The dark gene

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Movie
Original title The dark gene
Country of production Germany ,
Switzerland
original language German
Publishing year 2015
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Miriam Jakobs ,
Gerhard Schick
script Miriam Jakobs,
Gerhard Schick
production Thomas Tielsch ,
Karin Koch
music Daniel Almada ,
isenburg Quartet ,
Deirdre Gribbin
camera Simon Guy Fässler ,
Philipp Künzli
cut Miriam Jakobs,
Gerhard Schick

The dark gene is a documentary by Miriam Jakobs and Gerhard Schick . The film opened in theaters on May 28, 2015 in Switzerland and on June 11, 2015 in Germany.

content

The neurologist Frank S. has been suffering from depression for years . However, he does not only see himself as a patient, but wants to use his medical knowledge to trace the origin of the suffering. Could there be a gene that makes people depressed? Frank S. makes his genetic material available for research to answer this question. At the same time, on his travels, he speaks to scientists and artists who are inspired by genetics. He deals with fundamental ethical and social issues.

criticism

ZEIT ONLINE writes: “What does a depression look like? How can you capture them on film? Miriam Jakobs and Gerhard Schick wanted to get to the bottom of these questions and for this they asked Dr. Frank S. accompanies. S. is a doctor. And patient. Like four million other Germans, he suffers from depression. If he can't heal himself, at least he wants to understand it. The filmmakers captured his search for an explanation with the camera in order to make a possible cause visually tangible: The dark gene is now called the resulting film and what at first sounds boring and theoretical, in the end became a world of images full of aesthetics and tension. "

The Frankfurter Rundschau sums up: "'Do I live my life, or do I live it?' Asks Frank Schauder in 'The Dark Gen': An aesthetically overwhelmingly successful, very touching cinematic search for the origin of the depression."

The film service said the documentary mixed "moments of great intimacy with medical information and philosophical thoughts about free will without looking at the subject again". In addition, the "concept of the dual role of the protagonist as the person concerned and reporter [...] does not really work".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release Certificate for The dark gene . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2014 (PDF; test number: 149 244 K).
  2. ↑ Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 17, 2016 .
  3. ^ "The dark gene" - Hamburg tips - ZEIT ONLINE. In: Zeit Online. May 27, 2015, archived from the original on January 8, 2017 ; accessed on January 8, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Susanne Lenz: "The dark gene": On the beauty of genes . In: fr-online.de . June 12, 2015 ( fr-online.de ).
  5. ↑ The dark gene. Filmdienst , accessed on May 17, 2016 (short review).