From the skin
| Movie | |
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| Original title | From the skin |
| Country of production | Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Stefan Schaller |
| script | Jan Braren |
| music | Johannes Lehniger |
| camera | Michael Kotschi |
| cut | Andrea Mertens |
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Aus der Haut is an Austrian - German coming-of-age film by director Stefan Schaller from 2015. It is about the coming-out of the gay teenager Milan, played by Merlin Rose . Merlin's parents are played by Claudia Michelsen and Johann von Bülow , Leonard Proxauf plays his best friend and Nicole Mercedes Müller plays his girlfriend. Other leading roles are occupied by Johannes Krisch and Manuel Rubey .
Moviepilot wrote: “' Aus der Haut ' is dedicated to the disorientation and search for meaning of a young protagonist who has to find his place in the world.” On the page of the Max Ophüls film festival , this was “a film about the madness of growing up, about Parents who think they are grown up and for whom life throws a spanner in the works, and about the sensitive statics of living together in the family ”.
action
17-year-old Milan Schultze is drunk in his parents' car in Halle. Obviously he is very desperate, he keeps drinking alcohol from a bottle he has taken with him. You can see that something must torment him very much. The vehicle takes off and overturns on the open road, Milan ends up in the hospital.
Review: Milan likes to be with his best friend Christoph, with whom he and another student make music; Milan plays the drums. He is in a committed relationship with his classmate Larissa. However, he tells Christoph that Larissa only ever wants sex and that it becomes too much for him, besides that he doesn't love her at all. He likes to forget appointments with her because other things are more important to him. He misses an upcoming party to spend the evening with Christoph. When he calls Larissa to tell her that he is not coming because he is not doing so well, she is so upset that she practically breaks up with him. Milan feels more relieved.
Meanwhile, Christoph looked at porn on the Internet, which Milan did not go unnoticed. The boys begin to talk about intimate shaving, abnormalities on the scrotum and the size of their genitals. Milan says you can jerk off together. While they are doing that, Milan's gaze goes over and over to Christoph, excited as he is, he suddenly tries to kiss his best friend. His reaction is clear, however, he fights Milan off violently and leaves the house without a word. Milan is desperate, he drinks alcohol, gets into his father's car and the fateful journey takes its course.
Milan survived the accident without major damage, but left a suicide note that upset his parents. Milan's mother Susann has just fulfilled her dream of having her own doctor's practice, while his father Gustav suddenly feels underchallenged in his job as an architect and is thinking about accepting an offer from Berlin. However, the accident in which Milan had 1.7 per mille in the blood changed a lot.
Milan does not yet have the courage to admit to his parents and, above all, to himself that he is gay. However, Christoph tells a classmate in confidence what happened between him and Milan and so the rumor spreads around the school. Christoph and Milan keep clashing, including fights.
In a bar, Milan meets Harro, a homosexual photographer who helps him out with money when he doesn't have enough. When he comes home the next morning, he is strangely relaxed and tells his parents how much he loves them. With his parents continuing to worry about him, he finally makes up his mind to tell them he's gay. They respond with understanding, even though things are fermenting beneath the surface, as revealed in a late-night conversation between the couple. But there is also a lot going on between Susann and Gustav, Gustav has decided to accept the offer from Berlin without talking to Susann about it. She sees this as a breach of trust.
While Milan, after he has fully engaged with Harro, experiences that Harro is only interested in sexual contact and rejects him, Milan's mother experiences during a parenting interview at school that the majority of parents do not understand that Milan is themselves outed as gay. When Milan comes home, still marked by the experience he has just made, he overhears a conversation from his parents in which his mother tells what happened at school and complains bitterly to his father why her son is not quite normal everyone else could be. The phrase: "The worst thing is, sometimes I wish he was gone."
