Allegro (2005)

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Movie
German title (unpublished)
Original title Allegro
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish
Publishing year 2005
length 88 minutes
Rod
Director Christoffer Boe
script Christoffer Boe,
Mikael Wulff
production Tine Grew Pfeiffer
music Thomas Knak
camera Manuel Alberto Claro
cut Peter Brandt
occupation

Allegro is a Danish science fiction - Drama in 2005 by Christoffer Boe .

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Zetterstrøm is a talented pianist who has dedicated himself only to his music and piano playing since childhood. He did not take part in life because his practice hours were marked by rigor and discipline. The better he got, the more removed from real life and became lonely. But one day he seems to find happiness. By chance he locked himself out of his apartment and met the beautiful Andrea. Both fall in love and from then on live as a happy couple. Until Andrea decides to leave him one day while Zetterstrøm is having a concert. When he found out, he decided not to sink into mourning, but to plunge deeper into the work so that he would become the best and most successful Danish pianist.

But at the same time there is an impenetrable zone on Gammel Strand , where Zetterstrøm lost faith in love and decided never to have feelings again. An entire district of Copenhagen will become impassable for all people and cut off from everything. When Zetterstrøm gave an interview 10 years later in New York City in which he was praised as a successful, outstanding, if not perfect pianist and portrayed as a “man without passion”, he had to be confronted with an old photo of Andrea. He doesn't remember and the interviewer says that “his past has been kidnapped”. All his memories are now in the zone and he can only regain them if he enters it. So he calls his agent Clara, who should take him to Copenhagen immediately. There he is invited to the K-Bar, from where he ends up in "Thorvaldsens'S House" through a secret passage and gets to know Tom. He dines with him and learns a lot about himself and the zone.

He also shows him the zone and leads him to Gammel Beach , where Andrea is pulled unconscious from the water and her stomach is cut open to free a crying baby. Andrea had once thrown herself into the water out of doubt about Zetterstrøm's love, as the latter asked her to abort their child. However, Zetterstrøm does not believe this and doubts what all this is about, what he is seeing here. And the next moment he is back in the K-Bar, from where he is on his way to a concert that he is supposed to give. But he has to realize that he has lost his talent and just can't play anymore. The talent is now in the zone and he has to go back. But to return, he would have to play talentlessly on a children's piano in front of an audience.

After Zetterstrøm makes it back into the zone, he experiences Andreas suicide again and realizes that it is just a memory. Tom explains that he can only get his talent back if he accepts his memories. He must follow Andrea for this to happen. But Zetterstrøm fails to follow Andrea through the streets of the zone and asks an elderly woman for help. This means that he just has to accept his own mistakes and trust other people in order to achieve what he wants. And so Zetterstrøm managed to reach Andrea during the jump and jumped into the river after her. But he just jumped after the memory.

At the end Tom explains to him that he now has his memories and his talent back and that he now understands that he has chosen between love and work and can now play his concert again. Zetterstrøm is walking away in the streets of Copenhagen doubtfully.

criticism

“With the two excellent actors, Ulrich Thomsen as Zetterstrøm and Henning Moritzen as Tom, the two’s journey seems very interesting and ambiguous. [...] And that's the best that can be said about the film. "

- Bettina Heltberg in Politiken

“The film certainly seems strange to some and possibly also strange. But you can also quickly see that this strange and challenging film can be interesting. You can even love him. "

- Ebbe Iversen im Berlingske

"As a whole it seems a bit rigid and irrelevant."

- Henrik Queitsch at Ekstra Bladet

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publication

Allegro opened in Danish cinemas on September 30, 2005 and, despite international screenings at film festivals and cinema and DVD releases, has not yet been shown or published in Germany.

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