Darkworld
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Darkworld |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Frauke Finsterwalder |
| script |
Christian Kracht , Frauke Finsterwalder |
| production |
Tobias Walker , Philipp Worm |
| music | Michaela Melián |
| camera | Markus Förderer |
| cut | Andreas Menn |
| occupation | |
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Finsterworld is a German feature film by Frauke Finsterwalder from 2013. Finsterwalder wrote the screenplay together with her husband, the Swiss author Christian Kracht .
action
The film accompanies twelve people in several storylines, some of which are interwoven.
A hermit lives in a small hut in a forest. At the beginning of the film he finds an injured raven, which he nurses to health. When he returns from a walk through the forest, he finds his hut devastated, the furnishings scattered on the ground, the raven dead. He digs his rifle out of a hiding place and aims at cars on the nearby road. He accidentally shoots Dominik who is sitting in the car with Maximilian's parents.
The podiatrist Claude Petersdorf is stopped at the wheel by the policeman Tom for making a phone call. To avoid his driving license being withdrawn, he bribes Tom with foot care products. His friend Franziska works as a documentary filmmaker, but is extremely dissatisfied with her job at a television station. She doesn't know that Tom has a secret passion for animal costumes and that he meets like-minded people at furry conventions. In the specialty shop of a fur trader he admires a fur that he cannot afford. When Tom surprises his girlfriend with his costume after an argument, she becomes hysterical. At the end of the film you see Franziska in Africa, presumably with the aim of making a documentary of the kind that she previously criticized Tom. Tom himself finds himself in costume on a park bench in the last scene of the film. A girl (possibly the same one Franziska wanted to protect from other children) sits down next to him and leans against him. He has apparently got his wish for more human closeness.
Claude regularly visits 85-year-old Mrs. Sandberg in the old people's home to take care of her feet. He collects the removed calluses in a cloth he has brought with him and then bakes them in biscuits in his kitchen. He brings the biscuits to Ms. Sandberg every time he visits. When Mrs. Sandberg, who is Maximilian's grandmother and Georg's mother, in her loneliness (because both son and grandson neglect them) asks Claude for a visit, this visit leads to tenderness and Claude reveals both his foot fetish and his secret ones Baking recipes.
The private students Natalie, Dominik, Maximilian and Jonas take their class on a trip to a concentration camp memorial. Your teacher, Mr Nickel, tries unsuccessfully in the coach to get the students in the mood for the topic of the visit. The sensitive Dominik is in love with Natalie, but has to watch in a motorway service station as she kisses Maximilian. As a result, Dominik does not get back on the bus and tries to hitchhike home. In the process, he runs into Maximilian's parents Georg and Inga, who are traveling in a rental car - a huge SUV . The jealous Georg thinks Dominik is a "spanner" because he happened to be nearby when Inga was relieving herself in a field and beats him up. At Inga's insistence, the two take the boy with them. In the course of the journey, the three of them begin to talk animatedly about “typically German” sensitivities. They also discover their connection through Maximilian. After Dominik's death, they visit their grandmother with their son, but her room is empty and the carer says she is “no longer with us”. Everyone thinks that Mrs. Sandberg died, but she moved in with Claude.
In the concentration camp memorial, Natalie is locked in a crematorium by Maximilian and his friend Jonas. The teacher frees her and tries to calm the screaming and trembling girl. Her blouse tears. The rushing classmates and employees of the memorial believe that they have caught Mr. Nickel attempting rape; Natalie also believes, ultimately through Maximilian's influence, that the teacher locked her there. Like the hermit, Mr. Nickel ends up in prison.
The film contains a chain of events and also of guilt. Through Natalie's and Maximilian's kiss, Dominik finally gets into Inga and Georg's car and is accidentally shot by the hermit. This event also causes Natalie to get caught in the oven (because with Dominik by her side that would probably not have happened to her) and the teacher is wrongly convicted. It remains unclear who destroyed the hermit's hut.
background
The film was produced by the Munich film production company Walker + Worm Film . The premiere was on July 2, 2013 at the Munich Film Festival . The German theatrical release took place on October 17, 2013. In Austria the film opened in theaters on January 10, 2014, in Switzerland on March 18, 2014.
The opening scene of the film is accompanied by Cat Stevens' song The Wind .
Reviews
“It's rarely dark in this gently over-the-top, top-class ensemble film. [...] Finsterwalder's dark world works more like a modern fairy tale in which someone has shifted the parameters of good and bad. Uniform and shaggy fur, the wild and the ordinary: Finsterworld revolves around very German obsessions in more or less bizarre episodes - and ultimately dreams of the impossible return to innocence. "
“Just as Kracht crossed the republic from north to south in Fibersland , Finsterworld draws a cross-section through the German state of mind, along all generations, neither representative nor exemplary, but with a feel for the sound of the country, which lies between absurdity and sarcasm oscillates [...], between embarrassing comfort and overly politically correct compulsion to come to terms with the past, in short: the screen is transformed into a mirror that deliberately distorts, but only thereby reveals the true face. Pretty cruel and cruelly beautiful. "
“One cannot attribute any coincidences to Kracht's shrewd writing and the unobtrusive illustration of Finsterwalder. After all, all figures are mirror figures of the author-director duo. This is particularly clear with the television documentary filmmaker played by Sandra Hüller: When she struggles to film a Hartz-4 recipient eating canned spaghetti, some of the socially realistic clichés that a German film could produce are presented in a striking way. "
Awards
- Bronze Zenith for the best debut film
- Golden eye for the best German-language feature film
- Swiss Film Critics' Prize
- TV Feature Film Award
Edinburgh International Film Festival
- Best female director
- Best Screenplay 2013
German Director Award Metropolis
- Frauke Finsterwalder for the best debut film
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) awarded the film the title “particularly valuable” .
literature
- Frauke Finsterwalder, Christian Kracht: Finsterworld . With contributions by Dominik Graf , Michaela Krützen and Oliver Jahraus . Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013 ISBN 978-3-596-18690-7 .
Web links
- Finsterworld in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Finsterworld at filmportal.de (with trailer and photo gallery)
- Official page for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Finsterworld . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , September 2013 (PDF; test number: 140 688 K).
- ↑ Finsterworld ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the Munich Film Festival. Retrieved October 7, 2013.
- ↑ Florian Keller: Carla Juri sticks her head in the oven. Tagesanzeiger.ch, September 29, 2013, accessed on October 7, 2013 .
- ^ Carsten Happe: Finsterworld - sound structures. filmgazette.de, accessed on October 7, 2013 .
- ^ Regina Karl: film review. Critic.de, accessed on October 16, 2013 .
- ↑ Finsterworld German Film and Media Rating, accessed on October 14, 2013