Milan has a lot to endure, especially from his classmates. However, Christoph tries to approach Milan again, while he realizes that Harro was just using him. Again he resorts to alcohol. His mother is sleeping with a friend of the family, Roland, at the same time. When she comes home early in the morning, Gustav is surprisingly back from Berlin and says she is ruining everything. Susann wants to see her son shortly, but he is not there. Worried, the couple go looking for it together. Then they see him standing on a roof. Deeply concerned, they shout: “Milan, no!” However, their son calms them down and says that everything is fine, while Christoph appears behind him. When all four are sitting in the car, Gustav completely loses his composure, cries uncontrollably and leaves the car. Susann follows him and takes him in her arms. Milan explains to his friend that his parents are having a marital crisis - but that will be again. Together with his found friend, he then leaves.
Production, publication
Production start for the shooting of the film, the working title of which was Coming Out , was on August 26, 2014 in Halle. Until September 27th, the film was shot in Leipzig and Berlin in addition to Halle. Filming locations in Halle included the main train station, the St. Elisabeth and St. Barbara Hospital and the "Johann Christian Reil" secondary school. The drama was produced by UFA Fiction on behalf of MDR and ORF for Das Erste . The producer is Nico Hofmann. The editing for the MDR was with Franka Bauer and Jana Brandt , for the ORF with Klaus Lintschinger.
The film premiered on June 29, 2015 at the Munich Film Festival . It was first broadcast on television on March 9, 2016 in the ARD Das Erste program . Alve released the film on DVD on August 19, 2016.
reception
Audience rating
When it was first broadcast, the film had 3.65 million viewers. The market share was 11.7 percent.
criticism
Thomas Gehringer gave the film five out of six possible stars on the tittelbach.tv website and praised it restrictively: “A family drama in the middle-class milieu, convincingly staged by Stefan Schaller and with a strong cast: 'Aus der Haut' is a new work by author Jan Braren , who once again credibly tells about identity formation and the mutual relationships in a family. But the film does not come close to the quality of home video in view of some weak supporting characters. "
On the moviebreak.de site , Levin Günther drew a slightly different conclusion: “With 'Aus der Haut', director Stefan Schaller has staged a film that in his basic position could certainly be worthy of all honor, if he did not consider himself less demanding, less sensitive , would never turn out to be a brave and mostly striking film. Constructed to the max, the television film fails above all because of its catastrophic escalation, which almost borders on refusal to work. The motivated portrayal of Merlin Rose doesn't help much either. "
Tilmann P. Gangloff dealt with the film for evangelisch.de and said: “There are often films of this kind, but this work is something very special: because it deals with the subject of homosexuality, in a way that Fortunately, it is neither abstract nor textbook-like. ”The critic was impressed and continued:“ Claudia Michelsen and Johann von Bülow embody their parents very authentically. Braren provided the couple with some clichés, but these can also be found in reality. Nonetheless, 'Out of the Skin' naturally stands and falls with the credibility of the central figure. Merlin Rose, who has always attracted positive attention in crime series like Zorn or Marie Brand, and was chosen by Andreas Dresen as the main actor in his film youth drama As Wir Träumten , embodies the role in its emotional diversity between euphoria and depression in a fabulous way. A courageous film that gets under your skin and falls out of the ordinary because, in contrast to the rare other television films on this topic, it dares to show homosexuality. "
In film reviews , Oliver Armknecht gave Aus der Haut six out of ten possible points and said one thing should be left to the film, that it was "clearly trying" to be "sensitive to the extremely difficult topic of homosexuality and coming-out, especially in adolescence." to approach and to “illuminate it from all sides”. “Particularly successful” is the film “in these small, at first unspectacular moments”, because it shows its “class, but above all that of up-and-coming actor Merlin Rose, who very credibly conveys the image of the young person in search”. In summary, it said: “The TV drama is just as ambitious as it is committed, tries to illuminate the difficulties of a coming-out from many angles. The result is played very well, but only partially successful, as many topics are only touched on and sometimes exaggerated due to the short running time. "
Ana Maria Michel wrote in the time line , the film Am working as "it came off the assembly line." And somehow this film would sound familiar. Michelsen had only recently played a very similar role in another film. You play this role “well. A little variety would still not hurt ”.
