The divine order
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The divine order |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Petra Volpe |
| script | Petra Volpe |
| production |
Lukas Hobi , Reto Schärli |
| music | Annette Focks |
| camera | Judith Kaufmann |
| cut | Hansjörg Weißbrich |
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The Divine Order is a Swiss film drama by Petra Volpe , who also wrote the screenplay for the film. A theatrical release in Switzerland was on March 9, 2017, in Germany and Austria on August 3, 2017.
action
The young housewife and mother Nora lived in 1971 with her husband Hans, their two sons and the disgruntled father-in-law Gottfried in a small, peaceful village in the Appenzellerland . There, in the Swiss idyll, you can feel almost nothing or very little of the social upheavals in the world that have occurred since the 1968 movement , and Nora's life was also unaffected. On the contrary: there is an opinion that emancipation is a curse, a sin of nature and against the divine order.
When Nora wants to start working again, her husband refuses permission, referring to the marriage law, which obliges the woman to take care of the household. Although she is a calm person who can put up with anything, Nora's resistance is now awakening. She begins to read feminist literature, to wear tight jeans and wild bangs and to attend a women's demonstration and a workshop for sexual liberation with other village women in Zurich . Her colleagues are Vroni, the former landlady of the Bären inn, the new tenant Graziella from Italy and the farmer Theresa, her sister-in-law. Her teenage daughter Hanna is put in a correctional facility by the guardianship authorities because she consumes cannabis and hangs out with men.
When they campaigned, publicly and militantly, for the right to vote for women in Switzerland and called for a strike, the peace between the villages and families began to shake. Vroni dies during the strike, angry at the intervention of angry men. At the memorial service in the church, Nora takes the floor to pay tribute to Vroni as a courageous woman who has been treated unfairly by men. For them, the divine plan means that all human beings are equal. Hans, who was troubled by the separation from his wife and who saved his brother, the completely desperate farmer Werner, from suicide, then shows himself to be forgiving. On February 7, 1971, a slim majority in the small Appenzell village also voted for women's suffrage.
production
Directed by Petra Volpe, who also wrote the screenplay for the film. According to the director, her film does not show a black and white world in which men are the perpetrators and women are the victims, but also how men are somehow kept small in this world. In the film, the heiress of a sawmill, who is the only woman in the village to have something to say, says: "Women in politics, ladies, that is simply against the divine order", a statement to which the title of the film refers. Switzerland, one of the oldest democracies in the world, was one of the last European countries to introduce women's suffrage , along with the more important voting and initiative rights in Switzerland, which people outside of Switzerland still have to wait for.
The Berlin-born actress Marie Leuenberger can be seen in the lead role of the Swiss housewife Nora. Maximilian Simonischek plays her husband Hans.
The film received production funding of CHF 100,000 from the Aargauer Kuratorium Kulturförderung of the Canton of Aargau.
The shooting took place from February 22nd to April 1st, 2016 in the eastern Swiss towns of Trogen , Rehetobel , Gais , Herisau , Heiden , Rheineck and Flawil .
The film premiered on March 9, 2017 in the German-speaking part of Switzerland and was released in German cinemas on August 3, 2017. In April 2017, The Divine Order was presented at the Tribeca Film Festival , and in June of the same year the film was screened at the Sydney Film Festival . In August 2017 was the divine order at the International Film Festival of Locarno in the section Panorama Suisse shown and on 15 April 2018 at the Belfast Film Festival.
reception
Reviews
So far, the film has convinced 84 percent of all Rotten Tomatoes critics .
In the Tiroler Tageszeitung it is said that Petra Volpe takes a differentiated approach, shows an anti-voting rights activist as an antagonist and also men as victims of rigid gender roles. There it goes on to say that each of the fictional characters stands for a certain form of arbitrariness to which the Swiss women were exposed by the men: “Nora can neither spend money nor take a job without her husband's consent, the former landlady Vroni is after Death of her poorly financially poor husband, penniless and - particularly shocking - Nora's teenage niece is admitted to a correctional home by the guardian because of her 'wild' lifestyle. "
Marc Reichwein from Welt Online thinks that the development of the protagonist has jokes, satire, irony and even deeper meaning, but the secondary characters tended to caricature. In addition, the plot remains tame as a whole and a moral story is told that all gentlemen who once growled against women's rights could now look at it with pleasure. Reichwein also criticizes the fact that the film is shown in Germany in stiff High German dubbing instead of subtitled Swiss dialect, does not contribute to the confidence in the dialogue skills of Swiss cinema, which is why this bottom line is more TV film than really big, despite great settings and well-cast characters Cinema stays.
