Oscar-awarded short film against racism | "Schwarzfahrer" - by Pepe Danquart

A young black man is verbally harassed by an older woman on a tramway, while the other passengers remain silent. He finally exacts his revenge…
This short film received an Oscar in the short film category in 1994.
Schwarzfahrer won the following Awards:
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, 1994
Academy Award for Live Action Short Film, 1993
Melbourne International Film Festival - best live action short film, 1993
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Director - Pepe Danquart
Producer - Albert Kitzler
Cast - Senta Moira, Paul Outlaw, Stefan Merki
Music - Michel Seigner
Year - 1993
© Licensed by MAGNETFILM
#KISKIS #blacklivesmatter #shortfilm

[@saun_7]

The ending was PERFECT!!! The only person who had a heart for him was the child. Its really sad because times are not that different now for people of color. Recently a man from Pakistan started chatting with me in a coffee shop. We just spoke about the terrible shape the world is in. Somewhere along the conversation shifted to racism. He shared when he came to America mostly white people would tell them not to trust Black people. He said for sometime he would look at Black people as if they were nothing. Until one day there was a fire in his home, while he and his family were asleep. A neighbor (Black man) was leaving for work at 4:30am and saw the smoke. That morning that Black man saved he and his entire family. Their home was so damaged they couldn't stay there and had no other family family and very little money. The Black man and his family came over bringing them blankets to put around them as they watched their home burn. The Black man and his wife stayed with them till the end and overheard them telling the police they had nowhere to go, just then the Black man & his wife offered their basement apartment, 3 bedrooms, kitchen and bathroom - rent free. He said that was the day he earned another brother and the day he closed his ears to what people of different complexions and statuses say about others. What a world we live in... God Bless

[@bluemountainw1789]

He should hear what white people say about Pakistanis!

[@tracybarbour6531]

Thank you for that lovely account. These make me believe in the human race as a whole.

[@tracybarbour6531]

Good bless that man and family that helped..

[@df289]

Fairytale

[@christineschmidt5052]

Schöner Film,lehrreich, aber Die Dame ohne Fahrschein,man mußte ja trotzdem lachen,aber der junge Mann hat sie richtig geleert das man sich so nicht benimmt

[@macrohard5845]

"They eat our tickets now"! I died with laughter

[@prometheus4993]

Hahaaaa ))

[@dzeniferdzeny4025]

🤣🤣🤣🤣💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

[@arletesanto6234]

@Travis Einstein shut up

[@Rdstarrr]

Get off the app

[@JanKowalski-ty2zu]

These days, Euope is fed up with blacks.

[@ramyanakkeeran7499]

"Everybody saw what happened. I can't understand it. Everybody saw it." Oh haha, yes everybody saw what happened. That's the problem, lady. Brilliant brilliant show of human behavior: oh that's somebody else. Loved how that guy just ate her ticket and went on to keep an innocent face. Very fitting. That little boy agreed. Wow this made me laugh a good laugh. Awesome movie👌🏼

[@questy4tw]

yee this movie was basically bad. But okay its left so it has to get an Oscar. Lets destroy all cultures and nations and make a left multicultural world where everyone is *EQUAL*.

[@bilqueeshameed2266]

You spoil it. 😒😒😒

[@arletesanto6234]

@@bilqueeshameed2266 how

[@Rdstarrr]

@@questy4tw it’s just that black people are the most important right now

[@AbuSous2000PR]

honestly .. she is the start... think about it. it is very hard to play her part

[@monsterkind9831]

"man weiß ja bald nicht mehr in welchem land man lebt" uff. die gleichen sprüche gestern, heute und morgen.

[@ZahnAaaa87]

Hat ja recht behalten.komm mal nach Frankfurt oder offenbach

[@MrWong-nr3dp]

@@ZahnAaaa87 ja, das stimmt, da gibt es wirklich viele dieser Nazifrauen!

[@KoenigElessar]

​​@@MrWong-nr3dpKomm nach München. Tun auf liberal, aber nur für sich. Sobald sie einen vermeintlichen Ausländer sehen kommt ihr Rassenhass wieder hoch als wärs 33.

