Three-quarter moon
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| Original title | Three-quarter moon |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 6 |
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| Director | Christian Zübert |
| script | Christian Zübert |
| production |
Uli Aselmann Robert Marciniak |
| music | Annette Focks |
| camera | Jana Marsik |
| cut | Mona Bräuer |
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Dreiviertelmond is a German feature film by director Christian Zübert from 2011 . The tragicomedy is based on a common idea Zübert and his wife İpek and was based on Zübert's script. It is about the grumpy Nuremberg taxi driver Hartmut Mackowiak, portrayed by Elmar Wepper , who after a family accident is forced to temporarily take care of the six-year-old Turkish girl Hayat. In addition to Wepper, Mercan Türkoğlu , Ivan Anderson , Özay Fecht, Katja Rupé and Marie Leuenberger appeared in front of the camera.
Was produced Dreiviertelmond of the film gmbh in coproduction with Bayerischer Rundfunk and arte . The shooting took place from October to November 2010 in Nuremberg , Franconian Switzerland and Istanbul . The finished film premiered at the Hamburg Film Festival before the production was released for screening on October 13, 2011 at Majestic Filmverleih . Critics rate the production mostly positive and mainly emphasized the game by Wepper and Türkoğlu. Zübert won the Bavarian Film Prize in the “Screenplay” category in 2011 , while Türkoğlu was awarded a Bambi for her portrayal .
action
While her mother Gülen is traveling on business, six-year-old Hayat is to stay with her Turkish grandmother Nezahat, who lives in Germany, in Nuremberg . On the journey from the airport, the two get to know the rather xenophobic, disgruntled taxi driver Hartmut Mackowiak, whom Hayet - unlike her mother - immediately trusts despite his manner and the language barrier . After Gülen left, Nezahat fell faint while praying and passed out. Hayat is able to call the ambulance but is left alone in front of the emergency room .
When she discovered Hartmut in front of the hospital, she quickly got into the back seat of his taxi and fell asleep. He then brings the sleeping Hayat home and leaves her on the sofa in the abandoned apartment. The next day, out of a guilty conscience and under the pretext of wanting to claim his money for Hayat's ride the night before, he still looks after her. On site, Hartmut has to find out that Hayat is on his own. Since he cannot reach her mother, he finally drives Hayat to Nezahat's clinic, where they learn that she is now in a coma .
Hartmut, who two months earlier had been left by his wife Christa after 35 years of marriage, realizes that Hayat is without care and reluctantly takes her in after both Hayat's family acquaintances and his daughter Verena refuse to leave for a few days to worry the girl. In the meantime he learns that Christa is having a relationship with another man and spies on them, accompanied by Hayat, with whom he slowly becomes friends. In this way, the two of them can find out where he lives and also stage an accident in which his car is damaged.
When, after some time, he locates Hayat's estranged father, he can leave the child, who initially does not want to stay with his father, into his care. However, after the abrupt separation, Hartmut finds it difficult to return to normal everyday life. He then takes heart and asks his wife to return to him, but she does not want to give up her new love happiness and confronts him with her desire for a divorce . The finality of her decision is hard for Hartmut, who a few moments after their interview in front of Christa's work is involved in a car accident and finally ends up in the hospital, slightly injured.
After his recovery he repeatedly visits Nezahat at the bedside, but she dies soon after, still in a coma. A short time later, Gülen seeks him, who thanks him for his care after her return and wants to say goodbye together with Hayat. Hartmut can use the opportunity to reconcile himself with the offended Hayat before she travels back to Turkey with her mother. At the end of the film, Hartmut himself travels to Istanbul. There he asks a waiter in his hotel about the meaning of the little one's name and learns that Hayat means “life”.
background
Dreiviertelmond is based on an idea by Christian Zübert, who himself comes from Franconia , and his Turkish wife İpek. In living together, both of them noticed again and again that there was no greater contrast to be found than in the Franconian and Turkish mentality. Based on this impression, they created the characters Hartmut and Hayat and began work on a script that was to tell the friendship story between a Frankish taxi driver and a little Turkish girl. Actor Elmar Wepper was Zübert's preferred candidate for the role of Hartmut while he was writing. Both had already worked together at Züberts Lammbock - Alles in Handarbeit (2001) and had stayed in contact ever since. Wepper accepted immediately after reading the script. The search for an actress for the role of Hayat turned out to be much more difficult, the casting of which lasted about half a year. Despite the usual casting calls to agencies and schools as well as time-consuming street castings, the feedback was rather hesitant. Zübert finally came across Mercan Türkoğlu from Berlin , the daughter of a friend of a friend whom he had only met three weeks before filming started on a weekend visit to the family.
Dreiviertelmond is a production of Die Film under the direction of the two producers Robert Marciniak and Uli Aselmann in co-production with Bayerischer Rundfunk and arte and was funded by the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern (FFF Bayern), the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) and the German Film Funding Fund (DFFF ) financed. The editorial team was Hubert von Spreti, Jochen Kölsch and Nadja Dumouchel. The production budget was around two million euros.
