Breathing (film)

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Movie
Original title To breathe
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Karl Markovics
script Karl Markovics
production Dieter Pochlatko ,
Nikolaus Wisiak
music Herbert Tucmandl
camera Martin Gschlacht
cut Alarich Lenz
occupation

Breathing is the title of an Austrian feature film produced in 2011 . The drama is the first directorial work by the actor Karl Markovics , who also wrote the script.

action

Karin Lischka and Thomas Schubert at the premiere ceremony in Vienna 2011

Roman Kogler is 19 years old and is serving a five-year prison sentence in a youth prison in Lower Austria . At the age of 14, he had kicked an opponent of the same age to death in a dispute. Abused by his mother as a child, he would like to apply for early release. But for that he needs a job. In a newspaper he reads a job advertisement at Bestattung Wien .

Although his probation officer advised against it, Roman began as an undertaker during his leave. Here he not only has to put aside his shyness towards corpses, but also has to endure the bullying of his superior Rudolf Kienast. One day, Roman's team received the order to bring a corpse from the Kaiser-Franz-Josef-Spital to a cemetery. The lady, like Roman, has the last name Kogler, which is why Roman assumes that his mother is before him. Although it later turns out that the woman is not his mother, the young person begins to look for his mother. Roman can find his mother Margit Kogler quickly and speaks to her in a furniture store. They have a long conversation about the past, Roman lies to his mother and says that he is a diving instructor . He completely withholds his sentence. When asked why she volunteered her own son in childcare, the mother replied that it was the best thing she had ever done in her life. Roman goes away furiously.

In the meantime, there is a key experience between Kienast and Roman. When he is picked up from an apartment, Roman defends himself against the hostility of Kienast. When he helps him to wash and dress the corpse, cooperation works for the first time and communication, which is still sparse, improves. The fact that Kienast is accepting Roman more and more, despite his coarse manner, can be seen from the help with tying his tie, which Kienast had previously roughly refused to do. Kienast also assists him silently when picking up an alleged dead person from Vienna's Praterstern , where a passer-by was screaming because of the tin coffin she had brought with her and was instructed to rest by one of the policemen, although Roman assisted these policemen because of his behavior towards the passer-by yelled at. This is reinforced by the following scene in which the dead person is placed in the tin coffin after a failed reanimation and Kienast offers Roman his help.

Another day Margit intercepts her son at the funeral after his work. She says that as a baby, Roman always screamed at night. In order to be able to sleep well for at least one night, the young mother took a pillow and pressed it into Roman's face until he stopped screaming. The baby no longer breathed, which is why Margit resuscitated the lifeless child by means of mouth resuscitation (she held her nose closed, while she was breathing through the mouth with the nose closed), whereupon the child began to breathe again. The next day she handed the child over to childcare.

During the hearing of the requested parole, one sees the video in which the deed is re-enacted. Here you can see that Roman was cut off the air supply by his home colleague with a sweater over his head and that, presumably in connection with his unconscious trauma from infancy, caused the short-circuit act of manslaughter. At the end of the trial you can see Roman leaving the court, but you don't find out the outcome. The happy reaction of his probation officer, however, suggests a positive outcome. In the last scene, Roman visits the grave of the youth for whose death he is responsible.

background

Markovics, Lischka, Schubert, Tucmandl and other members of the film team at the Austrian premiere

The film, shot with a production budget of 1 million euros, was shot in Vienna . The 17-year-old amateur actor Thomas Schubert was won as the main actor , for whom it is also his debut alongside Karl Markovics behind the camera.

After screenings at individual film festivals (Cannes, Sarajevo), the official premiere took place on September 27, 2011 at the Gartenbaukino in Vienna . The film has been shown in selected Austrian cinemas since September 30, 2011.

Awards

Karl Markovics and Thomas Schubert with Valie Export, Austrian Film Prize 2012

Of the Austrian Film Commission was breathing as a candidate for the Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film selected. However, he did not make it to the nomination shortlist of AMPAS . Atmen was able to win all six of the six nominations for the Austrian Film Prize 2012 .

Web links

Commons : Breathe  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Approval certificate for breathing . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2011 (PDF; test number: 130 354 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for breathing . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ http://www.quedit.com/detail/markovics-gewann-mit-atmen-sarajevo-filmfestival-13037693.html?LID=56&tmp=user
  4. ↑ Kurier : Markovics' "Breathing" receives Golden Eye ( Memento from October 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ São Paulo International Film Festival 2011: Prêmio do júri
  6. ↑ "Breathe" out of the Oscar race , Kurier , January 19, 2012