The commune
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The commune |
| Original title | Collectivet |
| Country of production |
Denmark , Sweden , the Netherlands |
| original language | Danish |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Vinterberg |
| script |
Tobias Lindholm , Thomas Vinterberg |
| production |
Morten Kaufmann , Sisse Graum Jørgensen |
| music | Fons Merkies |
| camera | Jesper Tøffner |
| cut |
Janus Billeskov Jansen , Anne Østerud |
| occupation | |
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Die Kommune (original title: Kollektivet ) is a Danish film drama by the Dogma director Thomas Vinterberg with Trine Dyrholm and Ulrich Thomsen in the leading roles. Vinterberg premiered the play of the same name in 2011 in Vienna's Burgtheater. The film tells of the end of Anne and Erik's marriage against the background of the socio-political optimism of the early 1970s.
The film was shown as a Danish entry in the competition at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival .
action
In the early 1970s, Anna and Erik and their daughter Freja move into the old but large villa that Erik's father left them with. At Anna's insistence, the architecture lecturer and the news anchor decide to found a municipality. Anna enjoys the variety of community life, while Erik is increasingly distancing herself from her. The good mood changes when Erik falls in love with one of his students. Anna wants to keep the difficult situation under control and invites young Emma to move into the community. Unexpectedly, however, Anna breaks up at the apparent end of their marriage. In front of her daughter and the residents of the community, she lives out her jealousy and grief and is prone to excessive alcohol consumption. Eventually she also loses her television job. Anna's only stop is 14-year-old Freja, who discovers her first love with an older classmate. When the residents cannot agree on Anna's move, Freja is asked to decide whether her mother should stay or leave. In tears, Freja decides to move her mother out because she is not doing well in the commune. At the funeral of Vilads, the seriously ill boy of a couple from the commune, the group ends up reuniting without Anna, who has moved out.
reception
“Instead of presenting the expected and now almost obligatory swan song for the 68ers with their bourgeois egoisms, Vinterberg lets his film flow into a melodrama. One can find that strange, even uncomfortable. Is so much of your private life still political? […] But in this neutrality […] lies the great strength of 'Kommune': Feelings decide, Vinterberg demonstrates that with great sensitivity, but feelings cannot be judged. The film insists on its kind of equality: What began with pleasure and pleasure does not become worthless through later pain. "
Awards
- Berlin International Film Festival 2016: Actor Award for Trine Dyrholm
- European Film Award 2016 : Nomination for Trine Dyrholm (Best Actress), Jury Award - Best Editing (Anne Østerud and Janus Billeskov Jansen)
Web links
- The local authority in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The community at filmstarts.de
- Film on dfi.dk in Det Danske Filminstitut (Danish)
- Film on danskefilm.dk in the Dansk Film Database (Danish)
- The municipality in the database of the Svenska Filminstitutet (English / Swedish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the municipality . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Barbara Schweizerhof: A collective from the spirit of love . Thomas Vinterberg's film "The Commune". In: The daily newspaper . April 20, 2016, ISSN 0931-9085 ( online [accessed March 6, 2017]).