Quarterly 2 · 2008 - German Films

Lauf um Dein Leben – Vom Junkie zum Ironman
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE – FROM JUNKIE TO IRONMAN
Andreas and his gang of friends are troublemakers – they
get stoned on grass, go on shoplifting excursions and are
continually running from the cops. Soon, Andreas moves
up to stronger drugs – and is forced to start dealing to support
his growing habit.
He falls in love with the young Sabine, with whom he has
a child, and from whom he’s able to keep his drug addiction
hidden…until the day she discovers him unconscious
in the bathroom with a needle sticking out of his arm …
She takes their child and leaves him. Emotionally destroyed
at the loss and wrecked from his drug abuse, Andreas
takes up a degenerate life in the streets. One day, in a suicid
al fit, he smashes a car into a tree – but survives.
After a year of attempting to kick his drug habit, he has a
life-changing experience while running. Suddenly inspired,
Andreas begins running for his life – not away from it –
and eventually runs all the way into the elite ranks of the
world’s top athletes in the extremely difficult Triathlon discipline.
He’s succeeded in making the amazing trans -
formation from junkie to Ironman …
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Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of
Production 2007 Director Adnan G. Koese Screenplay
Adnan G. Koese, Fritjof Hohagen Director of Photography
James Jacobs Editor Alexander Dittner Music by Patrick
Buttmann, Philipp F. Koelmel Production Design Oliver Hoese
Producers Fritjof Hohagen, Clarens Grollmann Production
Company enigma film/Unterfoehring, in co-production with
Odeon Pictures/Unterfoehring, Neue Kinowelt Filmproduktion/
Berlin, Lunaris Film/Unterfoehring Principal Cast Max Riemelt,
Jasmin Schwiers, Uwe Ochsenknecht, Axel Stein, Robert Gwisdek,
Ismail Deniz, Udo Schenk, Ingo Naujoks Casting Uwe Buenker
Length 102 min, 2,957 m Format 35 mm, color, cs Original
Version German Subtitled Version English Sound
Techno logy Dolby Digital 5.1 With backing from Film -
stiftung NRW, FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmfoerderungs anstalt
(FFA), German Federal Film Fund (DFFF)
Adnan G. Koese grew up in Germany as the son of German-
Turkish parents. Interested in all aspects of film at an early age, he is
active as an actor, screenwriter and director. His films include: Go
to Hell (Zur Hoelle mit Dir, short, 2003) and his feature
debut Run for Your Life – From Junkie to Ironman
(Lauf um Dein Leben – Vom Junkie zum Ironman,
2007).
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Scene from “Run for Your Life” (photo © enigma film/Kerstin Stelter)