Out of nowhere

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Movie
Original title Out of nowhere
Country of production Germany ,
France
original language German
Publishing year 2017
length 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Fatih Akin
script Fatih Akin,
Hark Bohm
production Nurhan Sekerci,
Fatih Akin,
Herman Weigel
music Josh Homme
camera Rainer Klausmann
cut Andrew Bird
occupation

Out of nowhere is a feature film by Fatih Akin from the year 2017 . The German - French co-production was the 2004 by the terrorist cell National Socialist Underground committed (NSU) nail bomb attack in Cologne inspired. The focus is on a woman, played by Diane Kruger , who loses her German-Kurdish husband and son in a bomb attack. When the right-wing extremist perpetrators pair for lack of evidence acquitted by the court, it searches for the now fugitive offenders to vigilantism to commit.

Between melodrama , judicial film and revenge thriller , the film premiered on May 26, 2017 in the competition at the Cannes International Film Festival . Leading actress Diane Kruger won the best actress award there . At the awards ceremony of the Golden Globe Awards 2018 , the award was followed as Best Foreign Language Film . Out of nowhere was proposed as a German candidate for the 2018 Academy Awards , where he made it onto the shortlist of nine films.

action

Katja is married to the Kurd Nuri Sekerci, with whom she has a six-year-old son. You live in a spacious house outside of Hamburg. She met Nuri when she bought hashish from him when she was a student . She married him when he was still in custody, even though his and her parents were against the marriage. Both of their wedding rings had their ring fingers tattooed. Nuri has not worked as a drug dealer since his imprisonment , he studied business administration in prison and now runs a translation and tax office in Hamburg.

One afternoon Katja takes her son to her husband's office. When she wants to pick him up again in the evening, the street is blocked off. A police officer tells her that a man and a child were killed in a nail bomb attack. Shortly before the attack, Katja had seen a blond young woman at the crime scene who did not want to lock her bike, even though it was brand new. A black container was mounted on the back of the bike. Despite this information, the police are initially investigating in a different direction. She assumes an act of revenge among drug dealers and the commissioner responsible asks Katja first whether Nuri was a Kurd. After a DNA analysis using toothbrushes, confirmed that it was her husband and her son, who lost their lives in the attack.

The police begin their investigation with a search of Katja's apartment and light up Nuri's contacts because they suspect that his Kurdish background may have something to do with the crime. One assumes a conflict between hostile foreign organizations or a personal act of revenge.

The drawings of her son and the small plastic anchor of his pirate ship in the bathtub remind Katja again and again of Rocco and Nuri, she sees almost no reason to go on living. In her desperation she has cut herself off from the rest of the world, so the joys of motherhood of her best friend Birgit in contrast to the loss of her own family are unbearable. She lies down in the bathtub and cuts her wrists. When her lawyer calls Danilo Fava and reports that two Nazis have been arrested, Katja's will to live flares up again.

The public prosecutor's office is bringing charges of insidious murder against André and Edda Möller, a young neo-Nazi couple with international connections . At the trial, a forensic doctor describes all the gruesome details of the bombing in an expert report presented with scientific professionalism. Katja asks to be allowed to leave the hall and pounces on Edda Möller on the way to the door. Police separate the two. The evidence seems to be watertight and Fava firmly expects the Möllers to be convicted. However, the defense attorney questions Katja's credibility as a witness because drugs had been found in her home and she would be a drug addict. In addition, a Greek hotelier who is a member of the far-right party Die Morgenröte gives the couple an alibi. André Möller's father is heard as a witness . He has no doubts about his son's act and later invites Katja to coffee and cake in front of the courthouse.

The neo-Nazis are eventually acquitted for lack of evidence . Even mixed explosives of the type used had been found in Möller's garage, but other people could have gained access to the room, which is why doubts about the perpetrator could not have been ruled out.

