Back for Good (film)

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Movie
Original title Back for Good
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2017
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Mia Spengler
script Stefanie Schmitz , Mia Spengler
production Zum Goldenen Lamm GmbH & Co. KG, SWR
music Marc Fragstein
camera Falko Lachmund
cut Linda Bosch , Gregory Schuchmann
occupation

Back for Good is a German tragic comedy by director Mia Spengler from 2017 .

action

After a drug withdrawal and separation from her boyfriend and manager, B-celebrity and reality TV actress Angie has to move back in with her mother Monika and sister Kiki because none of her so-called friends want to take her in. Back in the provinces , Angie becomes more and more aware of the gap between her life and that of her mother and sister. Old conflicts are reawakening as her mother is still domineering and control addict and her sister, who is also struggling with her epilepsy , suffers particularly from it.

Angie stays afloat with performances as a DJ and tries to advance her career in order to secure the last free place in the jungle camp . When her mother spends a long time in the hospital and in rehab after a minor stroke , Angie has to take responsibility for her sister Kiki. In her role as surrogate mother, Angie realizes how much her sister suffers from the control of her mother and the teasing of her classmates, and Kiki's amateur dance videos on the internet also make her rethink her own social media appearances. The meeting with Drew also helps Angie to rethink her view of her previous life in public, even if she only has fun at his life at first. Drew was a member of the very successful band "Too cool for school" in the 1990s, now lives in personal bankruptcy , keeps himself afloat with bad singing in hardware stores in front of a dozen of aged fans and CD sales and searches the waste containers of supermarkets for unspoilt food .

After an argument with her mother, Angie reveals to her sister Kiki that Angie is not her significantly older sister, but her birth mother. After one last attempt to return to her previous life and get a contract for the jungle camp, Angie crashes at a celebrity event after using cocaine again. When Angie discovered a video of her daughter Kiki on the Internet the next morning, who was soaking herself on the floor in front of schoolmates during an epileptic seizure at a party , Angie decided to finally change her life and take responsibility for her daughter and her own life. She moves into an apartment in her hometown, takes a job with her friend in the hair removal studio and slowly approaches Kiki and her own mother again.

publication

Juliane Köhler and Kim Riedle at the Berlinale 2017

The film was shown at the Berlin International Film Festival 2017 as the opening film of the Perspektive Deutsches Kino . It was released in theaters on May 31, 2018. It was first broadcast on television on November 6, 2019 on SWR .

Awards

Back for Good received the DEFA Foundation's Young Talent Award at the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Film Art Festival in 2017 and the award of the jury for German-language film criticism in the FIPRESCI; Kim Riedle as the leading actress received the Young Actor Award . In 2017, the film was awarded the Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award as best film and at the Biberach Film Festival with the debut and school beaver and in 2018 with the New Faces Award as best debut film.

Kim Riedle and Juliane Köhler were also nominated as best leading and supporting actors for the German Acting Award 2017 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press releases 2017 (archive) on berlinale.de, accessed on November 13, 2019
  2. ↑ Teacher information on backforgood-derfilm.de, accessed on November 13, 2019

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