Cycling Movies: Have you heard of Cyclists Anonymous, a support group for cyclists addicts? In men on wheels Felix has to seek psychological treatment because all he can think about is bicycles. The tragic comedy from 1993 is showing its age, but still worth seeing.
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Men on Wheels humorously addresses cycling addiction
Drivers as an enemy, women as a ball and chain and men who completely lose their minds in the midst of their mid-life crisis. The film men on wheels is full of clichés and has a lot to offer – just no political correctness. Director Thomas Carlé created a 1993-minute masterpiece in 65. True to the motto "This film is dedicated to the victims of passion" everything revolves around a man who succumbs unchecked to the bicycle addiction. At some point he even has to decide between his wife and his bike. The tragic comedy finally culminates in the fact that the main actor Felix has to seek psychological treatment because of his cycling addiction.
Southern German newspaper:
"With subtle irony, this television play reconstructs the course of a special, legal drug career, supported by expert testimony and documentary material."
Frankfurt Sunday newspaper:
"Here Carlé plays ironically with the genre, tells the tragi-comic story of the cyclist Felix as a pseudo-documentary with well-rehearsed nonsense interviews, conversations in the self-help group and absurd travel reports."
The film even won a Grimme Prize
A particularly entertaining part of the film men on wheels are the interviews. There, the participants express themselves in an almost frighteningly credible way on a wide variety of topics related to bicycles. The real film experts were also impressed by this staging and presentation. Thomas Carlé was even awarded the Grimme Prize for this.
Grimme Prize Jury:
“What a subject: men’s passion for cycling, preferably in the middle of life. A bit of crisis, a bit of boredom - and then the vision of riding away from everyday life on the elegant steel frame with the precious ingredients from the jeweller's bike shop. What would have lured others into shallow socio-psychological studies has lured Carlé into a virtuoso showpiece. With admirable lightness, with irony (which cannot quite conceal more than just a touch of loving sympathy), with wit and ingenuity, he invents and tells an individual story of cyclist addiction, from which women can only escape.”