Katja continues to investigate on her own and finds the perpetrators while on vacation in Greece. The appeal that her lawyer wants to appeal against the verdict no longer comes: she takes revenge by blowing herself up in the two of them in the form of an extended suicide with a nail bomb. She had previously built the bomb herself, based on the model of the explosive device with which her family had been killed.

production

Staff and funding

Directed by Fatih Akin , who also wrote the screenplay for the film together with Hark Bohm . The film was produced by bombero international in coproduction with Warner Bros. Film Productions Germany, Macassar Productions, corazón international and Pathé. For the research on Out of Nowhere , Akin had observed several court hearings in the NSU trial . Akin drove to Munich three times in preparation to follow the trial against Beate Zschäpe at the Higher Regional Court . Dealing with the victims of the right-wing extremist terrorist group at the trials was the trigger for him to make the film, and Akin had also taken over the dialogues in the court, the silence of the prosecutor and the uninvolved coldness of the accused. Akin says: “The scandal was not that German neo-Nazis killed ten people. The real scandal was that the German police, society and the media were all convinced that the perpetrators must be Turks or Kurds, that some mafia was hiding. "Akin says of the inner conflict of his protagonist Katja:" There is a state judiciary and there is an individual sense of justice. And sometimes the two collide. The film is also about this clash. "

Akin formally divided the film into three chapters. The family at the beginning of the film is the emotional drama of loss and grief, Justice shows the process and the last part is called The Sea . Peter Zander from Berliner Morgenpost explains that it is not about one film, but about three: “The first part is a family drama in which Katja Sekerci, a German who has married a German-Turk, has to deal with her loss . [...] The second part is a classic court drama , where the emotions of those affected meet the sober objectivity of the trial. [...] The third part is what is commonly called a revenge drama. Because Katja pursues the acquitted perpetrators to Greece, where they go into hiding. "

The film received production funding of 500,000 euros each from the German Federal Government and the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Film Funding and 250,000 euros from the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW .

occupation

The main role in the thriller is played by Diane Kruger , who Akin met in 2012 after the premiere of his film Garbage in the Garden of Eden and told her directly that she wanted to work with her. Kruger, with Out of nowhere the first time in her career turned a movie exclusively in German, says of her role: "I was afraid to play this role. We live in a time in which there are repeated terrorist attacks. We hear the number of victims, but we don't know the story of the bereaved. "

In the TV show cinema cinema of the BR television on November 22, 2017 declared actress Diane Kruger: "You hear so many of them and you always hear only the numbers: There are 22 dead, 100 dead. And somehow you never, or at least rarely, hear the stories of the people who stay behind, who have to live with them. And that's what touched me about the film. "

Numan Acar took on the role of Katja's husband Nuri Sekerci in the film. The Turkish name Sekerci means "sweets seller" in German. Samia Chancrin plays Katja's best friend Birgit. Ulrich Friederich Brandhoff and Hanna Hilsdorf took on the roles of the neo-Nazi couple André and Edda Möller. Ulrich Tukur plays Andrés father Jürgen Möller and Denis Moschitto Katja's lawyer Danilo Fava.

Filming

In October 2016, the film was shot in the Hamburg police headquarters on Bruno-Georges-Platz in Alsterdorf

Like the films Gegen die Wand and Soul Kitchen , Fatih Akin shot out of nowhere with his cameraman Rainer Klausmann mainly in his hometown of Hamburg. Filming began on October 20, 2016 and ended on November 21, 2016. Among other things, the film was shot on St. Pauli and in the Hamburg police headquarters on Bruno-Georges-Platz in Alsterdorf, there in the offices of the press office on the fifth floor. Other locations were in Greece . Like many films by Akin, the son of a Turkish fisherman, the film ends at the sea .

publication

The Match Factory distributes the film worldwide (international English title: In the Fade ), in Germany Warner Bros. Pictures Germany took over the distribution . The Match Factory was able to sell the film in a number of countries ahead of its premiere. Curzon Artificial Eye secured the rights for the United Kingdom and Ireland, Bitters End for Japan, BIM for Italy, Cineart for the Netherlands, Golem for Spain and Fabula for Turkey. The film celebrated its world premiere on May 26, 2017 as part of the Cannes International Film Festival, four days after the attack on the concert in Manchester . In June 2017 the film was shown at the Sydney Film Festival . From July 2nd 2017 he was presented at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival . In September 2017 the film was shown at the Special Presentations at the Toronto International Film Festival . The film was released in German cinemas on November 23, 2017.

