Francofonia
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Francofonia |
| Country of production | France , Germany , Netherlands |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alexander Sokurov |
| script | Alexander Sokurov |
| production |
Pierre-Olivier Bardet , Thomas Kufus , Els Vandevorst |
| music | Murat Kabardokov |
| camera | Bruno Delbonnel |
| cut |
Alexei Jankowski , Hansjörg Weißbrich |
| occupation | |
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Francofonia is a German-French-Dutch film drama from the Russian director Alexander Sokurov from 2015 .
action
The film takes place during the German occupation of France in World War II . Jacques Jaujard, the then director of the Louvre Art Museum in Paris, was commissioned by the German Count Franziskus Wolff-Metternich with the so-called "art protection", which should protect the most important paintings and other art treasures of France from the effects of the war.
background
Francofonia is a mixture of documentary and fiction , the development phase of which took a total of 18 months.
The film is an international film collaboration between several production companies. The companies Idéale Audience, Arte Cinema and the Louvre from France, zero one film from Germany and N279 Entertainment from the Netherlands were involved in the production. The film also received support from the Eurimages Fund , the Center national du cinéma et de l'image animée , the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg , the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW , the German Film Funding Agency , the Netherlands Fund for Film and the European MEDIA . Overall, the producers came to a budget of 1.8 million euros. The film was shot almost entirely inside the Louvre.
Francofonia premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 4, 2015 . In Germany it was released in cinemas on March 3, 2016.
criticism
The film received positive reviews from critics, with particular praise for Sokurov's directing.
On the Rotten Tomatoes website , the film has an average rating of 7/10 and 61 rated reviews and a rating of 85%. The conclusion of the site is: " Francofonia may well strain the patience of the uninitiated, but viewers who appreciate a wonderful mixture of art and war will be richly rewarded." Michael Meyns from Filmstarts awarded 4/5 stars and said in his conclusion : "In this essayistic film about the Louvre, too, the Russian director Alexander Sokurov remains true to himself and unfolds an enormously complex, thought-rich web of references and associations."
Awards
- Awarded the Fondazione Mimmo Rotella Prize
- Nomination for the Golden Lion
Web links
- Francofonia in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the film
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for Francofonia . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ a b Francofonia Notes on Production
- ↑ Francofonia at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- ↑ Review by Michael Meyns on filmstarts.de, accessed on December 8, 2016.