Sumo Bruno (2001)

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Sumo Bruno is a 2000 German comedy drama film directed by Lenard Fritz Krawinkel and starring Hakan Orbeyi, Oliver Korittke, Julia Richter, Martin Seifert, Thomas Drechsel, Tim Wilde and Martin Semmelrogge. The film was produced and distributed by Babelsberg Studio.

Production

Director Krawinkel said about Sumo Bruno, that he "wanted to tell the story of an overweight person who gets going again, as a representative of all who know what it feels like when life has temporarily come to a halt. It was not about raising the pity of the audience and even less about pushing the topic of being overweight. I was looking for a metaphor. Sumo is such a metaphor.

Krawinkel comments on casting: "For the main role of Sumo Bruno, I was looking for an overweight actor with an erotic appeal. Consciously, I wanted to cast the role in contrast to the cliché "being fat is being flabby and disgusting". The first actors that I saw weighed about 220 pounds and didn't come up to my idea of a credible sumo wrestler. My Bruno was to weigh at least 300 pounds, a condition which reduced our choices considerably.

One night, when we were leaving a cinema in Hanover, my wife said to me: "Look at him over there, that's Sumo Bruno for you". The gigantic Hakan Orbeyi was sitting on a bar stool, wearing a muscle shirt when the outdoor temperature was five degrees Celsius. I immediately went over to him and introduced myself. While we were talking, a girl came up, kissed him and said: "See you later". A few minutes later, another girl came along.

While it was Krawinkel intentions to tell his story of one person's belief that he can overcome any obstacle to better himself and fully believed that the sport of sumo wrestling would be a great source of inspiration, he didn't think it would be a problem for the officials at the International Sumo Federation (ISF) in Japan, but it became an issue.

The score was composed and conducted by Biber Gullatz and Eckes Malz, and was produced and mixed in the First Take Studios, Weinheim. The opening and ending song "What I Wish to Be" (lyrics by Deborah Wargon), was sung by the Children's and Youth Choir of the Theaters of the City Heidelberg, headed by Heike Kiefner.

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