David wants to fly
| Movie | |
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| Original title | David wants to fly |
| Country of production | Germany , Austria , Switzerland |
| original language | German , English , Hindi |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | David Sieveking |
| script | David Sieveking |
| production |
Martin Heisler , Carl-Ludwig Rettinger |
| music | Karl Stirner |
| camera | Adrian Stahli |
| cut | Martin Kayser-Landwehr |
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David wants to fly - A yogic adventure (German David wants to fly ) is a documentary by David Sieveking from 2010 . The film premiered on February 12, 2010 in Panorama Documents at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival ; it was released in German on May 6, 2010.
content
The Transcendental Meditation (TM) established by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi has been an unparalleled success story. The young director David is also looking for inspiration. David's idol, the great director David Lynch , assures that TM is also the source of his creativity. David takes him at his word and approaches the transcendental meditation impartially with a sometimes shocking naivety. He undergoes expensive meditation training, receives his personal mantra and tries his hand at yogic flying.
Soon, however, he recognizes contradictions in the TM organization and does critical research into the background of the organization that has become a billion-dollar industry. Maharishi dies suddenly, now there is a dispute over his successor. As a result, David Lynch becomes the main international TM ambassador. The Indian gurus, who were very cooperative at first, now want to stop the shooting. When David begins to visit TM renegades , the organization behaves downright hostile, Lynch even threatens to file a lawsuit against the film team.
David travels to the USA and India to visit the Hindu monastery Jothir Math , where TM founder Maharishi is said to have received his ordinations. There his successor tells him that Maharishi was a crook who did not have the right to spread his meditation teachings. He sends David to the source of the Ganges in the Himalayas , where he finds his own truth.
production
The film was produced by Lichtblick Film in coproduction with Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion, Navigator Film, Bayerischer Rundfunk , arte , Swiss Television and Austrian Broadcasting .
The shooting took place in Berlin and Hanover , in the United States in New York City , Fairfield , in the buildings of the Maharishi European Research University (MERU) in the Dutch college St. Ludwig near Vlodrop and in the Swiss Seelisberg as well as in the Bramasthan of India (near Jabalpur located "area center" in the sense of Vedic spatial planning) instead.
Awards
David wants to fly received the Hessian Film Award for Best Documentary . At the Message to Man - International Documentary, Short & Animated Film Festival 2010 in Saint Petersburg , he was awarded the special prize of the jury of international film critics and at the Warsaw International Film Festival 2010 and the Viennale 2011 in Vienna he received honorable mentions.
In addition, the film was given the rating of particularly valuable by the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) .
Reviews
"Without exaggerated polemics, but with a clear eye for dogmatic and commercial excesses, the film drafts the protocol of a sobering 'search for meaning' in an illuminating and entertaining way."
“[David Sieveking] has made a clever, self-deprecating and at the same time extremely revealing film out of the process of his slow awareness. The yogic aviators should not be exactly happy with this PR success. "
“'David wants to fly' teaches you to be amazed at how far the hunger for meaning lets people in the West go. For David Sieveking, it is not the Himalayas, but the Teufelsberg in Berlin that turns out to be a holy place - the very secular German capital is not completely lost to eternal truths either. "
literature
- Diedrich Diederichsen: Finally flying - but how? In: Die Zeit , No. 19, May 6, 2010
Web links
- David Wants to Fly in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- mm filmpresse Berlin: press release (PDF; 85 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Release certificate for David wants to fly . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2010 (PDF; test number: 122 210 K).
- ^ Berlinale 2010: David wants to fly. (PDF; 116 kB)
- ^ Brian D. Johnson: Flying yogis and flying millions. In: Maclean’s of May 24, 2010, p. 58
- ^ Hessian Film Funding: Hessian Film Prize: The Prize Winners 1990–2011. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 112 kB)
- ↑ a b Swiss Films: David wants to fly.
- ^ Viennale: Vienna Film Prize 2011
- ^ German film and media rating: David wants to fly. Film info and jury statement
- ↑ David wants to fly. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Christina Tilmann: Admiration and Doubt. "David wants to fly". In: Der Tagesspiegel , February 12, 2010
- ^ Bert Rebhandl: David wants to fly. In: Die Tageszeitung , May 6, 2010
