Measuring the World (film)
Measuring the World is a German-Austrian 3D feature film from 2012. It is the film adaptation of the novel Measuring the World by Daniel Kehlmann from the year of 2005.
action
The film depicts the life of the brilliant mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauß and the inquisitive natural scientist Alexander von Humboldt, each of whom in his own way helps mankind to gain more knowledge. While Alexander von Humboldt travels the big wide world and explores the landscape, flora and fauna, Carl Friedrich Gauß comes out of himself in his familiar surroundings to outstanding new mathematical findings.
background
Filming locations were in Germany a. a. Görlitz and Hoppenrade in the Prignitz, Austria and Ecuador. The film was released in German cinemas on October 25, 2012 and was seen by 189,740 viewers in the first week. By the end of the year, the literary film had reached 625,501 (576,370) visitors overall 10th place of the most-watched German cinema productions and 54th place of all productions of 2012 in Germany.
It was released on DVD on March 28, 2013.
ARD broadcast the film in German for the first time on January 5, 2015.
The title Dark Black , which can be heard as the closing music , comes from the musician Kristina Train .
criticism
"Solidly played and lavishly equipped, the film adaptation of Daniel Kehlmann's novel does not find an independent visual language and remains in the externally illustrative."
“For the most part, the film is really worth seeing, the pictures speak of joie de vivre and the daring to go all out. But: it has absolutely nothing to do with the humor and charm of the book. […] That is uncomfortably vain, but ultimately symptomatic of a film that does not know how to manage its resources - that draws on the full range of images, but has nothing to offer narrative. "
“Kehlmann called his book 'Unfilmed'. He drew a radical conclusion from this. He tells the story of his two clever guys again, almost completely new - and turns it into the most amusing film version that has ever happened to German school reading. "
“Buck's film is a flood of images, but not a cinema. Nobody can be enthusiastic about nature shots for two hours and watch two young actors who move awkwardly through a geo-report. The film will probably flop at the box office within a short time. In reality, it belongs on television's holiday program, preferably on Boxing Day. After a quarter of an hour you zap it away and still think: 'Maybe it would look better in 3-D somehow.' "
“The film wants [...] to transfer cultural goods from the literary to the suitable cinema goods of today. One should learn something in the process, […]. And there we have it again - the impossible German teacher, learning and embassy cinema. This breathtaking and often so empty watch out cinema with these be careful motifs and the many educational exclamation marks! And again and again with these theoretical explanations from the off (here by Christoph Waltz), which describe in words precisely that which is not shown visually. A terrible kind of motion cinema, because it is far too dry. Very boring. Very dusty. "
- NB: The narrator from the off is Daniel Kehlmann, not Christoph Waltz.
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) gave the film the rating of particularly valuable :
"A visually expressive, clever and extremely entertaining film about new worlds and ancient wisdom."
Awards
- 2013: Austrian Film Award for Thomas Oláh (best costume design), Monika Fischer-Vorauer and Michaela Oppl (each best makeup image)
- 2013: Romy nominations for Sunnyi Melles and Florian David Fitz as "Most Popular Actors"
- 2013: Nomination for the New Faces Award for Albrecht Abraham Schuch as "Best Young Actor"
- 2013: Nominations for the German Film Award for Thomas Oláh (Best Costume Design), Udo Kramer (Best Production Design) and the Audience Award (Best Film)
literature
- Daniel Kehlmann, Detlev Buck: The measurement of the world - the book for the film. Ed .: Wenka v. Mikulicz and Michael Töteberg . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-499-25327-0 . 208 pages. (The publication, which is almost entirely illustrated with color photos, contains, among other things, the script , a conversation between Kehlmann, Buck and Willi Winkler about the film, articles about individual and canceled scenes with some storyboard drawings, a note by Winkler on difficulties during the shooting, contributions to History and possible uses of the 3D process as well as the cast list and film staff .)
Web links
- Measuring the World in Internet Movie Database (English)
- Measuring the world at Filmportal.de
- Warner movie info page
- Expert opinion of the German film and media rating
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for measuring the world . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2012 (PDF; test number: 135 052 K).
- ↑ Age designation for Die Vermessung der Welt . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b TOP 100 GERMANY 2012 , insidekino.de
- ↑ a b Film hit list: Annual list (German) 2012 . In: Filmförderungsanstalt . FFA.de. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
- ↑ Kristina Train provides the music for the film "Measuring the World" . Universal music; Retrieved February 19, 2015.
- ↑ The measurement of the world in the Lexicon of International Film on zweiausendeins.de
- ↑ Hannah Pilarczyk: Thin story, hearty pictures. In: Spiegel Online . October 22, 2012, accessed June 2, 2013 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Höbel: Two glorious ghosts . In: Der Spiegel . No. 43 , 2012, p. 132-133 ( online ). Quote: "For the film version of 'Measuring the World', novelist Daniel Kehlmann and director Detlev Buck have conspired to go on a breakneck adventure ride in 3-D."
- ↑ Thomas E. Schmidt: Bad learned sex . In: Die Zeit , No. 44/2012. "All that remains in the film of Daniel Kehlmann's novel 'Die Vermessung der Welt' is a flood of caricaturing images."
- ↑ dradio.de October 24, 2012 .
- ↑ Measuring the world. German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) , accessed on November 23, 2012 .