The song in me
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| Original title | The song in me |
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| Country of production | Argentina , Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Florian Cossen |
| script | Florian Cossen, Elena von Saucken |
| production | TeamWorx , in co-production with the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, BR and SWR; funded by the MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg |
| music | Matthias Klein |
| camera | Matthias Fleischer |
| cut | Philipp Thomas |
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The song in me is a German drama by Florian Cossen from 2010 . The TeamWorx production has received numerous film awards (including the Bavarian Film Prize for the best camera). The song in me plays mostly in Buenos Aires , Argentina .
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During a stopover on her trip to Chile , the 31-year-old swimmer Maria recognized a Spanish nursery rhyme ( “Arrorro mi niño”) at the airport in Buenos Aires . Although Maria doesn't speak a word of Spanish, she remembers the Spanish lyrics and melody of the song. Distraught and thrown off the rails, she misses her plane and stays in the strange city. While she is looking for an explanation, her father Anton suddenly turns up in Argentina. He confesses to his daughter that he is not her biological father, but that Maria lived in Buenos Aires for the first three years of her life at the end of the 1970s. When her biological parents disappeared in 1980 as victims of the Argentine military dictatorship , Maria was brought to Germany by Anton and his wife.
After the confession, the familiar relationship between father and daughter threatens to break due to years of lying. While Anton wants to go back to Germany as soon as possible to put the past to rest, Maria goes to Buenos Aires to look for her Argentine family. But when she finds this, she learns that she was kidnapped and hidden by her later adoptive parents. Until the end, the dethroned father fights for the love of his child, the uprooted daughter to the last for the truth of her real identity.
Awards
The film received the following awards:
- Audience Award World Film Festival Montréal 2010
- FIPRESCI Prize World Film Festival Montréal 2010
- Golden Icon best German-language feature film, Zurich Film Festival 2010
- EASTMAN Award for International Hof Film Festival 2010
- Best debut film at the Biberach Film Festival 2010
- Berndt Media Prize for the best film title at Filmfest Lünen 2010
- Bavarian Film Prize 2010 to Matthias Fleischer for the best camera
- German Film Prize 2011 to Matthias Klein for the best film music
- German Film Award 2011 to Beatriz Spelzini as best female supporting role
Reviews
"Foreign family, familiar stranger: 'Das Lied in mir' is a clever, sometimes cruelly precise game with those psychosocial parameters by which we believe we can define ourselves."
“The aesthetically and narrative-focused drama asks for identity, guilt and forgiveness with sophisticated picture compositions and an admirable focus on the nuanced main character; above this, the historical-political dimensions of history tend to take a back seat. "
Web links
- The Day I Was in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The song in me at filmportal.de
- Official website: "The song in me"
- The song in me on teamworx.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Das Lied in mir . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2011 (PDF; test number: 125 962 K).
- ↑ Facebook profile: The song in me
- ^ Film review on Spiegel Online