Occident (2011)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Occident |
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| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | Austrian German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
| script |
Wolfgang Widerhofer , Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Maria Arlamovsky |
| production | Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Markus Glaser , Michael Kitzberger , Wolfgang Widerhofer |
| camera | Nikolaus Geyrhalter |
| cut | Wolfgang Widerhofer |
Abendland is a documentary by the Austrian director, cameraman and producer Nikolaus Geyrhalter , which takes a critical look at Europe at night. The film premiered on the Diagonale in 2011 . The cinema release in Austria was on March 31, 2011, in Germany on December 22, 2011.
content
Occident casts a thoughtful look at Europe at night. From birth, illness, death, from the absolute pleasure temple Oktoberfest to the telephone pastoral care to the preparatory discussion for a deportation: Europe is not sleeping. Nikolaus Geyrhalter behind the camera and Wolfgang Widerhofer in the editing department create a cinematic essay about a service and affluent society and its limits.
Reviews
Abendland received positive reviews in the US press. Manohla Dargis of the New York Times called Abendland in her article a “visually very precise and politically informal” portrait of imagined communities : “As a general impression, that of Europe remains as a mosaic, as an artful mixture of perfectly framed, apparently incoherent moments a long night together, spread across a time zone or two. ”Nick Pinkerton of The Village Voice describes the documentary as follows:“ The main themes of the film are the Eurozone's service and security industry, which is mostly concerned with keeping its residents in front of themselves to rescue."
The Austrian and German critics also describe their positive impression of the Occident. Claudia Lenssen from Tagesspiegel writes that “'Occident' now [...] makes the existential dimension of our technical civilization painfully clear”, while Dominik Kamalzadeh from Standard thinks that the film shows “how the horizon of this reality of life can hardly be grasped. "
Prices
- Nomination for Best Documentary - Austrian Film Award 2012
- Award for Best Artistic Montage Documentary for Wolfgang Widerhofer - Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, Graz 2011
- Millennium Award - Planete Doc Film Festival and The Canon Cinematography Award - Honorable Mention, Planete Doc Film Festival, Warsaw 2011
- Grand Prix Special Mention - Split Film Festival 2011
Web links
- official homepage
- West in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Occident at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Occident at Metacritic (English)
credentials
- ↑ Release certificate for the Occident . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2011 (PDF; test number: 130 511 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Occident . Youth Media Commission .
- ^ Occident - Dates . Abendland-film.at, accessed on December 17, 2014.
- ↑ Manohla Dargis: From the Dark, Illumination. In: New York Times. July 26, 2012, accessed on December 9, 2014 (English): “visually precise and politically amorphous, […] the overall impression is a vision of Europe as a mosaic, as an artful amalgam of perfectly framed, seemingly disconnected moments during a long shared night, give or take a time zone change or two. "
- ↑ Nick Pinkerton: Occident. In: The Village Voice. July 25, 2012, accessed on December 9, 2014 (English): "The film's principal subjects are the eurozone's service and security industries, showing a continent busy saving its citizens from themselves."
- ^ Claudia Lenssen: Fascinating documentary film: Europe at night. In: Tagesspiegel. December 22, 2011, accessed December 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Dominik Kamalzadeh: Sleepless in Europe. In: The Standard. March 23, 2011, accessed December 9, 2014 .
- ↑ Occident - Prices . Abendland-film.at, accessed on December 9, 2014.