Blood friendship
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Blood friendship |
| Country of production |
Austria Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Peter Kern |
| script | Peter Kern |
| production |
Franz Novotny Farkas the cat |
| music |
Boris Fiala Andreas Hamza |
| camera | Peter Roehsler |
| cut | Petra Zöpnek |
| occupation | |
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Blood friendship (international distribution title: Initiation ) is an Austrian film by director Peter Kern from 2009 .
action
Eighty-year-old Gustav Tritzinsky has been cleaning a house in Vienna for decades . He lives in an apartment with the transsexual Jacob above the cleaning . One night Gustav suspects a burglar, but the alleged intruder is on the run from the police and is wounded. Axel, that's his name, has joined the neo-Nazis and was forced to stab a social worker. Gustav takes him in, treats him and offers him a bed.
Meanwhile, one learns in flashbacks how the homosexual Gustav betrayed his friend in the Hitler Youth and thus delivered him to death in the concentration camp.
After a short time, Gustav finds out what Axel has done, but wants to give him a second chance. He lets Axel, who was thrown out of his home by his stepfather, move in with him and gives him work in his laundry. However, when Axel continues to meet with the neo-Nazis and behaves ungratefully towards Gustav, he throws him out without further ado.
When the neo-Nazis are targeted by the police, they want to turn him off because they suspect that Axel has kept him informed of their machinations. With a poster campaign they describe Gustav as "dangerous" because he is homosexual. Gustav barricades himself in his apartment and when he sees his windows being smashed and he is insulted with chants, he wants to hang himself. But Axel rushed into the room at the last second to save Gustav. Axel apologizes, but Gustav dies a few minutes later in his arms. Meanwhile, a counter-demonstration has formed on the street in front of Gustav's house, which succeeds in getting the neo-Nazis finally to vacate the place.
background
Blood friendship was shown in the Panorama of the 60th Berlin International Film Festival in 2010.
criticism
“Peter Kern directs the colorful hustle and bustle between crass social (in) realism, unleashed gay cabaret kitsch, and righteous, bold political message. Some dense moments and surreal images. The committed performance of Berger compensates for the Schlingensief- like overacting others. For such conditions, a quite conventional lecture that even open-minded mainstream gazers needn't shy away from. "
“His (Peter Kern) film is angry and unadorned and stuffs so much into the narrative that the images clash again and again crude, breathlessly. [...] Because although Kern uses clichés, he also breaks them, leaving the opposites in his Characters become the mainspring of the film. Most fascinating in the figure of Tritzinsky, in whom Helmut Berger lets an unheard of loneliness and despair become palpable. [...] Sometimes he seems completely worn out, like a ghostly sense of himself, then he reappears with the old elegance. Berger is able to make world weariness and warmth, injury and hope palpable in the smallest of gestures. "
Web links
- Blutsfreundschaft in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Certificate of release for blood friendship . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2011 (PDF; test number: 130 077 V).
- ↑ Blood friendship in the Berlinale archive (accessed on August 18, 2013)
- ↑ Blood friendship at kino.de (accessed on August 18, 2013)
- ^ "Blood friendship": bread and butter and brutality from Die Presse (accessed on August 18, 2013)