In the end, tourists come
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | In the end, tourists come |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Robert Thalheim |
| script | Robert Thalheim |
| production |
Britta Knöller , Hans-Christian Schmid |
| music |
Uwe Bossenz , Anton K. Feist |
| camera | Yoliswa gardened |
| cut | Stefan Kobe |
| occupation | |
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At the End Come Tourists is a German feature film from 2007. In it, the director Robert Thalheim processes his own experiences as a community service provider in the 1990s, when he was doing his peace service in the educational department of the international youth meeting center in Auschwitz . The main roles are played by Alexander Fehling as Zivi Sven and Ryszard Ronczewski as the concentration camp survivor Stanisław Krzemiński . The film opened in German cinemas on August 16, 2007.
action
The 19-year-old Sven, doing community service, ends up in Oświęcim , Poland , known as Auschwitz. There he is supposed to work in the international meeting center and primarily look after the elderly concentration camp survivor Krzemiński. The relationship between the two is distant. Sven has a hard time getting along with the strange and taciturn old man. Nevertheless, he accompanies him to lectures that Krzemiński gives as a contemporary witness to school classes, and a certain rapprochement between the two begins. At the same time, Sven meets the young interpreter and museum guide Ania. When Sven found it unbearable to live with old Krzemiński, he moved in with Ania. The two get closer. At the same time, Sven developed a growing sympathy for Mr. Krzemiński, who was treated disrespectfully at a memorial event and one of his tasks, the restoration of old prisoner suitcases for the museum, was to be withdrawn. Sven tries in vain to stand up for him, and Krzemiński turns a blind eye to him.
When Ania announced that she was going to Brussels to train as an interpreter for the European Union , Sven was disappointed and packed his things. Determined to leave and arrived at the train station, however, he encounters a new group of tourists who want to see the memorial. The film ends with Sven following the tour group back to the meeting center, as he helps the teacher who is ignorant of the locality and language. Whether he will continue his service or get back together with Ania remains as open as the further relationship with Krzemiński.
background
Robert Thalheim named Alain Resnais ' film Hiroshima, mon amour , as a model for the project , which told a historical trauma through his love story. Thalheim himself was doing community service for the Action Reconciliation Peace Service in Auschwitz. The film title was taken from a volume of poetry by Björn Kuhligks of the same name .
Reviews
“The autobiographical film masters its sensitive subject with ease and at the same time with great seriousness. The excellent main actors as well as the technically sophisticated staging condense into a didactic piece about a possible German-Polish normality far from all platitudes of concern. "
“Of course, Robert Thalheim is to be credited with the fact that he is not puffing up his story dramatically, pouring music sauce over Auschwitz and celebrating no big gestures of reconciliation. Fortunately, the director is too intelligent and the budget too low for that. The film does not make any claims, it sticks to the small observations, the open end and thus on the safe terrain of everyday realism in German cinema. "
Awards
At the end, Come Tourists was shortlisted for the German Oscar submission in the category of best foreign-language film with six other films . Finally, Fatih Akın's film On the Other Side was selected . At the 2008 German Film Awards ceremony , Robert Thalheim's directorial work received a nomination in the Best Film category . Alexander Fehling received the German Film Award in the Acting category for his role . In August 2007 the film was named “Film of the Month” by the Protestant Film Work jury . In 2011 Robert Thalheim received the Eberhard Fechner grant from VG Bild-Kunst for the film as part of the Grimme Prize .
literature
- Philipp Bühler (Federal Agency for Political Education (Hrsg.)): At the end there are tourists: Robert Thalheim; Germany 2007 , Bonn 2007
- Annette Wieviorka: Auschwitz, passé et present: Et puis les touristes, film de Robert Thalheim; projection-débat du 25 mars 2009 , Cercle d'Etude de la Déportation et de la Shoah - Amicale d'Auschwitz, Paris 2009
Web links
- Along Come Tourists in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- In the end tourists come to filmportal.de (with trailer and photo gallery)
- Official film page ( Memento from October 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- To the disco past the camp fence (SZ from August 16, 2007)
- Evelyn Finger: Review in ZEIT , Aug. 16, 2007, p. 39
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for At the end come tourists . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2007 (PDF; test number: 110 458 K).
- ↑ Robert Thalheim in an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ of August 16, 2007)
- ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexicon of International Films - Film Year 2007. Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9
- ↑ At the end there are tourists. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Sonja M. Schultz: In the end, tourists come. critic.de - the film page, August 24, 2007, accessed on May 6, 2013 .
- ^ Film of the month, statement of the jury