The ground under your feet

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Movie
Original title The ground under your feet
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2019
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Marie Kreutzer
script Marie Kreutzer
production Alexander Glehr ,
Franz Novotny
music Kyrre Kvam
camera Leena Koppe
cut Ulrike Kofler
occupation

The Ground Under Your Feet is an Austrian feature film by Marie Kreutzer from 2019 with Pia Hierzegger and Valerie Pachner in the leading roles. The premiere took place as part of the Berlin International Film Festival on February 9, 2019, where the film was invited to the competition for the Golden Bear . The film was shown on the Diagonale on March 19, 2019 as the opening film. The Austrian theatrical release was on March 22, 2019, in Germany the film was released on May 16, 2019.

action

Caroline, called "Lola", is a successful business consultant. She lives in Vienna , is in her late twenties and works up to 100 hours a week, including so-called “forty-eight” assignments, 48-hour shifts without sleep. She hardly ever uses her apartment and commutes between different places of work, expensive dinners with clients and regular sports sessions. She has a secret affair with her superior Elise. At the same time she keeps the existence of her older sister Conny a secret. She suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and Lola is the legal guardian.

When Conny tries to commit suicide and is taken to the hospital, Lola is advising a measurement technology company in Rostock . From then on she commutes back and forth between Germany and Austria, which means additional stress. Soon Lola believes she is being spied on by her sister through phone calls. In fact, this is in a closed psychiatric institution in Vienna and Lola begins to suffer from paranoia. She cannot finish a medical exam due to the pressure of work. Her strange behavior does not go unnoticed by Elise and her colleagues, who suspect a burnout . After the project in Rostock, Lola and Elise are planning to take on an even bigger one in Sydney and Lola is to become an "Associated Principal". Elise fears for the success of the project in Rostock and pulls Lola away from the upcoming important final presentation. Lola also has to fight off the competition of her colleague Sebastian, who tries to sideline her with fake statistics.

When Conny is released from the clinic, Lola lets her move into her own apartment and tells her about her career plans in Australia. Although she was wrong about the weekday, Lola managed to fly back to Rostock in time for the presentation and to impress the customers, among other things, by keeping a large number of the jobs. After spending the night with Elise, she finds out that Elise is addicted to drugs. Although she continues to promote Sebastian, she still promises Lola a future together in Australia. When Lola returns to Vienna to see her sister, she finds out that she has committed suicide. Lola has a nervous breakdown and is hospitalized. She is prescribed anti-depressants and is the only survivor at her sister's funeral. The mobile phone, which is otherwise irreplaceable for her work, makes her ring.

production

Marie Kreutzer (l.) And Valerie Pachner (2019)

The shooting took place in November and December 2017 in Vienna and Rostock . The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund and Filmstandort Austria ; Austrian Broadcasting was involved . The film was produced by Novotny & Novotny Filmproduktion GmbH .

Odo Grötschnig and Veronika Hlawatsch were responsible for the sound and sound design, Monika Buttinger for the costume design, Martin Reiter for the production design and Maike Heinlein and Karoline Strobl for the mask.

The premiere took place on February 9, 2019 as part of the Berlin International Film Festival . The film will also be shown there with an audio description .

reception

The film received 2.1 out of four possible stars in the international reviews of the British trade magazine Screen International and thus took 10th place among all 16 Berlinale competition films . Emin Alpers , A Story of Three Sisters and Nadav Lapids Synonymes (3.0 each) topped the ranking. The film was rated positively by 96 percent of all Rotten Tomatoes critics and received 7.4 out of a possible 10 points.

Various film critics saw parallels with Toni Erdmann (2016) by Maren Ade , where a young careerist is also disturbed by a family member in her professional life. Leading actress Valerie Pachner stated in the daily newspaper Kurier that no other film had inspired her in her play as Lola, but the "rigid trees in front of the psychiatry in Steinhof ".

Susanne Lenz awarded one of five stars in the Berliner Zeitung . Kreutzer confronts two sisters and two worlds: "And unfortunately she does it so cliché that it is difficult to bear."

Matthias Greuling found in the Wiener Zeitung that Kreutzer would work out well how the Moloch working world is able to devour us in a performance-oriented society that takes no account of private sensitivities. Leena Koppe's film "photographed with great elegance and dramaturgy" would be supported by his ensemble of actresses, above all Valerie Pachner. Greuling also found similarities with Tony Erdmann , although the film by Marie Kreutzer would deal with the subject much more melancholy.

Gunda Bartels wrote in Tagesspiegel that Marie Kreutzer had taken on too much in her naturalistic drama with the topics of childhood patterns among sisters, efficiency versus illness, love of women, men versus women. Bartels praised the "successful nuances of the film flooded with feelings of insecurity".

Kirsten Taylor from RBB24 came to the conclusion: “A solidly staged drama with very strong actresses who cast a spell over you with their characters. But the story cannot hold its tension and ultimately does not lead to any new knowledge. "

Awards and nominations

Leena Koppe - camera
Kyrre Kvam - music
Pia Hierzegger - Conny

Berlin International Film Festival 2019

Diagonal 2019

Film Festival Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2019

  • Awarded the NDR Director's Prize (Marie Kreutzer)
  • Awarded the Young Actor Award (Valerie Pachner)

German Acting Award 2019

Outfest Los Angeles 2019

  • Award for Best International Feature Film (Marie Kreutzer)

Günter Rohrbach Film Award 2019

  • Nomination for the Günter Rohrbach Film Prize (shortlist)

Austrian Film Award 2020

  • Nomination in the category Best Fiction Film (Alexander Glehr, Franz Novotny, Marie Kreutzer)
  • Nomination in the category Best Female Actress (Valerie Pachner)
  • Award in the category best female supporting role (Pia Hierzegger)
  • Nomination in the category Best Female Supporting Role (Mavie Hörbiger)
  • Nomination in the category Best Director (Marie Kreutzer)
  • Nomination in the category Best Cinematography (Leena Koppe)
  • Nomination in the category Best Music (Kyrre Kvam)

Jupiter Award 2020

  • Nomination in the category Best International Film

Web links

Commons : The ground beneath your feet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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