Friends of friends
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Friends of friends |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Dominik Graf |
| script |
Markus Busch Dominik Graf |
| production | Michael Hild |
| music |
Sven Rossenbach Florian van Volxem |
| camera | Diethard Prengel |
| cut | Christel Suckow |
| occupation | |
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The Friends of the Friends is a German television film directed by Dominik Graf in 2002, based on the short story of the same name, The Friends of the Friends from 1896 by Henry James .
action
Gregor is a high school student in a Bavarian boarding school and believes in love. He finds this with Billie, who dropped out of school when she became pregnant and is now struggling with her ex-husband's debts.
Gregor's friend Arthur relies on free love without ever falling in love. Since Gregor would like to be better understood, he tries for a long time to introduce the two of them to each other - in vain, because something always comes up. When the time finally came, Gregor realizes that Arthur and Billie are connected on a higher level and made for each other and prevents the meeting.
At that point Arthur is shot. Gregor ends his relationship with Billie, who dies in a bicycle accident the following spring because she follows "an inner call".
background
The shooting took place in Munich, Traunstein and Stein an der Traun , director Dominik Graf himself was a student at the Schloss Stein boarding school . As early as 1978, the short story was part of the film The Green Room ( La chambre verte ), directed by François Truffaut .
criticism
“A drama filmed with a digital camera that relocates a bitter love story by Henry James, set in the English high society of the 19th century, to the German present. The on the one hand sparse, on the other hand highly complex and even complicated aesthetics work surprisingly well and skilfully draws attention to the sensitivities of the characters, which are played both sensitively and enthusiastically. "
“The fact that Dominik Graf tells his film in digital video images is not without irony. The promise of authenticity that is occasionally attempted to persuade you as the "dogma" of these images (not by the "dogma" inventors, who were well aware of the artificiality of the new naturalness), turns out to be a bad joke here. We see ghosts, at least: one, the friend in the mirror, in the hour of death. "
Awards
Prices
- 2003 Adolf Grimme Prize in the Fiction & Entertainment category for Dominik Graf , Hanno Lentz , Matthias Schweighöfer , Sabine Timoteo , Florian Stetter and Jessica Schwarz
- Filmfest München 2003: VFF TV Movie Award for Michael Hild , Bavaria Film for WDR
Nominations
- German Camera Prize 2003: Editing category for Christel Suckow
- Participation in the competition of the Television Film Festival Baden-Baden 2002
literature
- Henry James: The Friends of Friends in ders. & Franz Kafka : The Friends of Friends. Vulture. Masterpieces of Fantastic World Literature Introductory and Ed. Jorge Luis Borges . Thienemann, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-522-71115-7
- Sole publ. 1983: Ed. Weitbrecht , ibid. (Ed. And foreword as above) ISBN 3-522-71110-6
- Sole publ. 2007: Büchergilde Gutenberg ISBN 3-940111-11-2 ISBN 978-3-7632-5811-6 Ed. And foreword as above
Web links
- The Friends of friends in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The friends of friends at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Friends of Friends. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Dominik Graf: The Friends of Friends , Jump-Cut, queried on November 9, 2009