The Collini case (film)

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Movie
Original title The Collini case
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2019
length 123 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Marco Kreuzpaintner
script Christian Zübert ,
Robert Gold ,
Jens-Frederik Otto
production Marcel Hartges ,
Christoph Müller ,
Kerstin Schmidbauer
music Ben Lukas Boysen
camera Jakub Bejnarowicz
cut Johannes Hubrich
occupation

The Collini case is a German political thriller by Marco Kreuzpaintner that was released in German cinemas on April 18, 2019. It is a film adaptation of the novel The Case of Collini by Ferdinand von Schirach from 2011.

action

After the respected industrialist Jean-Baptiste Meyer was murdered in his hotel suite in Berlin in 2001, the retired guest worker Fabrizio Collini presents himself to the police as the perpetrator in the lobby without resistance. The young lawyer Caspar Leinen, who has just received his license , is appointed as his public defender. He learns that the dead person is "Hans" Meyer, who was like a surrogate father for him, with whose grandson Philippe he went to school and with whose granddaughter Johanna he was in a relationship. After star defender Mattinger, who represents the murdered man's family as a joint plaintiff, advised him to do so, he still retained the mandate despite his concerns about bias .

Since Collini remains silent, the case seems hopeless. Mattinger suggests that Leinen, in order to shorten the process, should bring Collini to a confession, in return the attorney general would only plead manslaughter instead of murder . But when the murder weapon was presented in court, Leinen remembered that Philippe had shown him the same weapon in Meyer's library. It is a Walther P38 that is rarely used by criminals today. After Leinen had obtained an interruption of the hearing for several days, he went to Montecatini , Collini's home village, while his father was studying files on Nazi crimes in Ludwigsburg . Linen meets Claudio Lucchesi, who tells him what happened in 1944 and is shown in flashbacks: As a young SS-Standartenführer Hans Meyer led a retaliatory measure in Tuscany for an assassination attempt by partisans . Collini's father is also among those chosen at random. The son is forced by Meyer to watch as the father, seriously injured by the firing squad, is struck down with several pistol shots. Lucchesi's father worked as an interpreter and was therefore executed as a collaborator shortly after the war . Mattinger tries to prevent Leinen from bringing this up in court by promising him lucrative economic cases, but Leinen does not respond.

In the process, Collini is now ready to talk about his motivation. Mattinger replies that Collini and his sister filed a criminal complaint against Meyer as early as 1968 and that the proceedings were then discontinued. Leinen researched that it was not about the question of guilt, but because of a recent change in the law, Nazi crimes like that of Meyer were only classified as manslaughter and were therefore barred. Leinen confronts Mattinger, who was involved in the legislative process at the time, with it, who finally admits that this was wrong. The next day the verdict is to be announced, says the judge that Collini at night suicide committed. Before that, he sent Leinen a photo of his father.

production

Literary original, staff and cast

The film is based on the novel The Collini Case by Ferdinand von Schirach from 2011 about the murder of the industrialist Jean-Baptiste Meyer by the retired guest worker Fabrizio Collini. Bert Rebhandl of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung writes that with his novel von Schirach pursued something like narrative legal cultural history in the service of coming to terms with the past . His novel was adapted for the film by Christian Zübert , Robert Gold and Jens-Frederik Otto . Carsten Baumgardt from Filmstarts remarked that the structure of the four time levels from the novel had been detoxified for the film and reduced to three. In addition to the present in 2001, there are some flashbacks to the youth of lawyer Leinen to understand his ties to the Meyer family. Another innovation compared to the book is that linen does not come from elitist circles, whereby the protagonist's milieu shift is quite legitimate in order to add another element to the narrative, says Baumgardt.

In July 2018 it was announced that Constantin wanted to film the novel, Marco Kreuzpaintner would direct and Elyas M'Barek would play the leading role of the young lawyer Caspar Leinen. Alexandra Maria Lara plays Caspar's childhood sweetheart Johanna, played by Tara Fischer as a young girl. Heiner Lauterbach as Richard Mattinger, Franco Nero as Fabrizio Collini, Sandro Di Stefano as Claudio Lucchesi, Axel Mustache as Alberto Lucchesi and Peter Prager as Bernhard Leinen also appear in other roles . Jannis Niewöhner plays Jean-Baptiste Hans Meyer as a young man.

Film funding and shooting

The project is funded by the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern with 500,000 euros and received a success loan of 186,000 euros. The film receives production funding of 1.1 million euros from Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg . The film funding agency granted production funding of 600,000 euros.

The shooting took place in Berlin and Italy. Shooting started on August 29, 2018 and ended on October 19, 2018. Jakub Bejnarowicz acted as cameraman .

publication

The film was released in German cinemas by Constantin Film on April 18, 2019. The premiere took place on April 9, 2019 in Berlin's Zoo Palast . In the further course of the year there were screenings at various film festivals, for example in October 2019 at the Paris German Film Festival and at the Haifa International Film Festival. In January and February 2020, the film was presented as part of the SchulKinoWochen in North Rhine-Westphalia.

reception

Reviews and honors

Bert Rebhandl of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung thinks that the film is “not just a literary adaptation , but a translation” and has turned out to be “grossly unsuccessful”, “because the director grossly missed the court thriller form” - “mainly because the tension here never "arises from the process itself," but is always added abundantly from the outside ". Rebhandl sums up: "'The Collini case' wears the grand form of a judicial thriller like an inappropriate robe."

