Barefoot (film)
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| Original title | Barefoot |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | Cinema: 115 minutes DVD: 110 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 6 |
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| Director | Til Schweiger |
| script | Til Schweiger Jann Preuss Stephen Zotnowski Nika von Altenstadt |
| production | Til Schweiger Tom Zickler |
| music |
Dirk Reichardt Stefan Hansen Max Berghaus |
| camera | Christof Wahl |
| cut |
Constantin by Seld Til Schweiger |
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Barfuss is a tragicomic romance film from 2005 with Til Schweiger and Johanna Wokalek in the leading roles. Schweiger was also a director, co-producer and code screenwriter.
action
Nick Keller moves from one job to the next with little success. At the employment office they certify that he probably has a problem with being told by others. As a last chance he is now placed as a cleaner in a psychiatric clinic . Due to his professional view, he was released the same day. He happened to save 19-year-old patient Leila, who was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, from suicide when she was about to hang herself. She then secretly follows him out of the clinic and walks barefoot to his apartment. She never wears shoes because she doesn't want to lock her feet up. Reluctantly, he lets Leila spend the night with him and wants to bring her back the next day.
Leila was locked up at home by her late mother for her entire life and was forbidden from any contact with other people. She was admitted to the clinic because she contributed to her mother's death by failing to provide assistance when she had a heart attack. Leila is very naive and still a child in spirit; so she takes everything literally that is told to her and quickly panics when in physical contact with strangers.
Nick does not have a good relationship with his influential and wealthy stepfather or with his brother Viktor. His mother reminds him that he is invited to his brother's wedding with Nick's former girlfriend, where he is supposed to reconcile with his stepfather and accept his offer to work in the family business for him. Nick has always rejected this out of pride and claimed that he was professionally independent and successful. Since he is now financially at the end, he now wants to accept the offer and inevitably takes Leila on the long journey. The two of them fly out of the night train due to missing tickets. Nick then steals a car and tries to sell it in order to get some money because he promised an expensive designer refrigerator as a wedding present. During the trip, Nick and Leila gradually develop a love affair.
Arriving at the wedding, the frosty relationship between Nick and his family becomes clear; the situation between Nick and his stepfather escalates. As a result, Nick tries again to admit Leila to a psychiatric hospital, but shortly afterwards confesses his love for her. After Nick arrests Leila for allegedly kidnapping Leila and she is taken back to the clinic, they try to see each other again. Nick decides to simulate a mental illness and be admitted to Leila's clinic. After Leilas tried again to kill herself, which she broke off, as well as a conversation with Nick, the attending doctor changed her mind about Nick and took him to the clinic. The last scene of the film shows Nick and Leila eight months later, released from the clinic, shopping in the supermarket.
background
- In the scene with the police officers in the clinic, cameraman Christof Wahl plays the second police officer and Til Schweiger's then wife Dana plays a nurse. Schweiger's daughter Emma can be seen as a guest at the wedding.
- The title of the film was called Barefoot in the first drafts of the script . For the film, Til Schweiger founded the production company Barefoot Films , with which he also produced his subsequent films.
- According to the German spelling rules, the film title is a misspelling (according to both the old and the new rules, “barefoot” is written with “ß”).
- Shooting began on June 3, 2004 and ended on August 5, 2004. Shooting took place at various locations in North Rhine-Westphalia ( Cologne , Königsallee , Wuppertal-Vohwinkel train station , Oberkasseler Brücke , Villa Hammerschmidt , Wachtberg shopping center , Düren station, platform 21, historic Aachen-Kornelimünster fair), forest hospital in Rosbach and Hamburg ( main station , Lombard bridge , old Elbe tunnel ).
- It started in theaters on March 31, 2005, and was first broadcast on German television on April 14, 2008 on Sat.1 .
- The production costs were estimated at 4.7 million euros, the gross income from the theatrical release was around 9 million euros. In Germany, there were 1,506,534 cinema-goers.
- In 2014, an American remake of the same script was released under the name Barefoot with Evan Rachel Wood and Scott Speedman in the lead roles.
Reviews
"The encounter between two world-lost people, designed as a great love story, suffers from the outlines and phases of helpless staging and gets lost in a dreary series of gags and pale episodes in which feelings are merely asserted."
“The romantic, fairytale-like comedy in softly drawn images relies on great emotions, but in a successful mixture of the comic and the tragic. And it shows a love story that does without kiss and sex. "
“The German cinema of the 90s, long believed to have been overcome, a favor cinema of total insignificance and referencelessness, is back. [...] In 'Barefoot' everything is finally subordinated to the purpose of showing off the jack-of-all-trades in all of his facets: thoughtful, sensitive, sometimes a sympathetic idiot, sometimes the real man he exhibited in his advertising for men's suits. But that seems to be possible only in fairy tales. Or how else can you explain that his films are set so often and here in an unrecognizable small or large German town; that a complex lighting design should destroy any idea of reality? "
“The technically solidly staged events on the screen rarely generate real emotions. The fact that four other authors besides Schweiger tinkered with the script reveals something about the convulsiveness to achieve German Hollywood format at almost any price. But that just goes wrong time and time again, although in this case it is light for the visitor. "
“'Barefoot' is a 'romantic comedy', claims the film distributor. It is mainly thanks to Wokalek that it doesn't turn out too silly. How her Leila cross-eyed discovers the world through her straggly hair, smiles like a child or suddenly, all woman, fights for her love - these are the moments that really give 'Barfuß' the fairy-tale, poetic quality that Schweiger wanted for his film. "
Awards
- Til Schweiger received a Bambi 2005 in the Film National category for the film .
- Alexandra Neldel won an Undine Award 2005 for Best Youth Supporting Actress in a Feature Film .
- German Film and Media Assessment FBW: Predicate valuable.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for barefoot . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2005 (PDF; test number: 101 790 K).
- ↑ Age rating for barefoot . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Official site of the American version.
- ^ Entry in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ Without kiss and sex in Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 27, 2005
- ^ "Barefoot": A shy deer needs exercise in the Berliner Zeitung of March 31, 2005
- ^ "Barefoot": Nick and the girl from the slap in Stern from April 1, 2005
- ↑ Stubborn with a crack in the soul in Der Spiegel , issue 13/2005 of March 26, 2005
Web links
- Official website
- Barefoot in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Barefoot in the lexicon of international films
- Barefoot at filmportal.de