Burned down
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Burned down |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language |
German Turkish |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Verena S. Freytag |
| script | Verena S. Freytag |
| production |
Jost Hering Lucas Schmidt |
| music | Roland Satterwhite |
| camera | Ali Olay Gozkaya |
| cut |
François Rossier Tobias Steidle |
| occupation | |
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Burned a German film drama by Verena S. Freytag from 2011 on.
action
The German-Turkish woman Pelin lives in Berlin-Wedding , receives social assistance and has three children from different fathers. On the side, she works black in a tattoo studio, from which she is fired. Pelin is overwhelmed with her life situation, in debt and burned out. Her friend Edin, a drug dealer, is of no help to her. The relationship is really limited to quick sex. When Edin spends a night at Pelin's, little Elvis finds some colorful pills in Edin's jacket and swallows them. He barely escapes death in the hospital. Pelin is now to be deprived of custody of her children, but with the support of the youth welfare office, she can avert this with a mother-child cure on Fehmarn .
In the spa clinic, however, Pelin is subject to strict rules such as bed rest, no male visits and mandatory participation in courses. But Pelin cannot submit and regularly violates the guidelines. Her roommate Christa, who comes from a completely different world, also gets on her nerves. Despite the responsibility for her children, she spends the nights on her head, knowing full well that this cure is her last chance to start over. When the head of the clinic tells her that she is pregnant by Edin, the lack of prospects is perfect.
Edin appears unexpectedly. He has plans for their joint tattoo parlor. The prerequisite for this, however, is that Pelin and the children use the ferry to smuggle half a kilo of drugs worth 40,000 euros to Denmark as camouflage. Gradually she doubts Edin's intentions, but agrees. She boarded the ferry with the ignorant Christa and was promptly checked in Denmark. Christa takes over her bag and children during the inspection. In the toilet, while changing diapers, she discovers the drugs in Pelin's pocket and flushes them down the toilet. When Pelin comes back, Christa leaves without a word. Desperate, Pelin looks for drugs and returns to the clinic disaffected.
Edin looks for her and asks why she didn't come to the agreed meeting point. After she tells him the truth, Edin hits and injures her. Thereupon he searches the distance and Pelin returns to Berlin-Wedding with her children.
criticism
“Remarkable new German social drama with a great sense for details, which gives the characters clearly defined characterizations without many words. The honest female portrait remains uncomfortable despite moments of well-being, because it relies more on observing precarious living conditions than on moral judgments. "
“Drama awarded the Max Ophüls Prize for the best screenplay, in which Verena S. Freytag paints a precise picture of the multicultural migration reality and why it is so difficult to change something about Hartz IV living conditions. The main character gets tangled up again and again in the same pitfalls and, permanently overwhelmed, just cheats his way through, neither appreciates nor uses opportunities and slips a little more into - at least partially - self-inflicted misery. "
Web links
- Burned in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Burned down in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Burned down. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Burned down ( memento from April 30, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) video.de