The dark side of the moon (film)

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Movie
Original title The dark side of the moon
Country of production Germany , Luxembourg
original language German
Publishing year 2015
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Stephan Rick
script Stephan Rick,
Catharina Junk
production Amir Hamz,
Jan Krüger,
Nicolas Steil
music Guest Waltzing ,
Jens Grötzschel ,
Stefan Schulzki
camera Felix Cramer ,
Stefan Ciupek
cut Florian Drechsler
occupation

The Dark Side of the Moon is a feature film by Stephan Rick from 2015 with Moritz Bleibtreu and Jürgen Prochnow in the leading roles. He filmed the blockbuster novel The Dark Side of the Moon by Martin Suter . The film was released on January 14, 2016 and was released on DVD on June 24 of that year.

The successful and unscrupulous Frankfurt business lawyer Urs Blank is thrown off course and unintentionally becomes a murderer.

action

Urs Blank is a successful business lawyer in Frankfurt am Main . In his current project, he legally worked out the takeover of a pharmaceutical company for a corporation. The contract partner, Dr. Fluri, in the end, there is no choice but to sign the contract, although it is ruined by the liability clause that Blank has incorporated. To show the lawyer his unscrupulousness, Fluri shoots himself in front of Blank's eyes. Blank takes this incident with him. He packs his things and doesn't want anything more to do with the matter. Pius Ott, his client tries to stop him. He makes it clear to him that this clause in return saved him and his group from a loss worth millions and that he saved many jobs. He calls on Blank to continue working for him and bring the merger to a close. Blank, however, is undecided and is looking for peace and quiet on a walk in the forest. In this situation, the married Blank met the young Lucille and was fascinated by her alternative lifestyle. After a party, he spends the night with her and lets himself be persuaded to go on a hallucinogenic mushroom trip . She also takes him to Joe Gasser, who regularly throws drug parties in his remote forest hut. However, this has serious consequences for Blank. At first his perception changes and will-o'-the-wisps lead him out into the forest. Lucille has to find him and get him back. For her, he leaves his wife the next day and moves in with her. However, his change does not end there, he feels that he is becoming more aggressive. First, he secretly kills Lucille's cat when it bothers him at breakfast. In the law firm, too, his tone is getting rougher. Pius Ott is amazed and invites Blank to hunt. On the way back, Blank lets himself be provoked by a car driver, so that an accident occurs, but he does not help, but leaves the scene of the accident. He suspects that his condition has something to do with the drug mushrooms, because there is no other explanation for the fact that he is now doing things that he would otherwise never do. He contacts a doctor friend who, after a thorough examination, cannot find any abnormalities. However, he confirms Blank's assumption that his behavioral changes could be related to mushroom consumption. In order to be able to produce an antidote for him, he would need the fungus that caused this effect on Blank. Blank then seeks Joe Gasser, but the situation escalates after a short time and Blank strangles the man. Horrified by his deed, he tries to revive Gasser and takes refuge in Lucille. But he also argues with her and she throws him out of her apartment. Obsessed with finding the mushroom, which is supposed to be the saffron yellow velvet cap , he takes a room in a boarding house and moves into the forest every day. He's neglecting his work more and more and here, too, is almost exclusively concerned with mushrooms. However, while searching for specialist literature, he happened to come across a medical study that proved that the drug that Dr. Fluri, which Pius Ott now wants to bring to market, has massive harmful side effects. He then wants to prevent the merger. His client Pius Ott is now countering the attack, because he witnessed Blank's hit-and-run and also has evidence that he can now blackmail him.

After days of searching, Blank succeeds in finding the mushroom. His doctor's analysis is sobering, however, because he cannot detect any hallucinogenic substances in it. Blank has to recognize that the mushroom trip was only the trigger for him to become an instinct-driven and aggressive murderer. In the meantime, Blank is already being sought by the police, who count him among the suspects in the Gasser murder case. To avoid the reenactment he tries to take his own life and therefore jumps from a bridge into a river. In a suicide note, he admits his complicity in the car accident and the murder of Gassner. Contrary to expectations, Blank survived the jump into the deep end. Desperate, he withdraws into the forest. Pius Ott doubts Blank's death, as his body was not found, and wants to make sure that it does not thwart the merger at the last moment. With his hunting rifle he goes into the forest, where he suspects that Blank is hiding. When his hunting dog Blanks takes in the weather, Ott immediately shoots the fugitive, whom he cannot see in the thick autumn fog and therefore has to shoot several times. Blank provokes a duel in which he could have killed Ott, but since he controlled himself, he was shot by Ott at the end.

