OPEN AIR KINO - Michael

Runtime: 127 minutes
FSK: ages 12 and up

Young Michael Jackson (Juliano Krue Valdi), the eighth of ten children, is pushed hard into a music career from an early age by his strict father Joe (Colman Domingo). With the family band Jackson Five he scores his first hits, and by 13 he has already launched a solo career. Even in adulthood (Jaafar Jackson), music remains the driving force of his life. In the late 1970s, while working on a film set, he meets Diana Ross (Kat Graham) and producer Quincy Jones (Kendrick Sampson) - an encounter that fundamentally reshapes his musical direction. The Jones-produced album "Off the Wall" (1979) is a major success, only to be eclipsed in 1982 by the groundbreaking and best-selling "Thriller". Alongside this rise, his relationship with his father Joe breaks down: Jackson fires him as manager and replaces him with attorney John Branca (Miles Teller).