When grandfather loved Rita Hayworth
| Movie | |
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| Original title | When grandfather loved Rita Hayworth |
| Country of production |
Germany , Switzerland |
| original language | Czech , German |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Iva Švarcová |
| script | Iva Švarcová |
| production | Painted Ludin |
| music | Annette Focks |
| camera | Hille Sagel |
| cut | Georg Janett |
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When Grandfather Loved Rita Hayworth , also known as Ab ins Paradies , is a German - Swiss comedy film from 2001. It tells the story of a family who had to flee the ČSSR in 1969 and are looking for a new home in Germany.
action
In the late 1960s marching Soviet troops in Prague in order to Prague Spring to end. Thirteen-year-old Hannah flees her home country with her parents and younger sister Maruska in order to seek political asylum in the Federal Republic of Germany . Initially, the family is housed in a home for asylum seekers in Nuremberg , where the black market is flourishing and Playboy magazines are particularly popular. Hannah finds it particularly difficult to find her way in her new environment between capitalism and pop music, especially since her beloved grandfather Zikmund stayed behind in Czechoslovakia . To escape reality, Hannah remembers all too fondly of her dignified grandfather, who, as a principled high school director, was always the target of the political authorities.
When an officer of the Constitutional Protection and an American officer question Hannah's father Cuba about its political past, Hannah interferes and says that her grandfather was a member of the Communist Party but, contrary to popular belief, had always told her that it was not the Soviets, it was the Americans who liberated Prague from the German armed forces . He was also friends with Rita Hayworth , which makes the American officer curious and ultimately puts him in a mild mood. Hannah had already been able to do business with Rita Hayworth back home by taking money from her friends to see a Hayworth autograph that her grandfather kept in a safe together with a bust of Lenin .
Cuba finally found a job in construction, whereupon the family received their own, but modest, accommodation. Mother Lida then compensates for the desolation with an unchecked buying frenzy. While she is trying on one dress after the other in a department store, little Maruska is packing her basket full, whether with sunglasses or a cleaning brush, the main thing is that everything is in her favorite color green. After a young woman has put a Barbie doll in Hannah's jacket, Hannah runs away from the saleswoman, confused. But especially at school, Hannah feels out of place. In memory of her idealistic grandfather, she increasingly defies her parents' consumerism. She also confronts her German classmates with confidence, which ultimately brings her recognition and two new friends. Meanwhile, Maruska only wants to speak German. When Hannah tries to force her to use her mother tongue again, Maruska decides not to speak at all.
When Hannah and her family finally get a decent apartment, Hannah befriends a Mr. von Hartlieb who was once stationed with the Wehrmacht in Prague and prefers to hear Wagner operas. However, Cuba forbids Hannah to interact with him. After a long-awaited short vacation in Rimini , Italy , the family learns of their grandfather's death. To comfort the others, Maruska begins to speak again. Cuba then announced that he wanted to set up his own structural engineering office. When he financially assumes his plans and the apartment is finally evicted, the family is forced to return home with their old Skoda . When they stop shortly before the border, Hannah and Maruska get out of the car and walk back to their now German homeland. Their parents follow them in their car.
background
Like the film's protagonist, director Iva Švarcová (* 1961) emigrated with her parents from Czechoslovakia to the Federal Republic of Germany , where she later studied at the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin under István Szabó and Wim Wenders . When grandfather loved Rita Hayworth, it was her partly autobiographical feature film debut. The shooting took place in Počátky , Nuremberg , Tübingen and Rimini .
The film was staged in two languages - in Czech and German. For the publication in the Czech Republic and Germany, the different language passages were not dubbed and only subtitled. When grandfather loved Rita Hayworth , it finally came to German cinemas on March 1, 2001. In 2010 the film was released on DVD.
Reviews
For the lexicon of international films , Als Grandfather Rita Hayworth loved was a "[a] necdotally narrated feature film that succeeds in taking a precise, undogmatic and at the same time very amusing look at the German state of mind of those years". Der Spiegel described the “autobiographically colored screen debut of Iva Svarcová” as “unusual, with naive precocious charm, narrated memories”. The scenes are sometimes "purring and gaudy exaggerated", from time to time also "pervaded by homesickness, but never too good to be true". According to Prisma , the film "pays homage to the rascal character of the Bohemians" in a funny way. The film offers the viewer "cheerful, ironic stories that are atmospherically staged".
Awards
At Film Festival Cottbus won When Grandpa Loved Rita Hayworth first prize in the competition for the best children's and youth film. At the Max Ophüls Prize film festival in 2001, the production received the advancement award in the feature film category and was also nominated for the Max Ophüls Prize. Other awards were the Audience Award for Best Film at the International Film Festival in frontier- Selb , the Grand Prix and FIPRESCI award at the film festival of Sochi and the Prix Europa Iris Festival Prix Europa . The jury of the German Film and Media Evaluation awarded the film the rating "Particularly valuable" on the grounds that:
“An excellent script was the guarantee for an extraordinary film: […] The protagonists play relaxed and easy and under good guidance, their characters are excellently worked out, whereby it is a special pleasure to watch the children. […] The loving furnishings deserve special praise […]; atmospherically this is completed by the perfectly coordinated music. The camera and montage play their part in the success of the film, which was staged with a sure hand and conveys a lot of the irresistible charm of the famous Czech film school. "
Web links
- When Grandpa Loved Rita Hayworth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- As grandfather Rita Hayworth loved at filmportal.de (with photo gallery)
- As a grandfather, Rita Hayworth loved at swissfilms.ch
- Kerstin Decker : "When grandfather loved Rita Hayworth": This side of the silence . In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 28, 2001.
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for When Grandfather Loved Rita Hayworth . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2012 (PDF; test number: 83 078 V).
- ↑ cf. german-films.de
- ↑ When grandfather loved Rita Hayworth. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ When grandfather loved Rita Hayworth . In: Der Spiegel , June 11, 2001.
- ↑ When grandfather loved Rita Hayworth. In: prisma.de . Retrieved July 27, 2018 .
- ↑ cf. fbw-filmb Bewertung.com