Mrs. Stern
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| Original title | Mrs. Stern |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 79 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Anatol Schuster |
| script | Anatol Schuster |
| production | Adrian Campean and Anatol Schuster |
| music | Konstantin Schimanowski |
| camera | Adrian Campean |
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Ms. Stern is a German fiction film by director Anatol Schuster from 2019. The 90-year-old Jewish heroine of the comedy is looking for a weapon for her suicide, but finds her way back to the joy of life.
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The 90-year-old widowed Ms. Stern is very healthy, but wants to die independently. All of their attempts at this, however, fail quite funny. Her doctor says that as a German he can hardly give poison to a Holocaust survivor, a couple of burglars rescues her from the bathtub, and as she lies down on the train tracks, a helpful walker rushes over to help her up. With the support of her granddaughter Elli, she finally sets off in Neukölln to buy a firearm for a robust suicide, but finds her way back to the joy of life.
Reviews
The film received unanimously positive reviews: Julia Haungs praises in SWR2 Kultur aktuell on SWR2 the "many good snapshots that make the film about death a celebration of life". For MDR Kultur film critic Knut Elstermann , “the young director Anatol Schuster [...] has achieved something amazing with this independent film: It combines the portrait of a life artist with a picture of today's colorful Berlin, tells full of humor about erotic desires in old age , but also of the ongoing consequences of the Holocaust. "The Jewish online magazine Hagalil sees the work as a" lovable film, to smile and think, to laugh and cry. "Michael Dlugosch from filmrezension.de writes that director Schuster" relies entirely on Ahuva Sommerfeld, lets the film be determined by her and her charisma ... The film becomes a homage to a great woman and an ode to life, even if it would have been good for the film if it had also taken from the former Life of Mrs. Stern - and thus from the life of Mrs. Sommerfeld - would have told. " In his benevolent review for epd Film , Jens Balkenborg describes Ms. Stern as one of the “coolest grandmas that German film has ever produced”. Even if the film was not completely successful, this "mode between heavy and loose-flaky, which also distinguished Schuster's debut Luft in a dreamy manner" as well as the "laconic blues and the two fantastic leading actresses [...] pushed the doubts into the background . "
Background and awards
The production had to get by on a minimal budget, so the title role was cast with a laywoman who had never been in front of the camera in her 81 years. Nevertheless, or perhaps because of that, the film was a success, because Ahuva Sommerfeld was able to win over critics and viewers with her life experience and her rough voice. Shortly after the premiere at the Max-Ophüls-Filmfestival in Saarbrücken on January 16, 2019, she was hospitalized and died on February 8, 2019 of a lung disease. The film was named “Best Feature Film” at the “Achtung Berlin Filmfest”. Ahuva Sommerfeld also received the posthumous award for “Best Actress” together with Kara Schröder.
Web links
- Ms. star in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Ms. Stern . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 189055 / K).
- ↑ Julia Haungs: "Frau Stern" - low-budget film celebrates life In: SWR2 Kultur aktuell from August 29, 2019.
- ↑ Knut Elstermann: "Frau Stern": From the lust for life in old age In: MDR Kultur Filmstarts from August 29, 2019.
- ↑ Ms. Stern In: Hagalil from August 27, 2019.
- ↑ filmrezension.de - online magazine for film criticism. Retrieved September 1, 2019 .
- ↑ Critique of Ms. Stern | epd film. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Ahuva Sommerfeld | filmportal.de. Retrieved September 1, 2019 .
- ↑ "Frau Stern" comes to the cinema In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of 23 August 2019.
- ↑ Alexandra Leuthner: Ebersbergerin on the screen: Homage to an unusual woman In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of March 29, 2019.