The perpetrators - Today is not every day
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| Original title | The perpetrators - Today is not every day |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 106 minutes |
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| Director | Christian Schwochow |
| script | Thomas Wendrich |
| production |
Quirin Berg , Max Wiedemann , Gabriela Sperl |
| camera | Frank Lamm |
| cut |
Jens Klüber , Julia Karg |
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The perpetrators - Today is not every day is a German TV movie of Schwochow , who tried the early years of right-wing extremist , terrorist organization National Socialist Underground trace (NSU). The docu-drama produced by Das Erste marks the start of a trilogy called Mitten in Deutschland: NSU , which aims to portray the NSU phenomenon from different perspectives. The film was first broadcast on March 30, 2016 on the television channel Das Erste.
action
Although large parts of the plot are based on the previously published reports and court files, it is a drama that also contains fictional scenes. Especially since the legal processing has not yet been completed, this is indicated at the beginning and end of the film.
The film begins with a roadside scene. You can see the florist Enver Şimşek and a motor home parked nearby.
In the years after the fall of the Wall , the young Beate Zschäpe grew up in Jena with an alcoholic mother. Dissatisfied with her situation, she and her best friend Sandra do a lot of nonsense, skip school and steal. The two initially get into the punk scene and take part in actions against the neo-Nazi skinheads in Winzerla until Beate meets Uwe Mundlos and falls in love with him.
Mundlos is fascinated by the right-wing extremist scene and celebrates the riots in Rostock-Lichtenhagen . Under the influence of Tino Brandt , who was later convicted as an undercover agent, the right-wing extremist scene continued to radicalize. Beate and Uwe attend right-wing rock concerts and occasionally carry out campaigns against foreigners and "ticks". The convicted Uwe Böhnhardt is just joining the group when Uwe M. is called up for military service. There he wants to learn how to handle weapons and prepare for "Day X". When he stays in the barracks more and more often on weekends, Uwe B. and Beate fall in love.
When Uwe M. found out about it, he was annoyed, but he concentrated primarily on day X and on keeping their group of three together. Inspired by the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City , he begins to dream of a terrorist act intended to shake up the state. The group commits minor offenses, in particular bodily harm, desecration of a memorial for the victims of fascism and entering the Buchenwald memorial in reconstructed SS uniforms . The whole thing is funded by the Thuringian Homeland Security , whose hard core includes the three. Beate rents a garage. The group gets the Turner diaries and begins to handle explosives in the garage.
When Uwe B. hangs a dummy bomb with a Star of David from a motorway bridge without coordination with the other two , the three previously monitored are finally in the sights of the investigators. Uwe B. leads the police officers to the wrong garage. When the investigating officer notices this, he can run away. With the help of Uwe M's parents and a comrade, he goes underground with Uwe M. and Beate.
The last scene shows the mobile home from the beginning again. When Enver Şimşek kneels to pray, he is shot several times from behind.
background
The perpetrators - Today is not every day is the first part of the three-part television series Mitten in Deutschland: NSU , which will initially be broadcast on the television station Das Erste from the end of March to the beginning of April. The first part deals in detail with the prehistory of the trio, while part 2 The Victims - Don't Forget Me focuses on the victims of the NSU's Ceska series of murders , and the third part, The Investigators - Only for official use, focuses on investigative work . The trilogy cost around ten million euros.
The title of the first part Today is not all days refers to the videos of the NSU and is based on a saying of the cartoon character Paulchen Panther . According to the screenwriter Thomas Wendrich , almost everything in the first film is documented, but a lot of fiction has flowed into the interpersonal relationships. The film sees itself more as a psychogram and a study of society than a biopic . He tries to paint as authentic a picture as possible of the 1990s in East Germany. Since it was feared that the film could be prevented in advance by the protagonists' lawyers, large-scale pre-screenings were avoided.
Charisma
The film was to on March 30, 2016 prime time broadcast the first on the transmitter. The odds were disappointing, however. The first broadcast reached 2.89 million viewers and thus only a market share of 9.3 percent. The simultaneously running programs Aktenzeichen XY ... ungelöst (ZDF) and Mario Barth reveals! With 6 million (19.2 percent) and 3.23 million viewers (10.5 percent), they had a higher proportion at the same airtime. Among younger viewers (14- to 49-year-olds) the film achieved a market share of 8.7 percent, which is well above the broadcaster average, which, for example, "positively surprised" the lawyer for the NSU accessory prosecution, Mehmet Daimagüler .
Reviews
Tilmann P. Gangloff described the pictures as "uncomfortably topical and authentic". However, he criticizes the lack of evaluation in the film and fears the unfiltered Nazi slogans and acts of violence could lead to imitation.
“Of course the film is not a documentary, but it does indeed abstain from any evaluation. Unlike Bernd Eichinger and Uli Edel in their RAF spectacle “The Baader Meinhof Complex”, Schwochow and Wendrich do not celebrate the title trio as pop stars, but since they perform Nazi slogans and acts of violence completely unfiltered, it is to be feared that those who think similarly radical Brothers and sisters will have great spiritual joy in the film. "
Sven Goldmann from Tagesspiegel praised the representation of the NSU trio:
“They both do their jobs great in an oppressive way. Urzendowsky as a dumb but vulnerable Nazi thug. Trouble as a frustrated, disaffected girl from the post-GDR who always turns wrong at the crucial junctions in life. In addition, there is Albrecht Schuch as the frightening intellectual Uwe Mundlos. With their playing they all answer the question of whether one can approach this trio with empathy. “You have to look for the human in them,” says Sebastian Urzendowsky. "Otherwise you won't take the presentation seriously."
The film received negative reviews in Die Welt . Eckhard Fuhr holds back his judgment in Die Welt and describes the film as difficult to bear.
Awards
- 2016: TV film award from the German Academy of Performing Arts and student jury award at the Baden-Baden television film festival
- 2017: Grimme Prize in the fiction competition
Web links
- The perpetrators - Today is not every day in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Martin Wolf: Classmates . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13/2016 , March 26, 2016.
- ↑ a b c d Sven Goldmann: The NSU murders in the ARD. Tagesspiegel , March 30, 2016, accessed March 31, 2016 .
- ↑ Alexander Soyez: NSU trilogy: "Today is not every day" - an intoxication that hurts. (No longer available online.) Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg , March 30, 2016, archived from the original on April 15, 2016 ; accessed on March 31, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ ARD ratings: "Aktenzeichen XY" beats NSU film. Spiegel Online , March 31, 2016, accessed March 31, 2016 .
- ↑ The NSU trilogy: Are the quotas really that bad? In: Huffington Post Germany , April 5, 2016.
- ^ "In the middle of Germany: The perpetrators": Lost generation. Frankfurter Rundschau , March 30, 2016, accessed on March 31, 2016 .
- ↑ Eckhard Fuhr : This neo-Nazi trip is hard to bear. Die Welt , March 30, 2016, accessed March 31, 2016 .
- ↑ Cornelius Pollmer: Director Christian Schwochow: And then he saw Beate Zschäpe smile. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , March 8, 2017.
