Adam's apples

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Movie
German title Adam's apples
Original title Adams æbler
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish
Publishing year 2005
length approx. 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Thomas Jensen is different
script Thomas Jensen is different
production Mie Andreasen
Tivi Magnusson
music Jeppe Kaas
camera Sebastian Blenkov
cut Not so Villadsen
occupation

The Danish film Adam's Apples is a grotesque by the Danish director and screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen from 2005 .

action

Location: Horne Kirke near Faaborg in Denmark ( 55 ° 6 ′ 22.2 ″  N , 10 ° 10 ′ 26.6 ″  E )

Ivan is a pastor who tries with unconditional kindness and limitless optimism to rehabilitate offenders on probation. The aggressive neo-Nazi leader Adam joins the kleptomaniac criminal and alcoholic Gunnar and the Arab gas station robber Khalid . When the pastor asked what task he wanted to fulfill in the course of his rehabilitation, Adam replied full of sarcasm that he wanted to bake an apple pie . The pastor takes Adam at his word and tells him to tend the apple tree in front of the church in order to bake the cake with the apples later. Adam reluctantly begins his task. However, the apple tree is first seized by crows , then attacked by worms and finally burns down after a lightning strike. Only a few apples are left.

The misanthropist Adam feels challenged by Ivan's limitless optimism and extreme willingness to forgive and does everything in his power to break the pastor's faith. Through research, he finds out that Ivan's life itself is highly problematic. He was raped as a child, has a disabled son, his wife killed herself and he himself has a brain tumor . Ivan denies these strokes of fate, which he regards as temptations of the devil , which he must withstand with God's help.

Adam takes advantage of Ivan's inner conflict and, with reference to the Book of Job, confronts the pastor with his conviction that it is not the devil who tests him, but God, who hates and punishes him. The pastor then loses his unconditional belief in the good and withdraws from the others with death wishes. Adam is initially satisfied and proud of his psychological conquest of Ivan. But when Khalid and Gunnar begin to live out their criminal tendencies in an uncontrolled way, he realizes the positive influence that the pastor had and reconsiders his aggressive attitude. During a confrontation with Adam's skinheads, Ivan accidentally gets a bullet in the head. Adam then uses the last remaining apple to bake an apple pie for Ivan. It turns out that the headshot did not kill Ivan, rather the bullet destroyed the tumor, so Ivan is cured. In the final sequence, Ivan and Adam greet two new criminals in the parish , Adam now works as Ivan's right hand man.

criticism

"With his third self-direction after" Flickering Lights "and" Dänische Delikatessen ", screenplay maniac Anders Thomas Jensen presents his previous masterpiece. Even in direct comparison with Jensen's creations such as “ In China They Eat Dogs ”, “Adam's Apples” is daringly brushed against the grain, macabre to the limit of pain, hilarious and at the same time of great intelligence and unexpected warmth. The worm is not in this film for a second. Conclusion: a bottomless outrage - and a revelation! This comedy is blacker than black. And funnier than you'd think possible. "

- Cinema

“In his black comedy 'Adam's Apples', the Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen tells of a bizarre religious war: with verve , wit and vehement force of nature. [...] With a lot of irony , the film deals with people who don't know a joke - and that is precisely why they are extremely funny. "

- Spiegel Online

"The metaphysical comedy tells a psychologically dense parable of redemption with biblical motifs and sometimes borderline black humor."

- Birgit Roschy : epd film

“A fable that plays with biblical references, full of absurd surprises, realistic and fairytale-like, cheerful and gloomy at the same time. The stylistically impressive reflection of the theodicy question is just as irritating as it is a lasting stimulus for thought, because it questions one-dimensional worldviews and pleads for diversity and humanity against all resistance and prejudice. "

- Lexicon of international film

Awards and nominations

background

  • The film opened in Denmark on April 15, 2005. The German theatrical release was August 31, 2006.
  • The location was the Horne Kirke on Fyn .
  • The song that plays from cassette while driving is How Deep Is Your Love (Original: Bee Gees ) in the version of Take That .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Adam's Apples . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2006 (PDF; test number: 107 142 K).
  2. ^ Film review . In: Cinema
  3. ^ Adam's Apples on Spiegel Online July 10, 2006, accessed December 21, 2011
  4. ↑ Birgit Roschy: Adam's apples. In: epd Film 9/2006. epd-film.de, December 21, 2011, archived from the original on April 15, 2013 ; Retrieved July 12, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Adam's apples. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed December 21, 2011 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used