Through tonight I don't see a single star
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Through tonight I don't see a single star |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Dagmar Knöpfel |
| script | Dagmar Knöpfel |
| production |
Herbert Rimbach , Alena Rimbach |
| music | Aleš Březina |
| camera | Jan Malíř |
| cut | Christian Lonk |
| occupation | |
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I don't see a single star through this night is a German film by Dagmar Knöpfel from 2005. It is about the last days of the Czech writer Božena Němcová , played by Corinna Harfouch . The film premiered at the Munich Film Festival on June 30, 2005. It opened in theaters on November 17, 2005.
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Božena Němcová had dared to organize her life freely as early as the 19th century . She fought for love, for her family, for her life. Němcová was an artist who was way ahead of her time in shaping her life and in her demands on life: She is seen in a row with Virginia Woolf , Sylvia Plath , Frida Kahlo , Brigitte Reimann , women who wanted everything - family , Self-actualization, free love - and all of whom were willing to pay a heavy price for it.
In the film - much more a fragmentary journey into the interior of the figure than a complete biography - the chronological- biographical approach is not in the foreground. Instead, Božena Němcová is shown writing her last three letters. The film lets the viewer participate in how fragments of life become literature. Němcová's creative process is under the motto: "It has to be more beautiful". The intensity with which she pursues this intention could lead one to believe that she has the hope that literature could perhaps work back on reality and in fact make it "more beautiful".
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Božena Němcová, author of the novel Babička ( The Grandmother , 1855), which Franz Kafka recommended his sisters to read, wrote in 1861, exhausted and terminally ill, on her last trip, which was also a last attempt to escape from a broken marriage, in her distress Letter to her last friend and benefactor Vojtěch Náprstek, a letter in three attempts, which, however, never reached the addressee. These three draft letters, incomplete in 1920 and published in full for the first time in 1995 in the journal Literární noviny , contain cracks and gaps. Nonetheless, they provide a coherent, self-contained picture of the manner in which 19th century society took revenge on a woman who dared to organize her life freely and along the lines of George Sand and thus failed .
criticism
The film service judged that “staged in a minimalist and expressive manner”, the film “does not provide close-ups of its protagonists”, but reveals their “essence through a voice-over narration and detailed shots of everyday utensils”. The Czech website cinepur.cz said the “focused game by Corinna Harfouch” was “stunning”.
Web links
- By that night, I see no star in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Through this night I don't see a single star at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Through this night I don't see a single star . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2005 (PDF; test number: 101 748 K).
- ↑ Through this night I don't see a single star. Film service , accessed June 29, 2015 .
- ↑ Thomas Brandlmeier The German cinema of the present - Konečná uprostřed cesty? / Německý film jednadvacátého století In: cinepur on December 7, 2014.