[@thomasw358]

@@MrWong-nr3dp Mega Antwort...🤣🤣🤣

[@tangobango9653]

Brilliant little film with a solid hit at the heart of racism...and it was humorous too. You don’t see that very often. 🥴

[@InfamousDc16]

When he ate the ticket i laughed bc he actually swallowed it🤣

[@Herautos]

Wieso hat es bitte 30 Jahre gedauert bis ich dieses Meisterwerk entdeckt habe?

[@anywaythewindblows8912]

That boy sitting across from him was so cute when his smiles at him for annoying the lady and eating her ticket

[@prometheus4993]

exactly, I thought the same in this scene .. hahaaa

[@paultadgerson6017]

I know right he was so cute!

[@janpenner2002]

There's a german saying that goes "Wer einmal lügt, dem glaubt man nicht" or in english "Nobody believes someone who once lied"

[@aliancemd]

The worst part for me, it was boiling my blood and yet I doubt I would say anything to her as a bystander, because I am not confrontational with people, especially with strangers.

[@DominikJuzeHaus]

Karma, lady, karma. You swearing, he eating. That's how all racist should end up.

[@nickkil3581]

Great film, at least she was the lucky card for the guy with the helmet!!! And that little boy was amazingly cooperative! Nice!

[@jeanneratterman]

The guy with helmet in a suit reminds me of a young Peter Sellers. At least a little. Love the B&W film about…black and white!

[@verycaring2387]

Deserved the award and GOT IT! I love this short film. Thank you!😉

[@AntNet1984]

Love it!!! Sometimes, you don't have to fuss and argue and be confrontational. Be strategic and think before you act.

[@pranavlahoty]

Ya mna. Just eat their tickets. Problem solved.

[@marialette1]

Somehow I don't think you really got what this film was about.

[@chuckislands1979]

@@marialette1exactly 😂

[@oichiazai1]

I am sorry that the sweet kid had to see the ugliness of the older woman and I am sad the black man had to go through it too but I loved the film it seems timeless it was filmed in the 90s but it still is important in 2021 and just as good

[@melissad.1885]

I almost fell off my chair lol

[@Mouseclickchick]

That was so awesome, I burst out laughing when the man grabbed her ticket and ate it! Thank you!

[@josephdesaulnier]

LMFAO THE TURK GUY İNSULTED HER SO BADLY 😭😭😭

[@mine2394]

What did the Turk say??

[@asmrfriendships8761]

Wunderbar gespielt! Tolle Schauspieler. Und ich liebe diesen Kurzfilm schon seit meiner Kindheit.

[@kudraabdulaziz3096]

Wow! I never saw that ending coming.

[@Groovyskull-un8bn]

Remember seeing this in german class in High School. Love it! And even more relevant today than when it came out

[@tikojiadze7196]

Race discrimination is terrible..

[@paultadgerson6017]

Yeah race discrimination is indeed terrible!

[@KoenigElessar]

Agreed

[@timothyimogore1738]

I think the description "Schwarzfahrer" used by the German transport cooperations to mean "a passenger traveling without a valid ticket" needs to be changed... As it may be strangely translated as "black passenger", thereby stereotyping a particular race. If we want to make a change we can start from there.

[@martywilliam9399]

Actually "Schwarzfahrer" is not the word that is officially used by the authorities. It's just a word that everyone knows and understands. There is also the word "Schwarzarbeiter" (black worker), meaning someone who does jobs without paying taxes, etc. Then there is "Schwarzmaler" (blackpainter) - a pessimist. No idea where that comes from.

[@perpetualbystander4516]

@@martywilliam9399 Well, a blackpainter is someone always painting it all black, so not that hard to understand, 'cause that's what pessimists constantly do.

[@SK-pq4pg]

you're interpreting it one from your perspective with your cultural identity, and two not from the artistic and literary viewpoint it has which brings a great philosophical message by it's presence and also a tickle from the double entendre it plays out to be with the three significant characters. As the title, means both "black traveler" and "traveler without fare/ticket". Hopefully this will help you understand after I explain. Schwarzfahrer means both "fare dodger" and "black traveler." So the black character was a Schwarzfahrer in the sense that he was a black traveler, the woman in that she became a fare dodger in the end by consequence, and the motorcyclist was a true fare dodger.

