The hotel room
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The hotel room |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rudi Gaul |
| script | Rudi Gaul |
| production |
Daniel Reich , Christoph Holthof-Keim |
| camera | Michael Hammon |
| cut | Carmen Kirchweger |
| occupation | |
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The hotel room is a German film by Rudi Gaul . It premiered on June 28, 2014 at the Munich Film Festival and was also shown at the 2015 Max Ophüls Prize film festival ; the cinema release was on November 5, 2015.
action
The unsuccessful documentary filmmaker Lukas Schmidt interviews the successful author Agnes Lehner about her new book in a hotel room. During the conversation it emerges that Lukas didn't really come to make a film. He claims that they have met before: over ten years ago they both graduated from high school together and were involved in a momentous accident. However, Agnes cannot remember and engages in a question-and-answer game with which Lukas tries to awaken in her the memory of a crime that they are said to have committed once together. They become more and more entangled in a web of desire and identity, and the longer the night lasts, the further the lie and truth drift apart.
criticism
The film service judges that the “psychological thriller limited to one room and two characters” strains “its credibility permanently with hair-raising twists”. The "good actors [...] would struggle in vain on involuntarily comical dialogues". The film website kino.de writes that the “very concentrated chamber play” lives “almost exclusively from the dialogues and the performance of the actors”. The staging is "largely backward". Mina Tander and Godehard Giese would convince as the main actors.
Awards
- Filmschau Baden-Württemberg 2014: Baden-Württemberg Film Award, Feature Film, Best Film 2014
Web links
- The hotel rooms in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The hotel room at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the hotel room . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2015 (PDF; test number: 154 611 K).
- ↑ Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed January 1, 2016 .
- ^ Marius Nobach: The hotel room. Filmdienst , 22/2015, accessed on January 1, 2016 (short review).
- ↑ The hotel room. In: kino.de . Busch Entertainment Media, accessed January 5, 2016 .