Yesterday's flowers
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Yesterday's flowers |
| Country of production | Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 125 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 14 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Chris Kraus |
| script | Chris Kraus |
| production |
Danny Krausz , Kathrin Lemme |
| music | Annette Focks |
| camera | Sonja Rome |
| cut | Brigitta Tauchner |
| occupation | |
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Yesterday's Flowers is a feature film by German director and film producer Chris Kraus from 2016. The main roles are played by Adèle Haenel and Lars Eidinger . The world premiere was on October 25, 2016 at the 50th Hof International Film Festival , the opening film of which was The Flowers of Yesterday . The theatrical release in Germany was on January 12, 2017, in Austria on January 13, 2017. In Switzerland, the film opened on April 28, 2017.
action
The film portrays the Holocaust researcher Totila Blumen, known as Toto. The grandson of a prominent general of the Waffen-SS suffers from his background, his career and his misanthropy .
Toto, who works in the central office of the state justice administrations for the investigation of National Socialist crimes (called "central office" for short) in Ludwigsburg , is preparing an international Auschwitz congress. When he protests against how the congress is turned into an advertising-financed media event, and then his direct superior Balthasar Thomas demotes him to a "back-up", Toto freaks out and a fight breaks out between the two. The present Professor Norkus, director of the institute and Holocaust survivor, suffers a heart attack and dies.
Now Toto is also given the young French Zazie as an intern, who has a relationship with Balthasar. Zazie Jewish grandmother was from the Nazis in a gas van murdered. Because of her open and unconventional nature, Toto dismisses Zazie as stupid at first, but later she touches him.
Toto is married to the veterinarian Hannah. Since he has suffered from erectile dysfunction for years , both have agreed that Hannah meets regularly with sex partners that Toto chooses. Because he cannot father children because of his erectile dysfunction, the couple have adopted their daughter Sarah.
After Tara Rubinstein, a well-known actress and Holocaust survivor, no longer wants to speak as a speaker after Norkus' death, the Auschwitz Congress threatens to fail. In the end, she declares that she is only willing to appear together with one other Vienna Holocaust survivor.
Zazie reveals to Toto that her grandmother and grandfather went to school together. She also confesses to Toto that she is drawn to him. In order to persuade the Holocaust survivor to attend the congress, Toto and Zazie have to travel to Vienna together, but find out after their arrival that he has just died. You decide not to go back straight away. In the evening in the hotel room they kiss. Toto saves Zazie the next morning after he finds her in the bathtub with her wrists cut. She had just made her fifth attempt to commit suicide. Both decide not to travel back to Ludwigsburg, instead they fly together to Riga , the place where their grandparents lived. There they visit their grandparents' school and the memorial in the Biķernieki forest , where Zazie's grandmother was presumably buried in the mass graves.
When both sleep together, Toto's erectile dysfunction has disappeared. Surprisingly, he gets his zest for life back and dreams of a future together with Zazie, for which he would be ready to leave his wife and adopted daughter. The jealous Balthasar wants to destroy the relationship between the two. He always heard the name Sieghart from Toto's demented mother Lisbeth. He finds out that the neo-Nazi Sieghart Blumen, imprisoned in the JVA Stuttgart-Stammheim , is Toto's brother, and he arranges a meeting between Sieghart and Zazie. During this visit to prison, Zazie learns that Toto was right-wing extremist herself until she was 18, which is enough for her to separate from Toto.
Five years later, Toto and Zazie happen to meet again for Christmas in a New York store. After saying goodbye to Zazie, his daughter Sarah draws his attention to the name of the child who has been with Zazie. Now Toto realizes that the little girl could be their daughter, and he tries to catch up with Zazie.
background
For sixteen years Chris Kraus had been concerned with his own family history. He found out that his grandfather was a member of an SS task force and was involved in the murder of numerous Jews. During his archive research he also came across descendants of Holocaust victims who were researching the fate of their relatives. This gave rise to the basic idea for the film to shed light on the Holocaust from the perspective of the third generation.
production
Shooting of the film started in April 2015 and took place in Stuttgart , Berlin , Vienna and Riga until the end of June 2015 . In the Central Office since the State Justice Administration in Ludwigsburg was not allowed to be rotated, was in the former branch of the District Court Tiergarten Park and located next to the former women's prison (formerly part of institution of the JVA Berlin-Plötzensee ) in the Lehrter Strasse 60/61 in Berlin-Moabit headquarters Place staged. The archive of the Central Office was recreated in a studio in Zehlendorf. The scene in New York at the end of the film was also staged in Berlin.
reception
The film won the main prize and the audience award at the Tokyo International Film Festival in 2016 and has since won a number of other prizes and nominations. The interweaving of the Holocaust topic with humor also caused controversy in the press. Andreas Platthaus ruled in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung that attempting a comedy against the backdrop of the Shoah failed miserably. According to Matthias Dell (Spiegel Online), no German film has been as badly wrong as this one in terms of craftsmanship. Martin Schwickert, on the other hand, found for Zeit Online that the dialogues were "of almost Woody Allen's brilliance and speed". Anke Sterneborg (epd film) also praised the fact that the film "with great actors, quick-witted dialogues and clever thoughts (...) blows a breath of fresh air into the processing of the German past". Jessica Kiang (Variety) summarized the polarizing positions as follows: "'Yesterday's flowers' is like a rodeo ride of moods and genres, which leads to frustration and a surprising amount of fun." So far 140,156 people in Germany have seen the film in cinemas.
