Window to summer
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Window to summer |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hendrik Handloegten |
| script | Hendrik Handloegten Hannelore Valencak |
| production |
Anne Even Marika Köpf Liisa Penttilä Lucas Schmidt Andreas Schreitmüller |
| music | Timo Hietala |
| camera | Peter Przybylski |
| cut | Elena Bromund |
| occupation | |
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Fenster zum Sommer is a German feature film from 2011 with Nina Hoss in the leading role. Directed by Hendrik Handloegten . The drama takes place in Germany and Finland . Since the leading actress experiences a leap in time, it contains fantastic elements.
The film is based on the novel Refuge Behind the Time by the Austrian writer Hannelore Valencak , which appeared in 1967 and was reissued ten years later under the title Das Fenster zum Sommer .
action
It's summer and the translator for technical documentation , Juliane , is on her way to visit her father every year with her new love August in Finland. You take a break at a lake and enjoy the time together. In the evening, the couple falls asleep together in their car. Before that, Juliane remembers her best friend Emily , who died in front of her eyes in a traffic accident in Berlin . She feels guilty about the accident because she had a date with Emily and she was run over on the way to the meeting point.
The next morning Juliane wakes up unexpectedly in Berlin. It's winter, she is back in her old relationship with her boss Philipp . Time has turned back half a year and only Juliane knows about it. At first she is irritated and thinks she is in a bad dream. However, when viewing an apartment with Philipp , she can remember full dialogues between the realtor and Philipp before the two have finished their conversation. Realizing that she is in her own past, she wonders if she can change the things that are about to happen. And she is waiting for May 12th, the day when they meet August and he will fall in love with her. But this is also the day Emily was run over.
In the meantime, she tries to help Emily . This rushes from one unhappy relationship to the next. One evening she has another date with a man. Since she is a single parent , she asks Juliane to take care of her son Otto . He doesn't want to fall asleep before Juliane has told him a bedtime story. Juliane talks about her current situation, but lets Otto believe that this happened in her own, imaginative childhood. She also tells him that she has been waiting for a very special day (the aforementioned May 12th), because on that day her father would return to her and her family after a long absence. She would have been looking forward to this day because her father had promised her that he would take her to the Tivoli amusement park . She tells Otto about the "compulsion" to do everything again exactly as it has already happened so that the desired event occurs. However, Otto is of the opinion that Juliane could do anything she wanted up to this date. Because if she was certain that the event would happen anyway, it wouldn't matter what she did up to that point. The only thing she shouldn't argue with her father until then. Juliane leaves the end of the story open and promises to tell it next time.
After an argument with Philipp, Juliane moves out of the shared apartment and takes a hotel room. She writes a letter to August in which she reveals herself to him and provides detailed information about his preferences and wishes in order to give her letter more credibility. She asks him to meet at a restaurant and hopes he will recognize her. When she waits for him at the counter, however, she finds out that his partner has intercepted the letter and Coram publico is making a scene for him. After she left the restaurant, Juliane followed August to another bar. There he spoke to her and the two of them spent an exuberant evening during which Juliane told him about her regular trips to see her father in Finland. August is fascinated by Juliane and her work as a translator. He regrets that he can only speak one sentence in Finnish , but that he does not know its meaning: "Ei arka mies saa kaunista akkaa". Juliane whispers the translation in his ear: “A shy man doesn't get a beautiful wife”.
After a passionate night, August leaves the stranger and Juliane is again alone with her worries. She decides not to force any more meetings with August , but to wait for the day when he will fall in love with her. There is another argument with Philipp , the outcome of which she can also predict. Philipp finds it difficult to deal with the situation and the relationship is about to end. Juliane , too, is completely exhausted from her efforts to do everything exactly as it has happened before and suffers a breakdown. She is taken to a hospital and has her mental state examined. However, since the doctors cannot diagnose any illness, she is discharged. Philipp wants to pick her up, but Juliane prefers to move in with Emily temporarily in order to escape the situation. Before that, she quit her job.
Meanwhile, Emily is newly in love and wants to celebrate Otto's birthday with her new relationship . She is undecided with what to please Otto . Juliane suggests that the three of them go to Copenhagen and visit Tivoli, and makes her an offer to finance the trip. She wants to prevent Emily from being in town on the day of her likely accident. Emily wants to discuss this with her new boyfriend.
On Juliane's long-awaited day, May 12th, she first prepares to do everything again to meet August . Suddenly calls Emily dissolved Juliane on. Her new boyfriend does not agree with the short vacation and she will therefore stay in Berlin. Juliane tries to stop Emily from moving around the city and asks to meet near Alexanderplatz , where Emily is now. However, she insists on meeting at a specific café, the meeting point in front of which the accident happened.
On the way there, Juliane first takes the tram to meet August again - just as it already happened in the future. The meeting, however, does not proceed as in Julian's memory. August does not notice her and so she quickly leaves the tram in order to take a taxi to the meeting point with Emily more quickly and to prevent the accident. August recognizes the stranger, but can no longer follow her.
While Juliane is still cheering the taxi driver on to drive faster, she suddenly realizes that it is the man who hit Emily . She yells at him to stop. Thereupon, with an emergency stop just before a passerby, he gets the taxi to stop. Juliane recognizes the passerby - it's Emily and the spell seems broken. Since the Tivoli visit was over, they pick up Otto together and go to a fun pool.
But just a few hours later, Emily actually dies in a car accident. Juliane picks Otto up from school and the two travel to their father in Finland to get some distance. On the way there, she meets August on the ferry , who has been commuting between Germany and Finland for days in the hope of seeing her again. The two are now united and go to Julian's father with Otto .
criticism
“The science fiction scenario in Fenster zum Sommer is a mere mental game - the biggest special effect is the weather, the magical light of the Finnish midsummer nights , and in contrast the frosty gray of the Berlin February days, the discreetly confusing siren sounds of the soundtrack by Timo Hietala conjure up the inexplicable. Handloegten confidently juggles flashbacks and memories, with different film materials and lighting conditions.
Between facts and premonitions, between brutal evidence and fragile fleetingness, he keeps his film in suspension, here the crash of an accident that brings death, there the fleeting contact in a crowded tram that is the beginning of a great love. And then Juliane has to understand that there can also be the wrong moment for real love: She tries in vain to attract the attention of the unsuspecting man, whom she knows she loves. If the time is not right, two people can walk past each other a hundred times without being recognized. It's all a question of the magic of the moment. "
"Puzzling love story about the interweaving of fate and feelings and the hope of a second chance."
Nominations
As part of the German Film Prize in 2012, Fenster zum Sommer received three nominations in the categories of Best Camera / Image Design for Peter Przybylski , Best Film Music for Timo Hietala and Best Acting Performance in a Supporting Female Role for Fritzi Haberlandt .
Web links
- Summer Window in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Window to summer in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for windows in summer . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2011 (PDF; test number: 129 016 K).
- ↑ Ethereal and mysterious. In: sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved March 6, 2013 .
- ↑ Window to Summer. In: kino.de. Retrieved March 6, 2013 .