Annelie (2012)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Annelie |
| Country of production | Switzerland , Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 111 minutes |
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| Director | Antej Farac |
| script | Antej Farac |
| production | Johann Betz - Three Wishes, Zoé Farac - elPatrol |
| music | Tito Lee |
| camera | Chris Valentien |
| cut | Antej Farac |
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Annelie is a Swiss-German feature film by director Antej Farac from 2012. The film premiered on October 5, 2012 at the Busan International Film Festival . It is the first ever Swiss film to be selected for this official competition.
action
ANNELIE is an old guest house in Munich that has long since passed its best days. When the guests stopped coming, the city rented it as temporary accommodation for the homeless and social cases. This "temporary accommodation" lasted over a decade for some residents, and the long wait inevitably brought together various very idiosyncratic characters. They are all considered to be impossible to place, have been unemployed for years and ANNELIE is her home.
The film shows the residents in a kind of experimental arrangement in which they have to organize their coexistence. One of them is Max, a former actor and child star who, as a junkie, only uses his talent for professional scrounging. Another is the owner of a badly running kiosk, whose wife keeps them both afloat by selling their bodies. There is hope for a new beginning for Max when he starts a relationship with the beautiful swinger club owner. But the incident with a corpse turns everything upside down: in 2012, the city decreed that the ANNELIE pension should be closed and the house including the swingers club torn down.
This message puts the residents in a state of emergency. While Max is drawn ever deeper into the maelstrom of his drug addiction , the remaining members of the strange ANNELIE family - alkies, junkies, petty criminals or illegal city game hunters - have to stick together for the last time. With the determination of those who have nothing more to lose, they kidnap a well-known band. Ultimately, it all comes down to an occult finale where the bitter reality turns out to be a passing dream.
background
The house, which its residents affectionately called ANNELIE, was on Landwehrstrasse, a social hotspot in Munich, where junkies, prostitutes , artists and big-city bohemians live side by side. The rundown former hotel was much more than just the idea and location of this film. The ANNELIE pension was just as real as the people and their stories.
Antej Farac, the director and writer of the film, lived across the street for years and shared the backyard with the ANNELI people. In the direct vicinity he experienced all the ups and downs, deaths and fates. Shocked by the extent of poverty and fascinated by the gallows humor of his neighbors, it quickly became clear to Farac that he wanted to draw attention to the situation. In the beginning, the contact consisted of always bringing over discarded items that the neighbors could use. The pensioners appreciated this initiative and finally decided that he wasn't a snob . Little by little they got involved in his projects, which resulted in photo and art works, a documentary about the transsexual housemaker Laura and finally the feature film ANNELIE.
The trust he gained gave him a deep insight into the social underworld, and so with ANNELIE an impressive and exciting study of the milieu was created. The characters were mostly played by the real residents, apart from the main role that the shooting star in German-speaking countries, the Berlinale award winner Georg Friedrich, took on. Apart from the end of the film, the director only interwoven fragments of real fates into a touching and at the same time humorous story. The film seems authentic to the point of pain, and yet it does not come close to the real conditions in the house. - Because no film is as hard as life itself.
Festivals and Awards
- Busan International Film Festival 2012 (South Korea)
- Vancouver International Film Festival 2012 ( Canada )
- Hof International Film Festival 2012 (Germany) - Award for the best costumes
- Exground Filmfest Wiesbaden 2012 (Germany)
- Pune International Film Festival 2013 ( India )
- Yashwant International Film Festival 2013 (India)
- Solothurn Film Festival 2013 (Switzerland)
- Bari International Film Festival 2013 ( Italy )
- Eurocine Colombia Bogota 2013 (Colombia)
- Frequency Film Festival San Diego 2013 (USA)
- East End Film Festival London 2013 (United Kingdom)
- Festival del Film Locarno 2013 (Switzerland)
- Biberacher Film Festival 2013 (Germany)
- 2morrow Film Festival Moscow 2013 (Russia)
criticism
- “In this desolate microcosm of real, failed existences, Farac places the fictional figure of Max and in his“ Hartz IV film ”(Farac) develops a wildly fabulous panopticon that alternates between agitprop , crude voyeurism and fantastic ideas, but as Swiss ones Cinema - Varieté production can claim to have avoided the well-trodden paths. ” Neue Zürcher Zeitung, June 20, 2013. Accessed on August 26, 2013.
- "But Annelie tells of all the real horror with a radical impudence and a rock'n'roll energy that made the film a really outstanding experience at these Hof film days." Der Spiegel, October 29, 2012. Accessed on August 26 2013.
- “Annelie feels like a mixture of Ulrich Seidl's real misery and“ Trainspotting ”- and has absolutely nothing of the harmless comfort of some Swiss feature films.” Der Bund, June 20, 2013. Accessed August 26, 2013.
- "Director Antej Farac worked for years and experienced strokes of fate, ups and downs of the neighbors. The documentary fiction" Annelie "is based on his observations, which does not show its protagonists , but arouses sympathy . A look into the hard Hartz IV milieu with Alkies, Junkies and petty criminals and a tragic and almost fairytale ending. A highlight of the 46th Hof International Film Festival. " Evening newspaper of October 31, 2012
- “A critical hit! Strong, rugged and sophisticated all at the same time. ” Cine 21, October 7, 2012. Accessed August 26, 2013.
Web links
- Annelie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Annelie on fbw-filmbwertung.com
- Annelie on deutsches-filminstitut.de
- Annelie on annelie-derfilm.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annelie in the Flash Forward category on the Busan International Film Festival website. Retrieved August 26, 2013.
- ^ Annelie on the Vancouver International Film Festival website. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
- ↑ Award ceremony on the website of the Hof International Film Festival. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
- ↑ Annelie on website Exground Film Festival. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
- ^ Annelie in the film list of the Pune International. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
- ^ Annelie in the program of the Yashwant International Film Festival. (PDF; 77 kB) Accessed August 27, 2013.
- ↑ Annelie on the Solothurn Film Festival website. ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
- ^ Annelie on the website of the Bari International Film Festival. ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
- ↑ Article about Annelie in Bogota. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
- ^ Annelie on the Frequency Film Festival website. ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
- ^ Annelie on the East End Film Festival website. ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
- ^ Annelie on the website of the Locarno Film Festival. Retrieved August 27, 2013.
- ↑ Critique of the NZZ
- ^ Criticism from Spiegel Online
- ↑ Critique of Der Bund
- ^ Review of Cine 21
