Distance (film)

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Movie
Original title distance
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2009
length 82 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Thomas Seven
script Thomas Seven
production Norbert Kneissl ,
Ken Duken
camera René Dame
cut Charlie Lézin
occupation

Distance is a German psychological drama from 2009 directed by Thomas Sieben . Ken Duken plays a character with a schizoid personality disorder and produced the project together with Norbert Kneißl and the joint production company Grand Hôtel Pictures . The film celebrated its world premiere at the Berlinale 2009 and was released in German cinemas on August 19, 2010 in the film distribution of AV Visionen GmbH .

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Daniel Bauer, played by Ken Duken , is a withdrawn loner and works as a gardener in the botanical garden. His work colleagues feel provoked by his stoic closeness, but they are unaware of his apparently unmotivated outbursts of violence and dark activities. These consist in the fact that Daniel throws stones from a motorway bridge onto the roadway and thus causes a fatal accident. However, he later stole a hunting rifle and shot two people in a park. In contrast to her colleagues, Jana ( Franziska Weisz ) feels drawn to him. Despite his rejections, she falls in love with Daniel and manages to approach him. Daniel slowly begins to open up to Jana and the world.

But even she knows nothing of his dark secret. In addition, the police have already started an investigation and cordoned off the entrances to the park so that Daniel has to hide the rifle in his apartment. Jana finally discovers Daniel's secret from diary entries, but promises to cover him up. For this she even pretends to be his wife to the police and initially manages to let the inspectors run into the air. When trying to make the gun disappear in the botanical garden, however, Daniel's violence culminates. He knocks Jana down with the butt of the rifle and then shoots himself.

Reviews

The film was well received by various critics:

"And Ken Duken, this cross between Jack Bauer, Kevin Bacon and Brian Adams, is finally catching up with the first ranks of local actors."

- Zitty

“Instead, he [Thomas Sieben] focuses on the relationship between his two main characters, who are embodied by strong main actors. Franziska Weisz contrasts the coolness of Ken Duken with a good touch of middle-class middle-class reasonableness, which shows: I am the balancing force, the calm pole that is supposed to tame the supposed beast. "

- Programmkino.de

Festivals and prizes

The film opened the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section at the Berlin International Film Festival 2009 . At the Oldenburg Film Festival in 2009 he received the German Independence Award for Best German Film. The film won another award, the Best Foreign Feature Film Award , at the Lonestar International Film Festival Texas 2009 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of release for distance . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2009 (PDF; test number: 117 675 K).
  2. ↑ Programmkino.de: film review (accessed on July 8, 2010)