The shooting took place at 30 days of shooting, 12 October-22 November 2010 in Nuremberg , Fürth , the Franconian Switzerland and the Turkish Istanbul instead. Choosing Nuremberg and neighboring Fürth as the game and main filming locations was an obvious choice for Zübert, who described the Franconian metropolis as an unspent cinema motif and considered the city to be representative due to its large Turkish community. The press office of the city of Nuremberg and the local airport company supported the project significantly. In order to be able to do the shooting work despite Türkoglu's age, the production management often decided to split the days of shooting in order to be able to shoot half a day with Türkoglu and use the other half for further scenes. Zübert countered these circumstances with many rehearsals and also provided her with an acting coach.
Reviews
Jan Görner von Filmstarts described Dreiviertelmond as a “wonderfully sincere film about an unusual encounter and the clash of two cultures.” The production avoids the danger of “falling into clichés and platitudes”, but is “with all the skill of the director and screenwriter only through his Leading actor finally turned into something special. "Wepper shows" again his ability to reinvent himself as an actor "and carries the film almost single-handedly over all the contradictions inherent in his role."
Annett Scheffel from the Süddeutsche Zeitung found that “instead of prototypical misunderstandings between Germans and Turks”, the film was “about the clever observation of international understanding in a completely normal city like Nuremberg”. In addition, avoid “staging the encounter between the characters as a cliché-laden culture clash ”. Rather, Dreiviertelmond lives from the "small gestures of the characters", the balance of which the director finds "between Hartmut's gruff objectivity and his concern for the girl". The "role of the misanthropic taxi driver" is written on Wepper's body. The film also preserves its performance "before it goes into multiculturalism".
Welt Online wrote: "If you want to accuse this very fine, very unobtrusive film, it is actually only that, despite all the warmth of the heart it exudes, it is a bit predictable." The online edition compared the film with Andreas Dresen's episode film Nachtgestalten (1999) and praised the portrayal of the two main characters: “As Hartmut [Wepper] shows once more that he was wrongly overlooked. He knows exactly how to keep the balance between grumbling and empathy without ever betraying his figure. On the other hand, little Mercan Türkoğlu from Berlin is a true revelation in her early film debut: a child that you just have to love. "
The film service criticized that the film lacks "emotional intensity and radiance". "Too much is played out, too often pronounced, for which one no longer needed words." Dreiviertelmond is more suitable for television than for the cinema screen. However, he tells a “touching story” with “many cute scenes” and “has a big heart for his lost characters”.
success
The film premiered on September 30, 2011 at the Hamburg Film Festival . The official German theatrical release finally followed on October 13th. By the end of 2012, Dreiviertelmond had reached around 384,000 moviegoers in Germany. The TV premiere was on October 18, 2013 on Arte .
Awards
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) awarded the film the title “particularly valuable”. In her jury statement, she summed up: “Maybe the story is told a little too predictably (Hartmut doesn't almost have to hit someone on every other street corner, so that one waits impatiently for the accident to finally happen). But there are also nice, surprising twists and turns in the script (Hartmut's taxi ride with his adversary) and the locations (finally Nuremberg and not always Munich), the cast of actors, the precise and precise camera work as well as the warm-hearted tone of the Films contribute to the fact that the film is awarded the title "particularly valuable".
Christian Zübert received the Bavarian Film Prize in 2011 for the screenplay of Dreiviertelmond . In 2012, this was followed by a nomination for the German Film Prize in the category “Best Full-Program Feature Film” and a Bambi in the “Talent” category for Hayat actress Mercan Türkoğlu. Zübert also received the German Director Prize Metropolis in the category "Best Director of Cinema". The audio description of the film, spoken by Friedrich Schloffer, was nominated in 2013 for the German Audio Film Award in the "Cinema" category.
Web links
- Dreiviertelmond in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website of the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for three-quarter moon . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l press release . In: Majestic Film . Retrieved October 26, 2019.
- ↑ Jittering about crying on command . Berlin newspaper . Retrieved October 16, 2019.
- ↑ Three quarters of a moon . Film portal . Retrieved October 16, 2019.
- ↑ Regina Urban: Hartmut is not a monster . In: Nürnberger Nachrichten . Nordbayern.de. October 13, 2011. Retrieved October 14, 2011.
- ^ A b Jan Görner: Dreiviertelmond - Critique of the Filmstarts.de editorial team . Filmstarts GmbH. October 13, 2011. Retrieved October 14, 2011.
- ^ Annett Scheffel: Showdown in Nuremberg . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Retrieved October 16, 2019.
- ↑ A Turkish girl converts Elmar Wepper . In: Welt Online . Welt.de. October 13, 2011. Retrieved October 14, 2011.
- ↑ Kathrin Hager: Dreiviertelmond film-dienst, October 2011.
- ↑ Three Quarter Moon ( Memento of the original from December 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the Filmfest Hamburg 2011, accessed on October 24, 2011. See also the video from the film festival on the official film website.
- ↑ Film hit list: Annual list (German) 2012 ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Filmförderungsanstalt, accessed on August 4, 2013
- ↑ Three quarters of a moon. German Film and Media Rating (FBW) , accessed on October 16, 2019 .
- ^ Three quarters of a moon in the Hörfilm database of Hörfilm e. V.
- ↑ 11th German Audio Film Award 2013
