Farewell to the frogs
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Original title | Farewell to the frogs |
Country of production | Germany |
original language | German |
Publishing year | 2012 |
length | 95 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 0 |
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Director | Ulrike Schamoni |
production |
Regina Ziegler , Ulrike Schamoni |
cut | Grete Jentzen |
Farewell to the frogs is a documentary by Ulrich Schamoni . The film was edited by Schamoni's daughter Ulrike and opened in German cinemas on March 15, 2012.
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Schamoni has leukemia ; the doctors have given him up, but he hopes. The film consists of wisdom and loving anecdotes. The narrative structure is strictly chronological. As a guide, the viewer experiences the sequence of the seasons in the director's garden. This theme remains throughout the film. Schamoni manage to make amazing film recordings of birds, cats, frogs, fish, insects, etc. He sees the construction site on the neighboring property as a threat to his garden idyll and takes action against it with the police and lawyer. He also advertises general historical events, such as the death of Princess Diana . Schamoni himself, marked by death, remembers his life and his films, to which there are always flashbacks. In addition, he is planning new films: He wants to present the story of Hermann the Cheruscan in a new version. A thought that he represented again in 1967 in the film Every Years through the protagonist Hannes Lücke. He always advertises the current, steadily deteriorating state of health, the doctor's opinion, his pain and explains the medication he is taking. The film ends with Shamoni's last statement on the day of his death, when he declares in a weak but not broken voice that he cannot speak louder today.
Emergence
During the last two years of his life, the director Ulrich Schamoni shot himself, his family and above all his beloved garden at his house at Furtwänglerstraße 19 in Berlin-Grunewald . His films were made there: We Two , Chapeau Claque and Das Traumhaus . Originally, Schamoni planned to put the sequences - a total of 170 hours - on the Internet. More than ten years after his death, his daughter turned the video diary he found into a 95-minute film.
Naming
The film got its name from the fact that the frogs disappeared from the swimming pool, which serves as a garden pond (and also appears in the films shot on the property) in the fall of 1997 as usual. Shamoni hopes in vain that he will see her again next year.
Web links
- Farewell to the frogs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Trailer for the film
- For my birthday there are snails - article on the film in Tagesspiegel, March 13, 2012
- Farewell to the frogs at cinema.de
- Farewell to the frogs at kino-zeit.de