Time of the cannibals

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Movie
Original title Time of the cannibals
Time of the cannibals.jpg
Country of production Germany
original language German , English
Publishing year 2014
length 93 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Johannes Naber
script Stefan Weigl
production Milena Maitz ,
Andrea Hanke ( WDR ),
Georg Steinert ( arte ),
Cornelius Conrad ( BR )
music Cornelius Schwehr
camera Pascal Schmit
cut Ben von Grafenstein
occupation

Time of the cannibals is the second feature film by Johannes Naber . The highly stylized , chamber play-like capitalism satire is set in the milieu of globally active economic consultants . Above all, critics praised the strong dialogues and the consistently reduced staging.

The film received the award for the best screenplay and a "Lola" in bronze at the German Film Prize 2015 . It premiered on February 10, 2014 in the section “Perspektive Deutsches Kino” at the 64th Berlinale . It was released in German cinemas on May 22, 2014, and in Austria on May 23, 2014.

action

The two experienced management consultants Öllers and Dutch are on the go all over the world to maximize the profits of their customers in emerging and developing countries on behalf of the “Company” . They don't want to and don't have to see the consequences of their transactions, because they always conduct their business in the same rooms of an international hotel chain; The change of location can only be recognized by the fact that the hotel staff is sometimes made up of Chinese, sometimes Pakistani or Nigerians.

In exchange for their previous team mate Hellinger, who was promoted to partner , they were surprisingly assigned the ambitious newcomer Bianca März. While Dutchman lets his sadistic streak run free by humiliating hotel employees, Öllers constantly argues with his wife on the phone and repeatedly allows himself to have irascible outbursts. March confidently counters the sarcastic bugger sayings of her colleagues and, in contrast to them, also seems to be interested in the outside world.

March is supposed to evaluate the two for the “Company” and learns that Öller's female hotel employees are paying for sex. When she confronts the two of them, the Öllers and Dutch respondents with cynical comments. So the measure is full for March and she announces that she is leaving the team.

But now, despite the best protection, they are increasingly confronted with reality. They have to find out that Hellinger killed himself and that their "company" is being sold. They are offered a partnership by the new owners. The two men accept, but the very next day they find out that their company is bankrupt and that they are now liable as partners. Your credit cards are blocked and you are now wanted by the US authorities for bankruptcy fraud . Only March did not sign and tried to secretly break away. Dutch intercepts her and wants her to pay for the return flights for all three.

But then the civil war-like unrest reaches your hotel, which until then could only be heard muffled by a shadowy outside world. You can no longer get out of the building in which you can now hear screams and shots. The three are hiding in the hotel room. The film ends when the door to the room is broken into.

reception

The film was released in German cinemas on May 22, 2014, and the next day it was shown in Austria. In 2014 it reached a total of 49,426 viewers in both countries.

While the film has so far largely gone unnoticed internationally, the reactions of the German-language critics were in part enthusiastic. This was also reflected in the 2014 German Critics' Award. Many critics agree that the time of the cannibals is "one of the most exciting new German films" in a long time. Michael Meyns from Programmkino.de is wondering why the film was shown at the Berlinale but not in the competition.

In particular, the “razor-sharp dialogues”, which in their “stylistic brilliance” are rare in German films, were very well received. While Andreas Busche from the taz thinks that screenwriter Weigl reduces the satire "to short catchphrases" and does not thereby reveal "the system", other critics point out that the "perfidious punch lines in dialogue" are a successful means of looking at " to open up hidden connections and conditions ”in the actors of the global capitalist present.

The strongly stylized set design, which consistently dispenses with “concrete location” and thus “in highly cinematic form”, demonstrates both the interchangeability of specific locations and the ignorance of the actors for the specific microeconomic and cultural contexts met with great approval.

Thanks to the script and the strong performance of the actors, the characters are drawn "with the utmost precision", the characters are "not just blasts", but "developed in many dimensions with just a few brushstrokes" and "played precisely".

The network for film and media competence Vision Kino recommends films from the end of middle school onwards for lessons in social and business subjects .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Approval for Time of the Cannibals . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2014 (PDF; test number: 144 289 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for the time of the cannibals . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Time of the cannibals. In: boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved August 9, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Time of the cannibals. In: Lumiere. lumiere.obs.coe.int, accessed August 9, 2016 .
  5. ↑ a b Anke Westphal: "Time of the cannibals": The sound of jihad . In: fr-online.de . Frankfurt May 21, 2014 ( fr-online.de ).
  6. ↑ a b programmkino.de : Review by Michael Meyns , accessed on May 25, 2015.
  7. ^ A b Hanns-Georg Rodek: Green business consultants destroy their environment . In: The world . May 22, 2014 ( welt.de ).
  8. ↑ a b Oliver Kaever: "Time of the cannibals": Chamber play of the capitalists. In: Zeit Online. May 22, 2016. Retrieved August 9, 2016 .
  9. ↑ Andreas Bursche: Time of the cannibals. (No longer available online.) Taz.de, May 22, 2014, archived from the original on May 27, 2015 ; accessed on March 26, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Film: That can only end in collapse. In: diepresse.com. May 21, 2014, accessed August 9, 2016 .
  11. ↑ Till Kadritzke: Time of the cannibals | Criticism. In: critic.de. April 21, 2014, accessed August 9, 2016 .
  12. ^ Ullrich Kriest: single view. In: filmdienst.de. November 2014, accessed August 9, 2016 .
  13. ↑ Kirsten Dießelmann: Capitalism grotesque "Time of the cannibals": Fall of the alpha males. In: Spiegel Online. SPIEGEL ONLINE, May 26, 2014, accessed on August 9, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Recommendation. In: visionkino.de. Archived from the original on May 15, 2014 ; accessed on August 9, 2016 .
  15. ^ 2014 award winners , Association of German Film Critics , accessed on May 13, 2015
  16. ^ Günter Rohrbach Film Prize 2014 , accessed on May 13, 2015
  17. ^ Institute for New Music, Freiburg: Prof. Cornelius Schwehr receives award for best film music for "Time of the Cannibals" , accessed on May 19, 2015
  18. ^ Prix ​​Europa: Winner 2014 ( Memento from December 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 5, 2018
  19. ^ The winners ( Memento from June 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), German Film Prize , accessed on December 5, 2018
  20. ↑ Nominations 2014 , Baden-Baden TV Film Festival , accessed on May 13, 2015
  21. ↑ Age of Cannibals on berlinale.de, accessed on May 18, 2015
  22. ↑ IMDb , accessed on May 13, 2015