The white noise

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Movie
Original title The white noise
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2001
length 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Hans Weingartner
script Hans Weingartner / Tobias Amann
production Annette Pisacane
music Marek Goldowski / Andreas Wodraschke
camera Tobias Amann / Matthias Schellenberg
cut Dirk Oetelshoven / Andreas Wodraschke
occupation

The white noise is the feature film directorial debut of the Austrian director Hans Weingartner and the co-director and screenwriter Tobias Amann.

The idea of ​​the two students came about as part of their own project at the Art Academy for Media in Cologne .

Models for Hans Weingartner were John Cassavetes and Lars von Trier , whose style of directing , which was influenced by Dogma 95 , was largely used here. Filming locations included a student apartment in Cologne's Dasselstrasse (student district), the Lupe cinema in Cologne city center, the Cologne-Riehler Rheinufer and the Bergisches Land .

The film premiered in 2001 at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival and was shown in cinemas across Germany on January 31, 2002.

Story of the movie

The young high school graduate Lukas moves into his sister Kati's flat share to study in Cologne . There he experiences a world of drugs, parties and a lot of fun. However, he did not find his way around the university and finally gave up trying to enroll. At a party, he meets a girl whom he invites to the cinema to see the film Taxi Driver . After a violent argument with the cashier, the girl avoids him, which throws him into a serious crisis.

After consuming psychoactive mushrooms , he hears voices for the first time that, among other things, insult him, blame him for his mother's suicide , ridicule him as a failure and encourage suicide. Lukas and Kati's mother hanged themselves after several stays in mental hospitals , which was kept a secret from the children. After Lukas was admitted to psychiatry , the diagnosis was: paranoid schizophrenia . The drug ( haloperidol ), which he takes after his first psychiatric stay and which helps him, he finally stops and after new delusional states he tries to commit suicide. After a group of dropouts from the Rhine rescues him, they take him on a trip to Spain.

After a while his psychosis breaks out again and he becomes estranged from his companions. In the end he is left alone.

Cross references to other films

The film that Lukas would like to see with his date is Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese . This is an allusion to the date of the protagonist Travis with the campaign worker Betsy in a pornographic cinema that ends in a comparable disaster.

Reviews

“'I suffer from schizophrenia, say the doctors, the others usually just think that I'm crazy,' says Lukas from off-screen at the end, and we viewers may not have gained any definitive findings on the subject of psychosis, but we did realize that it was Even in Germany with a low budget, a digital camera and almost only unknown actors, it is possible to make a threatening and fascinating film about the inner workings of a mental illness (see also ' Memento ' or ' Requiem for a dream '). The film is a bit overloaded by Lukas' comments as background narrator, which cannot be directly classified into the plot, in which an attempt is made to upscale schizophrenia to a metaphysical experience, while at the same time the film so sensitively and skillfully the subjectively painful world of a vicious paranoia Portrays sufferers. "

- Andreas Thomas, film headquarters

Awards

  • 2001: Max Ophüls Prize
  • 2001: First Steps Award for Hans Weingartner (best full-length feature film over 60 minutes)
  • 2002: New Faces Award for Daniel Brühl (best young actor; also for nothing to regret and Vaya con Dios )
  • 2002: German Film Prize for Daniel Brühl (best leading actor; also for nothing to regret and Vaya con Dios ), nominations for Hans Weingartner (best feature film) and Anabelle Lachatte (best supporting actress)
  • 2002: Bavarian Film Award for Daniel Brühl (best young actor; also for nothing to regret and Vaya con Dios )
  • 2003: Prize of the German film critic for Daniel Brühl (best actor, also for Vaya con Dios ) and for Hans Weingartner (best feature film debut)
  • The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating “particularly valuable”.

literature

  • Reinhard Barrabas: Core areas of psychology. An introduction to film examples. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8252-3850-6 , pp. 119ff.
  • Hinderk M. Emrich : Hans Weingartner: The white noise. In: Derselbe, Gabriele Meierding: Lectures on the philosophical psychology of art. Volume 4: Film images of the psyche in film. Norderstedt 2013, ISBN 978-3-7322-3916-0 , pp. 13-18; limited preview in Google Book search.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for The White Noise . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ^ Review by Andreas Thomas on www.filmzentrale.com
  3. ↑ fbw film review .
  4. ↑ The psychiatrist Hinderk M. Emrich was a professional advisor for film production, see Karin Schiefer: Hans Weingartner in conversation about DAS WEISSE RAUSCHEN , austrianfilms.com , 2001 and Marietta Fuhrmann-Koch: When people get sick with schizophrenic psychosis , idw , September 8th 2008