[@lethargic_cow]

Hahaha, I would've given him a standing ovation - brilliant!! 😂👌🏼

[@coleweston6740]

Wow great find everyone. Very moving movie 🔥🔥

[@bearhorse2424]

man pulled the play of his life

[@Sakura-zu4rz]

Human nature is dark… we do terrible things sometimes… The relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed, the master and the slave, is not confined to any one country… That is civilization, we make progress and fall back…

[@paultadgerson6017]

It's true human nature may be dark we sure do terrible things sometimes we can't go back and fix things...but we can fix our mistakes!

[@realityassured]

First time seeing this and I was shocked dude actually ate her ticket..Greatest stab at racism I've seen yet! Racist woman was in total shock he ate her ticket.. Hilarious 😆😆

[@christianek.963]

The cinematography thou!

[@kjrey9878]

Yes! This! Period!

[@sonofmoss]

The cinematography is gorgeous

[@arnoldbarnes9491]

Now that’s one way to stick up for yourself

[@eflihsnebel3233]

Kenne den Film schon seit vielen Jahren. Phänomenal!

[@eduard_felsen]

Schlimm, wenn sich jemand in einem öffentlichen Bus nicht benehmen kann. Ich muss jetzt an einen Busfahrer in Bayonne denken...

[@ytstead6078]

How fast he tooked the ticket n ate it

[@holllsxxmae4981]

@@jaewons5296 this isnt an english class

[@holllsxxmae4981]

@@jaewons5296 sorry but it's just annoying

[@user-vc6nx2dt1f]

Я плохо понимаю английский язык, а немецкий ещё хуже! Но рада, что досмотрела до конца! Класс! И так всё понятно! Парень молодец! Браво авторы!

[@user-em3ql4le4m]

Есть в русском переводе.

[@toocrass6859]

Ja digga true

[@synne6843]

Truly amazing.

[@arletesanto6234]

Yeah

[@lpschaf8943]

I think later 90s commentary on racism hits the spot the best. No taboo, no virtue signaling. Great!

[@tracybarbour6531]

This hurt my heart, to see him suck it up that way.. but of course, the ending was excellent!

[@prometheus4993]

Please share this short film to others )

[@o.m9514]

I'm dead! I'm actually dying....

[@yellowkid9687]

Kadına cevabı Türk çocuk en güzel şekilde verdi

[@Dog-bb8hr]

Türkiye'de ise yaşlı kadın gibi konuşanlar Türklerdir. Keşke Türklerin Kürtler hakkında nasıl konuştuğunu bilseydiniz. Bu kadın zararsızdır

[@yellowkid9687]

@@Dog-bb8hrtamam ben Türklerin yaptığı ırkçılığı/ayrımcılığı onaylamadım ki, her türlüsü iğrenç.

[@DieAnstalt-Ens]

1:16 mit ner Simson wäre ihn das nicht passiert 😂🤹😎

[@Mrsanji4321]

In Ehemalige DDR besonders schlimm

[@corinnameyer3623]

Warum?

[@Tenortalker]

Great , quick thinking there!

[@darshanreacts]

Devd brought me here... 🙃

[@mithunaa3273]

Very good movie Last scene very funny

[@raynepolkowski8353]

From a cinematic standpoint, can anyone explain the purpose of the motorcyclist? He has a purpose and a symbolic meaning, I just don't know what

[@2009caci]

He is the one without a ticket. His motorbike did not work and he jumped on, no ticket. He says "of course, bad day" when the ticket controller gets in the bus.

[@raynepolkowski8353]

@@2009caci You're right. I did some reading on it later and it said how all three characters were Schwarzfahrer now. Schwarzfahrer means both "fare dodger" and "black traveler." So the black character was a Schwarzfahrer in the sense that he was a black traveler, the woman in that she became a fare dodger in the end by consequence, and the motorcyclist was a true fare dodger.

[@deepakbellur9676]

The motorcyclist has done an unlawful act without the actual intent. So there is a reprieve by fate. The woman apparently has not done anything legally unlawful but was morally tarnished and gets punished by fate.

[@trudynadler755]

it means if you buy a Triumph motorbike, Type Bonni.... then make sure to have a busticket anyway... if you are not strong enough to kick for some hours 😁

[@bluetortilla]

Sadly, European xenophobia and racism is very similar to the American type. Guess it's universal. D:

[@Boosted_aj]

there is no "type" of racism. racism is racism brother no matter if its from my black ass or from a german lady.

