The warrior and the empress
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The warrior and the empress |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 135 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tom Tykwer |
| script | Tom Tykwer |
| production |
Stefan Arndt , Katja De Bock , Gebhard Henke , Maria Köpf |
| music |
Reinhold Heil , Johnny Klimek , Tom Tykwer |
| camera | Frank Griebe |
| cut | Mathilde Bonnefoy |
| occupation | |
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The Warrior and the Empress is a German film by Tom Tykwer from 2000.
action
The ex-soldier Bodo saves the life of the nurse Sissi in an accident that he himself indirectly caused - but disappears again after she has been taken to the hospital. Since Sissi, who works and lives in psychiatry, can no longer forget her savior, she sets out to find him and finally finds Bodo, who lives with his brother and rejects her.
Only when a bank robbery fails, in which Bodo loses his brother and accomplice, do they meet again to escape their previous life and start a future together.
background
This film was the official competition entry at the Venice International Film Festival in 2000 and received the 2001 German Film Prize in silver for best film. The film is a production of X-Films Creative Pool . Tom Tykwer likes to refer to the film as a “ Heimatfilm ” because he shot it mainly in his hometown of Wuppertal . Distinctive spots such as the suspension railway or the Wuppertal Sparkasse skyscraper appear as film sets.
In the marketing phase at the start of the film, Tykwer himself describes Wuppertal as the German equivalent of San Francisco because of the many mountains and stairs and the film as an homage to this fact. He compares the suspension railway to the elevated railway in Brooklyn . A special gag for Wuppertal connoisseurs against this background is a film scene that was shot from the university cafeteria and captures the skyline of the Wuppertal in a panoramic view. When the 70s concrete slab building of the university should actually appear in the panorama pan, a mountain landscape appears on which a Bergisch slate house stands.
Typical Wuppertal scenes are assembled throughout the film. However, the logic of the pictures is often not correct, for example during a chase from the westernmost part of the town Vohwinkel to Barmen , an eastern part of the city, without crossing the Elberfeld in between .
The Birkenhof Foundation psychiatric clinic depicted in the film has its real model in the regionally known Tannenhof Foundation in the neighboring district of Remscheid, Lüttringhausen . However, the Kaiserswerther Diakonie served as the outside backdrop .
Soundtrack
The soundtrack consists of songs by Pale 3 (Tom Tykwer, Johnny Klimek, Reinhold Heil), in which guest musicians Skin (You Can't Find Peace), Lou Rhodes (Escape), Beth Hirsch (The Tunnel), Alison Goldfrapp (Bodo ) and the band 12 Rounds (Just Another Day) will perform.
Reviews
- Spotlight: Film : A love drama worth seeing with fairytale features.
- Image : No film has told of unconditional love so passionately in a long time.
- epd film 10/2000: The film is - typical for Tykwer - on the one hand a movie fairy tale and on the other hand psychodrama, but this time both sides don't really fit together and the main characters remain strangely pale.
- film-dienst 21/2000: fairytale-like drama in whose beguiling flow of images space and time are repeatedly suspended. Play, illusion and magical moments turn out to be autonomous quantities in the coordination system of chance and fate. A fascinating cinematic discovery of slowness, which discovers an attractive symbol in the urban architecture of Wuppertal.
- Eulenspiegel 11/00: Tykwer can think in pictures, but he forgets to tell a story. The most recent [of his films] also has a lot of kitsch potential .
Awards
- Frank Griebe's camera work was nominated for the European Film Prize in 2001.
- 1 German Film Prize, 4 other nominations
- Guild Film Award in Gold
- Audience Award Tromso Audience Award at the Norwegian Internasjonale Tromso Film Festival 2002
- The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
literature
- Michael Töteberg (Ed.): Tom Tykwer. the warrior + the empress. With photos by Bernd Spauke and Thomas Rabsch . Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek near Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-499-22825-4 .
Web links
- The Princess and the Warrior in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- X films
- Film headquarters
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age designation for The Warrior and the Empress . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ The Warrior and the Empress. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Renate Holland-Moritz : Unimportant and noteworthy from German studios . In: Eulenspiegel , 46./54. Vol., No. 11/00, ISSN 0423-5975 , p. 43.