The secret of Murk
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The secret of Murk |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sabine Boss |
| script | Daniel Howald |
| production | Peter Reichenbach , C-FILMS , Swiss television |
| music | Christian Sommerhalder |
| camera | Felix von Muralt |
| cut | Benjamin Fueter |
| occupation | |
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The Secret of Murk is a Swiss television and cinema film by director Sabine Boss from 2008.
action
The married couple Felix and Sarah Gerber live in the fictional village of Murk in the Zurich Oberland . Felix is an unsuccessful designer of wind turbines and the artist Sarah has had enough of her husband's debts and country life. Your life is marked by arguments. One day a crop circle appears in the field in front of their house . Sarah and many villagers try to capitalize on this phenomenon, which is rejected by Felix. When Sarah becomes more and more interested in the driving instructor Mike, Felix tries to win her back. To do this, he has to team up with Mike.
Production and demonstration
The Secret of Murk was shot as a television film in Uerzlikon in 2008 under the direction of Sabine Boss for the Zurich production company C-FILMS and Swiss television . Peter Reichenbach was the producer.
The film was shown at the Solothurn Film Festival in January 2008 and, due to its success, also in Swiss cinemas from August. It was released on DVD in December and was broadcast on Swiss television.
reception
The film received CHF 10,000 from the Zurich Film Prize and was awarded the Audience Prize of the Solothurn Film Festival. The Zurich jury stated that the film captivates with well-managed actors and precise timing and that it did justice to its claim of light entertainment in a convincing and relaxed manner. Film critic Thomas Hunziker criticized, among other things, the script, which "lets the plot ripple a little too arbitrarily from one predictable conflict to the next inevitable argument without really developing momentum" . Sonja Wenger wrote for the Swiss film yearbook Cinema that the film was beneficial proof that Swiss humor could do well without embarrassing jokes and convulsive self-mortification.
Web links
- The Secret of Murk in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b filmsprung.ch “The Secret of Murk”, DVD review by Thomas Hunziker
- ↑ a b c c-films.ch News
- ↑ a b cinemabuch.ch The Secret of Murk, review by Sonja Wenger
- ↑ a b stadt-zuerich.ch (PDF; 21 kB) "Zurich Film Awards 2008"
- ↑ nzz.ch Audience Award at the Solothurn Film Festival, Neue Zürcher Zeitung , January 26, 2008