The silence afterwards
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The silence afterwards |
| Country of production | Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 years |
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| Director | Nikolaus Leytner |
| script | Nikolaus Leytner |
| production | Helmut Grasser |
| music | Matthias Weber |
| camera | Hermann Dunzendorfer |
| cut | Britta Nahler |
| occupation | |
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The Silence Afterwards is a German-Austrian television film that was broadcast for the first time on October 12, 2016 in Das Erste and ORF 2 .
action
At his school in the Tulln district , 14-year-old Felix Rome went on a rampage in which five students died and he ended up judging himself. For his parents, the head surgery nurse Paula and the German gym operator and former professional cyclist Michael, the shock of the deed and death of the son was accompanied by the withdrawal of neighbors and friends. The father's car and business are smeared. The family receives numerous malicious letters. The hard drive on Felix's PC was professionally erased. It turns out that Felix was the victim of bullying attacks. This includes an embarrassing video that has been circulating on the Internet for weeks. Felix's sister Flora knew about it and seems to know a little more too. Paula learns from a classmate that Felix has not had any friends for a long time, although he always told the opposite. She realizes that she doesn't know anything about her son. Apparently he was unhappy in love with Karla, a girl two years older than him. When we say goodbye, only this and the art teacher appear. He visits the family and brings a folder with photo work that Felix last created. At home he had always destroyed this work beforehand, something Flora knows about. Then Michael admits that the murder weapon was stolen from him. A work colleague had once obtained it illegally for him and was stowed in the bedside table without Paula's knowledge. He then reports himself to the police. The family is offered a change of identity and a new start in another city, which the mother refuses. Michael wants to leave and sells his gym at a great loss. Paula is given a forced leave of absence from the hospital. Karla visits Paula and says that she never clearly rejected Felix and that Felix shot himself in front of her eyes. Flora then admits that five days before the crime she saw her brother practicing with a gun and even secretly filmed it. She thought it was just a dummy and therefore did not inform anyone. Michael wants to emigrate to Belgium, but Paula doesn't want to come with me. After all, Paula also has to admit that she has twice refused her son's wish to go on a long-distance hiking trail with her while on vacation , although he apparently wanted it very much. At the police station, the entire course of events is explained to her, and the rampage lasted seven minutes. Finally, the mother and Flora emptied Felix's urn on a mountain.
background
The film deals with the rampage at a school and was broadcast in Germany in the series FilmMittwoch on the First . This was followed by a program by Maischberger that dealt with the topic.
At the same time, the film was broadcast in Austria on ORF 2 .
While the family name is indicated with ROM in the mailings, ROHM can be seen in the film on the photo folder and on the mailbox.
criticism
“How do you go on living when your own child or brother has gone amok? The German-Austrian co-production The Silence Afterwards shows how a family is in despair and threatens to break up over the act of their child. That sounds like a cliché and justifies the question why everything revolves around the perpetrator and not the victim again. The director and screenwriter Nikolaus Leytner, meanwhile, has made a clever and atmospheric film in which Felix, his sister Flora (Sophie Stockinger) and the parents Paula and Michael (Peter Schneider) are exemplary for many modern families; completely normal people whose everyday life is routinely cut off in the hectic pace. "
Web links
- The silence afterwards in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The silence afterwards at daserste.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family of the gunman at zeit.de