Five stars (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Five stars |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 79 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Annekatrin Hendel |
| script | Annekatrin Hendel |
| production | Holly Tischmann, Michael Kaczmarek |
| camera | Annekatrin Hendel |
| cut | Rune Schweitzer |
| occupation | |
Five Star is a documentary from the year 2017 . Annekatrin Hendel was responsible for the script , direction, camera and sound . The premiere was at the 67th Berlinale in the section “Panorama Documents” in 2017.
Origin of the project
“When Ines was diagnosed in November, it was said that she only had 12 weeks to live. An unimaginable shock. What now? Hospital? Nursing home? I had to think of Udo Lindenberg and the Hotel Atlantic in Hamburg. And then there was the application for the scholarship at the Hotel THE GRAND. So I immediately applied with the idea of quartering Ines there. When it actually worked, I went to the hotel manager and asked if I could bring my girlfriend with me. A week later we moved in there. Ines had survived her first life-extending chemotherapy treatments well, so we could think together about what we were doing there. The idea slowly developed: a photo book and an exhibition of Ines' photographic work. And a film. "
Biography Ines Rastig
“Ines Rastig (January 16, 1965— May 14, 2016) was a Berlin artist with an eventful life who worked as a painter, singer, set designer for impressive performances and as a costume and set designer for film and theater. All of her works are characterized by great imagination, self-confidence, rebellion and individuality. In the last seven years of her life, she developed into a determined loner and concentrated exclusively on photography. She kept both herself and her artistic activities away from the art world with great stubbornness. Ines Rastig insisted on her own sphere of space and time, where everything became an image. Her passion was the obsessively pursued photographic observation and documentation of her surroundings. Whether the close-up of the intimate view of the narrow section of reality of her own life or the distant snapshot in pulsating Berlin - her works are always characterized by great poetry, humor, but also grief and loss. For the last six months the artist lived in the 'Chelsea of the Baltic Sea' - in the Hotel The Grand Ahrenshoop . Here, too, unusual works and complex self-portraits were created, which leave the viewer a lot of freedom of thought. With her untimely death in May 2016, she left behind a large number of photographic works. "
Prices
Five stars was awarded the Heiner Carow Prize at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) . The jury's reasoning:
“Making a film normally requires intensive preparation and adequate funding. If these conditions are not met, it will be a journey into the unknown. But the opportunity lies in this crisis. Realized in a very small space and time limited by illness, the film addresses friendship and balances relationships. A cinematic experiment. It's good if there is the courage and the opportunity to experiment. "
Press reviews
“Documentary cinema has pushed the boundaries of intimacy ever further back, there are now hardly any taboos, and yet Five Stars leaves an ambivalent impression, not least because Ines Rastig can no longer comment on it. This film is undoubtedly the testimony to a friendship, the uneasiness perhaps mainly comes from the fact that life has brought this friendship into such a radical imbalance, and that Annekatrin Hendel made precisely this imbalance into the form of her film. "
“Two women, Hendel and Kerstin Rastig (photographer, painter and production designer), and a hotel room in Ahrenshoop. A friendship that also has to do with a country that no longer exists. A life shortly before its end - Rastig, who was suffering from cancer, died shortly after the shooting was over - and a biography that is about failure. And about the fact that maybe it doesn't matter and a 'balance sheet' cannot be drawn as long as the sea is still outside and the sky and you laugh together. "
THE GRAND scholarship
The film was funded by the Hotel THE GRAND , Ahrenshoop, which awarded a grant for this purpose for the first time in 2016. As part of this scholarship, two one-month stays for artists were awarded free of charge.
Web links
- Five star website for the film
- Five stars in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for five stars . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 164342 / K).
- ↑ film data sheet Five Star sS berlinale.de
- ↑ Five stars sS fuenfsterne-film.de
- ↑ Five stars sS salzgeber.de
- ↑ Ines Rastig Photography (exhibition) sS itworksmedien.com
- ↑ Heiner Carow Prize 2017 awarded to Annekatrin Hendel for FIVE STARS sS defa-stiftung.de
- ↑ How THE GRAND became the location, see the-grand.de, accessed on March 22, 2018.