The secret of the two sisters
| Movie | |
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| German title | The secret of the two sisters |
| Original title | planetarium |
| Country of production | France , Belgium |
| original language | French , English , Yiddish |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 113 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Rebecca Zlotowski |
| script | Rebecca Zlotowski, Robin Campillo |
| production | Frédéric Jouve |
| music | Robin Coudert |
| camera | Georges Lechaptois |
| cut | Julien Lacheray |
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The mystery of the two sisters is a Franco-Belgian film directed by Rebecca Zlotowski from the year 2016 .
action
Paris in 1943: Laura works as a cloakroom and meets Eva again here. Both know each other from the pre-war period and remember earlier times. A few years earlier, Laura and her little sister Kate came to Paris from America. Kate has the gift of communicating with the dead, and both hold spiritual sessions in front of large audiences or private individuals. Your first client who wants a private spiritual session is film producer André Korben. During the session at his house, Korben suddenly feels like he is being strangled by a man. Laura breaks off the séance. Korben claims the man in the leather coat was his brother.
The film industry is down and Korben promises success through innovation at his company's general meeting. He has the idea of filming a séance with Kate and Laura and capturing the ghost that has been summoned, which would be a sensation. Laura and Kate move to Baskets. The shooting of the séance fails, but Korben and his director Servier notice that the camera loves Laura. Although she is not a medium , she is hired as an actress for a new film Serviers. It should play a medium and film advertising should ultimately present it as a real medium. At a party, Laura and Kate meet Eva, who does not like the spiritual, but flirts with Korben. In addition, Laura and Kate meet Professor Ulé here, who examines the metaphysical. The celebration ends in a snowball fight.
Korben declines more and more of Kate's skills and performs numerous private individual séances with her. He wants to find out who the strange man he meets in the seances is. Meanwhile, times are changing and xenophobia is increasing in the country. Laura goes to filming by the sea with Servier and meets more and more anti-Semites among the actors in the film . Rumors circulate that Korben is actually Jewish. Laura, who stands by him, is insulted as the "whore of the Jew". Meanwhile in Paris, Korben continues to try to bring the spirit of the séance to the screen. In the institute of Professor Ulé, he conducts séances with Kate under scientific conditions and finally realizes that the strange man is really his father, who suddenly disappeared. He also sees an appearance on the film that the co-owners of the film production company cannot recognize. Servier accuses him of having lost all sense of reality.
Laura realizes that Kate is getting worse and worse and decides to stop the seances. Kate eventually collapses and receives news that she has leukemia . She sees the diagnosis as logical, since it is predetermined that she must meet the dead. Korben is accused of embezzlement of funds by his colleagues; he should resign. Since he is Polish and his real name is Korbinski, the employees of the film production company are particularly hostile to him. Korben is arrested and tries in vain to get in touch with the Justice Minister through Laura in order to revise the wrong decision. Meanwhile, Kate is taken to a clinic in Biarritz . At the trial of Korben in 1941, the latter noticed that everything was being filmed and collapsed.
Paris 1943: Laura reports to Eva that Korben was sent east after the trial two years ago. Nobody knows what has become of him. Kate passed away the previous winter. Eva tells Laura that Servier was looking for her and wants to hire her for his next film. Laura accepts.
production
The Secret of the Two Sisters was the third film directed by Rebecca Zlotowski , after Grand central and Belle épine . She also wrote the script. She was inspired by the true story of the three American Fox sisters, who became popular with séances at the end of the 19th century. The character of producer André Korben is loosely based on the life and work of Bernard Natan . It was shot in Paris and Antony (Villa Prunet). Anaïs Romand created the costumes and Katia Wyszkop created the film .
The Secret of the Two Sisters premiered on September 8, 2016 at the Venice International Film Festival and was screened two days later at the Toronto International Film Festival . It was shown at the Viennale on October 29, 2016 and opened in French cinemas on November 16, 2016. The German DVD and Blu-ray Disc has been available since May 24, 2018.
Awards
At the Prix Lumières 2017 Planetarium received a nomination in the category Best Film Music. Katia Wyszkop was nominated for a César in the category Best Production Design in 2017 .
Web links
- The mystery of the two sisters in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Planetarium on allocine.fr
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Secret of the Two Sisters . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Secrets tournage: Histoire vraie on allocine.fr
- ↑ Secrets tournage: La figure de Bernard Natan on allocine.fr