The hermits

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Movie
Original title The hermits
Country of production Germany , Austria , Italy
original language German
Publishing year 2016
length 115 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Ronny Trocker
script Ronny Trocker,
Rolando Grumt Suarez
production Susanne Mann ,
Paul Zischler ,
Arash T. Riahi ,
Karin C. Berger
camera Klemens Hufnagl
cut Julia Drack
occupation

Die Einsiedler is a German - Austrian - Italian co-production from 2016 by Ronny Trocker with Andreas Lust and Ingrid Burkhard in the leading roles. The premiere took place on September 2, 2016 as part of the 73rd Venice International Film Festival in the Orizzonti series . At the Zurich Film Festival , the film was shown from September 25, 2016 in the competition section Focus on Switzerland, Germany, Austria . In Germany it was shown on October 3, 2016 at the Hamburg Film Festival , where it was nominated for the Hamburg Producer Award for European Cinema Co-productions . In Austria the film was shown on March 29, 2017 on the Diagonale . The film was released in Germany on October 12, 2017, and in Austria on January 26, 2018.

action

The film tells the story of Albert, a man in his mid-30s, and his mother, the mountain farmer Marianne. Albert is the only surviving child of the Eggerhof farmers Marianne and Rudl, his three siblings died on the way to school in an avalanche accident many years ago. Despite his age, his mother still largely determines Albert's life. She wants to spare him the lonely life on the mountain and be the last to run the farm. So she organized a job for him in a marble quarry down in the valley. The introverted Albert initially found it difficult to make friends there, occasionally sneaking back into the yard to spend the night in secret in the hay store. One day his father Rudl had a fatal accident at work. Marianne hides this fact from her son and the outside world, fearing that Albert might return to the farm to take over his father's duties, and buries Rudl's body on the mountain. However, her strength begins to wane, she confesses to Albert that his father died in an accident and asks Albert for help. But he has now settled in in the valley and met Paola, a Hungarian guest worker and canteen cook at the marble quarry, with whom a love story is beginning. Albert is in a quandary, the first snow falls, so Albert has to make a quick decision if he doesn't want his mother to freeze to death at court. In addition, Paola tells him that she has to return to Hungary. Albert is given three days' leave to organize his life.

Production and Background

This film is the debut feature film of the South Tyrolean director Ronny Trocker; his previous work has included documentaries and short films. The shooting took place from October 2015 to January 2016, the shooting took place in South Tyrol, mainly on a farm above Allitz near Laas in Vinschgau . Other locations were Prad am Stilfserjoch , Timmelsjoch , Lasa marble quarry and Meran train station .

The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg , Business Location Südtirol and Tax Credit Italy, with Rai Südtirol and ServusTV involved . The film was produced by zischlermann filmproduktion GmbH , co-producers were Golden Girls Filmproduktion GmbH and Echo Film GmbH srl .

Niklas Kammertöns was responsible for the sound, Nastassja Kinspergher for the costume design and Stefan Oppenländer for the production design.

The film was released on DVD in 2019 as part of the Edition Österreichischer Film von Hoanzl and the Standard .

reception

The daily newspaper Die Presse wrote of the film that its greatest strength was "the staging of the farm as a place that is slowly but surely falling out of the world". “Trocker takes time for this atmosphere of decay, shows everyday farm life, the lugging of milk cans, the lonely meal in a gray-brown kitchen cave. [...] The pace of the film is leisurely, if not to say lengthy. This corresponds to the temporality of the setting; some mood-building scenes still seem idle. When a corner cross is suddenly shot at one point, you start out as if from a trance. "

Awards and nominations

4th Saas-Fee Film Festival (SFFF) 2017

  • Critic award

Nashville Film Festival 2017

  • Grand Jury Prize

Five Lakes Film Festival 2017

  • Five Lakes Film Award

European Film Award 2017

Austrian Film Award 2019

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Hermits . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 168310 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Die Einsiedler / The Eremites - Archive - Zurich Film Festival . Retrieved September 9, 2016.
  3. ↑ More films, more budget: the Zurich Film Festival is expanding . Article dated September 8, 2016, accessed March 4, 2020.
  4. ↑ Hamburg Film Festival 2016 | The hermits . Retrieved September 28, 2016.
  5. ↑ Diagonal: The Hermits . Retrieved March 18, 2017.
  6. ↑ a b Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved September 9, 2016 .
  7. ^ Zischlermann Film Production: The Hermits . Retrieved September 9, 2016.
  8. ↑ Stol.it: Today: A South Tyrolean film is shown at the Venice Festival ( Memento from September 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated September 2, 2016, accessed September 9, 2016.
  9. ↑ diepresse.com: Thin air in the mountains: an anti-homeland film . Article from January 23, 2018, accessed on January 24, 2018.
  10. ^ Salzburger Nachrichten: "Hidden Reserves" won the main prize at the Saas-Fee Film Festival . Article dated April 1, 2017, accessed April 2, 2017.
  11. ↑ 2017 Award Winners - Nashville Film Festival Nashville Film Festival . Retrieved August 5, 2017.
  12. ↑ Five Lakes Film Festival 2017 . Retrieved August 7, 2017.
  13. ^ "The Hermit" in the race for the European Film Award . Article dated October 19, 2017, accessed October 20, 2017.
  14. ↑ Austrian Film Prize 2019: Nominations . Retrieved December 6, 2018.
  15. ↑ Prize winners Austrian Film Prize 2019 . Accessed January 30, 2019.