1001 grams
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | 1001 grams |
| Original title | 1001 gram |
| Country of production |
Norway France Germany |
| original language |
Norwegian French English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bent Hamer |
| script | Bent Hamer |
| production | Bent Hamer |
| music | John Erik Kaada |
| camera | John Christian Rosenlund |
| cut | Different refn |
| occupation | |
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1001 grams is a Norwegian-German-French film drama directed by Bent Hamer from 2014.
action
The young Marie Ernst works in the Norwegian calibration office. She lives in separation from her husband Yngve, who irregularly fetches his property from the shared apartment. Her social contact is essentially limited to her father Ernst Ernst, a respected scientist in the calibration office. Ernst is supposed to take part in the weight training seminar in Paris in a week, but suffers a serious heart attack and has to go to hospital. In his place, Marie drives to the seminar held in the International Bureau of Weights and Measures BIPM - home of the international prototype of the kilogram from 1889. To the seminar she takes the Norwegian kilo prototype from the calibration office with her, which has to be recalibrated.
At the end of the seminar, Marie, like all other employees at international calibration offices, waits for a taxi and gets to know the BIPM gardener, Pi, who takes her to her hotel. The Norwegian kilo stays in Paris for calibration while Marie returns to Oslo. She goes to Ernst in the hospital. He thinks about what remains after death. It would be said that the soul weighs 21 grams. Would be interesting to find out. The past does not let go of him either, especially his relationship with his younger brother. Both have no longer been in contact since their father gave Ernst the family farm. Ernst realizes that the farm should have gone to his brother Gunnar, who could have run it as a farmer. Instead, Gunnar went to Paris to work as a house painter. Ernst offers his daughter to take over the farm, but Marie refuses. At night, Marie received a phone call that Ernst had died in the hospital. According to his will, he should be cremated.
Despite the family death, Marie goes to Paris and picks up the calibrated Norwegian kilo. She finds her uncle and tells him that Ernst has passed away. She also visits Pi, who in his free time studies the singing behavior of birds in and outside Paris. Back in Oslo, she sees that her ex-husband is in her apartment again, this time to hang up his pictures. Distraught, she drives to her father's yard and ends up in the ditch on the way with her little electric car. The wrapping of the Norwegian kilo prototype is damaged. Before the Norwegian Weights and Measures Office finds out, Marie goes back to Paris to have the kilo repaired. In France, however, it is a public holiday and the BIPM is closed. Only Pi is there and helps her. She realizes that Pi is not just the institute's gardener, but actually a professor of physics. He worked at BIPM for 15 years and sees gardening as a compensation. Personally, Marie and Pi find something in common because he only has his mother. She has Alzheimer's disease and is cared for by him, even though he knows that she will soon have to be cared for in a home. Marie and Pi get closer.
In Oslo, Marie collects the urn containing Ernst's remains. She weighs the ashes at the calibration office. Initially, the scale shows 1022 grams. After a few moments the reading goes back to 1001 grams. The 21 grams have escaped. Marie smiles. After she has sorted Ernst's legacy at the calibration office, she flies to Paris on vacation. With Pi she devotes herself to bird watching. In the end, both of them sleep together in the bathtub in the evening, discussing various lengths.
production
1001 grams was the seventh feature film by director Bent Hamer. It was created in a Norwegian-German-French co-production, in which, in addition to BulBul Film (Norway), the German production companies Pandora Filmproduktion and ZDF as well as the French company Slot Machine were involved. The shooting took place from May 6th to July 8th 2013 in Oslo, Cologne and Paris and the surrounding area. The shooting locations included the Norwegian Weights and Measures Office Justervesenet in Kjeller near Oslo and the International Bureau of Weights and Measures in Sèvres near Paris. Marie's signature blue car comes from the manufacturer Buddy Electric .
The costumes were created by Olivier Ligen and Anne Pedersen , the film construction came from Astrid Strøm Astrup and Tim Pannen . The title of the film refers to the weight of the remains of Marie's father.
The film premiered on September 7, 2014 at the Toronto International Film Festival and was shown as the opening film of the Nordic Film Days Lübeck in Germany at the end of October 2014 . It opened in German cinemas on December 18, 2014 and was released on DVD in Germany in June 2015.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Marie Ernst | Ane Dahl Torp | Katrin Zimmermann |
| pi | Laurent Stocker | Viktor Neumann |
| Who | Hildegun Riise | Michaela Kametz |
| Ernst Ernst | Stone wing | Ernst-August Schepmann |
| Moberg | Per Christian Ellefsen | Hans-Gerd Kilbinger |
| Gerard | Didier Flamand | Josef Tratnik |
| Customs officer | Dinara Drukarova | Mirjam Radovic |
| Customs officer | Daniel Drewes | Daniel Drewes |
| Dr. Reinhard Winkler | Peter Hudson | Gregor Höppner |
criticism
For Cinema , 1001 grams was a "quietly told, but charming drama that impresses with its fine humor". Director Bent Hamer built around the character of Marie "a melancholy comedy in which the affection for her does not exclude the possibility of naming her deficits," said Der Spiegel . Die Welt wrote that "Marie as a real figure who, as if preprogrammed, finds a new love and a new looseness, [...] for him [ie Brent Hamer] too sketchy not to say: too light."
The film is optically “a pleasure. The clear, static shots are carefully composed in terms of color, and the subtle humor of the narrative is reflected on the visual level, ”said the Tagesspiegel .
Awards
The film won a Silver Hugo for Best Cinematography at the Chicago International Film Festival . Bent Hamer was nominated for a Flèche de Cristal at the Les Arcs European Film Festival in 2014 and for the Tokyo Grand Prix at the Tokyo International Film Festival .
At the Amanda Film Awards ceremony, the film won the award in the Best Screenplay category. The film was nominated for an Amanda in the categories of Best Norwegian Film, Best Director , Best Score , Best Cinematography and Best Production Design. 1001 grams was Norway's submission for the 2015 Oscar in the category of Best Foreign Language Film , but was not nominated by the Academy.
Web links
- 1001 grams in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 1001 grams at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for 1001 grams . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2014 (PDF; test number: 147 880 K).
- ↑ 1001 grams at filmportal.de
- ↑ Gro Rognmo: Spiller nerd i ny movie . dagbladet.no, July 8, 2013.
- ↑ Daniel Kothenschulte: Love is difficult . fr-online.de, December 21, 2014.
- ↑ 1001 grams in the German synchronous file
- ↑ 1001 grams on cinema.de
- ↑ Frank Arnold: Love comedy "1001 grams": The exact world of Marie . spiegel.de, December 18, 2014.
- ↑ Barbara Schweizerhof: The difficult life and the lightness of being . welt.de, December 20, 2014.
- ↑ Martin Schwickert: Mass, people and material . tagesspiegel.de, December 18, 2014.
- ↑ Nordic Film Days Lübeck October 29th – November 2nd. . norwegen.no.