Agony (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | agony |
| Country of production |
Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | David Clay Diaz |
| script | David Clay Diaz |
| production | David Clay Diaz |
| music | David Reichelt |
| camera | Julian Krubasik |
| cut | Lisa Geretschläger |
| occupation | |
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Agonie is a German - Austrian film drama by the Paraguayan director David Clay Diaz , which premiered on February 13, 2016 at the Berlinale and was shown there in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section. The film was made in co-production with Bayerischer Rundfunk , in cooperation with the Vienna Film Academy and in cooperation with the University of Television and Film Munich .
action
On November 29th, a young man kills his lover and dismembers the body. The head, torso and limbs are found in various garbage containers all over Vienna . There is no evidence of the killer or his motives.
At the same time, the story of 24-year-old Christian and the story of 17-year-old Alex are told in the following. Christian is the son of a single mother and an ambitious law student, Alex is a daredevil and wannabe rapper who is always out for trouble. The young men have one thing in common, however, because both are deeply torn inside and both have built a facade around their person, with which they react to the expectations of their fellow men. One, the son of a police officer, suspects to be gay, would like more muscles and tries to keep up appearances, the other is almost overwhelmed by the expectations of his milieu and is very afraid of failure, but pretends to be aloof and hardy. Both direct the pent up against themselves or others. In the end, one of them will have committed murder.
background
Rod
It is in agony to the first full-length feature film by David Clay Diaz and emerged as a training film as part of his directorial studies at the University of Television and Film Munich. The film is inspired by real events in Vienna and has been fictitiously supported. In David Clay Diaz's circle of acquaintances there was really a young woman who was murdered and dismembered by her boyfriend. Julian Krubasik worked as a cameraman and was awarded the Dialogue en perspective jury prize together with his fellow HFF students at the 2015 Berlinale for his work on the short film Ein idealer Ort .
occupation
Alexander Srtschin , who took on the role of Alex in the film, stood in front of the camera for the first time in Agonie . Srtschin was discovered during an amateur casting to which he accompanied a friend of Martina Poel , who plays his mother in the film. Simon Hatzl took on the role of a police officer and Alex's father. The role of Christian was cast with Samuel Schneider , that of his mother and her boyfriend with Mercedes Echerer and Oliver Rosskopf .
publication
The film premiered on February 13, 2016 at the Berlinale and was shown there in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section. The film was released in German cinemas on December 15, 2016.
reception
Age rating
In Germany the film is FSK 16. The statement of reasons for the release states: “The film has a dreary mood, but does not contain any scenes of physical violence. Due to their psychosocial level of development, young people from the age of 16 are able to understand the issues and problems of the story (e.g. youth violence, media violence, emotional loneliness) and to deal with them appropriately. "
Reviews
The makers of the Berlinale describe the film as follows: Agonie works confidently against the usual dramaturgy that can only endure the complexity of events and experiences by parrying them with a clear and reductive causality. Usually the right of movie characters to exist depends on whether they play a role for the other characters. Christian and Alex's stories don't mix. The two main characters live different realities in the same reality. Kirsten Riesselmann from the taz concretizes this attempt and describes Agonie as a film in which the viewer does not immediately know which of the two protagonists committed the act described at the beginning, but the film follows them with a high degree of plausibility through their respective normal Life, the pictures rhythm with hard cuts and long black pictures between the scenes. [...] The film subtly observes the coming-of-age problems of its protagonists up to an ugly but consistent ending. Dieter Oßwald from [030] Magazin Berlin called the film an insider tip of the Berlinale and describes Agonie as a small masterpiece for film students with a lasting effect . Oßwald justifies: A perfidious horror film of the eerie kind. Atmospherically dense, it lets it simmer vibrating under the surface, he consciously refuses to give banal answers.
Awards
Berlin International Film Festival 2016
- Nomination for best debut film in the Perspective German Cinema section
Web links
- Agony in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Information about the film on the homepage of David Clay Diaz
- Official page for the film
- Agony at filmportal.de
- Agony in the program of the 66th Berlinale
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Agony . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 164321 / K).
- ↑ a b Agonie In: davidclaydiaz.com. Retrieved February 11, 2016.
- ^ Austrian debut film 'Agonie' at the 66th Berlinale In: ots.at, February 4, 2016.
- ↑ a b Hannah Vogel: Inevitable. Fear and aggression blaze behind the facade: the two protagonists of the film 'Agonie' violently break through the constraints of their surroundings. The work of HFF student David Clay Diaz has been invited to the Berlinale In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 10, 2016.
- ↑ Berlinale 2015 HFF students and one graduate honored In: Bayerischer Rundfunk Online, August 20, 2015.
- ↑ 66th Berlin International Film Festival. The complete festival program ( Memento from December 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: berlinale.de. Accessed February 10, 2017 (PDF; 18.9 MB)
- ↑ Reasons for approval for agony In: Voluntary self-control of the film industry. Retrieved December 16, 2016.
- ↑ agony In: berlinale.de. Retrieved February 25, 2016.
- ^ Kirsten Riesselmann: Berlinale - Perspective German Cinema. Show who you are In: taz, February 12, 2016.
- ↑ Dieter Oßwald: 66th Berlinale insider tip: Agonie In: berlin030.de, February 10, 2016.
- ↑ David Clay Diaz: From the Berlinale to the 'heute' interview ( memento of the original from February 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: kino.heute.at, February 22, 2016.
