The Bunker (2015)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The bunker |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nikias Chryssos |
| script | Nikias Chryssos |
| production | Nikias Chryssos |
| music | Leonard Petersen |
| camera | Matthias Reisser |
| cut | Carsten Eder |
| occupation | |
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Der Bunker is an award-winning German feature film by Nikias Chryssos from 2015. The film premiered on February 7, 2015 at the 65th Berlinale and was released in German cinemas on January 21, 2016.
The Bunker is a film production by Kataskop Film in co-production with Geißendörfer Film- und Fernsehproduktion KG with Hans W. Geißendörfer and Hana Geißendörfer as co-producers.
action
A young student lodges with a family as a subtenant in order to concentrate on a scientific work in peace and seclusion. They live in a middle-class underground bunker in the middle of the forest.
The parents hire the student as a tutor for their eight-year-old but much older-looking son. This son radiates strong insulation damage, but is supposed to be president later. The student punishes him severely in his task of reciting the capitals of all states, but also teaches him to play childishly. The parents now want to compliment the student, but the student secretly wants to take the child with him. He is almost stabbed by his mother. Now that the child has gone outside alone, the student remains in the bunker vacuuming.
reception
The film received mostly positive reviews from the critics.
“As if David Lynch had filmed a screenplay by Helge Schneider , this is how Nikias Chryssos' grotesque 'Der Bunker' feels. A stylish, dark and absurd chamber play. "
“This is a feature film debut - a debut that handles filmic means so confidently that it ignores them in order to dare something completely new, something completely different. Upbringing and education, ambition and striving are distorted and deformed into a neurotic spirit world, which the film portrays as perfectly given and normal. A very special, a great film is The Bunker, an experience for the viewer with an antenna for such absurdities. "
“A bizarre masterpiece of strange cinema. Just as if Wenzel Storch, Germany's most important auteur filmmaker, and Helge Schneider, together with David Lynch, had sniffed excessively at the glue and whistled "Disgust Alfred" into an endless loop. The nice thing about it: You can certainly interpret “The Bunker” and especially as a parable of petty-bourgeois pinchiness. But in allegorical he is not exhausted alone. Rather, Nikias Chryssos' film functions quite naturally as a continuation of a noble cinema tradition that was once called “midnight cinema” and unites films that are lustfully “weird” and at right angles to any sort of drawer. It is even nicer that "Der Bunker" does not seem affected or imitated in this regard, but rather appears impressively self-confidently alongside the German, contemplative consensus filmmaking: There are no concessions in the direction of film funding or the formulaic nature of classic genre cinema. "
Awards and nominations
- Next Wave Award Best Film (Fantastic Fest, Austin (Texas) , USA)
- Prix du Jury, Prix du Jury de la Critique (Festival Mauvais Genre, France)
- Best Director ( Ithaca International Fantastic Film Festival, USA)
- Best Actor - Daniel Fripan (Fantaspoa International Fantastic Film Festival Porto Alegre , Brazil)
- Best Film (La Mano Festival, Spain)
- Nomination for Best Feature Film Debut (German Film Critics' Prize)
Web links
- The bunker in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the film
- Berlinale page about the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the bunker . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2015 (PDF; test number: 154 540 V).
- ↑ Kaspar Heinrich: Berlinale Best of: New Films, New Series. In: Spiegel Online . Retrieved January 25, 2016 .
- ↑ Harald Mühlbeyer: Berlinale 2015: The Bunker. In: kino-zeit.de. Retrieved January 25, 2016 .
- ↑ Thomas Groh: GRUSEL: Claustrophobic small-small. In: The daily newspaper . July 30, 2015, accessed January 25, 2016 .