The old monkey scared

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Movie
Original title The old monkey scared
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2003
length 92 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Oskar Roehler
script Oskar Roehler
production Bernd Burgemeister ,
Dietmar Güntsche ,
Eberhard Junkersdorf
music Martin Todsharow
camera Hagen Bogdanski
cut Uli Schön
occupation

The old ape fear is a German relationship drama directed by Oskar Roehler from 2003 . The film premiered on February 14, 2003 at the Berlinale and opened in German cinemas on April 24 of the same year.

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The relationship between the theater director Robert and his girlfriend, the pediatrician Marie, is in deep crisis. After his father's death from cancer, with whom he had just re-established contact, Robert embarks on a fateful journey into self-destruction. Despite his great love for Marie, he no longer sleeps with her. Instead, he keeps looking for prostitutes . The pregnant Marie finds out about him and finally learns that Robert is working with the HIV-positive prostitute Laura, whose son Marie, who is also ill, has been treating her for a long time. Despite all the humiliations - after the loss of her unborn child and her second suicide attempt - she is ready to fight for her love. She quickly realizes that Robert is the only one who can share her pain. So she puts all her hopes on a new beginning. But Robert never learned to go outside with his feelings, even a visit to a psychologist couldn't change that.

Reviews

"A rollercoaster of emotions carried by two strong main actors, which, despite violent colossal narrative moments, outlines a metropolitan form of existence that has gotten out of joint between despair and disorientation."

“Time and again, Roehler's films despair of the creatureliness of humans, of their transience, of their urges, lusts and secretions. They are films that long for the celebration of feeling, for the short, rare moment in which nothing, and certainly not desire, can get in the way of love. One could call this deep fear of everything physical and the resulting exaggeration of feelings neurotic, but Roehler's cinema is far too clever for that. It is a cinema that is deeply aware of its own desperate circling and that points beyond itself because it makes no secret of its self-referentiality. "

"'The old monkey fear' is a great film and Oskar Roehler is currently one of the most interesting, exciting German directors - with a gifted hand in selecting its actors."

“In 'The Old Ape Fear' he [Oskar Roehler] piles up hardship and misery so drastically, unrestrainedly and without regard to probabilities that one can hardly follow the overloaded events. Obsession and hysteria become normal in the film. If you consider that Roehler likes to use his own biography for his films, this film is also a remarkable study of an artistic nature dying of self-pity. "

- Volker Behrens in the Hamburger Abendblatt

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for the old monkey fear . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2003 (PDF; test number: 92 954 K).
  2. The old monkey scared. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 12, 2016 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. Katja Nicodemus : After slamming the door . - In: Die Zeit , No. 18/2003
  4. The old monkey fear ( Memento from December 23, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Abendblatt.de April 24, 2003