Cops (2018)

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Movie
Original title Cops
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2018
Rod
Director Stefan A. Lukacs
script Stefan A. Lukacs
production Arash T. Riahi ,
Karin C. Berger
music Wolfgang Frisch ,
Markus Kienzl ,
Sofa Surfers
camera Xiaosu Han ,
Andreas Thalhammer
cut Julia Drack
occupation

Cops is an Austrian feature film from the year 2018 of Stefan A. Lukacs with Laurence Rupp in the lead role. The premiere took place on January 25, 2018 as part of the Max Ophüls Preis film festival , where the film was invited to the main competition and won the feature film audience award and the socially relevant film award. In Austria, the film was shown on Diagonale in March 2018 , where the film was also awarded the audience award. The film was released in Austrian cinemas on September 21, 2018.

action

Christoph "Burschi" Horn is an ambitious recruit in training with WEGA , a special unit of the Austrian police in Vienna . Fight and peer pressure are part of his everyday life. In supposed self-defense , he shoots several times at Harald Malinowski, a mentally ill man armed with a knife who subsequently dies. He is celebrated as a hero by his colleagues, including his superior Konstantin Blago, who thanks him for saving his life, as well as his comrades Toni Woschitz and Lukas Dörfler.

Christoph's doctor and his father Heinz, who used to be the commander of the police station at Karlsplatz and who worked as a fan supervisor for the police after a burnout, suggest that he should be on sick leave for several weeks after the traumatic event. Christoph refuses, however, and tries to maintain the appearance of the strong man so as not to lose the hero status with his colleagues.

Soon after, he begins to suffer from trauma symptoms such as flashbacks and panic attacks . He wants to suppress what has happened and is increasingly taking refuge in excesses of violence. For example, he beats a fan during a police operation at a soccer game. His father criticizes him for this and calls him a "reserve Rambo". He also becomes aggressive towards his girlfriend Nicky Winter, who is also a police officer in training.

During the reconstruction of the crime by Chief Inspector Rudi Hofer, District Inspector Marianne Kelch criticized the WEGA's efforts, saying that she had the situation completely under control by the time it arrived. Malinowski dropped the knife after the first shot. Christoph needs medical care after the reconstruction of the crime, his superior Konstantin Blago then drops him and says that Christoph does not have what it takes to be a WEGA man. Christoph then takes refuge in alcohol.

At the funeral of Malinowski, District Inspector Kelch describes the operation as negligent homicide, while Christoph insists on emergency aid. She blames Blago for escalating the situation, he shouldn't have broken open the door to Malinowski and wants to state this in her report to the public prosecutor. Christoph should agree with her statement that, in her opinion, Blago should move away from the street. After Christoph tells him about it, Blago takes him back under his wing and Christoph goes on missions with him again. Kelch is seriously injured by a masked perpetrator, Christoph finds out that it was Toni Woschitz who had beaten Kelch into a coma to protect his superior Blago.

After the swearing-in and phase-out WEGA policeman Christoph is called to duty, police officer Nicky is already on site. A woman threatens to throw herself out of the window of a skyscraper with her small child. After Christoph tries to de-escalate the situation and reassures the woman, he manages to save the child, but the woman rushes out of the window.

Production and Background

The shooting took place in June and July 2017 and the shooting took place in Vienna . The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute and the Vienna Film Fund , and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation was involved . The film was produced by Golden Girls Filmproduktion .

Claus Benischke-Lang was responsible for the sound, Monika Buttinger and Gabriele Heinemann for the costume design , Birgit Beranek for the mask, Julia Oberndorfinger and Attila Plangger for the production , Lisa Oláh for the casting and Philip Kelch and Thomas Weilguny for the special effects . The music comes from the Sofa Surfers .

This film is the feature film debut of the director and screenwriter Stefan A. Lukacs , who already told the story of the asylum seeker Case Bakary J. who was abused by WEGA officials in the short film Void in 2012 , also with Laurence Rupp and Anton Noori .

Awards and nominations

Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2018

  • Audience Award for Feature Film
  • Prize for the socially relevant film
  • Award in the category of best young actors (supporting role) ( Anna Suk )

Thomas Pluch Script Award 2018

  • Nomination for the main prize and the special prize

Diagonal 2018

  • Audience award
  • Acting award for the entire ensemble

International Film Festival Braunschweig 2018

  • Braunschweig Film Award for the best newcomer (Anna Suk)

Austrian Film Award 2019

Romy award 2019

  • Nomination in the category Best Book Cinema (Stefan Lukacs)

criticism

“Cops” received mostly positive reviews in the Austrian media.

Christian Klosz from the online film magazine “Film plus Criticism” said, for example: “'Cops' is a film that one would have to describe in English with the term 'visceral': an entertaining punch in the pit of the stomach, reflected and clever, prevailing conditions Descriptive and questioning - without teaching with the index finger or wanting to provide simple answers. The Vienna special police unit, the WEGA, is considered - one of the last? - Hoards of cultivated machoism drawn ... but, as always, excessive masculinity is fragile, there are often questionable motifs behind the rough facade, the agile, pumped-up body, always ready for action, is the wrong caricature of doubting, fragile psyches. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize: Feature Film Competition ( Memento from April 5, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved April 5, 2018.
  2. ↑ a b c Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved January 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b Diagonale Audience Award 2018 . Retrieved March 19, 2018.
  4. ↑ Diagonale 2018: Cops . Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  5. ↑ orf.at: Award-winning film about police violence . Article from January 29, 2018, accessed on February 2, 2018.
  6. ^ Vienna Film Fund: Cops . Retrieved January 3, 2018.
  7. ↑ derStandard.at: Short film about Bakary J .: Watching where you would rather look away . Article dated December 11, 2012, accessed on January 28, 2018.
  8. ↑ diepresse.com: Wega in the film visor . Article of August 28, 2017, accessed on January 27, 2018.
  9. ↑ orf.at: Max Ophüls Prize: Police drama "Cops" honored three times . Article from January 27, 2018, accessed on January 27, 2018.
  10. ↑ Thomas Pluch Script Award 2018: Nominations / Jury / Award Ceremony . Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  11. ↑ orf.at: "Murer" and Geyrhalter-Doku get main prizes ( Memento from March 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated March 17, 2018, accessed March 17, 2018.
  12. ^ The winners of the 32nd Braunschweig International Film Festival . Article dated November 10, 2018, accessed November 13, 2018.
  13. ↑ Austrian Film Prize 2019: Nominations . Retrieved December 6, 2018.
  14. ↑ Prize winners Austrian Film Prize 2019 . Accessed January 30, 2019.
  15. ^ Kurier: The nominations of the ROMY Academy 2019 . Article dated March 26, 2019, accessed March 26, 2019.
  16. ↑ Review: "Cops" . In: Film plus criticism - online magazine for film & cinema . September 19, 2018 ( filmpluskritik.com [accessed September 22, 2018]).