Baching (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Baching |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Matthias Kiefersauer |
| script | Matthias Kiefersauer |
| production | Martin Choroba |
| music | Rainer Bartesch |
| camera | Stefan Biebl |
| cut | Silvia Nawrot |
| occupation | |
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Baching is the second feature film by Matthias Kiefersauer from the year 2008 . The film was funded by the FFF Bayern .
action
Benedikt Kirchner is returning to his home village of Baching after three years. As the village host, his brother Robert is currently preparing for the village festival. Bernhard Stemmer placed the order with him for this. Benedict first struggles to enter the village. He visits his brother's inn, who is now married to Benedict's ex-girlfriend Annette. Robert's joy at the appearance of his brother is subdued, although he has just had to fire a cook and would have to rely on Benedict's help. In addition, his mother falls, injures her leg and is absent from the village festival.
The two teachers Bernhard and Gabi argue in the staff room. They later meet at their daughter's grave. On the way back to the village, Gabi sees Benedikt sitting in the passenger seat of his car while Robert drives. Gabi says to Bernard that Benedikt had killed her child and wonders why he is back. Benedikt seeks out his old friend Laura, who was also in the car during the accident. She too struggles with the shadows of the past.
Bernhard is giving a lecture as the organizer of the 450th anniversary celebration of Baching. When Mr. Simerl orders a fruit schnapps and a beer, Bernhard takes the car key from him. Mr. Simerl is also still struggling with the past. Benedict helps his brother in the kitchen. When the lecture is over, Bernhard comes into the kitchen because he needs help with the totally drunk Mr. Siemerl, who does not want to leave. He meets Benedict. Benedikt asks Robert to work for a few weeks until he has found another job. However, he refuses, although he could use the help.
Laura cannot get rid of the past either. She tears up men at random to sleep with them. However, she realizes that one of her lovers is the husband of one of her patients who is expecting a child. Benedikt meets Gabi at Lena Stemmer's grave, who forbids him to come back there. At the fair, Bernhard sees his wife and their colleague Roland Feller in a warm embrace. Since he cannot deal with the breakup, he attacks Feller.
The situation for Benedict is also coming to a head at home. He can't forget the accident. The memories come back and also old feelings about Annette, who is now married to his brother Robert. So she looks for him in his room at night. The next day, Benedikt was just entering the bathroom when Annette got out of the shower. Benedict seeks out Bernhard because he invited him to tell him that he has forgiven him. When his still-wife Gabi rings the bell, Bernhard hides him in his deceased daughter's nursery. Gabi confesses to Bernhard that she has been in a relationship with Roland for four months, which Bernhard cannot believe. Gabi also wants to pick up her rollerblades. When asked where they are, Bernhard sends them to the children's room. There she meets Benedict. Screaming, she runs out of the room and hits Bernhard, who is still standing in the kitchen.
The next day Bernhard would like to apologize, Gabi flees from him. The monk Johannes tries to mediate. The next day, Benedict flies kites with Laura. In conversation with her, they both come to terms with the accident. Laura finds out that Benedikt only drove in the car to bring her home. At the grave, Bernhard Johannes tells about the day the accident happened, when his child ran in front of the car. He blames himself for thinking that he has not taken care of his daughter enough. Johannes tries to comfort Bernhard. Benedict still does not come to terms with the fact that his ex-girlfriend Annette is married to his brother Robert and they have a child together.
Laura meets her one-night stand again in the hospital, which is harassing her. She throws him out of the nurses' room. Bernhard rebukes a driver who is driving too fast in the 30 zone. When Annette explains the coffee machine to Benedikt, he asks her about her sex life with his brother. During the night she rejects her husband. The next day she asks Benedict to move out. At first Benedict can't believe it, but then moves in with his long-time friend Laura. During the construction work for the village festival, Benedikt and Bernhard had a scandal when Bernhard narrowly missed Benedict with the hammer. Benedikt runs away and is pursued by Bernhard, who demands that Benedict say goodbye to him, since he would have forgiven him. Benedict refuses, and Bernhard hits him several times in the face. Everything goes haywire in Robert's inn, because he is overwhelmed by himself in the kitchen.
Benedict cooks for Laura. As a result, they get closer and eventually sleep together. The next day they recapitulate the night. Laura explains to him that he is the first one she has slept with in three years, even though they know each other. Benedict wants to know if they are together now, but Laura refuses. In the staff room, the situation between Gabi and Bernhard comes to a head. She asks him not to hurt her so much in the future if they want to keep working together.
In the evening they meet to go to the cinema together. After going to the cinema, Bernhard draws new hope for the relationship. Gabi then confesses to him that she is pregnant again. Bernhard jumps into the car and escapes. After an argument with Robert, Annette fled to Benedikt. There they come closer. However, shortly beforehand she refuses to sleep with him. When leaving the apartment, she meets Laura, who has meanwhile fallen in love with Benedikt and leaves the apartment disappointed. She looks for the next man in the next disco. When she comes out of the bathroom the next day, she finds that the stranger has placed two hundred euro bills on her bed.
At home she sees Benedict packing his things. She yells after him that all three cannot get rid of it. Benedict cannot be stopped and gets into his car. At the place-name sign he turns around and seeks his brother at the village festival. Robert reproaches him for recommending that he take a taxi at the time. It would have been he who had to endure the whole thing, after all Benedict would have run away while he stayed here. Besides, it would have been his side that the kid ran into. After the argument, they reconcile the two. Benedict returns to Laura.
Everything seems to be the same again; This becomes clear when the bowlers order their four waters as always.
dramaturgy
The film makes its statement primarily through the physical performance of the protagonists. Facial expressions, gestures, posture, looks, silence and listening tell the real story of the emotions of all those involved behind and under the story line conveyed by words. The dramaturgical effect of the Bavarian language does not relate to the purpose of creating local color, but rather, together with the patterns of body language, serves a dramaturgical statement that could not be generated in the same shorthand compact in standard German.
The narrative technique uses the shortcut technique, which tells the stories of the protagonists in short steps. Successive combination of all those who were involved in the triggering event, the death of little Lena, reveals step-by-step answers to the question of processing, guilt and forgiveness. Exactly halfway through the film, the camera visits the protagonists who are awake at night in their sleeping quarters, takes over the recording of a few lines of the song Stiller Raum by Rio Reiser (reinterpreted for the film by Tex Drieschner ), depicting the emotional positioning of all those involved and marks the point in time Swing of happiness between exposure and execution.
criticism
“The drama about the aftershocks of a private catastrophe takes on too many characters and lines of conflict that are not always convincingly related to one another. The film does not always strike the right note in terms of the staging either. "
“A calm film about the emptiness that arises less through words than through the behavior of the characters. Anchored in the Bavarian local color, the great pain of a shaken place is reflected in small gestures. kino.de "
“Three years ago Benedict caused a car accident in which a child died. Now he comes back to the place where it happened, in the small Upper Bavarian village of Baching. Benedict's return tears open wounds that have only healed superficially. Six people, all involved in the accident that happened back then, are fighting desperately for a life with their shared history. A film about love, death and home. Narrated with human warmth and staged with astonishing ease. " Movienetfilm.de "
Web links
- Baching in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Approval certificate for Baching . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2009 (PDF; test number: 116 717 K).
- ↑ Text Stiller Raum by Rio Reiser ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Youtube Stiller Raum (Rio Reiser Cover) - TEX - tvnoir.de
- ↑ Baching. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
