The father game (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The father game |
| Country of production | Austria , France , Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Glawogger |
| script | Michael Glawogger Josef Haslinger |
| production | Erich Lackner Peter Wirtensohn |
| music | Olga Neuwirth |
| camera | Attila Boa |
| cut | Vessela Martschewski |
| occupation | |
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Das Vaterspiel is an Austrian film drama by director Michael Glawogger from 2009 based on the novel of the same name by Austrian writer Josef Haslinger . The film deals with an Oedipal conflict in combination with the family coming to terms with Nazi crimes against the Jewish population and interweaves several storylines. Numerous temporal jumps in the plot are characteristic of the film. The film adaptation was shown in 2009 as part of the Berlinale .
action
Mimi asks her old friend Ratz to come to New York to help her with renovations. Once there, Mimi reveals that Ratz should renovate her great-uncle's lair in the basement of her house. The old man is a National Socialist war criminal who has been in hiding for 32 years.
The ministerial son and journalism student Ratz developed a computer shooting game , the content of which consists in eliminating characters with the likeness of his father. He turns the game into a first-person shooter and makes contacts with Mimi's help. His game is eventually produced and becomes a box office hit.
The Jewish Lithuanian Jonas Shtrom, played by Ulrich Tukur, turns to the public prosecutor. Using his personal experiences, he describes the reprisals, persecutions and murders of the Jewish population during the Nazi German occupation in World War II. He accuses Mimi's great-uncle of numerous crimes.
Ratz slowly makes contact with Mimi's great-uncle, who tells him his memories and also reports on Jonas Shtrom.
Ratz's father dies towards the end of the film. He appears at the funeral and meets both his sister and his alcoholic mother.
Scenic details
- The film contains various jumps in time and thematic plot. The protagonists' hairstyles provide orientation, although Mimi appears shaved as well as blond and dark-haired with different hair lengths.
- An incestuous connection between Ratz and his sister is indicated by a kiss in the car, but there is no thematic continuation.
criticism
The TV broadcaster Arte sums it up negatively: " Vaterspiel is a hardly successful cinematic adaptation of the 600-page novel by Josef Haslinger."
The internet portal critic.de draws a positive balance: “A Nazi, a minister, a femme fatale, a computer game, a hiding place, Vienna, New York, incest. Michael Glawogger's adaptation of the novel takes on a lot - and triumphs. "
Awards
The production has been nominated several times internationally.
Web links
- Kill Daddy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The father game. Berlinale, accessed on February 1, 2015 .
- ↑ The father game. (No longer available online.) Arte, archived from the original on February 4, 2015 ; accessed on February 1, 2015 . 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.
- ↑ The father game. critic.de, accessed on February 1, 2015 .
- ↑ Award (IMDB) (English). IMDB, accessed February 1, 2015 .
