Director: Roland Suso Richter
Script: Uwe Timm
Photography: Martin Langer
Editor: Eva Schnare
Sound: Stephan Colli
Music: Ulrich Reuter
Production Design: Bettina Schmidt, Michael Pfalzer
Casting: Rita Serra-Roll
Principal Cast: Götz George, Benno Fürmann, Nicolette Krebitz, Angela Winkler, Hanns Zischler, Alexandra Maria Lara, Elisabeth Trissenaar, Harald Juhnke, Heinrich Schmieder
Producers: Günter Rohrbach, Peter Herrmann
Executive Producer: Andreas Bareiß
Production: MTM West Television & Film GmbH in co-production with WDR, NDR, SFB, PREMIERE, BR and Filmstiftung NRW.
Distribution Germany: MTM West
First Broadcast: 24./25.05.1998, Premiere; 30.12.1998/03.01.1999, ARD.
Selected Filmography Roland Suso Richter: Kolp, 1983; Nur Frauen, kein Leben, 1985; Alles Paletti, 1988; Frohes Fest, Lucie, 1991; Freunde fürs Leben, 1992; Samstag, wenn Krieg ist, 1993; Svens geheimnis, 1994; Im Namen der Nelke, 1994; Dagobert, 1994; Risiko: Null, 1995; Buddies, 1996; 14 Tage Lebenslänglich, 1997.
At the end of the 1940's the one-time blackmarketeer Gustav "Bubi" Scholz begins his meteoric rise to fame as European boxing champion and popular idol. Then, as fame gradually begins to fade, the descent into alcoholism and pill-popping begins. Scholz hits rock bottom in 1984 when he shoots his wife Helga during an argument. Roland Suso Richter, who was crowned with critical laurels for "Sven's Geheimnis" and "14 Tage Lebenslänglich", made the Scholz story in the tradition of the great boxing films. The biography of a contemporary figure of pop-cultural history is a tricky choice for an adaption, but the risk, in this case, has paid off. Uwe Timm wrote the script and digital technology enabled a smooth editing-in of archive material. The film profits especially, though, from its top notch ensemble. "Die Bubi Scholz Story" also marks the start of this year's Cologne Conference retrospective dedicated to Götz George.