The discovery of the currywurst (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The discovery of the currywurst |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Ulla Wagner |
| script | Ulla Wagner |
| production | Gerd Haag , Volker Ullrich , Jeanette Würl |
| music | Christine Aufderhaar |
| camera | Theo Bierkens |
| cut | Corina Dietz |
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The Discovery of Currywurst is a feature film from 2008 based on the novel of the same name by Uwe Timm , directed by Ulla Wagner with Barbara Sukowa and Alexander Khuon in the leading roles.
action
Lena Brücker lives in Hamburg during the Second World War . During a bomb attack, she happened to meet the soldier Hermann Bremer, who was on home leave . She gives him shelter for the night and asks him to stay the next morning, which he does, which makes him deserted . He has to keep hiding all the time and she keeps the end of the war from him. One day she can no longer hide the truth, and he leaves her that same day.
Difference from the book
The film is mainly about the relationship between Lena Brücker and Hermann Bremer. The book has a framework story in which the narrator met Lena Brücker as a boy in the 1950s, and then visits her in the present and lets the story be told by her directly.
Others
The film was shot in Cologne and Riga , Latvia .
Awards
- Barbara Sukowa as best actress at the World Film Festival in Montréal
- The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Awards 2008 at ffm.montreal.org (engl.)
Web links
- The Invention of Curried Sausage in the Internet Movie Database (English)