[@kugelscheier5035]

Spend one day in any major western european city and you will understand why it's so prevalent.

[@conchitanelson4305]

I love it!!! Ending was genuis

[@i-k1llsh0t-i23]

7:08 🤣

[@galaxyzero]

Where’d you get such a high quality version?

[@tru2746]

😂😂😂😂 That was unexpected

[@Erith_Frostborne]

I love happy ending🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@sevketbozkurt5684]

That s happened in Vienna. In the Year 1960. Vienna is a beautiful City with different humor of jokes.

[@xperiaX10Android]

U6

[@mr.c5969]

Wow. Didn't know that it was based on a true story

[@sharpiefatah3657]

You can see the Video camera from 8:30

[@c.g.9914]

😂 held des jahres der typ

[@carstenkoloc5226]

Ein außergewöhnlicher Kurz-Film. 🎥🎞️🎬✌️🤓😎🚀🚀🥁🥁

[@psychedelicpython]

Very funny @ the end!

[@mariapawlowicz5921]

Ach , immer noch so aktuell, wer hätte das gedacht.

[@street_culture1]

Amazing bravo :) very nice cast and ideas.

[@infiresnation7430]

10:36 Polar Express vibes

[@qd00m]

We did an analysis for this short film back in SFSU.

[@Alex-yf4yq]

Versteht jemand was der Junge bei 7:07 sagt?

[@prometheus4993]

frag mal einen Türken, dem du die Szene vorspielst... ok

[@trudynadler755]

did not like it much....these sentences of the woman took to much time and are unbearable... and hopefully nowadays somebody would stop her...

[@philippkrieger2148]

Total cool he ate it 😂 So cool 🤣🤣🤣

[@yung_poizen5096]

Das waren noch Zeiten, ohne Masken im öffentlichen Straßenverkehr

[@vcerna]

This is supposed to be a film with a positive message? y eating a ticket?

[@angelmercado6667]

Excellent shorts film.

[@paultadgerson6017]

I still have faith in human nature!

[@kayerk]

Why? Nobody said anything!

[@machwegdektatorvonunsereml7186]

Er hat eine Lösung gefunden 🤣

[@ZZMJo]

Die Lösung nenne ich KARMA.🤣🤣🤣

[@user-hl7nt1og7k]

At her advanced age, surely she should have a bus pass?

[@meditationserenitynzen7621]

I am sorry, but I can not agree with the film. While racial discrimination is true, it does not give any one the right to break the law. The old lady was bad mouthing, there are ways to go against that kind of behavior, but destroying or stealing her ticket is certainly not a correct act. By agreeing with this film, does it mean that we Chinese more often on the receiving end of racial discrimination is allowed to perform criminal act against the one that dishing out such discrimination? you bad mouthing me, so I steal your wallet? If this film got Oscar, it can only mean that people are not treating racism the right way.

[@daddyelon4577]

that guy with spectacles look like schrodinger

[@biglordtr1]

7:06 Aradığınız mistik konuşma burası

[@cherchezlesoir7166]

40 Pfennig...ach was für Zeiten..und Rassismus is nicht zeitgebunden

[@sharpiefatah3657]

Nice clarity

[@lashaisrael2151]

Great short!!!!

[@kiki50707]

The future is so powerful

[@nomanm.5884]

10:56 lmao that guy

[@eyupcetin4970]

7:08 müqemmelsin

[@kalterkinderklaubonn3856]

Only 2% gave thumb up.

[@aspiknf]

