Bungalow (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | bungalow |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German , English , Danish |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ulrich Koehler |
| script |
Henrike Goetz Ulrich Köhler |
| production |
Tobias Büchner Peter Stockhaus |
| camera |
Patrick Orth Ute Freund |
| cut | Gergana Voigt |
| occupation | |
| |
Bungalow is a German feature film from 2002.
action
Paul is 19 years old and a member of the German Armed Forces . He and his comrades are on the back of a Bundeswehr truck on the way back from a maneuver to the barracks . After a break, Paul doesn't get back in and stays at the motorway service station. The young deserter makes his way to his nearby Hessian hometown. There he finds shelter in his parents' bungalow , who are currently on vacation in Italy .
Paul first meets his girlfriend Kerstin. But she breaks up with him because he hasn't written to her for six weeks. His older brother Max shows up, sees problems approaching his younger brother and tries to convince him to call his parents in Italy. Vain. Even when Max starts repairing the roof of the bungalow, he cannot persuade Paul to cooperate. When the police officers come to bring Paul back to the troops, they don't find him. Max then drives his brother to the train station, but Paul does not get on the train and instead returns to the bungalow.
There he meets Lene, his brother's Danish friend. Paul starts flirting with her, she even kisses him, but then disappears. Paul goes back to Kerstin's house, and the two of them go for a spin in Kerstin's mother's car. There was a wildlife accident on this trip. The run-over deer causes minor damage to the car. Paul and Kerstin return to the bungalow and hide the car in the garage. Kerstin stays with Paul for the night. The next morning, however, she pushes him away again and leaves him again.
Paul is now driving through the country with Lene. When they return, they notice that the police officers are again waiting for Paul. Paul and Lene are looking for a small pension. There they sleep together. In the morning Lene calls Max to pick her up, then Paul calls the police to the pension. The final sequence of the film leaves it open whether Paul will allow himself to be arrested by them or run away again.
background
The film was produced as a production for the ZDF series Das kleine Fernsehspiel . The shooting took place in June / July 2001 in the vicinity of Marburg , Gladenbach , Bad Endbach and in the southern Siegerland . Bungalow premiered at the Berlinale 2002 in the Panorama section.
Reviews
“The portrait of a young man, rather minimalist in its external plot, but precisely polished in detail; it expands into a subtle and attentive description of the state of a young generation, whose aimlessness leads to a strange lack of drive, but can also turn into aggression. "
“With reduced, almost sparse images, screenwriter and director Ulrich Köhler showed an astonishingly sensitive and empathetic film debut in the Panorama of the Berlinale in 2002: The portrait of a young person in search of his own identity and love sees with simple means, without music, effects or explanations the great riddle of wanting to be loved and growing up in the fresh young faces and precise play of its outstanding actors. "
"[...] occasional annoyance like individual lengths shouldn't hide the fact that Bungalow is better than many German films of recent times [...]. Tastefully filmed, Köhler paints an intense portrait of disgust and indifference, a world in which nothing happens. And that's where Bungalow is probably closer to us than we'd like to admit. "
Awards
The film received the Hessian Film Prize and the MFG-Star Baden-Baden in 2002 , and has also been shown and awarded at numerous festivals.
Individual evidence
- ↑ bungalow. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 18, 2017 .
- ↑ Review on Kino.de (accessed on March 13, 2010)
- ^ Criticism on artechock.de (accessed on March 13, 2010)
Web links
- Bungalow at the German distribution company Basis-Film (with extensive press review)
- Bungalow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bungalow at filmportal.de