Children of Nature - A Journey

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Movie
German title Children of Nature - A Journey
Original title Börn náttúrunnar
Country of production Iceland , Norway , Germany
original language Icelandic
Publishing year 1991
length 85 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
script Friðrik Þór Friðriksson,
Einar Már Guðmundsson
production Friðrik Þór Friðriksson,
Wolfgang Pfeiffer ,
Vilhjálmur Ragnarsson,
Skule Erikssen
music Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson
camera Ari Kristinsson
cut Skafti Gudmundsson
occupation

Children of Nature - Ein Reise (Original title: Börn náttúrunnar ), also Kinder der Natur - Eine Reise or Kinder der Natur , is a film by the Icelandic director Friðrik Þór Friðriksson from 1991. It depicts the return of an old farmer and his childhood sweetheart the place of her childhood. The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1992 for Best Foreign Language Film .

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Almost 80-year-old Geiri has to give up his farm in the country and moves to his daughter in Reykjavík. He, however, soon admitted annoying and in a nursing home, where he again meets his childhood friend Stella, with whom he in the West Fjords grew up on the island. Both feel uncomfortable in the home and decide to return to the place of their youth. They steal an old jeep and set off for the remote and almost deserted paradise of their childhood to die in freedom.

criticism

Children of Nature was rated as successful by international and national critics. For example, Hal Hinson of the Washington Times saw almost two years after the US premiere of the film at the New York New Directors and New Films Festival in Friðrik Þór Friðriksson's directorial work an almost perfect "poetic little character study" ; "A chamber piece" of "sublime beauty and feeling" . The closer the two protagonists get to their goal in the "rugged, pretty landscape of Iceland" , the more imaginative the little film becomes, which in the end develops into a fable far beyond the simple naturalism of the opening scenes .

The reviews in Germany were just as positive: The Berliner Morgenpost praised the film as a “stroke of luck for European cinema” , while the film-dienst emphasized “the courage for self-determination and dignity into old age” , the “failures of a thoughtless modern civilization “ Is juxtaposed. Dieter Krusche praised the sober portrayal of "the misery and loneliness of old age, without being satisfied with inactive resignation" . With “the return to the land of childhood and death in freedom and dignity”, a dream would come true for the characters in two respects.

Awards

The composer Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson was awarded the European Film Prize in 1991 for his film music for Children of Nature . The leading actress Sigríður Hagalín received a nomination for the award. In 1992 the film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Hinson, Hal: Children of Nature . In: Washington Post, March 14, 1994, p. D3
  2. ↑ cf. The new film lexicon 2008 . United-Soft-Media-Verl. (CD-ROM)
  3. ↑ cf. Lexicon of International Films 2000/2001 (CD-ROM)
  4. ^ Dieter Krusche: Film Guide . Philipp Reclam GmbH & Co., 1966, p. 717 ff .

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