Hello. I know this is an odd place to put this comment, but hear me out. I just wanted to ask you people for help because I know that the people who comment under this video are nice people because you are against racism. And also I chose this beautiful video because I know that there are anti-racists on my side in this comment section who can help me out with this situation. I complimented the looks of this white woman (who was a policewoman...but that's irrelevant, because I would have found her attractive regardless of her job)...and yes I went a bit too far in the way I complimented her, but still I was just being nice. So this policewoman was in the video and I was saying that I thought she looked attractive. I don't think it's a big deal, I do it often to women who I think look attractive...lots of people make compliments about people's looks in public life and on videos...it's no big deal. Anyway, there is another KZbin commenter called 'anti-ethniccleansing' or something like that (you can tell that this person obviously has a racist agenda...this person is against interracial dating/marriage and interracial sex and he/she wants white people to stick to marrying white people because he/she thinks it is bad if non-white people have sexual relations with white people) went right inside one of my KZbin videos that I made (a video about Fire-Type Pokemon) and he/she was complaining about me complimenting the looks of this white female police officer and he/she was implying that white people should stick to having sexual relations with only white people and stuff...he/she is giving off clear racist vibes. Look, I know that I went a bit too far in the way I complimented the white police officer...I said that she is a beautiful blonde, has nice blue eyes, nice shape in her face blablabla but lots of people compliment the looks of other people all the time...yes, I did go over the top in complimenting her looks, but I clearly did not do anything wrong. Also, I obviously would never be able to marry this white female police officer because she lives in a different country and it is likely that we will never meet...I am realistic of course. So anyway, to all of you anti-racists out there, please reply to the comments made by this racist KZbin user called 'anti-ethniccleansing' or something...reply in my Fire-Type Pokemon video that I created and call him/her out on his/her racism and stand up for me. Anyway, thank you. Also, I find women of all ethnicities attractive e.g. East Asian women, white women, black women, South East Asian women...I just compliment on looks. Have a good Wednesday, take care everybody 🙂.

[@prometheus4993]

und datt war vor 28 Jahren... als deutscher fühle ich mich noch immer nicht fremd, ok es gibt seitdem mehr nicht-deutsche - aber fremd? nö, kann ich nicht sagen... und hier im Ruhrgebiet leben sehr ehrliche menschen und die sind nicht alle deutscher herkunft... so is datt eben und die meisten verstehen sich auch.. wie wahrscheinlich überall )

[@kjrey9878]

I love the sentiment of what you said. I only disagree with the concept of "get along". Sadly, we Black people have to "get along" in order to survive. Doesn't mean we don't find some Amazing white friends along our life's journey. But by and large, it's out of obligation that we are friendly, and not because we are in a good mood or are just "naturally" that way. We have to live just like everyone else.

[@frugalpompano8548]

I don't really understand the logic. 'Don't be a racist or a black man will eat your ticket'? Instant karma? Probably. But it is certainly not the way to fight racism. You actually achieve the opposite with that.

[@patrickrush5196]

Well done

[@auroragt-ff4mr]

KIS KIS- keep it short

[@skyisthelimpet]

7:08 😂

[@josefpichler7271]

Brilliant!

[@boandlkramer2539]

Schwarzfahren ist Ehrensache ✌️😎

[@Moyet]

Vor 20 Jahren hätte ich dem Vid noch ein LIKE gegeben; Heute leider nicht mehr!

[@user-kw7qg9gj1c]

진짜 멋진 단편 영화!😂 연출 끝내준다 정말. 표 먹는 장면ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

[@andrekasel2051]

Was ein genialer move 😄

[@Davez621]

What year is this?? It looks like the 60s but then a guy gets on wearing 80s style headphones? I'm confused.

[@daijoubu_desu]

1993

[@Davez621]

@@daijoubu_desu There are 1960s/70s cars in the background.

[@nomanm.5884]

@@Davez621 it's 90s. I'm guessing the director made the film black and white on purpose

[@Davez621]

@@nomanm.5884 I'm guessing it must be East Germany then, because by 1993 it had only been part of Germany for 4 years, so most of the cars would still be old Soviet-era crap boxes. If this was West Germany in 1993 you'd see heaps of late model Mercedes and BMWs, which you don't see here.

[@nomanm.5884]

@@Davez621 I thought it was reunified east germany too. The old lady mentioned their unemployment problems, which would likely relate to high unemployment after the reuinification for ppl who lived in the east.

[@officialobyonyioha4472]

This is so-oo funny!

[@murad1202]

He really eat it tho...

[@frugalpompano8548]

But still an interesting and funny film.

[@seiniaboulaye4130]

Nice Filme

[@charliekavanagh1217]

Who is the. fellow on the motorbike

[@Rosemary66666]

I speak German

[@krishnansri7625]

Different type of movie.

[@wolfgangstenzhorn4904]

👍 👍 👍 👍 SUUUPER 👏👏👏👏 👏 👏 👏