The Fire (2011)

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Movie
Original title The fire
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Brigitte Maria Bertele
script Johanna Stuttmann
production Hartwig König
music Christian Biegai
camera Hans Fromm
cut Dominique Geisler
occupation

Der Brand is a German feature film by director Brigitte Maria Bertele from 2011. The film adaptation of a script by Johanna Stuttmann premiered on January 18, 2011 at the Max Ophüls Prize film festival and celebrated its international premiere on August 24, 2011 in the competition of World Film Festival Montréal.

action

During a salsa evening that 35-year-old Judith Hoffmann attended without her partner Georg, she was flirted by the charming doctor Ralph Nester . On the way home, Judith is raped by Ralph . She files a complaint against the family man Nester, but there is no trial due to a lack of evidence. Nester testifies that she had consensual sex with him. In order to process what happened, Judith then forced meetings with the perpetrator and his family. She tries to press Ralph Nester to retract his false testimony and threatens to expose him to his family. In desperation, she goes to another salsa evening in the same place where she meets Nester. Then she provokes Nester in such a way that he knocks her down. Lying in the hospital, she learns from her lawyer Valentin Stein that the public prosecutor's office has started an investigation against Ralph Nester and that there will be a trial. As a result of the rape, Judith's relationship with her long-term partner Georg breaks up. Another important role in the film is the relationship between Judith and her mostly helpless lawyer.

background

The outdoor shootings for the film took place in Ludwigshafen , Mannheim and Karlsruhe .

Reviews

The fire met with a mixed response from film critics. In the Berliner Zeitung , Rüdiger Suchsland certified that the film had a "great quality" and a "sober, non-melodramatic presentation" of the events. In a detailed review of the Saarländischer Rundfunk , Julia Schuler criticized “pale characters” and “incomprehensible leaps in action due to deficiencies in the script”. The acting performances of Maja Schöne and Mark Waschke are judged positively by her, while Florian David Fitz and Wotan Wilke Möhring are certified as "not authentic". The Rheinpfalz judges the film as "sometimes a bit too clear in its intensity".

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Of Mice and Girls . In: Berliner Zeitung , January 27, 2011
  2. ↑ Post on SR-online from January 17, 2011, formerly available at http://www.sr-online.de/kultur/3019/1158090.html straight {{Dead Link | date = 2018-04 | archivebot = 2018-04 -06 02:11:45 InternetArchiveBot | url = http: //www.sr-online.de/kultur/3019/1158090.html}}.
  3. ↑ Pop singers and other lost souls .  ( 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. In: Die Rheinpfalz , June 15, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.rheinpfalz.de  
  4. ^ Brigitte Maria Bertele honored in Montréal. In: Blickpunkt: Film , August 29, 2011.
  5. ↑ Presentation of the "German Independence Awards" . weser-kurier.de from September 19, 2011
  6. ↑ 52nd TIFF: The Awards ( Memento of January 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on April 3, 2019.
  7. ^ The fire at the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival 2011, accessed on November 19, 2011