Michael Grimm interviewed by Peter Krobath
Peter Krobath: Could one call Kiss Me, Princess a crime caper?
Michael Grimm: I wouldn't. For me it's a romantic film with a gangster story in the background.
Even if the male lead, the ex-boxer Horst, who's kind of slipped into a criminal demi-monde, keeps emphasizing that he's not a gangster?
Michael Grimm: Horst is an ex-boxer who deliberately went down in his last fight. When the betting scam came to light he even had to go to jail for a short time. Horst was naive, he listened to the wrong people and it didn't occur to him that his actions could have consequences for him as well – serious consquences, all of which he was then promptly confronted with. Horst has a criminal record, but that doesn't mean he's a hard-boiled criminal.
Why does Horst have to be a boxer? Does it have anything to do with that fact that the genre figure of the failed boxer is one of the icons of cinematic history?
Michael Grimm: Horst was a celebrity in the boxing ring. Not only in sporting circles; he even achieved a certain degree of celebrity in the media.
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