End time (2018)

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Movie
Original title End time
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2018
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Carolina Hellsgård
script Olivia Vieweg
production Ingelore King
music Franziska Henke
camera Leah Striker
cut Ruth Schönegge
Julia Oehring
occupation

End Times is a zombie horror film by Carolina Hellsgård , which celebrated its world premiere on September 7, 2018 as part of the Toronto International Film Festival . The film is based on the comic of the same name by Olivia Vieweg , which she also adapted for the film. In the form of a dystopia , the film tells of a post-apocalyptic world in which humanity was overrun by zombies and in which Weimar and Jena are probably the last places of human civilization thanks to a protective fence. On January 16, 2019, the film was shown for the first time in Germany at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival . It was released in German cinemas on August 22, 2019.

action

Two years after zombies overran the earth, Weimar and Jena are probably the last places of human civilization thanks to shelters. There is a strict regime behind the walls of the shelters. Restrictions on personal freedom cause problems for some residents.

When 22-year-old Vivi and 26-year-old Eva find themselves defenseless in the open between the cities, they have to take up the fight against the undead together. Vivi blames herself for not having saved her little sister. Eva has made a name for herself as a tough zombie killer. You will witness a great transformation in which the nature of the greedy person gets rid of itself as a fault in the system. On their journey together through the wilderness, they meet u. a. a mysterious gardener, half man, half plant, who has created a small, peaceful paradise for herself.

production

Original and staff

The film is based on the comic of the same name by Olivia Vieweg , which she also adapted for the film. The 72-page comic was created in 2011 as a diploma thesis for the Bauhaus University and appeared in 2012, initially re-assembled on 46 pages in larger A4 format and mirrored in Japanese reading direction in three sequels in the Comix magazine, and in the same year in the original form as a book at Schwarzer Turm .

The film was directed by Carolina Hellsgård . It is her second film after her highly acclaimed debut Vanya . Michael Meyns from the Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater remarked in his review that in the finished film you can see that Vieweg, who also wrote the script, has no experience whatsoever with this subject. The story begins bumpy, then the parameters are briefly established and the threat suggested. It was only when Vivi and Eva wander around alone in no man's land that the end of time found its real core and the actual themes of the film became clear, according to Meyns: “A new form of living being embodies this mixture of humans and plants, a harmony that, or so it seems at least to be suggested might be the solution to the problems. It's a shame that these ideas are not being explored any further, but will soon give way to the well-worn patterns of zombie films . ”Hellsgård ultimately turned her film, which is basically a genre film, into a hybrid being.

The film is a ZDF / ARTE co-production with Grown Up Films. The responsible editors were Christian Cloos for ZDF / Das kleine Fernsehspiel, Doris Hepp for ZDF / ARTE and Birgit Kämper for ARTE. Endzeit received funding for young talent from the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung in the amount of 450,000 euros, project film funding from the German Film Fund of 331,900 euros and production funding of 500,000 euros from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media .

One of the locations: the Leibis-Lichte dam in Thuringia

Endzeit is the first film in this genre, from the main characters to the director, script, production, camera, soundtrack, editing, production design and mask in female hands.

Cast and filming

The main roles Eva and Vivi were cast with the actresses Maja Lehrer and Gro Swantje Kohlhof . Trine Dyrholm plays a woman who looks like a mixture of people and plants. Yûho Yamashita , Barbara Philipp and Marco Albrecht can also be seen in other roles .

Filming began on August 1, 2017 and ended on September 7, 2017 after 28 days of shooting. The filming locations include the two locations Jena and Weimar , as well as Heldrungen and the Leibis-Lichte dam in Thuringia and the Saxon Kirchberg. Leah Striker was the camerawoman .

