Fluerne på væggen

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Movie
Original title Fluerne på væggen
Country of production Denmark
original language Danish
Publishing year 2005
length 95 minutes
Rod
Director Åke Sandgren
script Åke Sandgren,
Lars Kjeldgård
production Thomas Heinesen
music Kaare Bjerkø
camera Erik Molberg Hansen
cut Kasper Leick
occupation

Fluerne på væggen (translation: flies on the wall ) is a Danish political thriller by Åke Sandgren from 2005.

action

The police have a witness in a murder case in the interrogation room. But this person refuses to testify and demands that the police watch a movie before they say a word about the murder. So three police officers look for a playback option and watch a burned CD with a documentary by My Larsen.

My Larsen is an award-winning documentary filmmaker from Copenhagen who is commissioned by her ex-boyfriend Peter Friis, who works for the Liberal Party, to make a film about Mayor Sven Balder in Ravnskov. But since she hesitates, Peter makes far-reaching concessions, such as assuming the hotel costs and the promise that she can completely decide on her own what to shoot and what to show. And so she travels to Ravnskov and tries to interview Balder, but the popular mayor is difficult to pin down and, because he has something to hide, despite polite gestures, seems not at all enthusiastic that he is being filmed in his town hall. So My is a little smarter and uses some hidden cameras and gets closer and closer to the secret. She films conversations about a possible building deal that has failed and is now to be covered up by further blackmail. When she then shows these recordings to Peter, he is horrified and asks My to stop the documentation, but My refuses and decides to continue on her own.

Then she meets the finance director of Ravnskov, Arne Thorsen, an enthusiastic amateur filmmaker, who not only shows her his hobbies, but also offers his help against Balder after being disappointed by Balder. But My is blinded by her feelings for Balder and refuses this help in horror, distances herself from Arne and leaves him again. Because she fell in love with Balder long ago and slept with him, so that she feels very close to him. She also found out about his plan to expand the beach to create jobs. But she did not learn the whole truth, because Balder once bought some factory buildings in need of renovation with Arne in order to expand them and create jobs. But after they realized that these were completely worthless, they used the land to raise 50 million euros for investments from potential donors. Only this money was not used in Ravnskov itself, but was invested in risky businesses in India and China in order to renovate Ravnskov with the returns.

But My is still by Balder. Only after she learns that Arne and Balder were planning a murder that should look like a suicide and then at Zlatan's funeral does she change her mind. Zlatan was originally the contractor who was supposed to build the beach, but went bankrupt because of the non-planning. My myself now sees it as a moral duty to accept a journalist's request for help and to pass all important information to the press. She is bitterly disappointed in Balder. Only when he confesses his love for her and tells the journalist that he bears sole responsibility and that the fraud was done for the benefit of his citizens, she can forgive him. But Arne, who has already been made a scapegoat, doesn't. He himself reveals to My with a video that night how he murdered Balder shortly before and kidnaps her in order to kill her too. But after he has recorded his confession, My is able to free himself and kill him in self-defense after a violent fight.

She takes parts of Arne's own film material, cuts it together with her documentation and burns it on CD. Then she calls the police and confesses to a murder. The police see this and realize that they have locked up an innocent person, so they go into the interrogation room and release them.

criticism

The Danish website cinemazone.dk criticized the fact that the director Åke Sandgren did not completely devote himself to realism and, in favor of tension, presented the story "directly naive and just too far-fetched". However, the film also shows a “fantastic and atmospheric world” in which the thematic perspectives of today's people are presented in a journalistic and political way.

Although the tension was not "nerve-wracking" and the story was not told consistently, Per Berghildt Knudsen judged on the Danish website filmz.dk that Fluerne på væggen was "an exciting Danish thriller that experiments with the medium of film". The political scandal is harmless, but the "strength of the film lies in the aesthetics between My grainy camera images [and] the perspectives of the characters".

Awards

publication

The film opened in Danish cinemas on August 12, 2005 and was shown internationally at some film festivals under the name Flies on the Wall . It was neither shown in Germany, nor is a publication planned.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fluerne på væggen on cinemazone.dk (Danish), accessed on September 1, 2011
  2. ↑ Per Bergholdt Knudsen: Fluerne på væggen on filmz.dk of August 11, 2005 (Danish), accessed on September 1, 2011