At a saturday
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | At a saturday |
| Original title | В субботу (V subbotu) |
| Country of production | Russia , Ukraine , Germany |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alexander Mindadze |
| script | Alexander Mindadze |
| production | Alexander Mindadze, Matthias Esche , Philipp Kreuzer , Dimitrij Efremov , Oleg Kokhan |
| music | Mihail Kovalev |
| camera | Oleg Mutu |
| cut | Ivan Lebedev , Dasha Danilova |
| occupation | |
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The film On a Saturday ( Russian В субботу V subbotu , Ukrainian У суботу U subotu ) is about the unsuccessful attempt on the day of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster , a Saturday , to escape the consequences of the city of Pripyat , at the gates of which the Chernobyl nuclear power plant lies. It was part of the 2011 Berlinale competition program .
action
The young party official Valerij Kabysch realizes that something bad must have happened in the nearby Chernobyl nuclear power plant and cannot be turned off. When an inconsiderate apparatchik forces him to drive with him in his car to the immediate vicinity of the burning block, he fled from there. At dawn he watches his girlfriend Vera at work and urges her to flee the city together. First they miss the planned train, then Vera's pass, which was deposited as a deposit, is missing. They end up at a wedding party, where Valerij lets himself be persuaded to replace the new drummer in his previous band, who got completely drunk before the performance. So finally the day goes by until it is too late for everyone to escape the radiation.
background
According to the director Alexander Mindadze, he wanted to make a film about Chernobyl that addresses why the residents did not flee , although many certainly knew about the catastrophe, but probably underestimated its invisible danger.
Main actor Anton Shagin himself comes from Karachev , which was directly affected by the disaster.
According to information in the opening and closing credits, the film was inspired by real characters who survived the disaster.
Reviews
“The decision not to get involved in the catastrophe, but to slow down the film dramaturgically, is undoubtedly an exciting approach. [...] Not only in terms of content, but also aesthetically, An Eine Saturday has a concept that is more interesting in theory. Oleg Mutu radicalizes his documentary manual camera work from 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days ( 4 luni, 3 saptamani 2 zile , 2007) and focuses almost exclusively on the faces of the characters with plenty of wobbling. For the most part consistently, the film denies the viewer clear long shots and lets the actors' surroundings disappear into the blur. As a picture of the disoriented state of his protagonist, this is entirely plausible, but the constant wobbling also represents a test of patience for the viewer that is not easy to bear. "
Web links
- On a Saturday in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- On a Saturday at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b KinoFestival im Erste - On a Saturday. Program in Das Erste . April 22, 2013. Retrieved April 22, 2013 .
- ↑ a b c On a Saturday ( Memento from April 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b http://www.aneinemsamstag-derfilm.de/film.php
- ↑ http://www.aneinemsamstag-derfilm.de/interview.php
- ↑ Michael Kienzl: On a Saturday. critic.de - the film page, April 7, 2011, accessed on April 23, 2012 .