Anita Fetz von der Zeit writes, The divine order is an important film not least because the younger generation hardly knows anything about these struggles. The film also shows that men also suffer from the rigid distribution of roles and that, wherever women's rights are concerned, there are also vipers in female form, who railed against it in advance, as in the film the chairman of the "Action Committee against the politicization of women". The film shines like a burning glass into the reactionary, closed world of petty bourgeois Switzerland of the post-war period and captivates with its charming, playful, funny, tragic staging and its excellent actresses.
Gross profit
In Switzerland, the film sold 356,855 cinema tickets, making it one of the top ten most successful Swiss films of the last 40 years. 126,614 visitors saw him in Germany.
Awards (selection)
Switzerland submitted The Divine Order as a nomination in the category Best Foreign Language Film for the 2018 Academy Awards . The following is a selection of well-known award ceremonies.
Palm Springs International Film Festival 2018
- Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film ( Petra Volpe )
- Nomination for best international feature film
- Award for the best screenplay (Petra Volpe)
- Nomination for best feature film
- Award as best actress ( Marie Leuenberger )
- Nomination for Best Actor ( Max Simonischek )
- Award for best performance in a supporting role ( Rachel Braunschweig )
- Nomination for best performance in a supporting role ( Therese Affolter )
- Nomination for best performance in a supporting role ( Sibylle Brunner )
- Nomination for the Jury Award as Best International Narrative Feature (Petra Volpe)
- Award for best actress in an international feature film (Marie Leuenberger)
- Awarded the Nora Ephron Prize (Petra Volpe)
Web links
- The divine order in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website of the film
- The divine order in the program of the Locarno Film Festival 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for The Divine Order . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 169836 / K).
- ↑ Age designation for The Divine Order . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Petra Volpe in conversation with Susanne Burg: Feature film 'The divine order': The struggle for women's suffrage in Switzerland In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur, July 29, 2017.
- ↑ Marc Reichwein: Kino: Critique "The divine order" by Petra Volpe. In: welt.de . August 1, 2017, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ↑ The divine order. In: crew-united.com. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
- ^ Andreas Stock: Eastern Switzerland as a film set. April 23, 2017. Retrieved August 8, 2019 .
- ^ The Divine Order. In: ribecafilm.com. Retrieved April 29, 2017.
- ^ Program of the 70th Locarno Film Festival In: pardo.ch. Retrieved on August 6, 2017 (PDF; 12.1 MB)
- ^ The Divine Order In: belfastfilmfestival.org. Retrieved December 23, 2018.
- ↑ The Divine Order. In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved April 27, 2019.
- ↑ The private is political: Women blow up 'The divine order' In: Tiroler Tageszeitung Online, July 28, 2017.
- ↑ Marc Reichwein: 'I have a tiger between my legs' In: Welt Online, August 1, 2017.
- ↑ Anita Fetz: "The divine order": Go to the cinema ... In: Die Zeit . March 9, 2017, ISSN 0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed October 10, 2019]).
- ^ Film database. In: procinema.ch. ProCinema, July 31, 2017, accessed August 8, 2019 .
- ↑ Statistics ProCinema: ProCinema, Statistics, Country = CH Switzerland. In: ProCinema.ch. Retrieved August 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Top 100 Germany 2017. In: insidekino.com. Retrieved October 11, 2017.
- ↑ 'The Divine Order' Swiss Oscar candidate In: August 7, 2017.
- ↑ Steve Pond: 'Dunkirk', 'The Shape of Water' Lead Satellite Award Nominations In: thewrap.com, November 29, 2017.
- ^ Solothurn Film Festival: Divine Order: The Nominations for the Swiss Film Prize. In: srf.ch. January 27, 2017.
- ↑ Swiss Film Prize: Two prizes for “The Divine Order”. In: aargauerzeitung.ch March 24, 2017.
- ↑ Here are the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival Juried Award Winners. In: tribecafilm.com. April 28, 2017 (English).