Who digs up the deadly nightshade
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Who digs up the deadly nightshade |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 43 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franka Potente |
| script | Franka Potente |
| production |
Stefan Arndt , Marcos Kantis |
| music |
Matthias Petsche , Enis Rotthoff , Stefan Maria Schneider |
| camera | Frank Griebe |
| cut | Antje Zynga |
| occupation | |
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Digging the Belladonna is a German film from 2006. The special thing about this film directed by Franka Potente is that it was shot entirely in black and white , has a game length of only 43 minutes and is silent except for one character. The action takes place in 1918, the film should be based on the silent films of that time. The film premiered on February 13, 2006 at the Berlinale and had its regular film release in Germany on November 30, 2006.
action
The film is set in a country house in Germany on that summer day in 1918 when Germany became a republic and the former emperor left the country. Cecilie , the daughter of loyal but impoverished parents, is to be married to the rich Alfred . But on this day a punk from the future appears, with whom Cecilie immediately falls in love. Understanding is difficult, however, because the punk can speak, but the other people are mute and can only be understood through intertitles and exaggerated gestures.
Production notes
The shooting took place from May 2 to 13, 2005 in Berlin and Brandenburg . The film was produced by X-Films Creative Pool , which also retains the distribution rights, in coproduction with Westdeutscher Rundfunk and ARTE . The production design comes from Yeşim Zolan, the costumes from Ingrid Buhrmann. Monika Münnich and Valeska Schitthelm were responsible for the make-up.
background
The film is Franka Potente's first directorial work. This enabled her to fulfill her long-cherished wish for a “modern silent film”, which in many areas offers different, creative possibilities than today's sound and color films: “The [silent film] leaves you more room for mysticism, this power of silence. Poetry, humor, melancholy, portraying it without words, fascinated me. ”Franka Potente said in an interview with the Berliner Zeitung about her directorial debut with a silent film : Very interested in democracy. At that time I wanted to drop an anarchist, that's punk. [...] Because for me punk is the greatest possible antithesis to Prussian, patriarchal, regulated Germany. And since stereotypes are used in this film, as in every silent film (Cecilie's father, for example, is a stupid August), I needed punk as the embodiment of the modern, but also the cool and open. "
The role of Cecilie is played in the film by Emilia Sparagna, an American photographer and friend of Franka Potentes.
criticism
"An entertaining, rather superficial finger exercise that playfully emulates the stylistic devices of silent (slapstick) comedy and (expressionistic) drama, without actually doing justice to the special and innovative film language of silent film."
Web links
- The belladonna digs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Interview with Franka Potente. In: FAZ ; among other things about the film Who digs up the deadly nightshade .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview. ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Berliner Morgenpost , February 13, 2006
- ↑ Who digs up the deadly nightshade . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 29, 2006; interview
- ↑ Who digs up the deadly nightshade. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .