Grace (film)

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Movie
Original title grace
Country of production Germany , Norway
original language German , Norwegian , English
Publishing year 2012
length 131 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Matthias Glasner
script Kim Fupz Aakeson
production Kristine Knudsen ,
Matthias Glasner,
Andreas Born ,
Aage Aaberge
music Homesweethome
camera Jakub Bejnarowicz
cut Heike Gnida
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Gnade is a German feature film by Matthias Glasner from 2012 with Jürgen Vogel and Birgit Minichmayr in the leading roles. The premiere took place on February 16, 2012 at the 62nd International Film Festival in Berlin . The German theatrical release was on October 18, 2012.

action

In order to steer their marriage back into calm waters, engineer Niels and nurse Maria move with their son Markus to the northern Norwegian town of Hammerfest . The integration takes place differently on site: Niels is very busy with his job in a gas production plant, but does not care much about the compatriots next to him - after nine months he only speaks a few words of Norwegian . He has an affair with colleague Linda, with whom he can speak in English. Maria, on the other hand, is absorbed in her work in a hospice , sings in the church choir and has a friendly relationship with her colleagues. Even though he speaks Norwegian well, integration at his school is still difficult for Markus.

When Maria drives home after a double shift in January, she notices - distracted by a northern light - a thud against her car. She stops, looks in the rearview mirror, cannot see anything in the dark. Assuming that she only hit a dog, she drives on; When she gets home, she asks Niels to go back to the scene of the accident. Niels drove the entire way, got out at the suspected accident site with a flashlight, but could not find anything. It wasn't until a few days later that Maria found out from the newspaper that she had hit Mette, a 16-year-old girl: After the accident, Mette crawled off the street, fell into a snow hole and froze to death.

Maria and Niels decide to hide what happened, as there was no witness for the accident, they don't tell Markus either. The city played a major role in the accident and Maria and Niels found it difficult to look the girl's parents in the eye. Through their handling of this incomprehensible secret, Maria and Niels fall in love again.

Markus gains the reputation of a classmate when he spits in the backpack with another boy. Inwardly, he feels hit when he learns that this student has changed class because of what happened. After a few weeks he takes the courage to confess what he has done in order to apologize. He is rejected by him.

Since Niels has behaved differently to Linda lately, he tells her about Maria's hit and run on a helicopter flight. Linda takes this calmly. When she confesses her love for him a few evenings later, Niels replies that his relationship with Linda had never been more than an affair for him and that he fell in love with Maria again. Angry, Linda scratches Niels' car and later threatens him over the phone. Niels confesses to Maria the affair, she forgives him. Linda later apologizes to Niels before she leaves town and work to return to Oslo .

One day Niels stops at the scene of the accident and looks at the flowers and cards left there. Coincidentally, Mette's mother comes to the scene of the accident and thanks Niels for this gesture. Niels and Maria decide to go to Mette's parents to tell them everything. They are surprised by the admission, the question of what should happen now remains unanswered. The film ends a few months later during the midsummer festival : The residents of the city - including Niels, Maria and Markus as well as Mette's parents - welcome the polar summer, everyone feels at ease with themselves.

production

The film produced by the Berlin film production companies Schwarzweiss Filmproduktion GmbH , Knudsen & Streuber Medienmanufaktur GmbH and ophir film- und fernsehproduktion GmbH as well as the Norwegian Neofilm in coproduction with ZDF and Arte was shown from January 18 to March 11, 2011 at original locations in Hammerfest (Norway) and shot in Hamburg. Six days were available for the interior shots in Atelier 9/10 of Studio Hamburg GmbH.

The film Gnade was funded by the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Film Fund , the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg , the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media , the German Film Fund and the Norsk filminstitutt .

Reviews

“An irritating drama that embeds the subject of guilt and the desire for forgiveness in a daring, sometimes striking narrative and resolves the moral dilemma rather unsatisfactorily. At the same time, the sovereign and multi-layered film impresses with haunting, unreally illuminated images of the snowy landscape. "

“Matthias Glasner filmed a soul landscape made of ice and snow with Birgit Minichmayr and Jürgen Vogel. Seldom has a film been clearer in its good news. [...] Grace is an excellently played psychodrama, and one can give Glasner recognition for so much clarity in the belief in his positive utopia that forgiveness is possible even under improbable circumstances. "

- Wenke Husmann : zeit.de

“Based on the script by the award-winning Scandinavian author Kim Fupz Aakeson, Matthias Glasner and two exceptional actors realized an extremely dense drama that organically fits into the grandiose landscape. Abruptly repellent, almost unreal in the cold polar night, open and harmonious on midsummer night, the landscape, which is captured by the camera in calm, poetic images, becomes the third main actor. In this way, the film, which was premiered in the Berlinale competition in 2012, succeeds in exploring the more abstract themes of guilt and grace, with the focus less on the religious than on the humanistic dimension. "

- Top video news

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Grace . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2012 (PDF; test number: 134 468 K).
  2. crew united: grace (2011–2012)
  3. ^ Studio Hamburg: Jürgen Vogel and Birgit Minichmayr shoot at Studio Hamburg. Press release of March 3, 2011
  4. grace. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. Wenke Husmann: The director as a merciful God. zeit.de , February 21, 2012, accessed on October 22, 2012 .
  6. GRACE . Top video news. Publisher: Children's and Youth Film Center on behalf of the BMFSFJ .
  7. ^ German film and media rating: grace
  8. Gnade at filmportal.de , accessed on February 9, 2013