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Ballermann 6

Ballermann 6

Movie · 1997 · 11 people

Ballermann 6, a German comedy dating from 1997, is named after the well-known Ballermann 6 beach spot on Mallorca. It was made as the sequel to Voll normaaal, which starred Tom Gerhardt and Hilmi Sözer. Gerhardt and the award-winning cinematographer Gernot Roll share the directing; Roll wanted to show a wider audience what he could do as a director. The script is by Gerhardt. The German-language colour film runs about 95 minutes and is seen as shaping Ballermann culture, having made the bucket-drinking custom known as "Eimersaufen" famous. It opened in Turkey on 29 September 2000.

The story opens with two friends, Tommie and Mario, who after a long spell without work earn money by handing out gifts in Easter-bunny costumes. Distracted by a girl, they crash, collide with some motorcycle rockers and lose the job. With the money they have left they go on holiday to Mallorca, but misfortune follows them there too. Hilmi Sözer plays Mario, and Christoph M. Ohrt appears as Klaus. Uwe Ochsenknecht and Katja Flint show up in brief cameos. Ottfried Fischer, Martin Armknecht and Detlef Bothe are also in the cast.

DirectorGernot Roll, Tom Gerhardt

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Hilmi Sözer Hilmi Sözer Actor · 56 years old Christoph M. Ohrt Katja Flint Uwe Ochsenknecht Ottfried Fischer Martin Armknecht Tom Gerhardt Detlef Bothe Jürgen Drews Willi Thomczyk Dierk Prawdzik

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Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humour and heart.

This one is not a family pick. It may look like a holiday comedy, but it puts Mallorca's mass drinking culture at its centre; this is the film that made bucket drinking famous. It presents drinking to young viewers as if it were the fun itself. For a group of adult friends who enjoy loud, crude humour it can work for an evening. But with kids or grandparents in the room, picking another film is the wiser choice.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

With award-winning cinematographer Gernot Roll stepping into directing, one expects some visual ambition, but Ballermann 6 is above all a comedy leaning on Tom Gerhardt's script and sketch logic. Costume gig, crash, motorcycle rockers, then Mallorca: the story is built less as a plot than as a chain of mishaps strung end to end. That comes from the pressure to deliver as a sequel to Voll normaaal; it settles for moving the first film's formula to a new location. In my view its lasting impact comes not from cinematic merit but from having given a holiday culture a name and a ritual.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Ballermann 6 is a good example of a film that did not just reflect a holiday culture but helped shape it. Opening the story with two friends who, after a long spell without work, try to earn money through costumed odd jobs is a small but telling detail about precarious work in 1990s Germany. Escaping to Mallorca with what money is left sums up the short-lived freedom that mass tourism promises. The film celebrates this world far more than it critiques it, so viewers looking for social commentary will mostly have to read between the lines themselves.

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