Alaska Johansson
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| Original title | Alaska Johansson |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 89 minutes |
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| Director | Achim von Borries |
| script | Sascha Arango |
| production | Arno Maass |
| music | Bertram Denzel |
| camera | Bernd Fischer |
| cut | Stefan Blue |
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Alaska Johansson is a German psychological thriller from 2013. Directed by Achim von Borries . Alina Levshin , Sebastian Schipper , Sibylle Canonica , Stipe Erceg , Alexander Held , Fritz Roth and Stefan Bissmeier can be seen in the leading roles . Sascha Arango wrote the script . The film had its television premiere on October 16, 2013 on ARD . The shooting took place from June 4 to July 7, 2012 in Frankfurt am Main , Bad Homburg vor der Höhe and in December 2012 in Finse in Norway .
action
The headhunter Alaska Johansson is one of the best in their business. Her colleagues give her a trip around the world, the boss encourages her to relax for a few months. Johansson looks cool and conscientious. She is exquisitely dressed and has an immaculate body. But their seemingly perfect world is cracking. The boss ends his affair with Johansson - for fear of his wife.
Alaska is going home. She compulsively washes herself while showering. Every laundry that is used throws it in the trash after it has been worn once. At first she seems to go about her everyday chores in the new, unfinished apartment. But then she mixes a cocktail with lots of tablets. As she is about to prepare to drink, there is a knock on her door. There is a child standing there asking for sweets. It wears a white sheet with slit eyes. The child disguised as a ghost rushes through the apartment and wants to drink the poison cocktail, which Alaska prevents. Suddenly it disappears without a trace. Alaska sees it in the neighboring apartment and rings the doorbell to hand over a box of chocolates for the supposed daughter of the neighbor who has just moved in there. The neighbor, however, has no daughter, he lives alone. Alaska later hears the same child calling for help from her neighbor's car. It seems to be kicking the walls of the car from inside. When she urges the neighbor to open the car, the child has disappeared again. Alaska decides to call the police.
The next day, Alaska gets in her car to make up with her boss. Your car suddenly starts moving at a traffic light and only comes to a stop after a serious accident. Alaska is being rushed to the hospital. The attending doctor looks at the X-rays and makes a disturbing discovery: Your body is riddled with numerous clamps and screws, which suggests many surgical interventions. She was once born a misshapen girl and her father, a famous cosmetic surgeon, shaped her into a now attractive woman.
At an elegant party in her parents' villa, the child ghost appears again. Alaska manages to pull the sheet off the child's head and recognizes her old "ugly" self again, but Alaska is immediately immobilized with a syringe. She wakes up in the psychiatric ward and can still see the old self standing in the room - which no one else can see. The “neighbor” works as a nurse in the hospital, as does the doctor treating her in the event of her accident, he is now her psychiatrist. Alaska commits suicide. In the final scene you see Alaska and her childlike self in the snowy desert of Alaska and they both hug.
background
The shooting took place from June 4 to July 7, 2012 in Frankfurt am Main , Bad Homburg vor der Höhe and in December 2012 in Finse in Norway . Two Arri Alexa cameras were used in production.
criticism
“Of course it's not a documentary, of course it's art, a portrait of the soul. It is played excellently, filmed wonderfully, puzzling, crazy, depressing and beautiful. "
“Levshin embodies the title character with an impression that is literally too beautiful to be true. As Frankenstein's daughter, who uses her imagination to rebel against the oppression of her creator, she knows how to disturb the viewer for a long time. Big, sick, formally powerful television. "
“In his film, Sascha Arango talks about the terms artificiality and deception - this is played out in the plot, characters, scenery and mask. The consistency with which Arango does this is very unusual for a German television film; you feel more like a late romantic horror novel. "
Awards
- Nomination for the Grimme Prize 2014
- Alina Levshin was nominated for the Hessian TV Prize 2013 in the category “Best Actress”
Web links
- Alaska Johansson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Alaska Johansson ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on ARD .de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Elmar Krekeler: When a headhunter loses her head. Die Welt , October 16, 2013, accessed on November 14, 2013 .
- ^ Christian Buss : ARD psychological horror "Alaska Johansson": Frankenstein's daughter. Spiegel Online , accessed November 14, 2013 .
- ↑ Katharina Riehl: The dark side. Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 16, 2013, accessed on November 14, 2013 .
- ↑ 50th Grimme Prize 2014 - Nominations - Alaska Johansson (HR). In: grimme-preis.de. Grimme Institute, accessed December 7, 2018 .
- ↑ The nominations and the prize for the “Best International Literary Film” have been determined. In: hessen.de. Hessian Ministry for Science and Art, September 17, 2013, accessed on December 7, 2018 .