The internal secruity

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Movie
Original title The internal secruity
Internal Security.jpg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2000
length 106 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Christian Petzold
script Christian Petzold,
Harun Farocki
production Florian Koerner von Gustorf ,
Michael Weber
music Stefan Will
camera Hans Fromm
cut Bettina Boehler
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chronology

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The Inner Security is a German feature film by Christian Petzold from the year 2000. It shows an underground couple with a left- wing terrorist past, whose 15-year-old daughter begins to evade the rules of her strictly isolated existence. The leading roles were cast with Julia Hummer , Barbara Auer and Richy Müller . The film premiered on September 1, 2000 as part of the Venice International Film Festival , the German theatrical release on January 25, 2001. Petzold then used the originally planned title "Ghosts" for a later film . Together with Yella , the three of them form his so-called "Ghost Trilogy".

action

Hans and Clara, who, as former terrorists, have been fleeing underground for a long time, are about to leave Portugal for Brazil in the hope of being able to "start over" there. This seems particularly important for her 15-year-old daughter Jeanne, who longs for a normal life, is increasingly looking for contacts with her peers, slipping out of parental control and becoming a security risk for the couple. The confrontation with the police after their hotel room was broken into and their money was stolen, however, forced the family to flee again and return to Germany temporarily. They find shelter in an empty villa in Hamburg , which Jeanne found out about when she met the German wave rider Heinrich in Portugal. Both meet not far from the villa, first by chance, then secretly again.

Meanwhile, the parents try to get the money to try again. After several attempts have failed to get help from old companions, Hans and Clara raid a bank, with Hans being injured and Clara killing a man. The last night before the planned renewed escape Jeanne spends again with Heinrich, to whom she finally confesses the truth. He then notifies the police. The next day, the family's getaway car is overtaken by a civilian task force on the open country road and pushed off the road so that it overturns. Jeanne is thrown out and after a while gets up dazed, while there is no sign of life from her parents.

background

One of the film reviews compares The Inner Security with Schlöndorff's The Silence after the Shot and states that the most important difference is that Petzold concentrates entirely on the current state of the characters and leaves out the historical context of the prehistory. In fact, Hans and Clara's origins, career and personal motives remain completely open. There is also no mention of what exactly led to them being wanted by the police. Its location in the left-wing terrorist scene of the RAF can, however, be clearly proven by several references. Two of them are the character of "Hans Benz" and the novel Moby Dick . Hans Benz is the pseudonym of a real person: It was an employee of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution , who acted as a contact for terrorists in hiding and tried to get them to leave the RAF. This is also the (not exempting) alternative open to Hans and Clara (and which they reject) when one of their former comrades-in-arms mentions Benz's name. Moby Dick, on the other hand, which Jeanne uses as a code and identification mark at the conspiratorial meeting with another companion, is a book with high symbolic power for the RAF's self-image, and with practical utility for the members of the "First Generation" on loan they take their aliases from the characters in the novel ( Andreas Baader , their leader, for example that of Captain Ahab).

The film was originally supposed to be called Ghosts . This title, which Petzold then used for a later film , is also conclusive for The Inner Security . The family does not live a real human life, but that of "ghosts". The proverbial “ghosts of the past” do not let go of them, and when they suddenly appear among old companions after decades of absence, they seem like them themselves. Last but not least, it happens almost every day that they “see ghosts”, mostly for no reason. This is nowhere as clear as in the scene when Hans perceives the random accumulation of darkly painted vehicles in the area of ​​the intersection as a threat scenario during an extended traffic light phase, which seems so real to him that he gets out and raises his hands to face the supposed SEK- Surrender to command.

The title ultimately chosen, Internal Security, is no less relational. It is obvious to think of the individual characters, the family and the state. Jeanne suffers from the lack of her own inner security in a different way than her parents and more existential, because she is at the age at which she wants to know who she is - whereas the role that she is pushed into forces her to deny herself and sometimes to Theft is seductive, which of course puts the family's safety at risk even more. Regarding the contradictory relationship between this special nuclear family and the state, whose internal security was violated by them and which therefore persecutes them, the following is recorded in the material accompanying the film: “Because of their birth, the terrorist cell consisting of Hans and Clara has changed transformed into a 'family cell', says Petzold. Although Jeanne's parents previously despised the institution of the family as the smallest cell in the society they opposed, it is now their only refuge. However, the hated 'macro-politics' of the state now reappears in the family as 'micro-politics': around the internal security of To preserve the family, Jeanne's father uses real interrogation methods with his daughter. "

The film was shot from April 3, 2000 to May 28, 2000 in the Algarve and Hamburg .

criticism

“An excellently played and staged film, which takes up a topic of recent coping with history very personally and shows people who have settled in hopelessness, but are suddenly confronted with the fear of failure. An impressive study that allows various conclusions to be drawn about mentalities. "

- Lexicon of international film

“Where in Schlöndorff's film The Silence after the Shot, the characters got almost too heavy under the historical burden of really appearing, of being more than a puzzle of statements, personal testimonies and analyzes that were given by and about the RAF at Petzold the other extreme: his figures are almost too light, too unfinished and designed superficially. "

- Barbara Schweizerhof, Friday

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Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the interview with Petzold and Auer on the DVD
  2. ↑ a b Barbara Schweizerhof: The internal security. An escape fantasy. (last accessed on April 13, 2014)
  3. ↑ Accompanying materials for the film from the Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen (PDF file; 1.3 MB) Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 accessed on April 13, 2014) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutsche-kinemathek.de
  4. ↑ Accompanying materials for the film from the Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen (PDF file; 1.3 MB) Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 accessed on April 13, 2014) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deutsche-kinemathek.de
  5. ↑ Internal security. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 28, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used