The mine sweeper
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The mine sweeper |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marcus O. Rosenmüller |
| script | Marcus O. Rosenmüller Susanne Beck Thomas Eifler |
| production |
Klaus Bassiner Axel Laustroer Regina Ziegler |
| music | Oliver Biehler |
| camera | Roman Novocien |
| cut | Raimund Vienken |
| occupation | |
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The minesweeper is a German television film from 2011 . The film drama was first broadcast on April 4, 2011 on ZDF , and the film was seen by around 4.44 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 13.3 percent. The film was shot with several amateur actors in supporting roles in early 2010 in Namibia .
action
The civil engineer and vocational school teacher Nina Schneider, who is on leave, travels with her colleague to Luena in Eastern Angolan . She plans to teach school children for three months in the capital of the province of Moxico . However, the situation in the country is more catastrophic than expected. Rusted military equipment is lying around everywhere, children are playing on the broken streets and everything seems to be falling apart. When the joyful little Mumbi dies in a land mine, Nina makes great reproaches.
So Nina decides to train as a mine clearer with the South African Mike Maso. She and ten other volunteers will complete the training within two weeks. In the process, she also learns to be an alcoholic doctor. Their very first assignment for them was the proximity of a copper mine in the center of the country, where they track down, defuse and dispose of both anti-personnel mines and deadly fragmentation mines. In addition to the personal rivalries between the mine sweepers, Angolan soldiers are also trying to complicate the project. And then Nina suddenly stands with one foot on a booby trap.
Reviews
"Solidly played, long flashback narrated (television) self-discovery drama, which, in terms of its staging, well-behaved, predictable and one-dimensional, combines a conventional women's fate with the aftermath of the civil war in Angola."
"To draw the attention of German TV viewers to this topic is thoroughly praiseworthy, but too wooden and in places very clichéd, a framework was knitted around the leading actress, from which one simply does not want to buy her role."
“Director Marcus O. Rosenmüller, who also wrote the script together with Susanne Beck and Thomas Eifler, has made a sensitive film. Nonetheless, he does not shy away from illustrating the insidiousness of the situation with haunting images "
“You have to give the film by Marcus O. Rosenmüller credit for the fact that he goes to great lengths to clarify the landmine tragedy. [...] But as it turns out, the very best intentions don't make a good film. Everyone speaks, oh wonder, German. That is practical, otherwise this is a clear, one-dimensional world, the dialogues striking and the plot predictable. Evil is small and insidious, everyone else is the victim. The locals anyway, but also somehow the whites who are burdened with guilt and a terribly bad conscience "
“With all the enlightenment claims, Marcus O. Rosenmüller does not succeed in bringing the suffering of the African continent into the foreground from the background - and if he does, it is only to push his somewhat simple-minded heroine into self-knowledge. It is terrible how the camera feasts on the mine victims who limp through the bush school with missing limbs. [...] As a drama about one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, the film just seems shameful. [...] The film with all the cute mutilated children degenerates into an obscene Eurocentric self-discovery trash. "
Interviews
- Daniela Decker: Hannes Jaenicke in an interview about the ZDF television film "Die Minensucherin"
- Nicole Richter: Hannes Jaenicke speaks about his film , bild.de, April 4, 2011
- Rupert Huber: Hannes Jaenicke: The uncomfortable actor , Augsburger Allgemeine , April 1, 2011
- Christine Neubauer " Victims of landmines need our help" , drk.de , March 17, 2011
Web links
- The Minensucherin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The mine sweeper on ziegler-film.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ TV ratings, "The Last Bull" moves Günther Jauch on the skin , horizont.net
- ↑ The mine sweeper. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ The minesweeper , prisma.de
- ↑ You will eat dirt , faz.net
- ↑ Kitsch and Campaign , tagesspiegel.de
- ^ Neubauer-Trash on ZDF, mom is cleaning away bombs , spiegel.de