reception

Age rating

In Germany the film is FSK 12 . The statement of reasons for release states: “The story about loss, grief and vigilante justice is mostly told calmly and focuses on the protagonist, who is depicted with empathy without her actions being endorsed. The gloomy mood and individual dramatic scenes can overwhelm children under 12 due to their emotional intensity. But 12-year-olds are able to put these aspects into context and reflect on what is happening and the question of justice. Because of the style-conscious design of the film, they can keep enough distance from the ambivalent main character so that there is no danger of fear or socio-ethical disorientation. "

Reviews and grossing results

Diane Kruger at the Cannes Film Festival

The actual course of events in the film says Hanns-Georg Rodek of Welt Online : "It is precisely the constellation of 9 June 2004 , as in Cologne Keupstraße before a Turkish hair salon, a nail bomb the National Socialist Underground exploded." Rodek explained in Hollywood would you could call such a film a revenge thriller. Out of nowhere is a film that moves along expected lines over long stretches, but in a figurative sense has a lot to do with our social reaction to terrorism of all kinds, according to Rodek.

Barbara Schweizerhof from epd Film believes that Fatih Akin has returned to the gripping, emotional film language of his early works such as Gegen die Wand with Out of Nowhere and puts the feelings of his main character over the details of the investigation and court proceedings: “What he loses in dry realism as a result , makes up for Krüger with a concentrated and unpretentious appearance. "

Peter Zander from the Berliner Morgenpost also says that Akin always stays very close to his protagonist and, in this film, finds his way back to the anger and the powerful, emotional film language of earlier works such as Gegen die Wand . And then there is Diane Kruger , Zander continues, the Hollywood star, who, although born in Germany, has never played in a German film: “She carries this film with an unpretentious, raw force, she does n't act, she goes on Pain limits and touches directly. They didn't trust her to do that. And maybe it took an Akin to recognize and bring that out in her. Here Kruger plays the role of her life. "

Rüdiger Suchsland writes: “The question of vigilante justice , the Kohlhaas conflict between justice and violence, law and terror, is not really being carried out. [...] Overall, the film is too vague for me. Putting a story in front of the viewer and then telling them to choose how to judge it morally is annoying. This is not openness, but cowardice. And when you tell the story of a moral suicide bomber, you have to position yourself a bit. "

Hannah Pilarczyk headlines Spiegel Online : "Like a mediocre crime scene " and then writes more specifically: " Out of nowhere [...] tells the subsequent trial of the attack as uninspired as a TV thriller", and describes the film as a "half-baked political thriller" .

Martina Knoben ( Süddeutsche Zeitung online) misses "the political" and states: "The long, sloppy delayed clarification of right-wing extremist terror in reality is radically abbreviated in the film."

In her column on the Maxim Gorki Theater website, Mely Kiyak criticized other reviews: “I can't remember that a German film that is on an exciting international journey and touches and inspires everywhere [...] here in Germany , was ever thought of with such a lust for demotion [...] The coverage of Fatih Akin's film says more about our country and its relationship to its great, critical artists than anyone wanted to know. "She countered other reviews:" The film was awarded in Cannes, he won the Golden Globes, he could win an Oscar. Reason enough to be happy, or at least to congratulate. "Kiyak supported the cast of the leading actress, whose family constellation in the film reminded her of the relatives of the NSU victim Theodoros Boulgarides :" The main actors in the film are Germans. The filmmaker is German. More German than at NSU and from Out of Nowhere is hardly possible. Of course, a blonde German has to play along. "

The film recorded 600,593 visitors in Germany.

Use in school lessons

The online portal kinofenster.de recommends Out of Nowhere for the subjects German , Politics, Social Studies / Community Studies, Ethics , Religion and History and offers materials for the film for the classroom. In spring 2019 the film will be presented as part of the SchulKinoWoche in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Awards (selection)

In mid-December 2017 the film was shortlisted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in the category Best Foreign Language Film for the Academy Awards 2018 , but did not make it into the five regularly nominated entries.

Below is a selection of nominations and awards from well-known award ceremonies.

