Yellow cherries

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Movie
Original title Yellow cherries
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2000
length 86 minutes
Rod
Director Leopold Lummerstorfer
script Leopold Lummerstorfer, Franz Friedrich Altmann
production Josef Aichholzer
music Christian Fennesz
camera Robert fear
cut Eliska Stibrova
occupation

Yellow Cherries is an Austrian film from 2000. Directed by Leopold Lummerstorfer . The production was financed by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund , the ORF and the cultural promotion institutes of the federal states of Upper Austria and Lower Austria . The film premiered on October 23, 2000 at the Viennale film festival , entered the Max Ophüls Prize in January 2001 and was shown in Austrian cinemas from the end of February 2001.

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Martin Puntigam plays Rudi Zöchinger, a young country gendarme from an Upper Austrian town called Sankt Urban, which is on the Austrian border with the Czech Republic. His goal is to make a career with the Vienna Aliens Police, where his brother-in-law Otto Bucek works as director. In Vienna he meets the Czech Alena, who comes from Třeboň (from Zöchinger's German name Wittingau), a place only a few minutes away from St. Urban - but on the other side of the border. Alena now lives illegally in Austria - sold at a sausage stand : without a residence or work permit.

First of all, Rudi Zöchinger tries to get his partner the necessary papers. But it fails because of the bureaucracy and the bureaucracy. Zöchinger makes the decision for himself to overlook the illegality of his girlfriend's stay in spite of his work as an immigration officer. While he is busy during the day to track down, arrest and deport foreigners illegally in the country, he continues the relationship with an “illegal” after work.

During a joint visit to Otto's brother-in-law and superior, he and his wife Mitzi aggressively address Alena's origins and also ask questions about the residence permit. Alena is later arrested by the Aliens Police, separated from her son and deported.

Reviews

  • The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung wrote: “ Often arguing visually, Lummerstorfer keeps the wit and the tragedy of the constellation in balance until the surprising end. "(January 23, 2001, p. 47)
  • The Wiener Zeitung called the first feature film Lummerstorfers " in some places still a little awkward, a little desperately ," but attested to the director "great talent and empathy" and concluded: "A film that makes further work Lummerstorfers curious." (22 February 2001, p. 13)
  • The press called the film "unfortunately unsuccessful" and recognized "an indisposed Martin Puntigam and a hardened Josef Hader" . The film is "visually unimaginative, weakly written, played disastrously" . St. G. (February 22, 2001, p. 13)
  • The standard noted: “Somehow everything about this film fails because it is supposed to give more (for the cinema), although it actually only has substance for a small, fast television game. Lummerstorfer, who made one of the best documentaries in recent years with The Dream That Remains , should quickly get a new chance. And we forget yellow cherries. " (February 26, 2001, p. 12)
  • Variety wrote: " a charming movie with a nice line in straight-faced humor", ... "Aside from the ever-reliable Hader, Bra is very good as the tough but tempted Alena. Lensing by Robert Angst imparts a cool but gradually involving feel to the goings-on. "(June 25, 2001, p. 25)

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