The free swimmer
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The free swimmer |
| Country of production |
Austria , Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 86 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Holger Barthel |
| script |
Susanne Beck , Thomas Eifler |
| production | Dieter Pochlatko |
| music | Otto M. Schwarz |
| camera | Peter Kappel |
| cut | Thomas Knöpfel |
| occupation | |
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The Freischwimmerin is a TV movie from 2014 . The Austrian - German co-production, directed by Holger Barthel , was broadcast for the first time on June 4, 2014 on ORF and on Erste .
action
The committed and idealistic sports and German teacher Martha Müller is moving from Linz to the Viktor Frankl Federal High School in Vienna . Director Eduard Feininger offers her to take over the voluntary swimming club, but Müller initially declines with thanks - after an incident occurred at her former school in Linz due to her over-commitment, she now only wants to do duty according to the regulations . In addition, the school swimming championships are to take place at the school in the autumn and Feininger wants Müller and her colleague Czerny to ensure that their school does not do too badly.
In the class taught by Müller - in addition to Philip, Punky, Julian and Kim - there is also the 17-year-old student İlayda of Turkish origin. She is a passionate swimmer and secretly pursues her passion at night in the school swimming pool. She is an outsider in class, has been wearing a headscarf since the death of her father three years ago and does not take swimming lessons. She initially stated to Müller that she could not swim, although Müller saw her training in the swimming pool in the evening. Without taking part in swimming lessons, there is a risk that she will not do enough sports and she could stay seated .
Martha tries to get Ilayda back into the class community via the school swimming team, but abandons her original intention of only helping her students in class. At her previous school, Martha had been threatened with a knife by a very committed student.
Now Martha gets the girl in the burkini to take part in swimming lessons. Due to her athletic achievements, İlayda is increasingly accepted by the class community, and a friendship develops between Philip and İlayda. However, it turns out that she is only allowed to compete in a swimsuit . Martha finally manages to persuade İlayda to participate in a bathing suit. The team from the Viktor-Frankl-Gymnasium wins the silver medal.
production
The shooting took place from October 13th to November 12th, 2012, the shooting took place mainly in Vienna , the location was among other things the Yppenviertel , the school scenes were filmed in the Kinkplatz computer science school . The film was produced by Epo-Film , and the Austrian and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk were involved . Christine Egger was responsible for the production design, Martina List for the costume design , Walter Fiklocki for the sound and Monika Fischer-Vorauer and Karoline Strobl for the mask .
reception
When the film was first broadcast on the first, 3.14 million viewers followed, corresponding to a market share of 14.4 percent.
Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv found that the film “is not a TV show of dismay and that it would do without any kind of spectacle in terms of content and appearance”. The book would take up a topical and explosive topic, but cleverly avoid turning history into an integration drama. The harmonious music would have played a significant role in the fact that the film is not a piece of dismay, but modern television that should also appeal to a younger audience.
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described the designed school universe as being “drawn to nicely undulating curls”, but one could still look at the “fairy tale of losing and finding trust between pupil and teacher”. The religious and ideological explosives on the subject of the headscarf are deliberately excluded. The film would become a real feel-good film with a certain potential.
Spiegel Online said that the great actress in a burkini would unfortunately trample in vain against clichés and judged that she was “drunk in the cliché”. The film would serve prejudices that Germans or Austrians might have against Muslims. The director would use a wooden mallet to make the differences between Turkish and Austrian students clear, for example when Turkish folk music is played, when the action takes place with Ilayda's family.
The film was one of the three nominated entries in the TV film category for the 2014 Austrian Adult Education TV Prize.
Web links
- The free swimmer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die Freischwimmerin (TV Movie 2014) - Release Info - IMDb . Retrieved July 5, 2017.
- ↑ The free swimmer | epo film . Retrieved July 5, 2017.
- ↑ filmstills: The Freischwimmerin . Retrieved July 5, 2017.
- ↑ a b TV film “Die Freischwimmerin” at tittelbach.tv , accessed on July 5, 2017.
- ↑ FAZ: "The Freischwimmerin" in the first: With a headscarf in the wellness bath . Article dated June 4, 2014, accessed July 5, 2017.
- ^ Spiegel Online: ARD film "Die Freischwimmerin": Not without my burkini . Article dated June 3, 2014, accessed July 5, 2017.
- ↑ Nominations for the 47th TV Award for Adult Education fixed . Article dated April 7, 2015, accessed July 5, 2017.