Policewoman
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| Original title | Policewoman |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Andreas Dresen |
| script | Laila Stieler |
| production | Wolf-Dietrich Brücker , Christian Granderath , Norbert Sauer |
| camera | Michael Hammon |
| cut | Monika Schindler |
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The Police Officer is a German feature film from 2000 by director Andreas Dresen and screenwriter Laila Stieler . He uses motifs from Annegret Held's novel Meine Nachtgestalten . The film was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize , among others .
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The 27-year-old Anne Küster was previously employed by the Post, but lost her job there as part of the downsizing. The hope of a new professional and private start outweighs her when she starts work as a police master after graduating from the police school in the sadness of the Rostock prefabricated building district of Lütten Klein .
Anne can certainly do a lot, but she is also a very sensitive and loving person; At the same time, everyday police work is determined by tough bureaucracy and dealing with people whose reality is shaped by social poverty. The service is therefore difficult for Anne and she does not always manage to keep her distance. “You have to get thick skin,” recommends her patrol car partner and comrade Mike, who wants more than just a trusting, chummy relationship with Anne; one day Anne and Mike become intimate with each other and Anne really likes Mike, but then Anne doesn't want a relationship with Mike and no longer tries to patrol him with him. Before that, Anne and Mike have to bring the news of the bizarre death of their grown son to parents together; he had masturbated in a diving suit in the forest, away from any body of water, and pulled a plastic bag over his head as a special attraction; he wanted to experience his climax as a " small death " particularly intensely and was suffocated in the process, instead of just experiencing the "small" death he experienced the "great death". Incidentally, Anne gets along well with her exclusively male colleagues, although she has to share the shower with them in the police station due to the lack of other options.
When Anne meets ten-year-old Benny, who finds no support in his family environment, she decides to take care of him. In the process she gets to know and love Benny's father, the Russian petty criminal Yegor; she feels strangely drawn to him. But the balancing act between personal sympathy and professional duty is increasingly difficult for Anne. When Jegor tries to raise money for Benny's class trip by breaking and entering, events get out of control when Anne and a colleague are called to break in and Yegor is found to be the perpetrator and arrested.
At the end of the film, Anne manages to get the situation under control again, especially with regard to her feelings, and she steps out of the picture together with the boy Benny, whom she is extremely fond of. The policewoman ends in hope.
background
The policewoman was shot as a television film for WDR in February and March 2000 in Berlin and Rostock . The film was shown at the Munich Film Festival in 2000, and an 89-minute version was shown on German television on October 25, 2000. At the 2001 Berlinale it was screened in the New German Films section . In May 2001, Die Polizistin was shown in German cinemas and reached around 23,000 visitors there.
Reviews
The lexicon of international films is: "An excellently staged, fascinatingly authentic social drama shaped by an outstanding leading actress, which retains optimism and dry humor even in the darkest moments."
Claus Schotten wrote in the film magazine Artechock : “When shot with available light on highly sensitive 16mm material, the film looks like a gripping, hyper-realistic documentary in the style of Direct Cinema. The well-observed dialogues and the outstanding acting performances down to the smallest supporting role also contribute to this. You can only tell that this is a production from the fact that you see intimate scenes that no camera would have seen in reality, and that the strands of the script close in a circle at the end. "
Awards
Laila Stieler and Andreas Dresen received the television film award of the German Academy of Performing Arts in 2000 . Andreas Dresen won the German Television Award the following year . Gabriela Maria Schmeide, cameraman Michael Hammon and the producers were nominated for the same award.
Andreas Dresen, Laila Stieler, Gabriela Maria Schmeide and Axel Prahl received the Adolf Grimme Prize in gold in 2001 . Monika Schindler won the Film + Editing Prize in 2001 for editing . Michael Hammon won the German Camera Prize in 2001 .
Andreas Dresen was nominated in 2000 for the Grand Prix des Amériques of the Montréal World Film Festival .
Web links
- The police officer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The policewoman at Filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Policewoman - Credits ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2010 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. at Filmportal.de
- ^ Berlin International Film Festival 2001: The Policewoman (PDF, 70 kB), accessed on April 17, 2010
- ↑ Focus: Film - The Policewoman , accessed April 17, 2010
- ↑ The policewoman. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 3, 2017 .
- ^ Diary of the Munich Film Festival 2000: The Police Officer , accessed on April 17, 2010
