Continuity (film)

Movie
Original title	Continuity
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2012
length	42 or 85 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Omer Fast
script	Omer Fast
production	Irene von Alberti , ; Frieder Schlaich
camera	Bernhard Keller
cut	Heike Parplies , ; Omer Fast
occupation
	Iris Böhm : Katja (mother); André Hennicke : Thorsten (father); Lukas Steltner : Daniel (son); Niklas Kohrt : Daniel (son); Josef Mattes : Daniel (son); Additional actors in the feature film: Constantin von Jascheroff; Bruno Alexander; Milton Welsh; Ketel Weber; Anne Rat-Polle; Jakob Bieber; Arnel Taci;

Continuity ( German continuity ) is a German film by Omer Fast , originally as a short film in 2012 was published, and in 2016 expanded to feature length into the cinemas came.

In Germany, the short film ran from June 7 to September 16, 2012 at dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel and on May 4, 2013 at the International Short Film Festival in Oberhausen . The extended version was shown at the Berlinale 2016 in the Forum Expanded section .

action

Katja and Thorsten are middle-aged and married. They prepare a reception in their home and then drive to the train station to pick up their son Daniel (a young lanky man who is wearing a military uniform) who is waiting there . The whole meeting turns out weird as his parents get emotional as he distances himself from them. Back at home, Daniel cannot do anything with his parents' affection, which in turn upsets them. His mother Katja makes one last attempt to reach him and strokes Daniel while he is lying in bed. The next day the couple sits in the car again, the two of them drive to the train station in silence. A young man in Bundeswehr uniform is waiting there in the same place as the day before. The next day they go to this station again ...

Reviews of the short film

“The jury of the German competition classically awards two prizes in Oberhausen: the 3Sat sponsorship award and the award for the best contribution to the German competition. This year, in addition to these two prizes, we would like to give a special mention to a film that has already received a lot of attention elsewhere. The film deals with a topic that many filmmakers have dealt with in recent years, but for this it draws on an extraordinarily wide range of repertoire: In a complex mash-up of elements from film and art history, it cleverly plays with expectations the audience. These can be found in a loop that they cannot escape. A perfect labyrinth. "

- Jury of the German Competition 2013 : kurzfilmtage.de

“The son is returning from the war in Afghanistan. The parents are more disturbed than him. The story begins anew, with the same parents. Another son returns from the war in Afghanistan. Like the first and all of the following, he is not the son of the traumatized parents who have lost their boy, but a callboy. Ambiguous dialogues underpin this at least two-fold reading of the story of returning Afghanistan, which is compulsively recalled over and over again, whose attitudes and dialogues change with each time so that their meaning experiences a shift. Due to the high-gloss surface, a supposed Afghan reality, as it is envisioned in Germany, breaks into the action for brief moments. It can only make visible the unbridgeability between the two worlds. The film plays with concepts of linearity and recurring motifs, so that German continuities and cinematic narrative styles, German stories and history are revealed. A liberating dissolution, a final understanding is always postponed. The award goes to Omer Fast's "Continuity" - for an extremely complex structure that he transfers into a political dimension. "

- Jury 2013 : festival.shortfilm.com

“With impressive cinematographic means and excellent actors, the film ('Continuity') succeeds in staging the theme of the war returnee and victim in an irritating way. The film ('Continuity') does not follow any linear logic of action and yet draws us narrative under its spell. Ambiguously, it raises numerous questions that go beyond the aspect of loss and sketch an eerie and equally erotic family portrait. "

- Jury of the German Short Film Award 2013 : deutscher-kurzfilmpreis.de