Via Barbarossaplatz

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Movie
Original title Via Barbarossaplatz
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2016
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Jan Bonny
script Hannah Hollinger (template)
music Antonio d. Luca,
Caroline Kox,
Lucas Croon
camera Hubert Schick
cut Olaf Strecker
occupation

About Barbarossaplatz is a pilot for a planned television series. The television film, produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) and directed by Jan Bonny , premiered on June 26, 2016 at the Munich Film Festival and was broadcast on ARD on March 28, 2017 .

action

The life of the psychologist Greta Chameni is out of balance after the suicide of her husband and practice partner Rainer. Precisely because Greta works as a psychologist herself, she now reproaches herself for noticing the signs of her husband's wish to die and feels guilty. Since Greta had a group practice with her husband, she is now also taking over his patients. Above all, the young and dissolved Stefanie Wagner begs Greta to continue her therapy. But the longer the psychologist treats Stefanie, the more she suspects and unsettles the great closeness that existed between Stefanie and her husband Rainer. In her need, Greta turns to her former psychology teacher Benjamin Mahler, who was also Rainer's supervisor , for help .

background

About Barbarossaplatz , the pilot film for a television series, was shot in Cologne from February 24, 2015 to March 27, 2015 and is based on motifs from a book by the screenwriter Hannah Hollinger .

reception

Broadcast date at 10:45 p.m.

Originally it was supposed to be broadcast on Barbarossaplatz on Wednesday at 8.15 p.m. on ARD , but was then moved to the later evening program due to a decision by the ARD TV film coordination and finally broadcast on March 28, 2017 at 10.45 p.m. This decision was the subject of some media such as Chip Online , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Tagesspiegel or tittelbach.tv when discussing the film. The Zeit-Online- Editor Carolin Ströbele says: "It is probably more the cinematic language that one does not want to expose the event television viewer to". And Sascha Keilholz from critic.de comments sharply about the postponement of the broadcast date: "Because that hits the mark, because eroticism and drama really prevail here, the ARD protects us and our loved ones from so much directness by broadcasting Via Barbarossaplatz on 23 - Hidden clock rail. Particularly regrettable at a time when pornography and Fifty Shades of Gray are arguing about the sovereignty of sexuality. "

criticism

Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv writes: “Bibiane Beglau and Joachim Król do not embody any of those wellness therapists for the middle-class middle class. “Via Barbarossaplatz” goes where it hurts. Again and again the (camera) view goes outside, the excerpt, seemingly documentary narration with original sound, erratic montage and unleashed hand-held camera reflects the pulsating rhythm of big city life. This realism, which is not looking for individual “solutions” but rather reflects an emotionally insecure society, was too radical for the decision-makers for 8:15 pm. Or just not enough ?! "

The critic Christian Buß at spiegel.de says: “In“ About Barbarossaplatz ”, the psychos and psychotherapists are now going through rugged Cologne. Free jazz and gabber techno set the nervous pulse of the film, the soundtrack comes from Cologne (and Düsseldorf) artists around the bands Colorist and Stabil Elite. In the midst of drifting and roaring through the traffic chaos of Cologne, the writer Rolf Dieter Brinkmann is quoted, who - of all things - died in a traffic accident in London; or there is talk at the bar about Rainer Werner Fassbinder's TV series “Eight hours are not a day”, which is also set in Cologne. A little orientation for all the homeless in this somewhat different Heimat film. "

Sascha Keilholz from critic.de says the following: “Something is happening here that has become genuinely alien or alien to German television: Real people negotiate real problems in real places. Bonny establishes a concept of cinematic authenticity that finds a correspondence on all formal levels - such as sound, camera and dialogue - including in play. Even his police call 110: Death makes angels out of us (2013) had caused irritation among the television audience because of his sound mix. Even now there is an almost Altmanian background noise - street noise penetrates through windows, overshadowing dialogues; people don't always understand each other. The city is loud, it is audible - and tangible. "

Claudia Tieschky from the Süddeutsche Zeitung also praised the film in a similar way . In addition to the unconventional and refreshing style, she highlights the city as the location and actor of the film and the acting achievements: “Above all, the city penetrates through all the cracks, even when discussing the distress of the soul; Soundproofing is a comfort zone that doesn't exist here. […] Bibiana Beglau plays Greta incredibly intensely in this WDR film without soul sound insulation ”.

