Keep (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Keep |
| Country of production |
Austria , Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jo Baier |
| script | Jo Baier |
| production |
Dieter Pochlatko , Marc Müller-Kaldenberg , Marcus Olpp , Regina Ziegler |
| music | Sebastian Fitz |
| camera | Martin Gschlacht |
| cut | Claus Wehlisch |
| occupation | |
| |
Keep is an Austrian - German co-production from the year 2016 . The television film , directed by Jo Baier , was broadcast for the first time on September 21, 2016 on ORF and on Erste . The premiere took place on August 24, 2016 at the opening of the Heimatfilmfestival in Freistadt , Upper Austria . The historical background of the film is the massacre of Sant'Anna di Stazzema on August 12, 1944.
action
An old man is buried in a small mountain village. After his funeral, his daughter Erna and grandson Robert receive a package with historical records. These come from the Italian Salvatore, who came to the village in the 1980s . At the age of four he had witnessed the destruction of his family and the population of his village by German troops in 1944 and only survived by chance because the soldier ran out of ammunition. “Lucky, little spaghetti, ” said the soldier - a sentence Salvatore never forgets. When he shows up in the village, no one knows what he actually wants. He moves into a guest room in the only inn, does strange looking research, among other things takes photos of old men and scouts out farms. This is met with distrust in the village, especially among older men.
With some women, however, he is well received as a handsome man in his early 40s, including the landlady Romy, who is exposed to jealousy and the blows of her alcoholic husband, who is in a wheelchair, and the lonely carpenter Frieda, her fiance from the Second World War did not return because, as a communist , he was betrayed by the village community to the National Socialists and sent to the Eastern Front. He lets her believe that she is a writer and - after she too has an account to be had with the villagers - she is more and more willing to give him information about the old men in the village.
He also befriends the fun-loving young nurse Erna. Erna drives through the woods in a VW Beetle to the music of Janis Joplin and has a four-year-old son. After a trip to India , she inevitably lives again with her father, the stubborn old Stockinger, who takes care of his grandson “Bertl” but only reproaches his daughter.
A love relationship begins to develop between Erna and Salvatore, although or precisely because she knows that her father doesn't like Italians. What Erna does not suspect, however, is what Salvatore is really looking for in the village, namely the SS man who shot his family in Italy in 1944. One of the old people from the village is said to be the perpetrator. A scar under the chin that the four-year-old had impressed on himself is supposed to convict him. One of the possible perpetrators is old Stockinger, Erna's father. However, Stockinger's chin is covered by a full beard, so that Salvatore cannot determine whether it has a scar.
Salvatore breaks into Stockinger's house, ties him up and takes him to the basement. Stockinger, however, haughtily ricochets off all allegations. Only after Salvatore shaved him and discovered the scar on his chin, Stockinger admits. Salvatore actually wanted to avenge his family and kill the man, but then decides against it. A world collapses for Erna when Salvatore announces his immediate departure without giving any reason. He only pays Frieda one more visit and gives her his notes on Stockinger, which she is supposed to give to Robert after Stockinger's funeral.
Production and Background
The shooting took place from September 1st to October 5th, 2015 in Styria . Shooting locations were among others Pürgg , Tipschern in Mitterberg-Sankt Martin , Bad Mitterndorf and Rottenmann , in Rottenmann the shooting took place on the premises of the state hospital. The film was produced by Epo-Film and Zieglerfilm München, the Austrian , Bavarian and West German broadcasts were involved, and the production was supported by Cinestyria Filmcommission and Fonds , the TV Fund Austria and the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern . Walter Fiklocki was responsible for the sound, Esther Amuser for the costume design and Rudolf Coppel for the production design.
The soundtrack was recorded in Darmstadt in December 2015 . In order to express the threatening mood of the film also musically, composer Sebastian Fitz consciously preferred the darker timbre of the viola to a violin for the main motifs and had the composition performed on a piano instead of a grand piano.
In Sant'Anna di Stazzema , near the Italian city of Lucca , in the summer of 1944 Waffen-SS troops in retreat carried out a massacre of Italian civilians, women, children and elderly men. On August 12, 1944, several hundred civilians were killed. In May 2015, a few months before filming began, a case against one of the suspects, Gerhard Sommer , was dropped in Germany due to dementia.
reception
In Germany, 3.55 million viewers saw the film when it was first broadcast on the first , with a market share of 12 percent.
Rainer Tittelbach described the film as a “differentiated revenge drama from the victim's perspective. [...] The dramaturgy may seem conventional, but it is well considered: three generations, three time levels; the historical guilt also applies to the descendants. And so the love between the Italian and an Austrian cannot have a future. ”A 15-minute accounting sequence was particularly successful: an intense, highly emotional private court scene. Otherwise the drama is very sensual, without explanatory dialogues, the authentic cast is exemplary.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: “Jo Baier furnishes his story of coming to terms with the past, which wants to be the opposite of Alpine kitsch, with all sorts of details and subplots that stem from this world of longing. [...] A more haunting film would have been made if Baier had consistently built on the foundation of the plot. What would then have been possible is shown by Bucci and Simonischek in an accounting scene. [...] That it remains in the balance how a war criminal can live with his guilt and whether he can become someone else is one of the greatest strengths of this film. "
Web links
- Keep in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bergfried (2016 TV Movie) - Release Info - IMDb . Retrieved April 15, 2017.
- ↑ a b orf.at: Jo Baier's historical drama “Bergfried” on September 21 on ORF . Retrieved April 15, 2017.
- ↑ Kleine Zeitung: A home film shoot with Peter Simonischek . Article dated September 4, 2015, accessed April 15, 2017.
- ↑ EPO film: Bergfried . Retrieved April 15, 2017.
- ↑ Film music production for ARD feature film "Der Bergfried" | Klangkantine Studios . In: Klangkantine Studios . December 5, 2015 ( Klangkantine.de [accessed March 5, 2018]).
- ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach: TV film "Bergfried" on tittelbach.tv , accessed on April 15, 2017.
- ↑ Quota meter: Primetime check, Wednesday, September 21, 2016 . Retrieved April 15, 2017.
- ↑ FAZ: An Alm-Öhi does not make an ideal world . Article dated September 20, 2016, accessed April 15, 2017.