Something will happen

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Movie
Original title Something will happen
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2003
length 15 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Roland Gießer
script Roland Gießer
production Michel Morales (producer),
Roland Lippoldmüller (production manager)
music Fabian Römer
camera Matthias Fuchs
cut Melania Singer
occupation

Supporting roles:

Something will happen (English titles: Something Will Be Done and Action Will Be Taken ) is a German short film by Roland Gießer from 2003 with Rufus Beck in the leading role of "Benno". The film is a literary adaptation of the short story of the same name by the writer and Nobel Prize winner Heinrich Böll from 1956 (for the short story see web link).

action

Benno, by nature "... more inclined to think and to do nothing than to work ..." is forced to accept a permanent position in Alfred Wunsiedel's factory selected through the employment agency due to permanent financial bottlenecks.

Benno, who already saw through the "game" during the selection process for the position and played along with exaggeratedly positive responses in the spirit of the plant management, got the position and dutifully played the role of the model employee. The permanent credo of the factory owner is “Something has to happen!”, To which the workforce always replies, as prescribed by Wunsiedel, with “Something will happen!”.

After Benno's little argument with the director, something happens: Wunsiedel falls and dies in a row. The always thoughtful Benno is chosen by the other factory workers to give their funeral march a face worthy of mourning and to run after Wunsiedel's coffin with a wreath of artificial roses. The play of this role convinced the found funeral director to such an extent that he made him the offer to work as a professional mourner. Benno announced his job at the factory, took the job and discovered his true calling in this less demanding job.

General

The script was written by Roland Gießer, who also took over the direction. For the film adaptation in 1999 he received a grant from the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern in the amount of 90,000  DM .

The film version was produced by the Shark Entertainment GmbH (now Aviv Pictures GmbH producer) Michel Morales , the production line was incumbent Roland Lippold. The production was supported by ARRI Digitalfilm , the Munich camera rental company FGV Schmidle GmbH and the Grünwalder sound studio Sound Shop Michael Stecher (SoundShopMix).

The film music was composed by the Swiss film composer Fabian Römer . He orchestrated the film music for the Leipzig Radio Wind Orchestra ; The conductor for the recordings was Markus Römer. Fabian Römer later apologized to the members of the wind orchestra with the words "... it was humiliating to have to play so wrongly ...".

Performances and publication

The 35 mm color short film premiered on November 1, 2003 at the Biberach Film Festival . It was also shown at the exground film festival in the Wiesbaden Caligari FilmBühne and as part of the Regensburg Short Film Week .

He was awarded the Murnau Short Film Prize 2004 by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation in Wiesbaden .

In 2007 the film was distributed by the FWU Institute for Film and Image in Science and Education in Grünwald for educational institutions as a package with VHS cassette and DVD / DVD-ROM with selectable teaching material by Paul Bartsch.

literature

  • Heinrich Böll: Something will happen. Booklet for school and instruction on DVD, FWU Institute for Film and Image in Science and Education, Grünwald 2007. ( pdf )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. All FFF funded projects 1996–2006. In: 10 Years of FilmFernsehFonds Bayern 1996–2006. FFF Bayern, 2006, SV
  2. Something will happen - the music. In: Fabian Römer composes 15th in the series Edition Filmmusik - Composed in Germany Booklet for CD, Filmdienst , p. 12. (pdf) ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link became automatic used and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.filmdienst.de
  3. see the web link to the entry at the AG Kurzfilm
  4. 11th Short Film Prize Winner 2004. Murnau Foundation; accessed on September 7, 2017.
  5. see references