Wetlands (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Wetlands |
| Country of production | Germany , Spain |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | David F. Wnendt |
| script |
Claus Falkenberg , David F. Wnendt |
| production | Peter Rommel |
| music | Enis Rotthoff |
| camera | Jakub Bejnarowicz |
| cut | Andreas Wodraschke |
| occupation | |
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Wetlands is a film adaptation of the novel Wetlands by Charlotte Roche . The film had its world premiere on August 11, 2013 in the competition at the Locarno Film Festival ; the German theatrical release was on August 22, 2013 in Majestic Filmverleih . With almost a million viewers, it was one of the most successful German films of the year.
action
The 18-year-old Helen Memel lives with her younger brother as a child of divorce with her mother. She has an unusually intense relationship with her body, which she finds completely normal, although she is aware that she is violating social taboos. For example, she licks her vaginal fluid off her finger, practices masturbation with vegetables, loves oral sex and considers personal hygiene to be overrated.
She has long since become estranged from her mother, but made friends with her neighbor, Corinna, who she conveys her relaxed relationship to physicality and sexuality.
If her intimate shave is not done carefully , Helen tears an anal fissure , is hospitalized as an emergency and operated on immediately. She deliberately delayed her recovery - on the one hand to develop a relationship with her carer Robin, on the other hand to force her parents to make up at their sick bed. However, she is finally released and drives together with Robin to his apartment.
background
The Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg funded the development of a script for the film with 36,000 euros. The production ran from 2010 to 2012 under the title "Memelland".
It was filmed on 37 days of shooting in Berlin and Mallorca.
The film had its world premiere in August 2013 at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland. The Majestic Filmverleih brought the film to German cinemas on August 22, 2013.
The author of the literary source, Charlotte Roche , was involved in the early stages of production: She selected the producer of the film and read the script in an early version. According to the director, she stayed out of further development.
The audio description of the film was spoken by Andreas Sparberg and was nominated for the German audio film award in the cinema category in 2014 .
In 2013, 937,647 visitors were counted at the German box office nationwide, making the film the 36th place of the most visited films of the year.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack was provided by newcomer Ezra de Zeus and lead actor Christoph Letkowski with his indie band Von Eden .
Web links
- Official website
- Wetlands in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Wetlands at filmportal.de
- Wetlands at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ Approval certificate for wetlands . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2013 (PDF; test number: 139 377 K).
- ↑ Thomas Zimmer: Wetlands is a competition entry at the Locarno Film Festival. In: Serienjunkies.de . July 17, 2013, accessed June 10, 2019 .
- ^ "Wetlands" as a film It will be disgusting and explicit , stern.de, June 19, 2013
- ^ "Wetlands" movie - the five most disgusting facts , joy.de
- ↑ a b What you wanted: Münster's cinema year 2013, KINOaktuell, C. Lou Lloyd, Filminfo No. 4, 23. – 29. January 2014, p. 24 f.
- ↑ News archive , medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, November 19, 2012, accessed on November 5, 2015
- ↑ Interview with the director , welt.de, accessed on August 13, 2013
- ↑ wetlands in the Hörfilm database of Hörfilm e. V.
- ↑ 12th German Audio Film Award 2014
- ↑ Wetlands Press Release - Majestic Filmverleih