An open cage

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Movie
Original title An open cage
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2014
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Johannes Grieser
script Holger Joos
production Oliver Lehmann for Maran Film
music Jens Langbein
camera Jürgen Carle
cut Sabine Garscha
occupation

An open cage ( working title : The open cage) is a psychodrama of director John Grieser from the year 2014. In the lead roles embody Oliver Mommsen and Martin Feifel the two brothers, Robert and George. The latter has committed a criminal offense and Robert is considering whether he should take his brother in with him after he has served his sentence.

action

Georg has been guilty of a number of things: he raped three young women and is therefore considered a sex offender. After serving his imprisonment, he looks for accommodation with his brother Robert, who, as the owner of the car dealership that he took over from his father, is a respected and popular citizen in a small town in Baden.

At first Robert is rather negative about the idea of ​​taking in his criminal brother. Thoughts are circling in his head about what may have happened to his brother, whether he can ever trust him again and whether he can ever be reintegrated into social society at all. Actually, however, he has no alternative, because seeing his brother sleeping on the street is not an option either. Especially since Georg's police interrogations made it clear that he was regularly beaten by his father even in his childhood. Georg does not accept these events in his childhood as an excuse for his own behavior, but for his brother Robert these circumstances are reason enough to not only look to himself for Georg's wrongdoing.

So Georg moves into his domicile in Robert's gazebo, but Robert soon finds himself opposed to the community. First there is his fiancée, whose daughter is the same age as the young women who fell victim to Georg's rapes. Furthermore, resistance from the neighbors forms in front of Robert's house, who chant in chanting that they will not tolerate a woman rapist in their neighborhood.

In Robert inner doubts arise as to whether his decision to take his brother into his home was not the wrong one. After all, almost the entire community is now resisting him and anyway he no longer feels safe in his own house.

But the good-naturedness towards his brother predominates in Robert. Marked by emotional fluctuations and undecided, he tries to get a clear thought. On the one hand, there is his brother, who committed a criminal offense and raped young women, that is out of the question. But Georg shows in places that he himself is afraid of the sex monster that he seems to be carrying. Should one therefore ruin his whole life, sort of outsource him from the community?

Robert continues to stand by his brother, because besides him, Georg has no one left to trust him.

background

The production is based on a real event: In Heinsberg-Randerath , a vigil of concerned citizens guarded a house for weeks in which a rapist who had committed several criminal offenses was staying with his brother and his family.

Production notes

Oliver Lehmann produced the psychodrama for Maran Film , on behalf of SWR and ARD. Peter Bausch was responsible for the production design . Filming began on May 23, 2013 and ended on June 25 of the same year. The film was shot in Baden-Baden .

release date

An open cage was shown for the first time on July 1, 2014 at the Festival of German Films in Ludwigshafen . The first broadcast on German television was on September 10, 2014 on ARD .

Reviews

Volker Bergmeister from Tittelbach.tv thinks it's a shame that: "[...] a lot is predictable in this well-cast film about guilt & atonement, social ostracism & second chance".

The Berlin subscription newspaper Der Tagesspiegel complains that the film sometimes neglects today's reality or is misrepresented. Against the background of the fact that several reporters crowded in front of the house in the real case and that it was subsequently even possible to persuade the real perpetrator Karl D. and his brother and his family to move out of the area not represented in any way in the film. The reactions imaginable today in social networks are also completely disregarded in production.

TV Spielfilm is of the opinion that the production is a “lesson about deeply rooted fears”. The summary of the program guide is: "Depressing social melody, well played".

The criticism of the Süddeutsche Zeitung is downright devastating: there is talk of a failed, fee-financed educational kitsch, and that "[f] ilmisch [...] all of this is completely irrelevant, no dialogue is surprising, no figure is really interesting".

Awards

The screenwriter Holger Joos received the Ludwigshafen Screenplay Prize for the script on which the production An open cage is based .

Audience rating

With 3.72 million viewers, the psychodrama achieved a market share of almost 13%.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c An open cage. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved November 9, 2015 .
  2. ↑ a b "An open cage" on ARD: Second chance for sex offenders? - Media - Tagesspiegel. In: tagesspiegel.de. Retrieved November 9, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b c An open cage - review of the film - Tittelbach.tv. In: tittelbach.tv. Retrieved November 9, 2015 .
  4. ↑ An open cage - film review - film - TV SPIELFILM. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved November 9, 2015 .
  5. ^ ARD film "An open cage" Irrelevant educational kit - Medien - Süddeutsche.de. In: sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved November 9, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Script award for Holger Joos. (No longer available online.) In: festival-des-deutschen-films.de. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved November 9, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.festival-des-deutschen-films.de