The door
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | The door |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Anno Saul |
| script | Jan Berger |
| production |
Ralph Schwingel , Stefan Schubert for Desert Film GmbH |
| music | Fabian Römer |
| camera | Bella halves |
| cut | Andreas Radtke |
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The Door is a German feature film with fantasy elements from 2009 by Anno Saul . The main roles are played by Mads Mikkelsen and Jessica Schwarz . The drama was based on motifs from the novel Die Damalstür by Akif Pirinçci .
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David Andernach is a famous painter, Maja is his wife. He has been cheating on her for a long time with the musician Gia Konrads, who lives across the street, and Maja suspects something of the affair.
One day when Maja is at work, David's daughter Leonie wants to catch butterflies with her father, but he goes to Gia to have a word with her. The attempt at separation ends in sex, during which David's cell phone falls out of his pocket. When David returns to the house after a while, he finds Leonie drowned in the swimming pool.
Five years later, in the frosty late winter, David is a physical and mental wreck. He spends his days drinking, his career as a painter is over and Maja has separated from him and now lives with Leonie's former flute teacher. When trying to talk again, she reacts dismissively and even a visit to the bar with his best friend Max after an unsuccessful suicide attempt in the pool of the former house cannot get David back up. After falling on the icy road, he finds a butterfly, which he follows in an unfamiliar passage. David opens the wooden door at the end of the corridor and suddenly finds himself in summer. He watches himself cross the street to Gia's house and realizes that he is in time five years ago. In the last second he manages to save Leonie from the pool. When the younger David returns to the house and attacks him as a potential burglar, David kills him in self-defense. Leonie, who follows the act from the stairs, does not see David as her father, but after persuasion a guardian angel who acts as a better "second father". David buries the body of his younger self in the garden and adapts his appearance to his former self so that Maja doesn't notice anything when he comes home. Maja suspects that David is cheating on her. His younger self had lost my cell phone while having sex with Gia and Maja when she called Gia on the phone - but David manages to get the cell phone, covered by Max, from Gia's house and break up with her. David tells Max, who reproaches him, about his change of time in a bar, but he doesn't believe him.
The celebration of David's birthday a few days later ends with the murder of Max, who discovered the body of young David in the garden, by David's neighbor Siggi. Siggi also helps him bury Max's body in a distant patch of forest, and David realizes that he may not be the only one who knows the door. The attempt to escape through the door into the future with Maja and Leonie is thwarted by Siggi. He explains to David that numerous residents of the street have already returned from the future, killed their predecessors and now lead a normal life here. He, Siggi, easily finances his life through sports betting, as he already knows the results for the next five years. A return to the future is impossible due to the risk of betrayal.
Meanwhile, Maja becomes more and more suspicious because of David's behavior. One day she sees a couple in black on the street again and follows them. She observes how the two of them break into the house of the befriended couple Wiegand and murder them. Murderer and victim are alike. In a panic, she takes Nele, the couple's daughter, into her house. Shortly afterwards, the couple appear with the police and enforce the return of Nele. Leonie wants to comfort the horrified Maja with her knowledge that Nele will have better parents now, just as David is no longer her biological father, but a new, better papa. Maja knows that it is not about the "real" parents, but only about "copies", and becomes hysterical. David in turn is called to Siggi, where the old Maja has come, who has walked through the door. Like him, she wants to start a new, old life with her daughter who is still living here. David finally resigns and agrees to shoot the young Maja.
David returns to the young Maja with a pistol, but she kills him with a candlestick. David realizes that the young Maja loves Leonie more than the old, careworn Maja, who had to get over the death of her child. He lets her in on the background of the door and plans their escape. When old Maja and Siggi approach the house, David flees in a darkened car. The deception succeeds, the street dwellers attack him, who suspect him to be the traitor. Meanwhile, Maja and Leonie flee to the door, but are held up by old Maja, who snatches Leonie. However, she lets them go when she realizes the deep love of the young Maja for her daughter and her despair. The residents of the street do not succeed in catching up with the two refugees who enter the future through the door. David, who is racing towards the door in his demolished car, is almost strangled through the broken windshield by Siggi lying on the bonnet before he manages to steer the car against the wall of the tunnel. Siggi dies in the impact, and the door and the corridor behind it are destroyed. In the end, David and old Maja sit by the pool.