Bambi 2017

  • Awarded the special prize of the jury

Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2018

German Film Award 2018

European Film Award 2018

  • Nomination for the audience award (Fatih Akin)

Golden Globe Awards 2018

Cannes International Film Festival 2017

Satellite Awards 2017

Bavarian Film Award 2017

  • Award for Best Director (Fatih Akin)
  • Award for Best Actress (Diane Kruger)

Online Film Critics Society Awards 2018

  • Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film

New York Film Critics Online Awards 2017

  • Award for best foreign language film

Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards 2017

IndieWire - Best Female Movie Performances 2017

  • 13th place as a leading actress for Diane Kruger

Web links

Commons : Out of nowhere  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Release certificate for out of nowhere . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 171564 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  3. ↑ Age rating for out of nowhere . Youth Media Commission .
  4. ↑ a b 'Out of nowhere'. Visit on the set In: ffhsh.de, November 22, 2016.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Ulrike Koltermann: "Out of nowhere": Fatih Akin presents neo-Nazi thriller in Cannes. ( Memento from May 26, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) In: heute.de, May 26, 2017.
  6. ^ A b c d Wenke Husmann: Cannes Film Festival: Nazi terror as a thriller. In: Zeit Online, May 27, 2017.
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  9. ↑ Hot autumn! Funding decisions of committee 1. In: ffhsh.de, June 27, 2016.
  10. ↑ Film- und Medienstiftung NRW funds 26 projects with 3.1 million euros. In: filmstiftung.de, October 5, 2016.
  11. ↑ Justin Kroll: Diane Kruger to Star in Fatih Akin's German-Language Drama 'Aus dem nothing' In: Variety, May 13, 2016.
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  13. ↑ "Out of Nowhere": A provocative thriller about justice and vigilante justice . TV broadcast, November 22, 2017, 14 min. Editor: Florian Kummert, Director: Carlos Gerstenhauer, Bayerischer Rundfunk 2017
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  23. ^ Rüdiger Suchsland: 70th Cannes Film Festival. The winner takes it all… In: artechock.de. Retrieved May 30, 2017.
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  25. ↑ Hannah Pilarczyk: Almost got the curve. Spiegel Online , January 8, 2018, accessed January 15, 2018 .
  26. ↑ Martina Knoben: A film that surrenders to its own violence. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung online, November 27, 2017, accessed on January 8, 2018.
  27. ^ A b c Mely Kiyak: Germany worries. Will Fatih Akin get the Oscar? , in: Kiyaks Theater Kolumne, kolumne.gorki.de, January 11, 2018, accessed on August 8, 2018
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  29. ↑ https://www.kinofenster.de/themen-dossiers/alle-themendossiers/dossier-rechtsterrorismus-im-film/dossier-rechtsterrorismus-im-film-aus-dem-nichts-film/
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  31. ^ Gregg Kilday: Oscars: Academy Unveils Foreign Language Film Shortlist. In: The Hollywood Reporter, December 14, 2017.
  32. ^ Kristopher Tapley: 'Shape of Water' Leads Critics' Choice Film Nominations. In: Variety, December 6, 2017.
  33. ↑ Nominations for the German Film Prize 2018 In: bundesregierung.de, March 14, 2018.
  34. ^ David González: Cold War tops European Film Awards nominations. In: cineuropa.org, November 10, 2018.
  35. ↑ Steve Pond: 'Dunkirk', 'The Shape of Water' Lead Satellite Award Nominations. In: thewrap.com, November 29, 2017.
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  37. ↑ https://www.nextbestpicture.com/latest/the-2017-new-york-film-critics-online-nyfco-winners
  38. ↑ 'GET OUT' WINS THREE AWARDS, INCLUDING BEST PICTURE, FROM KANSAS CITY FILM CRITICS . In: Kansas City Film Critics Circle . December 17, 2017 ( kcfcc.org [accessed March 5, 2018]).
  39. ↑ Eric Kohn, Kate Erbland, David Ehrlich: The Best Female Movie Performances of 2017 . In: IndieWire . December 11, 2017 ( indiewire.com [accessed March 5, 2018]).