The Architect (2008)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The architect |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ina Weisse |
| script | Ina Weisse, Daphne Charizani |
| production | Peter Schwartzkopff |
| music | Annette Focks |
| camera | Carl-Friedrich Koschnick |
| cut | Andreas Wodraschke |
| occupation | |
| |
The Architect is a German feature film by Ina Weisse from 2008 and her debut feature film as a director.
action
Georg Winter is a successful architect, 58 years old. When he heard over the phone that his mother had died in his home village in the Alps, he did not initially inform his wife Eva about the death of his mother. Later he drives to the funeral with her and his adult children, Reh and Jan. Winter had not been in his home village for twenty years; he hides the secret of having a illegitimate son there. At the funeral, Winter tried hard not to show his unrest. When the return trip is blocked for them due to the weather and the family cannot leave the village, Pastor Georg and his family asks to open a will. Also present is his great love Hannah and the illegitimate son Alex. Winter's mother has appointed her grandson Alex as the sole heir. The truth about Winter's double life emerges. Eva and the children are stunned. Deer Winter runs into the snowy winter landscape; her brother Jan can just save her from freezing to death. On the way back, Georg got out of the car sick and desperate, wandered around in the snow and fell into a ditch.
Production notes
During the shooting, 70 centimeters of fresh snow fell in one day. The valley in which the filming took place was actually closed, as in the film plot.
Awards
Her feature film The Architect , for which Ina Weisse also developed the idea and wrote the script together with Daphne Charizani, was featured in the competition at the 59th Berlinale in 2009 . Sophie Rois received the German Film Award in 2009 for the best acting performance (female supporting role). The architect won the award for the best screenplay at the Max Ophüls Film Festival that same year. The film was awarded in the category of Best Film and Best Actor at the 14th Turkey / Germany Film Festival in Nuremberg. He was also nominated for the North German Film Prize 2009 in the category of best feature film .
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating “valuable”.
Reviews
“Let's make it short: this is a wonderful film. No, it doesn't have a particularly exciting story and no exciting editing or camera technology. But he has six actors who never just do their job every second, but - yes, what are they actually doing? Neither do they lose themselves smoothly in a game of tearing up the soul, nor do they look at the psychological depths of their characters from a know-it-all distance. They neither disappear into their roles, eager for identification, nor do they walk their representational skills on the short leash of vanity. These actors never have anything to do with their characters, they always move into their acting with a form of affectionate determination. They play as if they hadn't chosen their characters, but rather the characters asked for these actors "
“The grace of snow is actually immeasurable: it gently covers people's fears, dampens their aggressions and transforms social battlefields into quiet white landscapes. Not in this film, however. When it snows here, it does it mercilessly. Because with every single flake the tragedy comes to a head. Winter, of all things, is the name of the family that the uncomfortable alpine drama The Architect is about, in which the icy landscape is artfully and consistently elevated to a metaphor for the broken togetherness. Nothing moves anymore, only the snow falls and falls and falls. [...] What a wonderful, what a cruel winter world drama : Father, mother, daughter, son - here they were shock-frozen in all their neuroses for a family constellation. "
Web links
- The architect in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The architect at filmportal.de