Beyond punishment
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Beyond punishment |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German , English |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Hubertus Siegert |
| script | Hubertus Siegert |
| production | Hubertus Siegert |
| camera | Marcus Winterbauer, Börres Weiffenbach, Jenny Lou Ziegel |
| cut | Anne Fabini |
Beyond Punishment is an international documentary by the Berlin film producer and director Hubertus Siegert . The film shows how perpetrators and victims of violent crimes actively engage in confrontation with one another. On the basis of three cases in three countries, he examines not only the individual fates but also the legal and penal systems of the respective countries and examines the possibilities of restorative justice . It was created from 2006 to 2014 in coproduction with ZDF / 3Sat and DOCDAYS Productions. The German film launch was on June 11, 2015.
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Beyond Punishment tells the stories of Stiva and Erik, Lisa, Leola and Sean, and Patrick and Manfred. The protagonists of these three cases have so far not found peace with a life-changing act of violence, neither the victims nor the perpetrators. Even years after the sentence and the time spent in prison, both sides are still looking for ways to come to terms with the crime and the loss.
A childhood sweetheart in Norway ends in murder when Stiva kills his 16-year-old friend Ingrid-Elisabeth out of jealousy. After six years in prison, Stiva returns to the small town where Ingrid-Elisabeth's father Erik is still at home.
Lisa and Leola live in the New York Bronx, not far from the supermarket, where their then 16-year-old brother and son were shot in anger. You have been waiting for eleven years for Sean, who has been sentenced to 40 years in prison, to admit the crime.
Patrick's father Gerold von Braunmühl , a senior official in the Foreign Ministry, was killed in 1986 by the left-wing militant RAF (Red Army Faction). There is a letter of confession, but the perpetrators are still unknown today. Nevertheless, Patrick finds a counterpart in the film - Manfred Grashof , who, as a founding member of the first generation of the RAF, killed a police officer.
At the same time, the film tells the development of a rapprochement between the bereaved and those responsible for the crime in the three different cases. He focuses on observing the protagonists in their everyday life and how they deal with what happened. The director of the film addresses the protagonists from the off with questions, thereby offering opportunities for a process of rapprochement. The starting point of the documentary is the maximum security prison in Green Bay, where those responsible for acts of violence are usually locked in for decades. There the Challenges and Possibilities Program takes place regularly, which supports 15–20 inmates in rehabilitation and in changing their behavior and ways of thinking. At the end of the program, under the direction of the former judge of the - Wisconsin Supreme Court , Janine Geske , 30 prisoners meet every six months from a group of visitors made up of crime victims and their families for a three-day discussion group. In terms of restorative justice, crime victims and those responsible for the crime talk about what happened and act as a proxy for the perpetrator or victim. The film examines the possible reactions to violence and punishment on both sides.
Annett Zupke supported as a technical adviser and mediator this first German documentary (Engl. With aspects of restorative justice to restorative justice ) busy. For nine months she accompanied Erik Berg in Norway, the father of Ingrid-Elisabeth and Stiva, in one-on-one conversations, asking whether they wanted to meet each other in an accompanied dialogue. The co-founder of the Institute for Restorative Practices writes in several articles about her work as a dialogue facilitator at Beyond Punishment.
Awards
Beyond Punishment premiered at the 36th Max Ophüls Preis Film Festival , where it received the Best Documentary Award 2015 . The statement of the jury stated that the director demonstrated "over several years of observation [...] that reconciliation may not be possible, but that it can be coped with through conflict". The director succeeds in "making this process visible on both sides with respect and empathy".
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) awarded the film the title “particularly valuable”. The jury statement there stated that Siegert succeeded “in an impressive way” in “grasping the complexity of the interrelationships”. The film is "structured dramatically and creates an enormous tension".
In addition, Beyond Punishment was officially nominated as one of three films for the German Film Prize 2015 in the category of best full-length documentary film.
Web links
- Beyond Punishment in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
- The 2015 Max Ophüls Prize winners
- Beyond Punishment as part of the Lola @ Berlinale 2015
- Restorative Justice . Marquette University Law School.
- Of perpetrators and victims. ( Memento from June 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) The first.
- Film in the 3sat media library (HD resolution)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Beyond Punishment . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2014 (PDF; test number: 148 821 K).
- ↑ "Beyond Punishment" awarded at Ophüls Festival Prize for ZDF / 3sat production as best documentary film. 3sat, January 24, 2015, accessed March 10, 2015 .
- ↑ Beyond punishment. Piffl Medien, accessed March 10, 2015 .
- ^ Green Bay Correctional Institution. Wisconsin Department of Corrections, accessed March 10, 2015 .
- ^ Annett Zupke: Accompanied dialogue. The route is the goal. January 2016, accessed January 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Annett Zupke: Released into the world - received in empathy: an encounter with a young person after the end of his prison sentence. Ingrid Holler (HrSG.) And suddenly a door opens, 2014, accessed on January 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Documentary film award for BEYOND PUNISHMENT. (No longer available online.) Film Festival Max Ophüls Preis, January 24, 2015, archived from the original on February 12, 2015 ; accessed on March 10, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Beyond Punishment. German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) , accessed on March 10, 2015 .
