The Tower (2012)
The Tower is a two-part German television film based on the novel of the same name by Uwe Tellkamp , which was first broadcast on October 3rd and 4th 2012 in Das Erste .
action
The film essentially reproduces the plot of the novel , which focuses on the story of the Hoffmann family in the milieu of Dresden's educated bourgeoisie from 1982 to 1989.
Some details of the plot of the novel have been left out in the film, such as the affair of the father Richard Hoffmann with Christian's girlfriend Reina, instead the exposure of the earlier Stasi involvement as the trigger of the rupture between father and son is staged. For cinematic reasons, Meno Rohde's diary entries were also completely dispensed with.
Filming
The shooting took place from September to December 2011 in addition to Dresden and its immediate surroundings (for example Schloss Cotta ) and Berlin in Görlitz and Bad Düben . The Christmas vespers in the first part and the wedding scenes in the second part were shot in and around the church in Großröhrsdorf , the film scenes of the demonstrations at Dresden Central Station in Pilsen, Czech Republic .
"Der Turm" was produced by the Babelsberg production company teamWorx around producer Nico Hofmann , a subsidiary of UFA, also based in Potsdam-Babelsberg .
reception
“The constellation is clear after a good twenty minutes. In the process, the viewer experiences how the protagonists can see, recognize their situation and draw conclusions. This is a tried and tested dramaturgical model, it was particularly popular when people were still looking for 'socialist realism'. Thanks to the director Christian Schwochow, who became known with Novemberkind, that it doesn't get boring despite the predictability. He knows how to stage the unspoken. "
“The film, which sometimes seems too rushed due to its many facets, but basically reproduces the dynamics of the time, hardly leaves a breather. 'The Tower' draws its atmosphere from interpersonal relationships, from which the tension arises. "
Uwe Tellkamp praises the film adaptation of his novel: The film is largely free of clichés. The scriptwriter and director would have been able to "free themselves from the seductions of the material, which are called: black and white painting, cliché formation, impression club". A love for historical detail can also be seen in the film. B. in a scene Meno Rohde can be seen in front of a GDR edition of the works of E. T. A. Hoffmann . Tellkamp also feels that the film confirms his view of the downfall of the GDR: the author Tellkamp could be “labeled an idiot and clueless, a spoiled citizen boy. […] But a film staff of maybe 400 people, many of them East Germans? You can't say this to them. "
Awards
- 2012: Bambi ("Audience Award")
- 2013: Golden Camera for Claudia Michelsen ("Best German Actress")
- 2013: Grimme Prize in the “Fiction” category to Thomas Kirchner (book), Christian Schwochow (director), Lars Lange (set design) and Jan Josef Liefers, Claudia Michelsen and Sebastian Urzendowsky (representing the theater ensemble)
- 2013: Jupiter Film Award for Best TV Film
- 2013: Award for Best Editing (for Jens Klüber) by the German Academy for Television
Web links
- The tower in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The tower. Journey to a sunken land. Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk , accessed on October 4, 2012 (interactive website for the television film).
- From the right life in the wrong one. Filming of "The Tower". Das Erste, accessed on October 6, 2012 (excerpt from the program “titel thesen temperamente” on October 1, 2012).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the tower . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2012 (PDF; test number: 134 653 V).
- ↑ 'The Tower' is being filmed in Schloss Cotta near Dresden. Dresden television , September 29, 2011, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; retrieved on December 29, 2017 : "The film adaptation of the novel by Uwe Tellkamp is mainly shot in Dresden and the surrounding area."
- ↑ Christoph Stephan and Leonie Born: "The Tower" shoot begins in Berlin - film team soon in Dresden. Dresden Latest News , September 14, 2011, accessed on December 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Wedding scenes for the two-part TV series “Der Turm” shot in Großröhrsdorf - Görlitz will follow in November. (No longer available online.) In: Sächsisches Tageblatt. September 29, 2011, formerly in the original ; accessed on November 1, 2014 . ( 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.
- ↑ Weblog with photos from the shooting in Pilsen , accessed on November 1, 2014.
- ↑ teamWorx / UFA , accessed on November 1, 2014.
- ↑ Jens Bisky: “The Tower” on ARD: The way they were. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . October 3, 2012, accessed November 1, 2014 .
- ↑ Katrin Rönicke, Marco Herack: “The Tower” on TV: The sweet disease yesterday. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 4, 2012, accessed November 1, 2014 .
- ↑ Martin Machowecz, Stefan Schirmer: "There will be marauding gangs again". In: The time . September 23, 2012, accessed on November 1, 2014 (Interview der Zeit with Uwe Tellkamp).
