The day will come
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The day will come |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German , French |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 104 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Susanne Schneider |
| script | Susanne Schneider |
| production | Desert film production |
| music |
Andreas Schäfer Beaver Gullatz |
| camera | Jens Harant |
| cut | Jens Klüber |
| occupation | |
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The day will come is a German feature film from 2009. It deals with the RAF - terrorism on the basis of a current conflict a sought for former terrorist operation mother and her daughter who gave away this when she went into hiding.
action
Alice, a journalist in her thirties, travels to France in a car with her friend Mo. Surprisingly, she leaves him in a freeway parking lot and drives on alone. In the evening Alice stages a car accident and asks for accommodation in a small winery with a guesthouse under a false name. The owners are not enthusiastic about their arrival because they wanted to stop operating as a guest. In truth, she is the daughter of the winery owner Judith. Alice was given up for adoption by Judith when she was two years old for engaging in radical left-wing crimes and going underground. In the meantime Judith has built up a middle-class life in Alsace . She married a French man and had two children, a boy and a girl, who are already young. She is involved in a citizens' initiative against GM maize and was recently photographed in this context. Alice got hold of this photo in her German newspaper office and recognized her mother, whose picture she had seen from old wanted posters.
Judith doesn't recognize her daughter until the next few days, and the tensions between Alice and Judith erupt into a loud argument. Alice questions Judith's ideals and accuses Judith of being a criminal. Judith's children will soon find out who the guest really is. Alice receives support and some family life from her half-brother. However, the conflict between mother and daughter is not over yet. Her brother accidentally discovers the mug shots of his mother that Alice brought with her. This tells the whole family the true story of Judith. To raise funds for the radical left organization, Judith took part in a bank robbery and shot a man in the process. Even Judith's husband is now shaken; he thought he knew everything about Judith's past beforehand.
Alice drives back to Germany with her mother, who had previously repaired the car. Judith complies with the daughter's will that she should face the German police. But shortly before the border, Judith is so bad that Alice stops the car. She forgives her mother and leaves her at a border bridge.
background
There comes the day was created as part of the SWR series debut in the third . The film was funded by the Baden-Württemberg Media and Film Company , the North Rhine-Westphalia Film Foundation and the French authorities for the Alsace Region and Strasbourg City Association . The shooting took place in April and May 2008 in Baden-Württemberg and Alsace. The final scene takes place at the Iffezheim barrage .
criticism
"In its predictable dramaturgy, the film does not do justice to the political dimensions of the subject, but thanks to its convincing actresses it is still an exciting portrait of a simmering generation conflict."
Awards
Susanne Schneider's book won the Thomas Strittmatter Screenplay Prize in 2008 . The film was nominated at the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival in 2009 for the MFG Star Director's Young Talent Award. For her role as daughter, Katharina Schüttler received the Bavarian Film Prize in 2009 in the category of best young actress . The day comes , received a nomination for the Adolf Grimme Prize 2011.
Web links
- The day will come in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The day comes at filmportal.de
- Women's talk - Interview of the time about the film with Iris Berben and Katharina Schüttler
Individual evidence
- ↑ The day comes in the Lexicon of International Films