Appassionata (2008)

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Movie
Original title Appassionata
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2008
length 16 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Mirko Echghi-Ghamsari
script Balthasar von Weymarn
production Boris Grönemeyer
music Clemens Haas, after L. van Beethoven
camera Mike Connor
cut Marc Versteeg

Appassionata is a German-language real short film from 2008.

action

In January 1943, two soldiers, Anton (injured in the right arm) and Hans, kept guard with a machine gun in a ruined house in the Stalingrad pocket. Anton learns from Hans that there are no more provisions and that the expected mail delivery was shot down on the approach to Pitomnik . Thereupon he decides to carry out a long-cherished plan before life is over and "it" is shot down. He leaves the ruins and makes his way to a place where a piano is on the street in the snow. He prepares the piano with a piano tuner he has brought with him, his injured arm gives him difficulties. He begins to play the second movement of the Appassionata and is interrupted by a Russian soldier who threatens and searches him. It turns out surprising for Anton that the soldier, injured on his left hand, can play the piano himself and invites Anton to a duet. The two play the beginning of the third movement and the coda before being interrupted by gunfire from the Russian side. Hidden behind the piano, the two soldiers say goodbye to each other and run in different directions. Back in the ruins, Anton discovers that his comrade Hans was killed with a knife by a lone fighter who was probably the pianist.

Awards

The film was screened at 30 festivals around the world (including Shanghai , Palm Springs , Hof , Kolkata ) and won four film awards.

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