One breath

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Movie
Original title One breath
Country of production Germany ,
Greece
original language German ,
Greek
Publishing year 2015
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Christian Zübert
script Christian Zübert,
Ipek Zübert
production Ulf Israel ,
Costas Labropoulos
camera Ngo The Chau
cut Mona Bräuer
occupation

A breath is a German film drama by Christian Zübert . It opened the Hof Film Festival and ran at numerous other festivals, for example in Thessaloniki and Stockholm . The film had its world premiere on September 12, 2015 at the Toronto International Film Festival , where it was positively received by the American trade press.

action

Greece, Athens: The country is deep in the economic crisis, unemployment continues to rise. Young Elena dreams of a better life. That's why she plans to emigrate, even if she has to leave her friend Costas behind. Elena finds a job in a bar in Frankfurt. However, after a health check, she has to change her future plans. Elena is pregnant and can no longer work there. The young Greek finds a new job as a nanny for a wealthy couple in Frankfurt. The family consists of Tessa, her husband Jan and little Lotte. Since Tessa wants to go back to her job as a manager after a long baby break, Elena is supposed to look after the little girl. Everything is going well at first. For Elena, who has experienced a lot of poverty, the well-heeled household seems like paradise. However, she soon notices that her employers have so many moods and neuroses. One day Elena lets the child out of sight for a moment while taking a walk. Lotte has disappeared without a trace. Elena panics and decides to flee back to Greece to avoid the anger of her parents and the possible consequences. Meanwhile, parents are completely thrown off course by the disappearance of their child. The desperate father, Jan, blames his wife for the fact that Lotte was only entrusted to a complete stranger because of Tessa's career aspirations. Tessa then decides to take a radical step. She travels to Greece to find Elena and maybe her daughter.

criticism

The film received mostly positive reviews. The industry journal Variety judges that "this demanding, current and increasingly captivating character study could serve as an arthouse breakthrough for German director Christian Zübert".

The German film magazine Filmdienst believes that the "drama told with a time delay in chapters and from two perspectives focuses more on the turmoil of the ambivalent mother figure, but also works as a sensitive study of the diverging perspectives on life in Europe".

The film website kino.de writes, “Zübert, as usual strong in terms of everyday realistic language and natural-looking dialogues, never takes a stand”. It goes on to say: "He does not judge, just observes and you begin to appreciate and understand women equally - in their anger, their sadness and their (un) happiness".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for One Breath . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2015 (PDF; test number: 154 554 K).
  2. ^ One Breath . In: tofilmfest . Retrieved August 28, 2015.
  3. ↑ Sandra Bullock's 'Our Brand Is Crisis,' Robert Redford's 'Truth' to Premiere at Toronto . In: Variety . Retrieved August 28, 2015.
  4. ↑ Ben Kenigsberg: 'One Breath' Review: Christian Zubert's Greek-German drama - Variety . In: Variety . Accessed December 31, 2015.
  5. ↑ TIFF 2015: One Breath . In: Cinema Axis . Accessed December 31, 2015.
  6. ↑ Ben Kenigsberg: 'One Breath' Review: Christian Zubert's Greek-German drama . In: Variety . Retrieved on December 31, 2015: "[...] this high-minded, topical and cumulatively gripping character study could serve as an arthouse breakout for German director Christian Zubert [...]"
  7. ↑ Alexandra Wach: One breath. In: filmdienst.de. Filmdienst , 2/2016, accessed on February 2, 2016 (short review).
  8. ↑ One breath. kino.de , accessed on January 21, 2016 .