In Die Welt , Elmar Krekeler rated the film and spoke of a "touching ARD drama". Author Braren had "kept his script free of text to the extent that the actors (the always grandiose Claudia Michelsen and this time almost even better Johann von Bülow) had plenty of room to play, to fine-tune the characters through gestures and looks". [...] "The downright excruciating intensity of Home Video Reach [e] Schaller's film, although unfortunately not." The film was "but still the truest and most touching has long TV story of a coming-outs. A painful look inside the pseudo-liberality. And an almost complete compendium of all behaviors and sentences that parents should avoid. For decades".
Tobias Sunderdiek praised in the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung : “With 'Aus der Haut', ARD is not only presenting a coming-out story, but also a gripping, brilliantly played family drama.” […] Finally, he wrote on the screenplay by Jan Braren and Regarding the staging by Stefan Schaller: “Especially since they don't focus on the son's coming-out story, but rather give the feeling of showing a piece from the life of a completely normal family. A looseness that other films 'on the subject' unfortunately lack all too often. ”The film received five out of six possible stars.
On the DBNA page , the question is asked: "Isn't it time that heterosexual directors also recognize that coming-out is not the only issue for gay adolescents?" [...] One would have from the scriptwriter Jan Braren, who in 2011 wrote the book about the “remarkably realistic 'home video' ”, “can expect more”. Nevertheless, 'Aus der Haut' is a "film worth seeing". Because the actors, "first and foremost Merlin Rose as Milan and his parents Susann (Claudia Michelsen) and Gustav (Johann von Bülow)" gave "the film an emotional depth that sweeps the audience away, stirs them up, and the for a television film it is quite outstanding ”. “In addition,” he says, “it is the dialogues, sometimes funny, always authentic, that also enable young viewers to“ identify with the film ”. Jan Braren shows what he can do. "The camera work by Michael Kotschi, which captivates above all with close-ups", "gives the feeling of being directly and very close to it".
Award
Leading actor Merlin Rose was awarded the Günter Strack TV Prize 2016 as best young actor for his role .
Jana Brandt, responsible for television films at MDR, commented on the award: “Merlin Rose inspires in the main role with an acting range in which he makes the force of the emotions of his character between euphoria and depression appear credible. We are delighted with him about this award and are proud that with 'Aus der Haut' we have presented a courageous film on the subject of homosexuality that obviously impressed audiences and critics alike. "
Web links
- FilmWednesday in the first: From the skin see page programm.ard.de
- From the skin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- From the skin at Fernsehserien.de
- Aus der Haut (2015) see page queermdb.de (including several film images)
- Full film from the skin at 3sat.de (available until June 11, 2020)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Aus der Haut . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; June 2016; test number: 160 504 V).
- ↑ From the skin moviepilot.de see page. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
- ↑ a b From the skin see page ffmop.de. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
- ↑ Halle (Saale) is again used as a film set, see page halle.de
- ↑ From the skin at filmportal.de
- ↑ From the skin see page filmfest-muenchen.de. Accessed May 31, 2020.
- ↑ Aus der Haut Fig. DVD case Ufa Fiction / DasErste
- ↑ Thomas Gehringer: TV film "Aus der Haut". Merlin Rose, Michelsen, von Bülow, Schaller, Braren. Coming out of a 17-year-old see page tittelbach.tv. Accessed May 31, 2020.
- ↑ Aus der Haut (2015) see page moviebreak.de. Accessed May 31, 2020.
- ↑ TV tip: "Aus der Haut" (ARD) see page evangelisch.de. Accessed May 31, 2020.
- ↑ Out of the skin see page film reviews (including film trailer). Retrieved June 9, 2020.
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↑ Ana Maria Michel: Aus der Haut - If only the others weren't
in: Zeit Online , March 9, 2016. Accessed June 9, 2020. -
↑ Elmar Krekeler: "From the skin" - My son is gay. So what? The main thing is healthy!
In: Welt, March 9, 2016. Retrieved June 9, 2020. -
↑ Tobias Sunderdiek: The gripping family drama “Aus der Haut” gets under your skin.
In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , March 9, 2016. Accessed June 9, 2020. - ↑ Coming-out film: “From the skin” see page mag.dbna.com. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
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↑ Merlin Rose receives young talent award for leading role in MDR / ORF co-production "Aus der Haut"
see page presseportal.de. Accessed May 31, 2020.
