The mother-of-pearl color
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The mother-of-pearl color |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Marcus H. Rosenmüller |
| script | Marcus H. Rosenmüller, Christian Lerch |
| production | Robert Marciniak , Uli Aselmann |
| music | Gerd Baumann |
| camera | Torsten Breuer |
| cut | Georg Soering |
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The mother-of-pearl is a German film by Marcus H. Rosenmüller based on the novel of the same name by Anna Maria Jokl . It premiered on December 16, 2008 in Munich , the official release date was January 8, 2009.
action
Bavaria, early 1930s: 13-year-old Alexander attends a class at a secondary school with his best friend “Mole” and his crush Lotte. In the course of a painting competition organized by the school, Mole invents the so-called “mother-of-pearl paint”. This color, apparently made from simple household remedies, offers an unnatural but fascinating shine on paper and thus arouses the interest of the entire class.
By chance, the bottle with the paint ends up in Alexander's satchel. When he spills all of the paint at home and it is irretrievably lost, his life goes upside down. At school, his classmates try to find the thief, and the suspicion quickly falls on the parallel class. Out of fear and a lack of courage to face the truth, Alexander swims with the flow and takes refuge in white lies. In addition, he is covered and blackmailed by Gruber, a new classmate, older and taller than everyone else, who knows the real culprit through astute observation.
However, Gruber uses Alexander's dependence for his own purposes. Intelligently and manipulatively, he took the lead in a movement against the parallel class, started a smear campaign and founded the tightly organized youth gang “ELDSA” (abbreviation for “Long live the proud A.”). Gruber himself is the leader of this gang. The hostility between the two parallel classes is intensifying and even leading to acts of violence. Alexander gets more and more entangled in his lies and moves away more and more from Mole and his friends who oppose the "ELDSA".
When the tensions are at their peak, the award ceremony for the painting competition takes place. Surprisingly, Alexander wins this one. He cleverly uses the acceptance speech in front of parents, teachers and classmates to clear the table. He refuses the award, confesses his lies in front of everyone and calls for peace among his classmates. The audience honors his honesty. When Mole is supposed to receive the award instead of him, he also refuses. He admits that he didn't invent the color himself, but that he got it from the bookseller.
background
The film is based on the novel The Mother of Pearl by Anna Maria Jokl . The Austrian-Israeli writer wrote this in exile in Prague in the 1930s. The novel has the subtitle A children's novel for almost everyone and was first published in 1948.
The shooting locations were the Scheunenviertel in Wolfkehle, Brautgasse, Rathausplatz and Obere Marktstrasse in Weidenberg , which were covered with snow by the fire brigade . A pastry shop was set up in the city center of Bad Berneck . The former Cistercian monastery in Raitenhaslach near Burghausen was used for the interior shots of the classrooms .
reception
Interpretations
In many places, the film emphasizes the specific references to the emerging era of National Socialism. The members of the youth gang under Gruber as the leader wear brown scarves as a distinguishing mark, based on the brown of the National Socialists . In an allusion to the phrase "Yes, my Fuehrer!" Which is customary towards Adolf Hitler , he is addressed at one point in the film with "Yes, my Gruber!"
In a review of the Süddeutsche Zeitung it says:
“It's about the very rapid change of characters - how fear turns weaklings into nasty tormentors with ape-like speed, how inferiority complexes can be compensated for with abuse of power, how difficult it suddenly seems to be in a group against the others , and how relieving it can be when you've done it. "
Reviews
“And yet: the film as a whole doesn't tear you from your seat. The story is not told complex enough for that, especially the gags are too obviously borrowed from the thigh-knocking department. [...] Rosenmüller's villagers are simply too leisurely in the long run, [...] "
"Entertaining adaptation of a youth novel, conceived as a sensual, extremely fabulous mixture of folk theater, rascal story and allegory of life ."
Web links
- The Perlmutterfarbe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The mother-of-pearl color at filmportal.de
- The mother-of-pearl color in the online film database
- “Hate is a contagious disease, but so is laughter” - Interview with Marcus H. Rosenmüller in Cicero on December 19, 2008
- Schwache Heimatwürze - Review by Spiegel Online from January 8, 2009
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the mother-of-pearl color . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2008 (PDF; test number: 116 375 K).
- ↑ See Klein-Hollywood im Fichtelgebirge , Frankenpost from February 28, 2008.
- ↑ See page no longer available , search in web archives: Drama der Schuld aus Burghausen , Passauer Neue Presse
- ↑ See page no longer available , search in web archives: Lausbubengeschichte mit Moral - Review of the SWR .
- ↑ a b Susan Vahabzadeh: In the cinema: "The mother-of-pearl color". Stronger, dumber, leader. Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 17, 2010, accessed on February 11, 2015 .
- ↑ The mother-of-pearl color. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed February 10, 2015 .