Exit Marrakech
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| Original title | Exit Marrakech |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 122 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Caroline Link |
| script | Caroline Link |
| production | Peter Herrmann |
| music | Niki Reiser |
| camera | Bella halves |
| cut | Patricia Rommel |
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Exit Marrakech ( German way out Marrakech ) is a German feature film by Caroline Link . It was released in theaters on October 24, 2013. It was previously shown at the Munich Film Festival , the Toronto International Film Festival , the Festival do Rio and the Zurich Film Festival .
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17-year-old Ben is the son of divorced parents. He has to spend his birthday and summer holidays with his remarried father Heinrich in Marrakech , who works there as a theater director and now lives with his son in a posh hotel. Both show themselves to be very alienated from each other. Ben has diabetes and needs to check his blood sugar levels and inject insulin regularly. He sees the contradiction between the exported European culture and the life of the poor. Two local cultural workers take him on an evening excursion, on which - as always with a skateboard - he falls in love with the prostitute Karima. He drives her spontaneously to her poor family in the country. There, Karima's mother welcomes him with great reserve. In order not to burden the family's honor even more, he is taken to his grandmother's house to sleep. Karima sleeps with Ben when no one is around. When Karima's father and brother return to the village, the brother beats Karima. This fights back and strikes back. The father throws her out of the house. In another city Karima seeks shelter in the prostitute milieu. There she separates from Ben in the middle of the night. He finds a place to sleep. The next day, a local offers himself as a guide and translator who can take him into the desert. Ben descends a dune on sand skis . Downstairs, like his guide, he is taken away by the police.
Ben's father has meanwhile followed him and, with the help of the police and a search report with a photo, finds him in all the newspapers. On the subsequent multi-day trip from the desert to the sea to see Ben's four-year-old half-sister Paula, they spend the night in lonely hotels and eat chicken over and over again. The two get closer, not least - the father is actually more fond of alcohol - by smoking weed together in the evenings . On a desert road, his father lets Ben behind the wheel, who suddenly stops after a wild drive because he feels sick and vomits. He made the rest of the journey, struggling with his nausea, lying on the back seat. During the night Heinrich comes off the road and they tumble down a slope in their car over rocks. Ben climbs back to the street with dwindling strength to seek help for his father trapped in the car. Since his blood sugar has dropped significantly in the meantime, Ben faints in front of an approaching car. Ben and Heinrich are saved and taken to the city's hospital the next day, where Ben is picked up by his mother. The father realizes that he owes his salvation to his son, and they both fall around the neck. Finally, Ben visits his father's new family on the beach to meet his half-sister.
Reviews
"That none of the characters are convincing in their psychology, but that their conflicts and crises are completely predictable at the same time [...]"
“[...] is a story that runs away from itself, from what lurks in it in terms of grief and anger, unresolved accounts and suppressed feelings. And when she finally opens these bills, when she comes to the family thing that has been about from the beginning, it's late, very late in this film. "
Awards
In 2014 , Samuel Schneider won the New Faces Award for best young actor for his portrayal of Ben .
Web links
- Exit Marrakech in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ at the Munich Film Festival ( Memento of the original from November 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ at the Toronto International Film Festival
- ↑ at the Festival do Rio
- ↑ at the Zurich Film Festival
- ^ Hannah Pilarczyk: Cheap summer vacation. Spiegel Online, October 23, 2013, accessed November 10, 2013 .
- ↑ Andreas Kilb: In the desert land of the children of divorce. FAZ.net, October 24, 2013, accessed November 10, 2013 .