reception

Reviews

Tilmann P. Gangloff evaluated for evangelisch.de : The film “has to offer fascinating late autumn forest shots.” “Nevertheless, the psychological thriller lives mainly from the charisma of the main actor. Moritz Bleibtreu embodies the change from a career-fixated, but by no means unsympathetic lawyer to an instinct-driven being extremely credible and at the same time moving: After every freak, Blank is appalled by his seemingly archaic mercilessness. "

Kai Spanke wrote for the FAZ : “The ARD film 'The Dark Side of the Moon' traces how a man becomes a beast - including black and white painting and buzzword bingo.” “When Mark Twain said everyone is a moon and has one dark side, which he doesn't show anyone, he did the math without Urs Blank. He makes no secret of his pitch-dark facets, he curses in Tourette style, strikes and kills - always a touch too close to "overacting". Stay true lets the jaws grind, lips flutter, and eyes stare. Everything too intense to pass as artfully, but just right to form the never-ending source of power for the plot. In addition to this psychogram of the main character, the business crime, which is also part of the story, is only a footnote. "

Kaspar Heinrich judged for Spiegel online : “It is the age-old contrast between wild nature and tamed people that is at the center of Stephan Rick's second feature-length film.” “Despite all the tension, the 'The Dark Side of the Moon' between a credibly staged drug trip and a gripping one Pharmaceutical crime ignited, but moves another, crucial level of the book too far into the background: the final retreat of the star lawyer into nature, his weeks of struggle for survival in the loneliness of the forest - and with it the escape from the capitalist performance society. "

Rainer Gansera from the SZ saw it similarly and said: “This paranoia, designed in an enthralling manner, becomes a narrative disappointment. Because it inundates and stifles all social criticism of history or leaves only symbolic abbreviations of it. This is what happens with the economic crime that is woven into it. He is mystically exaggerated, decorated with threatening images of a black wolf, crocheted with a duel that Blank has to fight against his diabolical mentor and supporter Pius Ott (Jürgen Prochnow). "

For the Ruhr Nachrichten , The Dark Side of the Moon was “a fast-paced film in a dark outfit that doesn't allow the viewer a minute of rest”. Moritz Bleibtreu and Jürgen Prochnow in particular are impressive. Otherwise the film is well cast.

Awards and festivals

The dark side of the moon premiered on September 27, 2015 at the Zurich Film Festival and was nominated for the Art Cinema Award and the Hamburg Producer's Prize for European cinema co-productions at the Hamburg Film Festival 2015. In addition, the film was shortlisted for the German Film Award 2016 in the “Best Feature Film” category. The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) awarded it the title “Particularly valuable”. In 2016, Stephan Rick received a nomination for the German Director Award Metropolis in the category "Best Director Cinema". At Jupiter 2017 the film was nominated in the categories “Best German Film” and “Best German Actor” (Moritz Bleibtreu).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for The Dark Side of the Moon . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2015 (PDF; test number: 156 182 K).
  2. ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : The Dark Side of the Moon Film Review at evangelisch.de , accessed on November 17, 2019.
  3. ↑ Kai Spanke: Obsessed by the forest at faz.net, accessed on November 17, 2019.
  4. ↑ Kaspar Heinrich: Fear and Loathing in Frankfurt at spiegel.de, accessed on November 17, 2019.
  5. ↑ Rainer Gansera: Ui, a mushroom! at sueddeutsche.de , accessed on November 17, 2019.
  6. ↑ The dark side of the moon. In: ruhrnachrichten.de. Retrieved January 12, 2016.
  7. ↑ The dark side of the moon at the Hamburg Film Festival 2015, accessed on June 30, 2016.
  8. ^ German Film Award 2016 , accessed on June 30, 2016.
  9. ↑ The dark side of the moon in the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW), accessed on June 30, 2016.
  10. ↑ The nominees for the German Director's Prize Metropolis 2016. German Director's Association, accessed on September 23, 2016.
  11. ↑ Jupiter Award 2017 , IMDb, accessed on June 13, 2017.