The Red Dot (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The red point |
| Country of production | Germany , Japan |
| original language | German , Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 82 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Marie Miyayama |
| script | Marie Miyayama, Christoph Tomkewitsch |
| production |
Martin Blankemeyer , Miyako Sonoki |
| music | Helmut Sinz |
| camera | Oliver Sachs |
| cut | Marie Miyayama |
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Der Rote Punkt is a German - Japanese film drama from 2008 , which is counted as an author's film . The film was directed by Marie Miyayama and produced by the Münchner Filmwerkstatt . Yuki Inomata , Hans Kremer and Orlando Klaus play the leading roles .
action
The young Japanese Aki Onodera is troubled by dreams that arise from long-buried memories of her early childhood. Actually, she should concentrate on looking for a job just before the end of her studies, but instead she drives to her parents' house and discovers an old package from a foreign country in a storage room. An old camera with a film still in it and a yellowed envelope with a letter and a foreign map on which a red dot marks a spot seem to be the keys to her dreams.
Aki ignores the concerns of her family and boyfriend and flies alone to Germany to look for this place. In the idyllic Ostallgäu , looking for the right path, she enters the local police station, where 18-year-old motorcycle racer Elias Weber is being questioned. When Elias' father Johannes comes in to pick up his son, the policeman asks him to take the young Japanese woman with him, as her destination is very close to the Weber family's home.
At their request, father and son drop Aki down at the edge of the forest, where there is nothing special except trees and fields, and drive home. When Elias drives off with his sister after dinner to fetch his motorcycle, they meet the young Japanese woman who is desperately looking for a place to stay for the night in the rain. They take her to town - and when they can't find a hotel room there either, Aki is accepted into the Weber family's guest room.
The next day Elias helps Aki to find the place marked on the map. There is said to be a memorial stone in memory of Aki's biological family who had a fatal accident 18 years ago, as Aki Elias explains in clumsy German. In the evening Elias provoked a violent argument with his father, which earned him a slap in the face. Elias leaves the house immediately, followed by his father, who already regrets what he did. And otherwise it also shows that Aki's presence and the search for her past without any intention of increasing the tensions within the family - and ultimately leading to the fact that a previously hidden part of Weber's family history comes to light.
When Aki finally found the job he was looking for, everyone involved soon had to deal with the past in their own way in order to be able to start a new life.
background
The Red Dot is the graduation film by Marie Miyayama, the first Japanese student at the Munich University of Television and Film . The shooting took place in August and September 2007 in Ostallgäu and in October 2007 in Tokyo and Chiba .
The production, produced for comparatively little money as a so-called low-budget film , celebrated its world premiere as part of the World Film Festival in August 2008 in Montreal , Canada , where the film was nominated for the Golden Zenith ; the German premiere took place on October 23, 2008 at the Hof International Film Festival, where it won the German Film Award . For other performances the film was u. a. the Cairo International Film Festival , the International Film Festival of India to Goa , the International Film Festival Innsbruck (opening film) and the International Film Festival Shanghai invited in Germany to Asia Film Festival , the Film Festival Biberach , the International Film Festival of Braunschweig , the International Film Festival Passau (as the opening film) and invited to the Festival of German Films in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , where it was nominated for the Film Art Prize and won the Audience Award. At the Bavarian Film Prize in January 2009, Der Rote Punkt was recognized as the best newcomer production.
Der Rote Punkt will start in German cinemas on June 4, 2009 , distributed by Movienet .
The screenplay is based on a real incident: On October 4th, 1987, an accident occurred on Bundesstraße 17 about 500 meters from the Lustberghof inn near Denklingen that killed the father, mother and a child of the Japanese family Tsuda, only the little one Son survived. The person who caused the accident hit the road and was never caught. A memorial stone is set back at the height of the accident site at that time. The film shows a similar stone with the same text but changed names and dates.
Reviews
Wolfgang Höbel writes in Spiegel Online on October 27, 2008 : Landscape painting with people supplement: At the film days in Hof this year, the state of the domestic narrative cinema was lamented. Wrongly, because the two outstanding films “The Red Dot” and “The Architect” proved that the refusal of drama can be great art.
Anne Wotschke and Kalle Somnitz write on Programmkino.de: The fact that serious topics can also be staged in a moving way was shown this year in Hof by the young HFF Munich graduate Marie Miyayama with her debut DER ROTE PUNKT, which also won the German sponsorship award Film rightly won.
Ulf Lepelmeier writes on Filmstarts.de: Once a year the members of the German film industry make a pilgrimage to the Franconian province and present their new works to distributors, journalists and the interested public in the cold, damp town of Hof. At the Hof Film Festival, of course, the obligatory prizes are not missing. The coveted “Förderpreis Deutscher Film” in 2008 went to the HFF graduation film by the Japanese Marie Miyayama, who impressed with her calm and stylish drama “Der Rote Punkt”.
Christoph Gröner writes in Blickpunkt: Film 45/2008: Tight budget, clear vision: Marie Miyayama's “Red Dot” impressed the jury in Hof with its aesthetic unity - the reward was the sponsorship award.
Awards
2009: Wilhelm Dieterle film award from the city of Ludwigshafen am Rhein
2009: Golden Heidi for the best feature film at the film show of the University of Television and Film Munich
2009: Audience award at the 5th German Film Festival in Ludwigshafen am Rhein
2009: Special Mention by the jury in the International Competition of the Innsbruck International Film Festival
2009: Bavarian Film Award 2008 for Martin Blankemeyer (Category: VGF Young Producer Award )
2008: German Film Award at the 42nd Hof Film Festival for Oliver Sachs (design), Helmut Sinz (music) and Marie Miyayama (editing)
Web links
- The Red Spot in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Production company information
- Information from the film distributor
- Official website for the film
Individual evidence
- ^ Spiegel Online: A Quantum Frost , accessed on Saturday, May 9, 2009
- ↑ Programmkino.de: 42nd Hofer Filmtage 2008 - A festival report , accessed on Saturday, May 9, 2009
- ^ Filmstarts.de: Review , accessed on Saturday, May 9, 2009
- ↑ Focus: Film: Dreamwalking Between Cultures ( 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. (PDF; 409 kB), accessed on Saturday, May 9, 2009
