The border guard and the girl

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Movie
Original title The border guard and the girl
Country of production Germany , Poland
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Hartmut Schoen
script Hartmut Schoen
production Dagmar Rosenbauer
music Matthias Frey
camera Gero Steffen
cut Vessela Martschewski
occupation

The border guards and the girl is a German / Polish television film by WDR . It was shot in autumn 2004 as a commissioned production in Poland ; the first broadcast was on April 27, 2005 on Das Erste . The author and director is Hartmut Schoen .

content

In addition to the story of the brief escape from a life determined by rules and stupidity, the film deals with the topics of "EU eastward expansion" and "bureaucracy": Hans-Werner Müller, a German police officer from Berlin, is on the Polish-Ukrainian border where he falls in love with the Ukrainian smuggler Lippa. Due to private and professional problems, Müller is more and more restricted (his wife wants to divorce him, his local German boss is pedantic and heartless) and at the same time he gets to know the impartial Lippa better and better, which soon puts him in a quandary between work and friendship device. Finally, he decides to show her Berlin for one night - at the end of the film, however, Müller lives again with his wife, who had previously separated from him.

Reviews

“Conventional television drama that suffers from the constructed script. The figures act like representatives of ideas that are supposed to bring political and poetic life together in order to come as close as possible to everyday life. "

- Lexicon of International Films

Awards

The border guard and the girl won the European CIVIS Prize for Integration in Strasbourg in 2005 . Hartmut Schoen , the author and director, was honored with the main actors.

The film was also nominated for the 2006 Adolf Grimme Prize in the “Fiction and Entertainment” category.

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