1993 Black Rider - Archive 100
BLACK RIDER

Schwarzfahrer

(Fare Dodger)

An old German streetcar, a pensioner, some housewives, a couple of Arab youths, a few giggling girls and various other passengers. And an elderly, old world, German woman who is not at all nice as she insults the young
black African man who has the audacity to sit next to her.

The other passengers remain silent and look in the other direction, vacantly staring into space or smiling their approval of her racist remarks. The black rider also remains silent until a ticket-collector appears. The black
rider sees his chance, his opportunity for revenge: in a flash he reaches out, tears the old lady's ticket out of her hands and gobbles it up.

He himself presents a monthly pass, showing that he is an honest passenger. The German woman is caught without a ticket and the inspector can only shake his head in wonder at the woman's downright silly answer when asked to show her ticket: "This man here just gobbled it up!"

Pepe Danquart was born in 1955 and studied Communications from 1975-1981. He received an Academy Award in 1994 for his widely acclaimed short Black Rider (Schwarzfahrer, 1993). Together with Mirjam Quinte, he co-directed Passt bloss auf ... (1980) and Off Season (Nach Saison, 1996). His other films
include: Daedalus (1991), a segment of Das 7. Jahr - Ansichten zur Lage der Nation (1997), Playboys (1998), Heimspiel (2000) - which won him the German Film Award in Gold for Best Director in 2000, Moerderinnen (2001), and Semana Santa (2002), among others..