Axel Weidemann also underlines the intensity of the film in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : “So it's down to the nitty-gritty. History touches on all those questions to which even therapists cannot come up with patent answers. [...] "About Barbarossaplatz" is a strong, largely relentless and moving piece of television. "

The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave the best possible rating (thumbs up) and wrote: “Please get involved! This soul show is very worthwhile! ”.

For the editor Caroline Ströbele of Zeit Online , the city of Cologne in particular has a special place in the film: “Cologne has the most interesting role in this film. The city is noisy and aggressive, not a trace of Cologne cheerfulness. The traffic noise of the Barbarossaplatz, which gives the title, drowns out any conversation, the people are brutal, people are pushed and jostled everywhere, it's always too crowded and too loud. "

DJ Frederiksson from the Frankfurter Rundschau also sees Cologne as an important part of the film: “The title with its location in downtown Cologne is no coincidence either. Bonny warmly invites the environment, which is otherwise locked out as thoroughly as possible during filmmaking, to his film. Baby screams, the rattling of the tram, the ringing of cell phones and the street noise again and again - even in the most intimate therapy scenes, the city is always present as a minor character. As an ugly built, noisy secondary character. "

He also praises the play of the main actors and states: “All of this creates a realism that holds up a distorting mirror to the usual TV aesthetics: Look, this is what real tragedies look like when they happen to real people in a real city. This is of course only possible thanks to the outstanding performance of the actors. It was known that Bibiana Beglau was one of the greats in the character field. At Joachim Król you sometimes forgot that, but here you are impressively reminded of it. And Franziska Hartmann, who previously only attracted attention on the Thalia and is making her TV debut with this Tour de Force, must be considered a veritable discovery. Even those who shy away from provocative topics such as sexual humiliation or the demanding style should watch the film just because of these acting performances. "

Awards and nominations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Table of contents and information on the staff and cast of Über Barbarossaplatz on the ARD website ( Memento from March 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ About Barbarossaplatz at crew united
  3. ↑ Information about About Barbarossaplatz on the website of Barbarella Entertainment GmbH
  4. ↑ Too many naked people over 40: ARD withdraws from TV event
  5. ↑ New episodes either have to fit for 8:15 p.m. - or there won't be any
  6. ↑ TV drama “About Barbarossaplatz” only in the late program - too explicit for prime time
  7. ^ Bibiana Beglau, Joachim Król, Franziska Hartmann, Hollinger, Bonny. Transfers
  8. ↑ Too hard for the couch - Via Barbarossaplatz
  9. ↑ About Barbarossaplatz - A love triangle shaped by destructive forces. Jan Bonny catapults the mental sensitivities of his characters out of their bodies.
  10. ^ Rainer Tittelbach : Bibiana Beglau, Joachim Król, Franziska Hartmann, Hollinger, Bonny. Broadcasts of film reviews at tittelbach.tv , accessed on April 27, 2017.
  11. ^ Suff, Sex, Analysis - ARD drama about psychotherapists at spiegel.de , accessed on April 27, 2017.
  12. ↑ About Barbarossaplatz - A love triangle shaped by destructive forces. Jan Bonny catapults the mental sensitivities of his characters out of their bodies. at critic.de, accessed on April 27, 2017.
  13. ↑ Claudia Tieschky: A film without soul sound insulation. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved October 18, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Axel Weidemann: There is no salvation in flight. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Retrieved October 18, 2018 .
  15. ↑ About Barbarossaplatz at tvspielfilm.de
  16. ↑ Too hard for the couch - Via Barbarossaplatz at Zeit Online , accessed on April 27, 2017.
  17. ^ A fanal - "About Barbarossaplatz", ARD at Frankfurter Rundschau , accessed on April 27, 2017.
  18. ↑ 2016 - New German Television. Internationale Münchner Filmwochen GmbH, accessed on October 30, 2017 .