The spoken word counts (film)

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Movie
Original title The spoken word is valid
Country of production Germany , France
original language German , English , Turkish , French
Publishing year 2019
length 122 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director İlker Çatak
script Nils Mohl , İlker Çatak
production Ingo Fliess
music Marvin Miller
camera Florian Mag
cut Jan Ruschke , Sascha Gerlach
occupation

The spoken word applies is a Franco-German film drama by İlker Çatak , which was released in German cinemas on August 1, 2019.

action

When the pilot Marion meets the Kurdish male prostitute Baran in Turkey , a flirtation develops between the two. Because Baran wanted to escape his poor circumstances, he persuaded Marion to take him to Germany. Marion, who is in the midst of a crisis of life and meaning and has to digest a cancer diagnosis, enables him a future in Europe through a marriage of convenience . However, the "deal" that the two made cannot be sustained for long.

production

Directed by İlker Çatak , who also wrote the script together with Nils Mohl .

The film received production funding of 300,000 euros from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media , 180,000 euros from the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern plus project development funding of 35,000 euros and from the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Film Funding 500,000 euros plus distribution funding of 50,000 euros. In addition, the Franco-German Funding Commission granted project film funding of 220,000 euros.

The shooting took place between September 18 and November 11, 2018 in Hamburg and Turkey . Florian Mag acted as cameraman .

The film celebrated its world premiere on June 28, 2019 as part of the Munich Film Festival . The film was released in German cinemas on August 1, 2019. At the end of August 2019 it will be presented at the Festival of German Films .

reception

Age ratings and reviews

In Germany, the film was approved by the FSK from the age of 12. The statement of reasons for release states that children and young people from the age of 12 could easily follow the story and deal with the sensitively staged conflicts and problems without being overwhelmed: “At the beginning of the film, the everyday life of male prostitutes in Turkey is shown very clearly and intensely . These scenes can be a certain challenge for young people from the age of 12. "

Christian Horn from the Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater writes that the unusual romance is largely due to the fabulous ensemble. Anne Ratte-Polle and the newcomer Oğulcan Arman Uslu harmonized very well as an actually completely different couple, who have different views, especially with regard to emancipation, and finally come together. The supporting roles were also heavily cast with character mimes such as Godehard Giese , Jörg Schüttauf and Sebastian Urzendowsky , Horn continued, whereby the often immobile shots, the calm narrative flow and the renouncement of small-scale dialogues brought the performance to the fore.

Manfred Riepe from epd Film remarks that İlker Çatak gets tangled here and there , for example when secondary characters in this integrative love story act as examples of a welcoming culture. How one assesses the film depends on whether one can understand the reasons for which Marion brought the young Turk to Germany. The fact that this self-determined, independent woman takes a younger lover is understandable in and of itself, especially since Anne Ratte-Polle repeatedly sets dramatic accents in this role that are worth seeing. In contrast, it appears constructed that the self-development of this sympathetic and at the same time broken figure is linked to the politically charged topic of migration .

In a review in the Dresdner Neuesten Nachrichten it is said that Anne Ratte-Polle embodies this self-confident woman, who does not like to be looked at in the cards, with a downright radiant, personal integrity. With great sensitivity and without melodramatic poses, Çatak explores the love and power relations in the unequal relationship. In doing so, he repeatedly undermines the expectations shaped by stereotypes : “The cliché of the tough career woman is deconstructed here as well as that of the migrant in need. The two struggle to meet at eye level. People enjoy watching and are interested because the film - contrary to what its title suggests - tells about it less in sophisticated dialogues than about emotions that unfold in looks, postures or the timbre of what is said. "

Awards

Bavarian Film Award 2020

German Film Award 2020

Festival of German Film 2019

  • Ludwigshafen Film Art Prize - Honorable Mention

Munich Film Festival 2019

Five Lakes Film Festival 2019

  • Awarded the DACHS script award (Nils Mohl)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for The spoken word counts . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 190543 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
  3. ↑ The spoken word counts. In: festival-des-deutschen-films.de. Retrieved July 18, 2019.
  4. ↑ https://www.spio-fsk.de/?seitid=2737&tid=469&Vers=1&FGID=5138
  5. ↑ Christian Horn: The spoken word counts. In: programmkino.de. Retrieved July 27, 2019.
  6. ↑ https://www.epd-film.de/filmkritiken/es-gilt-das-gesobene-wort
  7. ↑ Film review of "The spoken word applies" - drama about a marriage of convenience. In: Dresdner Latest News, July 31, 2019.
  8. ↑ Prize winners 2020 . In: deutscher-filmpreis.de (accessed April 25, 2020).
  9. ^ The winners 2019 - Festival of German Films Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Retrieved September 10, 2019 .
  10. ↑ https://www.bavaria-film.de/newsroom/foerderpreis-neues-deutsches-kino-es-gilt-das-gesittene-wort-ueberzeugt-doppel
  11. ↑ Jochen Müller: Nils Mohl wins DACHS script award. In: Blickpunkt: Film . September 9, 2019, accessed September 10, 2019 .