The night sings its songs
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The night sings its songs |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Romuald Karmakar |
| script | Romuald Karmakar Martin Rosefeldt |
| production | Romuald Karmakar |
| camera | Fred Schuler |
| cut | Patricia Rommel |
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The night sings its songs is a German drama directed by Romuald Karmakar from 2004 . The film, based on the play of the same name by Jon Fosse , observes a young couple's break-up relationship.
action
Despite having a newborn child, a young Berlin couple has reached the end of their relationship. The man, whose literary ambitions have turned into lethargy due to the rejection of his manuscripts, stays almost exclusively in the apartment. On the other hand, the woman who can raise the money for the common maintenance alone and is currently on maternity leave is full of energy. Because of their different life models, there are constant verbal arguments. The man's parents stop by for a visit to see their grandchild and then quickly leave.
The woman agrees to meet a friend to visit a club. When she only returns in the morning, the man claims that she was not out with her friend. The situation escalates; the woman calls her lover Baste to pick her up and packs the essentials for a hasty move out. When Baste arrives, the man withdraws into an adjoining room. While packing, the woman gets more and more into the idea that they both “actually had it good” and admits that she is not yet ready for a separation. Your lover leaves the apartment disappointed. A noise from the next room causes them to check on the man. This fell from the balcony to his death.
background
production
The script sticks closely to the original, the play of the same name, premiered in 1997 by the Norwegian author Jon Fosse. In 2000 the play debuted in German at the Schauspielhaus Zurich .
Romuald Karmakar's project was rejected by Westdeutscher Rundfunk , Südwestrundfunk , Hessischer Rundfunk , Bayerischer Rundfunk and - at the first attempt - by the German Film Fund . The film could only be made with the support of ZDF . The shooting took place from October to December 2002 in the Potsdam film studios Babelsberg and in Berlin. At this point some of the actors originally planned were no longer available for contractual reasons and had to be replaced. So took Marthe Keller instead Rosel Zech the role of mother, and Sebastian Schipper jumped a substitute. Including a long post-production phase , the production of the film cost 1.65 million euros .
Film start
The night sings their songs ran on February 11, 2004 at the Berlinale , where it was received controversially, and started in German cinemas on February 19, 2004 and in Austrian cinemas on March 19 of the same year . In Germany, around 9,000 visitors saw the film in the first three weeks of the game.
analysis
While the piece only takes place in one room, Karmakar lets his protagonists act in the entire apartment. Camera movements, cuts and close-ups are used sparingly, some settings have a length of several minutes. Karmakar on the choice of his means: “There are different theoretical approaches to how a play can be transferred to the cinema. I can best follow what André Bazin explained in "Was ist Kino": that you shouldn't deny the original when transferring it to the medium of cinema. ”“ I don't want to cut quickly so that it looks exciting. I want to cut when it makes sense dramatically. And with me there is no close-up without a reason. ”When the young woman leaves the apartment, the film uses these moments to change locations and follows her to the subway, to the cafe, to the club. The camera also repeatedly captures the subjective image of the actors when they look out of the apartment onto the courtyard or the street.
All the people involved communicate with each other in "repetitive, clichéd" dialogues while maintaining physical distance, a trick taken from the template. Karmakar: “Especially in the cinema there is the canon that two people who are connected in love-hate speech yell at each other, hit each other, hug each other as they hit each other, roll over the floor and then love. [...] With me the couple touches one or two times. This is a new dimension on an emotional scale that is open to the bottom. ”“ We [describe] a hopeless situation and main characters who are hopelessly overwhelmed by it. Language correlates with this. The characters speak, but they cannot express what they want to say. "
Instead of music written exclusively for the film, the film uses compositions by Swans , Henry Purcell , Michael Mayer , Captain Comatose , Chris & Carla and Maximilian Hecker . Karnakar tries to assign each character their music. Karmakar does not want to accept the objection that the strong stylization makes access to people and history more difficult or even completely impossible for the viewer and rather sees a hard-to-bear immediacy of what is shown as the reason for the rejection: “I deal with things that want to hide most of them. "
reception
"" The night sings its songs "is a dance of death, the funeral of a murdered love, and that is how Karmakar staged the story. [...] He replaces the realism of television with the reality of its abstraction. You couldn't filter a more accurate generation portrait from a hundred TV movies than from Karmakar's "Night". "
“A film that seems stiff, awkward and intellectually over-the-top because Karmakar failed to turn the play into a film. He merely adds pictures to the dialogues, but the two do not merge. [...] In fact, Karmakar seems to have reached his artistic limits with his agonizing and repetitive implementation [...]. "
“An excellently photographed theater adaptation that is less about the psychodynamics of young parents than about the mechanics of the breakdown of relationships and its verbal shapes. The strict anti-psychologism and the distant staging undermine any social relevance. "
literature
- Jon Fosse: The night sings its songs . German by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel , Schauspielhaus Zürich, 2000
Web links
- The night singing their songs in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die Nacht sings their songs (play) on Rowohlt-Theaterverlag.de, accessed on November 22, 2012.
- ↑ a b c Review in the FAZ of February 18, 2004, accessed on November 22, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d Interview with Romuald Karmakar on taz.de from February 19, 2004, accessed on November 23, 2012.
- ↑ Karmakar is shooting scenes from a marriage , Berliner Kurier, October 25, 2002, accessed on November 23, 2012.
- ↑ Die Nacht sings its songs on Filmportal.de, accessed on November 23, 2012.
- ↑ a b press kit (download; MS Word ; 187 kB) from the Austrian distributor Polyfilm, accessed on November 23, 2012.
- ↑ a b c Interview with Romuald Karmakar on Sueddeutsche.de from May 17, 2012, accessed on November 24, 2012.
- ↑ Jon Fosse once for the “haben-Seite” , Potsdamer Latest News from February 12, 2004, accessed on November 24, 2012.
- ^ Anger sings its songs: Press conference with Karmakar , Der Tagesspiegel from February 10, 2004, accessed on November 24, 2012.
- ^ Film data sheet on the Berlinale website, accessed on November 22, 2012.
- ↑ Die Nacht sings its songs in the Internet Movie Database .
- ↑ Die Nacht sings its songs on Mediabiz.de, accessed on November 23, 2012.
- ↑ Review ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Stuttgarter Nachrichten on February 19, 2004, accessed on November 24, 2012.
- ↑ Interview with Romuald Karmakar ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on Kino.de on January 19, 2004, accessed on November 24, 2012.
- ↑ a b Review on Spiegel Online from February 22, 2004, accessed on November 22, 2012.
- ↑ Die Nacht sings its songs in the Lexicon of International Films .
