Agnes and his brothers
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Agnes and his brothers |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Oskar Roehler |
| script | Oskar Roehler |
| production | Stefan Arndt |
| music | Martin Todsharow |
| camera | Carl-Friedrich Koschnick |
| cut |
Juliane Lorenz Simone Sugg-Hofmann |
| occupation | |
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Agnes and his brothers is a German feature film from 2004.
action
Werner, Hans-Jörg and Agnes, who lived under the name "Martin" before their gender reassignment , are siblings. The eldest brother, Werner, is the Green State Secretary in the Federal Environment Ministry and has a major political goal of introducing the Europe-wide can deposit . His marriage to Signe is in crisis, his son Ralf films him in the most embarrassing situations. Hans-Jörg is a librarian in a university library. His biggest problem is his sex addiction. He is stalking female students, observing them and masturbating in the ladies' room. Agnes lives with a proletarian lover who, however, constantly insults her and finally throws her out of the apartment. The relationship between the three siblings and the egocentric father Günther is different. Werner sees the visits to him more as a duty, Hans-Jörg has a real hatred of his father, because he suspects that he abused his youngest child as a child, which then led to transsexuality . Only Agnes' relationship with her father seems to be halfway intact.
Hans-Jorg's voyeuristic activities at work are discovered and he loses his job. After observing another visit by Agnes to the father, he comes to the wrong conclusion that his suspicions of abuse are correct and shoots the father at night. He then turns to Manni Moneto, a porn producer he met in his self-help group for sex addicts. During the shoot, he met the attractive Desirée, with whom he fell in love and whom he told about his deed. She suggests that they go abroad together. He says goodbye to Agnes without revealing that he murdered her father. Eventually Agnes dies of her illness, but happily remembers her childhood as Martin in the hour of death.
Others
Several references to other films are striking. The scene that leads Hans-Jörg to the final assumption that his father is abusing Agnes can be found very similarly in the film American Beauty . With Fassbinder and Tarantino too, Roehler uses motifs and allusions.
Not to be overlooked (and not overlooked by the critics) are his extensive and often detailed borrowings from Jonathan Franzen's novel corrections .
The film was shot in Berlin, Cologne, Bonn and Wuppertal. Father Günter's villa is Herbert's villa , which today is part of Tony Cragg's sculpture park .
Reviews
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- Lexicon of international film : “Not a theses film, but a vital, mosaic-like woven discourse with all sorts of gaps and associations, which shows an insecure society struggling for identity and happiness. The excellent, strictly against the grain cast ensemble enlivens the characters in a rousing playful mood, who get a lot of space for development and reveal their psychological injuries and frustrated expectations of happiness. "
- filmtipps.at: "What 'American Beauty' was for the American mood, 'Agnes and his brothers' could be for Germany: In any case, a radical, debatable and absolutely worth seeing social satire."
Awards
- 2005 - Bavarian Film Prize for Oskar Roehler for the best screenplay
- 2005 - German Film Award for Katja Riemann for the best female supporting role
Web links
- Agnes and his brothers in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Agnes and his brothers at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Agnes and his brothers . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2004 (PDF; test number: 99 365 K).
- ↑ FILMTIPPS.at, 2011 (accessed: April 1, 2014)