The Orange Girl (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The orange girl |
| Original title | Appelsinpiken |
| Country of production | Norway |
| original language | Norwegian |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Eva Dahr |
| script |
Axel Helgeland Jostein Gaarder |
| production | Louise Vesth |
| music |
Magnus Beite Mario Schneider |
| camera | Harald Paalgard |
| cut | Per-Erik Eriksen |
| occupation | |
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The Orange Girl (Original: Appelsinpiken ) is a Norwegian - German - Spanish film from 2009 based on the eponymous philosophical novel The Orange Girl by the Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder from 2003 .
content
When the now 15-year-old Georg was still in kindergarten, his father died of cancer. His last wish was not to give away or even sell the children's cart in which Georg had once played. Georg is now 15 years old and his grandmother finds a letter from his father in this cart. Georg is confused, amazed and enthusiastic at the same time; he retires to his room to study the pile of papers more closely. The more he delves into the letter, the further he moves away from his life situation: his grandparents, his mother and their new husband are sitting in the living room and waiting. In the meantime, Georg takes breaks from reading to reflect on what his father once wrote to him.
The common thread within the letter is the mysterious orange girl, whose acquaintance Georg's father made. First he meets her on the tram, loaded with a bag full of juicy and beautiful oranges - a fateful encounter, since she has dominated his mind ever since. Georg's father falls head over heels in love with her, so he goes looking for her after they parted ways. The longing brings both together again. With a strange and comical sentence that the orange girl utters to Georg's father, Georg himself is also made to think. In the end, the truth about who the mysterious orange girl is also revealed to him. Georg learns a lot about his father's past and draws conclusions from it for his own future.
Reviews and critiques
The newspaper Verdens Gang gave the film four out of six points. The author and film critic Jon Selas von Verdens Gang found the merging of the different stories in the film convincingly well implemented and the dialogues seemed quite natural. From the acting performances he was particularly impressed by Annie Dahr Nygaard , the leading actress of the orange girl and the young Veronika.
The German film portal MovieMaz e also gave the film good reviews.
“ The orange girl brings the audience closer to a love story that can happen at any time. It makes you think about your own emotional world, is told simply and at the same time very touching. "
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
production
The novel The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder was filmed in 2009 in a Norwegian-German-Spanish co-production. The shooting took place mainly in the Norwegian capital Oslo and Hardangervidda , also in Germany in the Thuringian capital Erfurt and in Spain in the Andalusian Seville . The Norwegian film studios Sandrew Metronome and Helgeland Film were involved in the production, as did Tradewind Pictures from Germany and the Spanish company Jaleo Films from Spain.
The film had its world premiere on February 27, 2009 in Norway. In Germany, the theatrical release only began on December 10, 2009.
Web links
- The Orange Girl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The orange girl on moviemaze.de
- The orange girl on nb.no.
- The orange girl on filmweb.no
Individual evidence
- ↑ Appelsinpiken ferdig innspilt (Norwegian) . In: Filmweb AS , Filmweb.no, June 25, 2008. Retrieved November 12, 2008.
- ↑ Jon Selas: Sobert om livsfølelse (Norwegian) . In: Verdens Gang , vg.no, February 26, 2009. Archived from the original on March 1, 2009 Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
- ↑ Julia Stache: The orange girl (Appelsinpiken, 2009) - review. moviemaze.de, accessed on May 25, 2014 .
- ↑ The Orange Girl. In: German Film Press Service. muecke-filmpresse.de, November 12, 2008, accessed on April 8, 2014 .
- ^ "Appelsinpiken" for millionstøtte. In: Filmweb AS. Filmweb.no, October 23, 2007, accessed April 8, 2014 (Norwegian).