Awards
- 2013: Thomas Strittmatter Screenplay Award from MFG Film Funding Baden-Württemberg
- 2016: "Particularly valuable" rating from the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW)
- 2016: Tokyo Grand Prix - 29th Tokyo International Film Festival
- 2016: WOWOW Viewers' Choice Award - 29th Tokyo International Film Festival
- 2016: Baden-Württemberg Film Award in the category of best feature film
- 2017: German Film Award
- Best film nomination
- Best Actor (Lars Eidinger) - Nomination
- Best Supporting Role (Sigrid Marquardt) - Nomination
- Best Director (Chris Kraus) - Nomination
- Best Screenplay (Chris Kraus) - Nomination
- Best costume design (Gioia Raspé) - nomination
- Best production design (Silke Buhr) - nomination
- Best Image Creation (Sonja Rom) - Nomination
- 2017: “Best Feature Film” at the 3rd Moscow Jewish Film Festival
- 2017: Gershon Klein Film Prize “Special recommendation for a German film with a Jewish theme” from the 23rd Jewish Film Festival Berlin & Brandenburg
- 2017: German Actor Award
- Strong appearance (Sigrid Marquardt)
- 2017: CLIO for the “best film on a historical topic” as part of the Moving History Festival in Potsdam
- 2017: Gilde Film Prize in the category “Best National Film of the Cinema Year” at the Leipzig Film Art Fair
- 2018: Austrian Film Award
- Best Actress (Adèle Haenel) - Nomination
- Best Actor (Lars Eidinger) - Award
- Best costume design (Gioia Raspé) - nomination
- 2018: Spotlight Award as best actor for Lars Eidinger from the Berlin & Beyond Film Festival in San Francisco
When the nominations for the German Film Award 2017 were announced , The Flowers of Yesterday led the field of favorites with eight nominations. However, the film could not prevail in any category at the final award ceremony on April 28, 2017 and came away empty-handed.
literature
- Chris Kraus: Yesterday's flowers. A film book. Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-257-30049-9 .
Web links
- The flowers of yesterday in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Yesterday's flowers at filmportal.de
- Yesterday's Flowers Official website
- Arne Höhne press + public: press release (PDF; 5.1 MB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for The Flowers of Yesterday . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Age rating for The Flowers of Yesterday . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ “Yesterday's Flowers” open the Hof Film Festival. In: mediabiz.de. Blickpunkt: Film , September 27, 2016, accessed on September 27, 2016 .
- ↑ The 50th Hof International Film Festival opens with “Yesterday's Flowers” by Chris Kraus. (No longer available online.) In: filmportal.de. Deutsches Filminstitut , September 27, 2016, archived from the original on September 27, 2016 ; accessed on September 27, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ Release Info. In: Internet Movie Database. Retrieved September 27, 2016 (English).
- ^ Xenix Filmdistribution GmbH. Retrieved July 25, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c d Sophie Aschenbrenner: Ludwigsburg is now in Plötzensee. In: Der Tagesspiegel . June 4, 2015, accessed September 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Start of shooting for "The Flowers of Yesterday" by Chris Kraus. SWR , April 13, 2015, accessed on September 27, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Elmar Schütze: Berlin will be the setting for “The Flowers of Yesterday”. In: Berliner Zeitung . June 4, 2015, accessed February 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Andreas Platthaus: What shouldn't be tragedy ends up as a farce. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . January 12, 2016, p. 11 , accessed February 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Matthias Dell: Birds, curses, suppresses. In: Spiegel Online . January 12, 2017, accessed September 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Martin Schwickert: Terribly funny. In: Zeit Online . January 13, 2017, accessed September 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Anke Sterneborg: Review of the flowers of yesterday. In: epd film. December 23, 2016, accessed February 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Jessica Kiang: Film Review: 'The Bloom of Yesterday'. In: variety.com. November 3, 2016, accessed February 6, 2017 .
- ↑ Top 100 Germany 2017 In: insidekino.com. Retrieved December 7, 2017.
- ↑ The state's script award goes to Chris Kraus for his project “The Flowers of Yesterday”. In: Schwäbisches Tagblatt . February 15, 2013, accessed September 27, 2016 .
- ↑ The flowers of yesterday. In: fbw-filmbeval.com. German Film and Media Rating (FBW), accessed on September 27, 2016 .
- ^ A b The 29th Tokyo International Film Festival Award Winners. Tokyo International Film Festival, accessed December 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Winner in the Best Feature Film category. filmschaubw.de, accessed on December 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Overview of nominations and winners: German Film Prize. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 28, 2017 ; Retrieved July 5, 2017 . 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.
- ↑ 3-й Московский Еврейский Кинофестиваль · Победители. Retrieved July 5, 2017 (Russian).
- ↑ The film day at a glance: July 3rd - summer house. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on July 5, 2017 . ( 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.
- ↑ German Actor Award | Steinbrennermüller communication. Retrieved September 29, 2017 (German).
- ↑ Awarded the Clio 2017: "The flowers of yesterday" . In: Degeto Film GmbH . ( degeto.de [accessed September 29, 2017]).
- ↑ Filmkunstmesse Leipzig: Awarding of the Gilde Film Awards 2017 . Article dated September 29, 2017, accessed September 30, 2017.
- ↑ Austrian Film Prize: Albert's "Light" has been nominated 14 times, Haders "Wilde Maus" only twice . In: www.kleinezeitung.at . ( kleinezeitung.at [accessed December 7, 2017]).
- ↑ Berlin & Beyond - FILMS & PROGRAM - Spotlight Award: Lars Eidinger - Goethe-Institut. Retrieved March 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Overview of nominees and winners of the German Film Prize 2017. (No longer available online.) German Film Academy, archived from the original on June 28, 2017 ; Retrieved May 3, 2017 . 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.
