The film invites you to think games
Flake – keyboardist of the band Rammstein – also has personal memories of the Stones: “When I was a child, they were my absolute idols. At that time you also wanted to be a musician, I’ll say it now, because they were queuing up in front of the hotel rooms. We stood In the East there was a line if there was any kind of ketchup and they would line up for sex. You have to imagine that.”
What does origin mean? The film asks that too, because the longer Olaf researches his genealogy, the more he likes his new role as the son of a rock legend. “This question ‘what if?’ is an attractive game,” says the film’s director, Heike Fink. “And the other question is, I think everyone played that out as a child: What if my parents were kings or queens, or I was mistaken for someone else and had a completely different life – that’s something where everyone can find themselves. At least that’s where I hope everyone can find themselves.”
“Olaf Jagger” is an amusing puzzle game
This mockumentary is an amusing puzzle game that playfully asks the question – what if? Olaf Schubert obviously enjoys researching his biography and exploring the history of contemporary rock and rock in the GDR. It is not always clear what is true and what is made up in this story. But that doesn’t matter either.
“There are initial findings,” says Schubert, “but nothing has yet been sealed and decided in the legal sector. There was this encounter and a very loose, lucid, virulent contact constellation. But it’s not yet the case that Mick wrote in his identity card: Olaf is now the new Jason here.”
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