Marketing and Publishing

The film premiered on September 7, 2018 as part of the Toronto International Film Festival and is to be shown both in the small television game on ZDF and on ARTE. The broadcast dates have not yet been set. Picture Tree International secured the international sales rights. On January 16, 2019, the film was shown for the first time in Germany at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival. In June 2019 a screening took place at the Edinburgh International Film Festival , in July 2019 at the Galway Film Fleadh. The cinema release in Germany took place on August 22, 2019.

reception

Age rating and film genre

In Germany, the film was approved by the FSK from the age of 16. The reason for the release states that the film combines genre-typical elements of the zombie film with ecological approaches and has numerous dramatic and drastic moments that are never played out speculatively. Nevertheless, the gloomy setting and the depictions of violence could overwhelm young people under the age of 16. The two protagonists were suitable as figures of identification and, despite all the horror, ultimately experienced a positive personal development.

Ulrich Kriest from the film service writes that it becomes clear that the director Carolina Hellsgård and the script and comic book author Olivia Vieweg do have fun staging the bloody genre clichés, but they only put the permanent threat from the undead as a " basso continuo “The plot to turn to more interesting things and enable the two very different protagonists to initiate the“ buddy complex ”.

Christian Horn from the online portal kinofenster.de writes that ultimately Hellsgård is turning the clearly defined horror subgenre into a comparatively bloodless coming-of-age story , with the protagonists struggling more with internal rather than external problems. Some ideas like the esoteric “gardener” are mixed, while others enriched the eschatological youth drama, according to Horn.

Reviews

The film has so far received approval from 87 percent of Rotten Tomatoes critics .

Michael Meyns from the Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater writes that the attempt to shape different genres into a feminist whole can only convince to a limited extent, however impressive the images of a dystopian Germany are. Zombie films are a dime a dozen, according to Meyns, the rules and patterns of the genre are known and do not have to be explained in a complicated manner, and Carolina Hellsgård also uses this pattern . Overall, the film is much less a zombie horror film than a mystical and fantastic film, and similar to the newly created form of life in the film, a mixture of man and plant, Hellsgård's film is also a hybrid being: “In the approach a genre film, but it is more wants to be, is also in its best moments, but in the end tries to combine different approaches somewhat unsatisfactorily. "

Use in school lessons

The online portal kinofenster.de recommends Endzeit for the subjects German , media education, ethics , biology and art and offers materials for the film for the classroom. Christian Horn writes that the budding friendship of the unequal women and the ecological aspects offer food for thought.

Awards

Max Ophüls Prize 2019

Tankred Dorst Screenplay Award 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for end times . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 190300 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ a b Michael Meyns: End Times. In: programmkino.de. Retrieved August 18, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b c Start of shooting for ZDF / ARTE co-production “Endzeit”. In: zdf.de, August 3, 2017.
  4. ↑ https://www.presseportal.de/pm/7840/3700471
  5. ↑ World premiere for Carolina Hellsgard's genre film “Endzeit”. In: Frankfurter Neue Presse, September 8, 2018.
  6. ↑ Barbara Schuster: “End times” at Picture Tree on sale. In: Blickpunkt: Film, August 31, 2018.
  7. ^ Program of the Edinburgh International Film Festival . Retrieved May 30, 2019 (PDF; 83.8 MB)
  8. ↑ German Film & Co-Productions at Edinburgh 2019. In: german-films.de, May 29, 2019.
  9. ^ 31st Galway Film Fleadh program. (PDF; 14.6 MB)
  10. ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
  11. ↑ Reason for release for end time . In: Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry. Retrieved August 22, 2019.
  12. ^ Ulrich Kriest: End Times. In: filmdienst.de. Retrieved August 18, 2019.
  13. ↑ a b Christian Horn: End Times. In: kinofenster.de, August 21, 2019.
  14. ↑ Ever After. In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 20, 2019. Note: The Tomatometer is the percentage of Rotten Tomatoes Approved Critics who gave the film a positive rating.
  15. ↑ http://www.comicforum.de/showthread.php?147702-Tankred-Dorst-Drehbuchpreis-f%FCr-Olivia-Vieweg