Mein Name ist Joe
Joe is an unemployed, recovering alcoholic with a criminal past. He coaches Scotland’s least successful football team and supplements his welfare check with odd jobs. One of these is hanging wallpaper in Sarah’s apartment. She is a community health worker, and the case nurse for the drug addict wife of Joe’s friend, football-mad Liam, and their child. Joe and Sarah become an unlikely couple. But their relationship almost breaks down when Liam’s family is threatened by a drug dealer and Joe agrees to protect them by taking on a job transporting drugs …
"My Name is Joe" was Ken Loach’s first foray outside the classic working-class world. In this sub-proletarian milieu, the director discovers that the ‘old’ virtues of love, sacrifice, and solidarity as means to combat the miseries of life in poverty. Screenwriter Paul Laverty spent months doing research in Ruchill, then one of Glasgow’s toughest neighborhoods. The result was a script peopled by naturalistic figures and, under Loach’s cogent direction, the actors turned them into honest, human characters – first and foremost Peter Mullan in the title role, for which he won the Best Actor award at Cannes.
Source: 64. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)
Credits
Director
Screenplay
Director of photography
Editing
Music
Cast
- Doktor Boyle
- Sepp Maier
- Alf
- Shuggy
- Jake
- Scooter
- Schiedsrichter
- Untersuchungsbeamter des DSS
- Inspektor des DDS
- Tattie
Production company
Producer
Alle Credits
Director
Assistant director
Script supervisor
Screenplay
Script editor
Director of photography
Assistant camera
Clapper loader
2nd Camera unit
Still photography
Lighting design
Production design
Set design
Set construction
Prop master
Title
Make-up artist
Costume design
Costumes
Editing
Assistant editor
Sound editor
Sound
Sound assistant
Music recording
Audio mixing
Stunt co-ordinator
Music
Cast
- Doktor Boyle
- Sepp Maier
- Alf
- Shuggy
- Jake
- Scooter
- Schiedsrichter
- Untersuchungsbeamter des DSS
- Inspektor des DDS
- Tattie
- Zweite Sprechstundenhilfe
- Mojo
- Ehemann
- Ehefrau
- Briefträger
- Frau im Kiosk
- Rhona
- Hooligan
- Joe Kavanagh
- Sarah Downie
- Liam
- Sabine
- Shanks
- Maggie
- Davy
- Scott
- Doc
- Scrag
- Perfume
- Zulu
- LKW-Fahrer
- Robbo
- McGowan
Production company
in association with
Producer
Executive producer
Unit production manager
Location manager
Production coordinator
Shoot
- Glasgow
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 01.12.1998, 81139, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Uraufführung (FR): Mai 1998, Cannes, IFF;
Erstaufführung (DE): 03.07.1998, München, Filmfest;
Kinostart (DE): 07.01.1999;
TV-Erstsendung (DE FR): 16.04.2001, Arte
Titles
- Weiterer Titel (GB) My Name Is Joe
- Originaltitel (DE) Mein Name ist Joe
Versions
Original
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 01.12.1998, 81139, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Uraufführung (FR): Mai 1998, Cannes, IFF;
Erstaufführung (DE): 03.07.1998, München, Filmfest;
Kinostart (DE): 07.01.1999;
TV-Erstsendung (DE FR): 16.04.2001, Arte