The Böhms - architecture of a family
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| Original title | The Böhms - architecture of a family |
| Country of production | Germany , Switzerland |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Maurizius Staerkl Drux |
| script | Maurizius Staerkle Drux |
| production | Carl-Ludwig Rettinger Lisa Blatter |
| music | Jonas Bühler |
| camera | Raphael Beinder |
| cut | Anika Simon |
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Die Böhms - Architektur einer Familie is a German documentary film by Maurizius Staerkle Drux from 2014 . The film produced by Kölner Lichtblick Film together with 2: 1 Film Zürich, WDR and BR had its world premiere on October 30, 2014 at the 57th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film . The film was released in theaters on January 29, 2015 in Germany and on February 12, 2015 in Switzerland.
content
Gottfried Böhm , one of the most important architects in Germany, is still working on building projects every day at the age of 94. His sons Stephan, Peter and Paul managed to step out of their father's shadow with their own outstanding buildings. During the filming, Elisabeth, who is now suffering from dementia - Gottfried Böhm's wife and also an architect - dies, an important source of inspiration and the emotional center of the family.
The film documents the work, the buildings and the life of the Böhms. He draws an intimate portrait of the family of architects.
Emergence
Staerkle-Drux had a long-standing friendship with the Böhm family through his German mother and her Cologne relatives. He saw "in Gottfried Böhm [...] despite the great age difference an artist of the same age, curious and impressive in spirit." Staerkle-Drux lived with the Böhm family in Cologne for more than two years for the film work.
Reviews
“Maurizius Staerkle-Drux deals with the various architectural universes of the Böhms with an admirable visual instinct and also approaches the subtle differences between his protagonists' image of himself and that of others. The title of the film can by all means be taken literally: It is primarily about the architecture of a family, only then about the portrait of a prominent architectural family. "
“Unlike Harun Farocki's Sauerbruch Hutton Architects , Die Böhms largely excludes insights into the business background of the profession from observation. Existing conflicts with clients are also only briefly touched upon. So the film remains an interesting, but disappointingly blurred group picture of the patriarchal German educated middle class. And it is not surprising that, according to the press booklet, the filmmaker is one of the other friends of the Böhm family. "
Awards
- 2012 (before shooting starts): First place for the best young talent at the ARRI pitch.award as part of the Munich International Documentary Film Festival
- 2014: Documentary Film Prize of the Goethe Institute , DOK Leipzig
- 2015: Audience Award of the Arquiteturas Film Festival , Lisbon
- 2015: Honorable Mention in the category The Prize for the Best Documentary of the Max Ophüls Prize
- 2015: Jury Award, Festival of Films on Art , Montréal, Canada
- 2015: Prize of the Südtiroler Sparkasse Foundation for the best documentary film, 29th Bolzano Film Festival , Italy
Web links
- The Bohm - Architecture of a family in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website for the film
- Cologne film press: press booklet (PDF; 2.73 MB)
- Cineworx: Press release (PDF; 338 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Release certificate for Die Böhms - Architektur einer Familie . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2014 (PDF; test number: 149 188 K).
- ↑ press release, p. 6
- ↑ a b DOK Leipzig: Documentary Film Prize of the Goethe Institute 2014. ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Silvia Hallensleben: Critique of Die Böhms - Architecture of a Family. January 15, 2015, accessed April 22, 2015 .
- ↑ 27th International Documentary Film Festival Munich: Award ceremony
- ↑ Audience award for WDR / BR co-production “Die Böhms - Architektur einer Familie” , WDR press release, accessed on October 8, 2015.
- ↑ The prices at the 36th Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , max-ophuels-preis.de, January 24, 2015, accessed October 8, 2015
- ↑ 33rd FIFA Awards ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , artififa.com, accessed October 8, 2015
- ^ The winners of the 29th Bolzano Film Festival , accessed on October 8, 2015
