Peas at half past six

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Movie
Original title Peas at half past six
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2004
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK from 6
Rod
Director Lars Büchel
script Lars Büchel, Ruth Toma
production Hanno Huth , Ralf Zimmermann
music Max Berghaus , Stefan Hansen , Dirk Reichardt
camera Judith Kaufmann
cut Peter R. Adam
occupation

Peas at half past six is a German feature film from 2004 . Hilmir Snær Guðnason and Fritzi Haberlandt can be seen in the main roles , directed by Lars Büchel .

action

Jacob loses in a car accident eyesight . So far he has been used to other people relying on him. Now, however, he has to rely on his remaining senses or on the fact that the peas are on the plate at "half past five". Lilly, a teacher at the rehabilitation center for the blind, takes on the task of giving Jakob lessons in practical life skills . Jakob vehemently rejects this, but she sticks to it.

In contrast to Jakob, Lilly doesn't know the difference between light and dark. She has been blind since she was born , but finds her way around life well despite her disability. The previously successful theater director cannot cope with this. His helplessness and increasing bitterness lead to internal and external chaos: Jacob hits every conceivable obstacle, speaks in the void and, when attempting suicide , falls into a strawberry cake instead of the deadly abyss.

He tries to run away headless and without a long stick by getting on any train. Lilly, who feels responsible for him, has to follow him. A tragic-comic odyssey to Russia begins. Jakob wants to say goodbye to his terminally ill mother. On this journey he learns to accept his fate through the confrontation with Lilly.

After his mother dies in his arms, he realizes how much he loves Lilly. But she too has to recognize that her life so far in her safe and overprotective family is not everything. She realizes that her previous friend Paul, who can see, no longer suits her. She fell in love with Jakob. After they went their separate ways for a short time on their trip, because Jakob did not want to mess up Lilly's life plans, they found each other through many helpful people and coincidences.

Reviews

“Director Lars Büchel and Solino author Ruth Toma tell an independent, but also obsessively ambitious story. Much is reminiscent of Miguel Alexandres Gran Paradiso , but even more of Caroline Links Beyond Silence , which, like peas, is largely made accessible via the sound track. Unfortunately, this model is being emulated too speculatively. "

- Cinema

"With the film peas at half past five, Lars Büchel presented another German embarrassment of sentimentality that tries to be funny in the wrong places and is unpleasantly noticeable in between with flat dialogues and unnecessary parallel actions."

- Frank Brenner : schnitt.de

“The entertaining and empathetic story of an" impossible "love [...], whereby the excellently staged and played film beats the strands of logic both confidently and carefree and for the" magic "of life and love beyond the all too obvious advertises. "

- Lexicon of International Films

“ Peas at half past five is a tragic comedy that deals in a sympathetic way with the subject of blindness in our society. In doing so, she does not always remain as serious as possible when it comes to this relatively taboo subject, but usually shows this world with a wink. "

- filmstarts.de

Soundtrack

Songs 1–19 were all written and recorded by Max Berghaus, Dirk Reichardt and Stefan Hansen. Title 20 comes from Wolfsheim .

  1. Intro (3:30)
  2. Learning to walk (1:48)
  3. Photo of the mother (0:47)
  4. The Jump (2:31)
  5. Departure (2:28)
  6. In the rapeseed field (2:56)
  7. In the rain (1:42)
  8. Farewell (1:43)
  9. What is fog (1:47)
  10. Learning to Love (3:47)
  11. Parting in the Rain (2:29)
  12. Franziska's Feast (2:16)
  13. You are cool man! (1:55)
  14. On Separate Paths (1) (1:23)
  15. On Separate Paths (2) (1:07)
  16. Death (4:05)
  17. Wedding in Russian (2:42)
  18. Final (4:14)
  19. Letim, letim (2:09)
  20. Blind (4:00)

Awards

In 2004 the film received the German Gold Film Prize in the category of outstanding individual artistic achievement - music for the soundtrack composed by Max Berghaus, Dirk Reichardt and Stefan Hansen. In the same year, the audio description spoken by Kathleen Gawlich was awarded the German Audio Film Prize.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peas at 6:30 in the Lexicon of International Films
  2. ↑ filmstarts.de
  3. ↑ Peas at half past five in the audio film database of Hörfilm e. V.
  4. ↑ Review on the audio film award website

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