Anke Sterneborg from epd Film writes: “Marco Kreuzpaintner can neither drown out the loud crunching in the framework of the script construction with great pathos nor with an overpowering soundtrack. And when the young lawyer Elias M'Barek regularly enters the ring as a hobby boxer, the attempt to combine his previous role model with the new, intellectual one is all too obvious. "

Carsten Baumgardt from Filmstarts noted an exquisite visual look in his review. The film looks "damn good and very elegant", and the pictures by cameraman Jakub Bejnarowicz have "international class". Elyas M'Barek convinced "in his role as a committed and conscientious young lawyer because he found the right balance of naivety, chutzpah and assertiveness".

Franco Nero plays Fabrizio Collini in the title role

Luitgard Koch from the Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater also remarks that M'Barek, who “is more likely to be seen in films that are often considered lighter in the cinema”, “to see M'Barek in a serious role on the big screen”, is “impressive ". The world star Franco Nero at his side is “also a real stroke of luck for the complex topic”, who with his charisma “gives his figure a fascinating power between fragility and strength”. " Heiner Lauterbach , who perfectly embodies the dazzling character of the vain star lawyer in all its facets, is also very convincing ."

From the German Film and Media Review was the case Collini with the predicate particularly valuable provided. The reasoning states: “Unlike many German cinema productions, The Collini case actually looks like a real cinema film from beginning to end. The camera and editing did a great job. In the discussion, the jury therefore emphasized the realism and freshness of the staging, which can also be seen internationally. "

Juliane Liebert comes to a rather negative assessment of the film in the Süddeutsche Zeitung : “Solid German thriller kitsch. But given the importance of the topic [...] solid German thriller kitsch is simply not enough. "

The legal scholar Ingeborguppe criticizes the film from a legal point of view. In her article in the LTO she lists numerous technical shortcomings in the film.

The Collini case was submitted by the producers for the selection of the German entry for the 2020 Academy Awards .

Awards

The Collini case was included in the preselection for the German Film Award at the beginning of January 2020 , but was not considered when the regular nominations were announced. Further nominations follow.

Haifa International Film Festival 2019

  • Nomination in the Between Israeli and Jewish Identity Competition

Gross profit

The film recorded 799,406 visitors in Germany (as of January 5, 2020).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Collini case . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 188406 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for The Collini case . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Patrick Bahners: This fatal weakness for pralines or celery. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 16, 2011.
  4. ↑ Ferdinand von Schirach, The Collini case
  5. ^ A b Bert Rebhandl: "The Collini Case" in the cinema: For lack of ideas. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 21, 2019.
  6. ↑ a b Carsten Baumgardt: The Collini case. In: filmstarts.de. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
  7. ↑ Kreuzpaintner and M'Barek take over the "Collini case". In: mediabiz.de, July 13, 2018.
  8. ↑ Schirach's bestseller “The Collini Case” is filmed with Elyas M'Barek. In: Focus Online, July 13, 2018.
  9. ↑ a b “The Collini Case”: Constantin Film filmed Ferdinand von Schirach's bestseller with Elyas M'Barek for the cinema, directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner. In: ots.at, July 13, 2018.
  10. ↑ The film Collini. In: Neues Deutschland, July 14, 2018.
  11. ↑ Complete cast of The Collini Case
  12. ↑ Faith, love and the salvation of the world: FFF supports 49 film projects with 6.3 million euros. In: fff-bayern.de, July 19, 2018.
  13. ↑ Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg is funding DER FALL COLLINI by Marco Kreuzpaintner with 1.1 million euros. In: filmbiznews.de, October 11, 2018.
  14. ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved October 26, 2018.
  15. ↑ Annika Schönstädt: Thriller premiere for Elyas M'Barek in the Zoo Palast. In: Berliner Morgenpost, April 9, 2019.
  16. ↑ https://nrw.db-schulkinowochen.de/webanmeldung/web_film.inc.php?selectedNr=960&PNr=5297
  17. ↑ Anke Sterneborg: The Collini case. In: epd film. Retrieved April 16, 2019.
  18. ^ Luitgard Koch: The Collini case. In: programmkino.de. Retrieved April 14, 2019.
  19. ↑ The Collini case. In: fbw-filmbeval.com . German film and media rating. Accessed March 31, 2019.
  20. ↑ Juliane Liebert: Grandpa in the corner. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. Retrieved April 18, 2019.
  21. ^ Ingeborguppe: Citizens' education based on the lawyer Ferdinand von Schirach.
  22. ↑ German Oscar nominee: Seven films enter the race. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, August 7, 2019.
  23. ↑ preselection. In: deutscher-filmpreis.de. Retrieved January 7, 2020.
  24. ^ The Collini Case. In: haifaff.co.il. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
  25. ↑ Top 100 Germany 2019. In: insidekino.com. Retrieved January 20, 2020.
  26. ↑ The Collini Case - Book Ad by Random House. Retrieved June 10, 2019.