Difference to the novel
The film The Door is loosely based on Akif Pirinçci's 2001 novel The Door at that time. Motifs adopted in the film are Andernach's - in Alfred Seichtem's novel - walking through the door that leads him into the past, the murder of his predecessor, the murderous neighborhood that also comes from the future and the desire to flee back to the future. Seichtem is like Andernach a successful painter and, like in the film, in the novel, too, a friend finds out the secret of the corpses buried in the garden during a party. Andernach and Seichtem destroyed their relationship with their partner by cheating: David slept with the young neighbor, while Alfred seduced the underage daughter of his gallery owner.
However, differences between the film and the novel predominate. In the novel, shallow is an alcoholic in the present and, after walking through the door, finds himself in a past ten years ago. He returns to the present and then goes back to the past together with Ida (in the film Maja) who lives separately from him, where both of them planned to kill their predecessors and bury them in the garden. In the course of the story they commit more murders of people who discover their secret. Alfred and Ida originally had a young son who died in a traffic accident because Alfred did not take good care of him when he was drunk: a tram hit the boy. Various points of conflict arise in the novel: Alfred and Ida who are unable to revive their lost love, the police who suspect Alfred of murder and the presence of the door itself. Through this, older "versions" of the people living in the street can repeatedly step in the novel and seek their predecessors for their lives, since after the transition into the past a kind of clone is created in the future present. Therefore, all people on the street are heavily armed to protect themselves from their "descendants". Ida will be killed by her older clone in the end, while Alfred succeeds in murdering his successor and he can return to the future.
While the film portrays David Andernach's experience as real, the novel shows at the end that the entire plot is based on a comatose dream by Alfred Seichtem, who repeatedly notices the "smell of putrefaction" during the plot. In reality, Alfred was not responsible for the death of his son, but was seriously injured while trying to save the son from the approaching tram and was in a coma for several years. In the end, the dream plot and the imminent death of Alfred, who finally disappears with his little son in the fog of the door. The novel ends with Alfred's death, which is reported in an article in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit .
production
The shooting for Die Tür ran from March 26, 2008 to May 24, 2008. Filming locations included Potsdam, Berlin, Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein. The Danish actor and leading actor in the film Mads Mikkelsen spoke most of his dialogues in German, so that Ingo Hülsmann could lip-sync it. On the DVD and Blu-ray it is possible to switch to Mads Mikkelsen's original voice.
The film release was originally planned for early 2009 and was later postponed to November 12, 2009. The theatrical release in Germany was on November 26th, 2009.
criticism
Kino.de rated Die Tür as an "original drama". Director Anno Saul would "set the scene uncompromisingly dark with a good feeling for moods". The door is “genre cinema with quality”.
Andrea Niederfriniger from filmreporter.de described the door as “a successful mixture of thriller and mystery” that would have been effective even without the few special effects. However, she criticized the "unnatural ..., difficult to understand ... coldness" of the characters, which would prevent sympathy for the characters. Missing explanations within the film, such as the existence of the door and the motivation of individual characters, would also prevent a deeper examination of the individual characters.
The film service called Die Tür a "[s] perturbing [n] mystery-psycho-thriller about guilt and atonement", in which "breaks in the narrative logic [...] due to the excellent leading actor, suggestive images and the precise use of light and colors , Spaces and Sounds are balanced ”.
Awards
In 2010, film composer Fabian Römer won the German Film Critics Prize , and film director Anno Saul won the Grand Prix of the Gérardmer Film Festival . In the same year three nominations for the German Film Award followed (film music, editing, sound design). At the Norwegian Tromsø Internasjonale Film Festival 2010, the film was awarded the main prize, the Aurora .
Web links
- The door in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The door on the pages of the Senator Film Distribution (Official Website)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for the door . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2009 (PDF; test number: 117 814 K).
- ↑ Anno Saul shoots “Die Tür” on kino-zeit.de ( memento of the original from June 10, 2015 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.
- ↑ Last flap for Anno Saul's “Die Tür” on kino-zeit.de ( memento of the original from December 25, 2016 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.
- ↑ As of October 22, 2009.
- ^ Review of Die Tür on kino.de
- ↑ Die Tür on filmreporter.de ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2009 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.
- ↑ The door. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 13, 2015 .
- ↑ Tromsø International Film Festival: Aurora pinches . Retrieved April 5, 2011 (Norwegian)
