The white rabbit
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The white rabbit |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Florian Schwarz |
| script |
Michael Proehl , Holger Karsten Schmidt |
| production |
Michael Smeaton , Simone Höller |
| music |
Sven Rossenbach , Florian van Volxem |
| camera | Philipp Sichler |
| cut | Florian Drechsler |
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The White Rabbit is a German television - Drama , which is directed by Florian Schwarz with child grooming apart sets. It was first broadcast on September 28, 2016 on Erste , and in the rest of Europe on September 22, 2017 on arte .
action
For the shy thirteen-year-old Sara , the net is a meeting point and refuge. There she meets "Benny", who seems very sensitive and claims to be seventeen years old. She does not know that behind this username , which has a white rabbit as a profile picture , is actually the teacher and family man Simon Keller . He is shown how he pleases himself while he secretly observes his young students in physical education.
Sara confides in “Benny” after she is blackmailed with a revealing photo by “Kevin” - the pseudonym of the sixteen year old Julian Kiefer , another internet acquaintance.
Keller, alias Benny, offers her to give his trust teacher Keller his own user account so that he can help her. She makes an appointment with the teacher in a park, where he suggests that she confront the blackmailer at a meeting and take the photo from him.
After the two youngsters, Keller arrives at the meeting point and from his cover witnesses a sexual assault , but does not come to Sara to help, but watches what is happening until "Kevin" has left. Only then does he go to the girl to comfort her and send her home in a taxi.
He then follows the boy into a café and uses force to force the handover of the cell phone on which there is also a film of the sexualized act of violence .
The café is monitored by LKA special investigator Miki Witt, who steps in immediately, confiscates the phone and takes both of them to the police station. Based on Sara's statements, Keller can credibly convey to the investigative group that he made contact with the child under a pretext in order to protect them from attacks like this, and refers to his function as a media educator. Only Witt does not believe him, continues to investigate on his own, connects the case with a previous murder of a child and puts Keller under massive pressure.
This lures the investigator to his secret place , a horse farm, where Sara has fled. There he kills the policeman. The last shots show Keller, who is comforted in his imagination by Sara, and then a stylized chat room in which a dog avatar with a bloody snout kneels over a motionless, bloody rabbit avatar.
background
The Cologne media company FFP New Media produced the film on behalf of Südwestrundfunk . The shooting took place in October and November 2015 in Berlin.
The film title refers to the character of the white rabbit in Lewis Carroll's children 's book Alice in Wonderland .
Awards
- Prices
- 27th International Film Festival Emden-Norderney : Creative Energy Prize for the best screenplay
- 12th Festival of German Films 2016: Media Culture Prize for Claudia Gerlach-Benz from the TV film editorial team at SWR
- Günter Rohrbach Film Prize 2016: Saarland Radio Prize for Lena Urzendowsky
- Grimme Prize 2017 in the fiction category to: Michael Proehl and Holger Karsten Schmidt (book), Florian Schwarz (director), Philipp Sichler (camera), Devid Striesow and Lena Urzendowsky (actors)
- Bavarian TV Award for Best Actor in the TV Films / Series category for Devid Striesow
- Nominations
- Baden-Baden TV Film Festival 2016
- Prix Europe
- “Best TV film” at the La Rochelle Fiction Festival
- German Television Award 2017 in the categories "Best Film", "Best Book" and "Best Music"
- German Audio Book Prize 2017
- Jupiter Award 2017 in the categories "Best Film" and "Best Actor" (Devid Striesow)
literature
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 28, 2016, Heike Hupertz: In the network of child molesters
- Frankfurter Neue Presse , September 28, 2016: TV criticism by Ulrich Feld
- Frankfurter Rundschau , September 28, 2016, Tilmann P. Gangloff: Darkness and Light
- Der Spiegel , September 28, 2016, Arno Frank: Virtually seduced, real abused
- Süddeutsche Zeitung , September 28, 2016, Viola Schenz: Pedophile buddy from the network
- taz , September 28, 2016, Jens Müller: Hunters and prey
- Tittelbach.tv , 2016: The white rabbit
- Die Welt , September 28, 2016, Elmar Krekeler: The hunters are on the loose in cyberspace. They hunt children
- Die Zeit , September 28, 2016, Heike Kunert: Alice in Horrorland
References
- ARD page about the film
- The White Rabbit in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The white rabbit at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for The White Rabbit . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Release info. In: IMDb . Retrieved September 22, 2017 (English).
- ↑ The white rabbit. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed October 5, 2016 .
- ↑ zeit.de , accessed on October 3, 2016
- ↑ Creative Energy Film Prize, Prize Winner 2016 , accessed on October 4, 2016
- ↑ Festival of German Films, The Prize Winners 2016 , accessed on October 4, 2016
- ↑ Lena Urzendowsky and Ivo Pietzcker win the SR award. In: SR press release . November 5, 2016. Retrieved November 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Prize winners . In: grimme-preis.de . Retrieved March 8, 2017.
- ↑ The White Rabbit at the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival, accessed on October 5, 2016