2012 (short film)

Movie
Original title	2012
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2009
length	35 minutes
Rod
Director	Marcus Overbeck
script	Johannes Lierfeld, Marcus Overbeck
production	Marcus Overbeck
music	Martin Wiese
camera	Michael Jörg
cut	Malte Wirtz , Annette zur Mühlen
occupation
	Godehard Giese as Gabriel; Dieter Moor as Dr. brown; Helmi Schneider as Grandma Ruth; Georg Marin as a psychologist; Udo Thies as team leader; Stefan Lampadius as a psychopath; Sarah Liu as a nurse; Dana Cebulla as SWAT commander;

2012 is a short film by Marcus Overbeck . The film premiered on January 28, 2009 at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival and is also the final thesis by director Marcus Overbeck at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne .

action

With the help of an RFID implant in the forearm, everyone's life has become transparent. All areas of society are controlled by the major corporation AETAS . Gabriel is in his 30s and is a subordinate member of AETAS . With the suicide of his grandmother Ruth, he gets caught in the ruthless mill of a surveillance-state-like system. The doctor Dr. Braun orders a transfer from Gabriel to the science center. A neurological examination will be carried out on him there. The boundaries between Gabriel's perception and the possibly staged reality begin to blur in a gripping confusion. Finally, Gabriel manages to escape his tormentors in the science center.

Reviews

“In terms of content and appearance,“ 2012 ”is initially reminiscent of great models such as“ THX 1138 ”,“ 1984 ”,“ Equilibrium ”,“ Aeon Flux ”or“ Die Insel ”. However, Overbeck manages to give his work its own depth with a powerful imagery, rapid cuts, successful special effects and digital animations. Not to be forgotten are the great actors, including well-known actors such as Dieter Moor ("Bloch", "Everything but Sex") and Udo Thies ("Good times, bad times"). "

- The west

“2012” by Marcus Overbeck leads into a cool future in which “deviant behavior patterns” are combated with “psychological behavior patterns”. A visually well thought-out film in cinemascope format, with an elaborate sound design and an ending that I will have to explain to me in the course of the festival. "

- Saarbrücker Zeitung

Awards

2009: Nomination in the category price for medium-length films at the film festival Max Ophüls Preis
2009: Winner of the Westphalian Film Prize at the Lünen Kinofest for 2012

useful information

2012 was released in the same year as Roland Emmerich 's feature film of the same name , but was released before it even opened in theaters.

swell

↑ Ilias Abawi: science fiction short film: Successful Apocalypse. DerWesten.de , accessed on February 4, 2011 .
^ Competition medium length film. Saarbrücker Zeitung, archived from the original on February 3, 2016 ; Retrieved February 4, 2011 .
↑ List of the winners of the Lünen Cinema Festival in 2009

Web links

[1] Ilias Abawi: science fiction short film: Successful Apocalypse. DerWesten.de , accessed on February 4, 2011 .

[2] Competition medium length film. Saarbrücker Zeitung, archived from the original on February 3, 2016 ; Retrieved February 4, 2011 .

[3] List of the winners of the Lünen Cinema Festival in 2009