Flying fish have to go into the sea
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Flying fish have to go into the sea |
| Country of production |
Switzerland , Germany |
| original language |
German , Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK / JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Güzin Kar |
| script | Güzin Kar |
| production |
Dietmar Güntsche , Ruth Waldburger |
| music | Fabian Römer |
| camera | Benjamin Dernbecher |
| cut | Benjamin Fueter |
| occupation | |
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Flying fish have to go into the sea (alternatively also flying fish ) is a Swiss film from 2011. Directed by Güzin Kar , who also wrote the screenplay.
action
In a small town on the Rhine, 15-year-old Nana looks after her two younger siblings and works as a lock keeper. Her mother Roberta plays the tour guide and solo entertainer at Rheinfahrten for international business people. She always laughs at a gentleman who promises her to take her to his country and find her work there. But every time it turns out that the promises aren't that far, and so the mother and her three children still live in a slightly dilapidated house.
Nana, who has de facto taken on the role of mother, condemns her mother's way of life and sums it up with the words "Roberta is the most embarrassing figure in the universe and the most incompetent mother of all time" in one sentence. After a nude bathing accident, the Roberta youth welfare office threatens to withdraw custody of her children from her if she does not adopt a "normal lifestyle" within three months. Roberta resolves to find a regular job and no longer have a man's story. Unfortunately, she has no training whatsoever, and so she laments her dilemma about the statue of the Virgin. As a token of her good will to abstinence, she buries her best brassiere in the earth. Her daughter Nana does not share her mother's optimism about being able to lead an abstinent lifestyle. Together with her siblings, she is now trying to find someone who is suitable as a man for Roberta and as a stepfather for Nana and her siblings. The chosen one is the young doctor Eduardo.
His first meeting with Roberta is not very happy, but he realizes that Nana is overwhelmed with the situation and needs to be encouraged to go her own way. He therefore supports Nana's desire to become an ocean captain by working with her for the aptitude test and encouraging her to apply in distant Hamburg. Eduardo also finds out that Nana's work as a lock keeper is recognized as the internship required for the training and therefore nothing stands in the way of the training. He finally throws her application for the training in the mailbox with her, contrary to the efforts of the youth welfare office to provide Nana with training in the social field or as a household helper.
Eduardo does not notice that Nana has fallen in love with him and misinterprets his understanding of her situation as mutual love. Roberta, however, recognizes her daughter's feelings and confronts Eduardo, who then explains to Nana in shock that he does not love her. He also announced that he would go to Africa to help children there. Nana attributes this solely to the fact that she is not yet 16 years old and therefore a child.
On her 16th birthday, she went to Eduardo to seduce him and declared that she wanted to go to Africa with him. Eduardo fends them off and when Nana notices that he has a woman visiting, she hastily leaves him.
Thereupon she wants to kill herself by throwing herself into the Rhine. However, she is saved by Roberta. The relationship between mother and daughter improves after this incident. The youth welfare office is now giving up its efforts to demand a "normal" way of life from the mother.
Nana is actually accepted in Hamburg. She meets Eduardo one last time and says goodbye to him. Shortly afterwards, he actually went to Africa to work, but his exact fate remained unknown. At the end of the film, Nana leaves her mother and siblings for Hamburg.
Locations
The film was shot between August and October 2009 in Bad Zurzach , Klingnau and Leibstadt in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland, as well as in Küssaberg- Kadelburg in Baden-Württemberg , Germany.
Awards
- Script award 2005 from the Swiss Society of Authors SSA
- Director's Prize (Prize of the Saarland Prime Minister) at the Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival 2011 in Saarbrücken
Web links
- Flying fish need the sea in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Flying fish at Swiss Films
- Flying fish have to go into the sea at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ IMDb: Filming locations , accessed on February 6, 2013