The dragonfly and the rhinoceros

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Movie
Original title The dragonfly and the rhinoceros
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2012
length 83 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Lola Randl
script Lola Randl
production Herbert Schwering
music Maciej Śledziecki
camera Philipp Pfeiffer
cut Sabine Smit ,
Andreas Wodraschke
occupation

The dragonfly and the rhinoceros is a German feature film by Lola Randl from 2012 with Mario Adorf and Fritzi Haberlandt in the leading roles. The comedy premiered on July 2, 2012 at the Munich Film Festival and was released in German theaters on December 6, 2012.

action

During a joint reading, where the aging star actor Nino Winter (82) introduces his autobiography entitled I came, saw and loved , Winter and the young writer Ada Hänselmann (32) briefly get to know each other. Ada is annoyed by Winter's fuss and immediately throws away his book. Winter's return flight to Italy was canceled due to an air traffic controller strike. Ada was supposed to be picked up by her boyfriend, but he just broke up on the phone. So both have to spend a night in a Dortmund luxury hotel and are now sitting across from each other at the hotel bar.

The erratic Ada proposes a game to the reserved winter in which he should play a detective and shadow Ada. While walking through the city, both discover a man who in their imagination becomes a contract killer, and they pursue him. Back at the hotel, Ada suggests five questions to each, which they can ask the other and which they must answer honestly. This leads to hundreds of questions and creates a magical closeness between the two. The next morning they both say goodbye, and they find out what secret the dubious man actually has from their imagination.

Emergence

During the shooting of Lola Randl's film The Invention of Love in the summer of 2011, the leading actress Maria Kwiatkowsky suddenly died after 23 of 35 days of shooting . As a result, filming had to be temporarily stopped. In this situation, Lola Randl had the idea for the new project The Dragonfly and the Rhino . It was possible to win some partners from The Invention of Love as supporters for the new project. Mario Adorf as well as Irm Hermann , Samuel Finzi , Bastian Trost and Sebastian Weber , who had already played there, also declared their willingness to participate in the new film.

At the beginning of November 2011 the film was shot on just 13 days. It was produced by Coin Film GmbH in Cologne in collaboration with WDR and Tohuwabohu GmbH in Berlin and funded by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW . Was shot u. a. in the Hotel Unique Novum on Dortmunder Strasse Hoher Wall. Further shooting took place in Essen .

Reviews

“A chamber play that is immersed in beautiful pictures, but too dialog-heavy, about loneliness and two lost souls, which with some pretty ideas and surreal inserts feeds a story removed from everyday life; the rapprochement of the protagonists remains dramaturgically only maintained. "

- Lexicon of international film

“Lola Randl enriches the comedic self-discovery trip with a little film noir and adds a pinch of hinted musicals. But otherwise she relies entirely on a two-way chamber play and on the themes of her script. […] The links to film noir are cleverly chosen, because the journey into the night is based on mysterious characters and unpredictable twists and turns. The only difference is that Dortmund at night isn't just LA at night or the New York skyline. "

- Peter Gutting : Kino-Zeit.de

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The Dragonfly and the Rhinoceros . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2012 (PDF; test number: 134 034 K).
  2. ↑ The dragonfly and the rhinoceros. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Peter Gutting: Wondrous Journey into the Night. on Kino-Zeit.de

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