Treffer

»There‘s a crack, a crack in everything / That‘s how the light gets in« it says in Leonard Cohen’s song »Anthem«. There‘s a crack, a crack in everything, and the crack in the history of German cinema and TV-films since the late 1970s and early 1980s are the works of Dominik Graf. They stand at odds with the other film productions surrounding them. This was already the case with »Treffer« (1984), a film that was originally produced for the TV Broadcaster
WDR and then received a theatrical release only after first being broadcasted nationwide. A rare, almost unheard-of occurrence and at the same time an unmistakable sign of the power that emanates from Dominik Graf‘s story about three young men from the south-west German provinces and their dreams of freedom. A film like a melancholic song about adolescence in a place with no future. It feels like you hear the voice of Bruce Springsteen resonating in each shot.