Blood glacier
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Blood glacier |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marvin Kren |
| script | Benjamin Hessler |
| production | Helmut Grasser |
| music |
Marco Dreckkötter , Stefan Will |
| camera |
Anna Baltl , Rainer Fritz |
| cut | Daniel Prochaska |
| occupation | |
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Blutgletscher (working title: Glazius ) is an Austrian horror film by director Marvin Kren from 2013 . In Austria the film was released in cinemas after the Austrian premiere as the opening film of the / slash film festival on September 19, 2013, on September 27, 2013 and in Germany on February 6, 2014.
action
The film begins with a fade-in which apocalyptically describes global warming with the words “In 2013 the last doubters will fall silent. The climate catastrophe exceeds the gloomy prognoses. The North Pole will be ice-free by the end of this decade. The glaciers in the Alps will disappear. The consequences are not foreseeable, only one thing is certain: Life on earth will change. ”Emphasizes and paints for the viewer:“ We will change. ”
The Glazius climate research station is located in the Alps at an altitude of 3500 meters and is staffed by a research team consisting of three scientists, an engineer and a dog. When one day the measuring station 3 no longer transmits any data, the mineralogist Falk, the engineer Janek and his dog Tinnitus set out on the intervention of the station manager Harald to correct the error. But what they find takes their breath away. The edge of the glacier tongue stands out from the rest of the area in a blood-red color: a red liquid, melted free from the ice cover, which is dwindling due to climate change.
While Janek tries to correct the problem, Falk takes a sample of the liquid in order to examine it. He notices that it is not a liquid, but a kind of seaweed . Meanwhile, the dog moves away from the two of them and enters the glacier gate, where something has attacked and injured him.
Returning to the research station, the biologist Birte finds out that the algae are not typical algae, but life forms with their own DNA that look for a host and create a new life form from it .
Minister Bodicek and her scientific advisor Tanja Monstatt, who is also Janek's ex-boyfriend, mountain guide Bert Krakauer, bodyguard Luca and the reporter team Urs and Irene are soon affected.
The film ends with a look at a second “blood glacier”, a shot that director Marvin Kren describes as a dramaturgical bracket to the opening sentence “We will change” and which a sequel leaves open.
production
The shooting took place between July 23 and August 31, 2012 at an altitude of around 3000 meters on the Suldenferner , a glacier in the Ortler Alps near Sulden in South Tyrol . The main motif for all outdoor shots was a complete glaciological climate research station with Janeks hut, as well as an external measuring station at the original glacier gate, replicated not far from the Schaubachhütte and the mountain station of the Sulden am Ortler cable car . Since this is Angela Merkel's favorite hiking area , she even visited the film set during her summer vacation. Allegro Film's production was funded by the Austrian Film Institute, ORF Film / TV Agreement, Film Fund Vienna, Film Location Austria and Business Location South Tyrol / Alto Adige.
criticism
The film-dienst saw a German-language animal horror film, "which is sometimes exciting, sometimes blood-soaked in a sovereign revival of 'Creature Horror' in the style of the 1980s". The staging relies on the "almost forgotten craft of plastic special effects in order to stage the confrontation of a group torn by internal tensions with the different". The film magazine Cinema compared the film to John Carpenter's The Thing , but Kren would ultimately make the "familiar set pieces" "his own business". In conclusion, it says: “Respectable old-school splatter with abuse.” The film website kino.de judged that the film impressed “with a dense atmosphere and well-placed shock effects”. The “simple, but effective story” takes its “predictable and yet entertaining course”.
Web links
- Blood Glacier in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official site of the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ FSK: from 16 years , FSK approval according to §§ 12,14 JuSchG
- ↑ Age rating for blood glaciers . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Theatrical releases. In: IMDb (English)
- ↑ Vice : The / slash program 2013 is amazing! , August 20, 2013
- ^ Sascha Koebner: Blood Glacier. film-dienst 21/2014, accessed on October 10, 2014 (short review).
- ↑ Blood Glacier. Cinema , accessed October 10, 2014 .
- ↑ Blood Glacier. Busch Entertainment Media (kino.de), accessed on October 10, 2014 .