de Compostela. A Hungarian history
professor on a pilgrimage is robbed of his camera. He asks a policeman for help,
but the man is much more interested in how people talk in Hungary – is Hungarian
similar to Finnish? More importantly, it’s time for siesta. The score is tied.
‘Exception culturelle’: Berlin. Two French street artists who are
continually broke decide to report their luggage as stolen to get the insurance
money. The German police are very helpful, but unfortunately not very
naive...The teams are tied, it comes down to a penalty shoot-out.
HANNES STÖHR (born Stuttgart, Germany, 1970) studied scriptwriting and directing
at the German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in Berlin. His films include:
Biete Argentinien, Suche Europa (1995), Maultaschen (96), the documentary Lieber
Cuba Libre (97), and the features Berlin Is In Germany (01), and One Day In
Europe (04).