The meadow - a paradise next door

Movie
Original title	The meadow - a paradise next door
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2019
length	93 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0
Rod
Director	Jan Haft
script	Jan Haft
production	Melanie Haft, nautilus film
music	Dominik Eulberg , ; Sebastian Schmidt
camera	Jan Haft, ; Kay Ziesenhenne
cut	Carla Braun-Elwert
occupation
	Sebastian Winkler (speaker)

Die Wiese - A paradise next door is a German documentary film by Jan Haft from 2019. It shows the diversity of the fauna and flora of species-rich meadows and the threats to this habitat in Germany.

action

The documentation presents the colorful, blooming summer meadow and its diverse inhabitants. Birds, grasshoppers, cicadas and numerous other animals live in this natural paradise, which Jan Haft put into scene with great technical effort. The main characters in the film are two young deer twins in their habitat between the edge of the forest and the meadow.

In addition to the diversity of flora and fauna of native natural meadows, the film shows their desolation through overfertilization and too early mowing and also why the loss of such biotopes of wild herbs, flowers and grass is one of the main causes of the disappearance of small and large wild animals.

production

The production of the film took three years and required 300 days of shooting and 1,000 hours in camouflage at around 30 locations. Large parts of the film were shot at Gut Klepelshagen owned by the German Wildlife Foundation . The latter commissioned the film and supported it financially “in order to create awareness for this very important living space, which is unfortunately becoming increasingly rare”.

Jan Haft worked with Minimal Techno DJ Dominik Eulberg for the music .

reception

The public premiere took place in front of 3,500 spectators in the Kiel Sparkassen-Arena . In 2019 the film was shown in around 800 cinemas in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and reached over 70,000 viewers. It was in the top 10 of the arthouse charts for several weeks and was part of the school cinema weeks offer nationwide. The film was released on DVD / Blu-Ray in October 2019. The first broadcast on Arte took place on August 20, 2020.

Reviews

“Some films come to the cinema at the right time. 'The Meadow - A Paradise Next Door' is such a film. "

( Udo A. Zimmermann, epd-film )

"Jan Haft shows in spectacular time-lapse shots the biodiversity of a blooming summer meadow - and how much the habitat is threatened by modern agriculture." ( TV Spielfilm / TV Today )

Others

In connection with the production of the film, Jan Haft published the book “ The Meadow: A Call to a Mysterious World” , which reached number 18 on the Spiegel bestseller list in 2019 .

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Release certificate for Die Wiese - A paradise next door . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
↑ Marie Müller: The documentary "Die Wiese" advocates biodiversity. In: Bayerischer Rundfunk. April 3, 2019, accessed July 22, 2020 .
↑ Katharina Kausche: A paradise next door. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. March 13, 2019, accessed July 22, 2020 .
↑ The meadow - a paradise next door. In: German Wildlife Foundation. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .
↑ Jürgen Küppers: Very big cinema with 3500 visitors. In: Kiel News. March 29, 2019, accessed July 23, 2020 .
↑ German Wildlife Foundation: Annual Report 2019 (PDF). P. 42 , accessed on July 22, 2020 .
↑ Rentrak / AG Kino-Gilde: Ranking list according to the total number of visitors in the cinemas of the AG Kino-Gilde. In: Programmkino.de. April 23, 2019, accessed July 22, 2020 .

↑ The meadow - a paradise next door. In: Vision Kino. June 28, 2019, accessed July 22, 2020 .

↑ Udo A. Zimmermann: Review of Die Wiese - A paradise next door. In: epd film. epd, March 25, 2019, accessed on July 22, 2020 .

↑ The meadow - a paradise next door. In: TV Today. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .

↑ Jan Haft: The Meadow: A call to a mysterious world . Penguin Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-328-60066-4 .

↑ More than just a “book about the film”. In: book report. February 18, 2020, accessed July 22, 2020 .

↑ The meadow. In: bestseller career. Book report, accessed on July 22, 2020 .

[FSK-1] Release certificate for Die Wiese - A paradise next door . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).

[2] Marie Müller: The documentary "Die Wiese" advocates biodiversity. In: Bayerischer Rundfunk. April 3, 2019, accessed July 22, 2020 .

[3] Katharina Kausche: A paradise next door. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. March 13, 2019, accessed July 22, 2020 .

[4] The meadow - a paradise next door. In: German Wildlife Foundation. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .

[5] Jürgen Küppers: Very big cinema with 3500 visitors. In: Kiel News. March 29, 2019, accessed July 23, 2020 .

[6] German Wildlife Foundation: Annual Report 2019 (PDF). P. 42 , accessed on July 22, 2020 .

[7] Rentrak / AG Kino-Gilde: Ranking list according to the total number of visitors in the cinemas of the AG Kino-Gilde. In: Programmkino.de. April 23, 2019, accessed July 22, 2020 .

[8] The meadow - a paradise next door. In: Vision Kino. June 28, 2019, accessed July 22, 2020 .

[9] Udo A. Zimmermann: Review of Die Wiese - A paradise next door. In: epd film. epd, March 25, 2019, accessed on July 22, 2020 .

[10] The meadow - a paradise next door. In: TV Today. Retrieved July 22, 2020 .

[11] Jan Haft: The Meadow: A call to a mysterious world . Penguin Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-328-60066-4 .

[12] More than just a “book about the film”. In: book report. February 18, 2020, accessed July 22, 2020 .

[13] The meadow. In: bestseller career. Book report, accessed on July 22, 2020 .