It happens again: A film that has cleared several prizes in the past award season does not come to the cinema in Germany, but is secretly, quietly and quietly sunk in streaming. Last year we experienced this with American fiction. This year it will be the masterful novel adaptation of the Nickel Boys.
The Nickel Boys is based on Colson Whitehead’s novel of the same name and celebrated its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival last year in August. The story revolves around the friendship of two black teenagers who experience cruel things in an improvement institution in Florida. Now the film is coming to Germany.
New at Amazon Prime: The celebrated novel adaptation The Nickel Boys by Ramell Ross
In the United States, the Nickel Boys had a limited theatrical release in December after its festival premiere. In Germany, production from Amazon MGM Studios starts directly on the stream. From the February 26, 2025 is the engaging implementation of Whitehead’s novel at Amazon Prime in streaming subscription.
Here you can watch the trailer for the Nickel Boys:
Nickel Boys – Trailer (English) HD
The action of the Nickel Boys begins in the 1960s, where we get to know the young Elwood (Ethan Herisse), who lives in Tallahassee with his aunt and is an exemplary student. One day when he drives along in a stolen car, the police suspect him to have been involved in theft.
Before Elwood is concerned, his future prospects will come out of air and he is put into an improvement institution called Nickel Academy, where young people are forced to work hard. Elwood’s only ray of hope is the friendship with the gymnast of the same age (Brandon Wilson), which he gets to know between all the horror.
The Nickel Boys is an incomparable film experience that captivates until the last second
Whitehead’s novel already caused a sensation in the course of its publication and was later awarded the Pulitzer Prize. The cinematic implementation is in no way according to the strong literary template. Director Ramell Ross, who comes from the documentary area and presented his first full -length feature film with the Nickel Boys, has created an absolutely amazing and shocking work.
It is best if your film as impartial as possible Look, because the way Ross stages the Nickel Boys is an incomparable experience that plays with all the possibilities of cinema. A still epic unfolds over 140 minutes, which lives extremely from its various and unexpected narrative perspectives, which are gradually emerging. This film takes you completely.
To formulate it more specifically: Ross not only works with different time levels, clever cuts and intense colors. We experience the entire film from one direct self-perspectivethat lets us experience the film directly through the eyes of the characters. The camera takes every look and every movement, while around us there is a complex environment of voices and noises.
Since The Zone of Interest, there has been no film that thinks so much about the cinematic form and explores the limits. The Nickel Boys put your perception to the test and let you classify the one seen from a minute. For Ross, playing with the perspective is not a cheap effect, but an essential tool for telling this devastating history.
The Nickel Boys streams at Amazon Prime from February 25, 2025.