Greetings from cashmere

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Movie
Original title Greetings from cashmere
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2004
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Miguel Alexandre
script Harald Göckeritz
production Bernd Burgemeister ,
Sven Burgemeister
music Dominic Roth
camera Peter Indergand
cut Andreas Herzog
occupation

Greetings from Kashmir is a love drama by the director Miguel Alexandre from 2004. In the main role , Bernadette Heerwagen plays the sound engineer Lisa from Munich, who wakes up after a stimulating evening in the bed of Sharif Mishra ( René Ifrah ) from Kashmir .

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Lisa, a young sound engineer from Munich, wakes up one morning in the bed of Sharif Mishra, who comes from Kashmir. Since she does not know how her parents would react if she introduced them to the foreign compatriot, she initially simply steals away from responsibility by sneaking away while he is still sleeping.

Sharif Mishra, meanwhile, has an eventful past: when he was thirteen, the house he lived in with his parents was burned down by Indian soldiers. His parents were killed in the arson attack. Sharif's older brother Tajjab then brought him to foster parents in order to then join the freedom fighters. Two years later, Sharif fought alongside his brother against the Indians, but a short time later he decided to escape the war and to emigrate to Germany to begin studying engineering. He has now been living in Germany for seven years and earns a living working in an engineering office in Munich.

Six weeks have passed since the night they shared with Lisa when the two happened to meet in a discotheque. Sharif is beside himself: he doesn't understand why Lisa suddenly disappeared and insults her as a whore. Lisa cannot deal with this situation and flees the bar together with her friend Tanja. In doing so, however, she forgets her handbag.

Sharif takes this as an opportunity to take the bag and bring it to Lisa home. He asks for an excuse and invites Lisa to dinner together. The relationship between him and Lisa is thus initially saved. What Lisa does not tell Sharif, however, is the fact that she is pregnant by him. She does this from the fact that she doesn't even know whether she wants to keep the child or would rather have an abortion performed .

Sharif suddenly begins to behave strangely: he has not been heard from for a long time. When Lisa comes to visit him, he tells her that he wants to end the relationship. But she can't just throw Lisa's feelings towards Sharif overboard. She remains persistent, and when she realizes that Sharif still has feelings for her, she stays. As a result, she moves into Sharif's apartment.

Sharif's brother Tajjab was meanwhile in England and from there also travels to Germany to carry out a bomb attack against the Indian officer who gave the order at the time to set fire to their parents' house and to murder their parents. However, a traffic accident in which Tajjab is injured thwarts his plan. Now he expects Sharif to carry out the attack for him. However, Sharif wants nothing more to do with terrorism and attacks. He is of the opinion that an assassination attempt against the Indian officer would not bring the parents to life either. On the other hand, Sharif plagues his conscience because he feels obliged to his brother and also believes that he owes something to his homeland.

Due to an anonymous tip, the German police are already on his tracks: Sharif and Lisa are constantly monitored, none of their steps remains hidden from the investigating officers. When Lisa is on a tram in Munich, a plainclothes commissioner responsible for the investigation sits down next to her and shows her a photo of Sharif's brother. When asked if she knows the person, Lisa truthfully replies with no, as she did not even know that her boyfriend had a brother at all. When asked about this by Lisa, Sharif refuses to give her an answer.

In the meantime, however, Sharif does not remain idle and contacts the inspector: he informs him that he has not seen his brother for a long time and that he is no longer in contact with him. However, this is not true, as Sharif has already informed his brother of the police investigation against him from a phone booth. After Sharif has made his statement at the police headquarters, he meets with his brother on the banks of the Isar, where he makes it clear to him again that he does not want to carry out a terrorist attack.

Afterwards, Sharif intends to spend a few days relaxing in the mountains with Lisa. On the way there, they pass an accident site: two cars obviously collided head-on. Sharif sees at first glance that the driver of one car was killed on the spot. The driver of the second car is alive but seriously injured. Sharif tries with brute force to open the door of the car, but his attempt fails. As a result, the driver of the second car also dies.

Lisa observes Sharif's attempts to rescue him and is amazed why he can act so calmly and prudently in view of the drama of the situation. When asked about this, Sharif replies that he has already been present in Kashmir in many situations in which people have been killed and that he is now used to such circumstances. However, Lisa senses that Sharif's thoughts seem to be elsewhere. However, he again gives her no answers.

When Lisa comes to Sharif's apartment, she finds the door broken and when she enters the apartment, she is immediately overwhelmed by a heavily armed police force. When asked where Sharif is, however, she cannot provide any information as she does not know his whereabouts herself.

After Lisa has been released from police violence, she drives to the mosque to ask the Imam where Sharif could be. But he doesn't know his whereabouts either and says that Sharif hasn't been to the mosque for a long time. Meanwhile, Lisa's friend Tanja receives a call from Sharif. He asks her to tell Lisa that he wants to meet her at university. Lisa immediately drives to the meeting point. She immediately realizes that Sharif wants to say goodbye to her forever. The information that Lisa is expecting a child clearly surprises Sharif, but he is still determined never to see Lisa again.

As a result, Lisa turns to the police. She contacts the superintendent and tells him about her last meeting with Sharif. She also expresses her fear to him that Sharif may have in mind to commit a suicide attack. In conversation with the inspector, Lisa remembers that she saw a brochure from a rental company in Sharif's car. The police then contacted the car rental company and put a rented vehicle on the wanted list.

Meanwhile, Sharif plans to ram the vehicle in which the Indian officer is sitting with a loaned van in Brussels and detonate a bomb immediately afterwards. However, Lisa learns from the news that Sharif was stopped by the police in the Wiesbaden area. An explosive device with a potentially enormous impact was found in his vehicle and seized. Meanwhile, Sharif's brother Tajjab is still on the run and wanted by the authorities.

The plot of the film ends with the realization that Lisa has achieved two things above all by informing the police: On the one hand, she prevented Sharif, the father of her child, from losing his own life in a suicide attack, and on the other hand, she has they undoubtedly thwarted an attack that could have killed many more people. However, it is the logical consequence of these circumstances that Sharif now has to face a long prison sentence.

Production notes

Bernd Burgemeister and his son Sven produced the love drama for TV 60 Filmproduktion GmbH ( Munich ) on behalf of Bayerischer Rundfunk and ARD Degeto . The film was shot in Munich.

Release date and different film title in France

Greetings from Kashmir was first broadcast on November 10, 2004 on ARD . In France, the production appeared under the title "Bonjour du Cachemire".

Awards

The director Miguel Alexandre , the screenwriter Harald Göckeritz , and the actors Bernadette Heerwagen and René David Ifrah received the 2005 Adolf Grimme Prize for “Greetings from Kashmir” . The jury's reasoning was as follows: “With greetings from Kashmir , we have succeeded in making the subject of terrorism, which is current today and which co-determines political reality, personal in a haunting manner: The individual protagonists are not released from their own responsibility for their actions; a superficial assignment of blame is avoided, terrorism is not glossed over ”.

Reviews

TV Spielfilm is of the opinion that greetings from Kashmir are "[...] a carefully staged but captivating political romance." The program magazine's conclusion is: "Gripping: Love in Times of Terror".

Rainer Tittelbach sums up: " Greetings from Kashmir shows two people who are looking for happiness and yet remain trapped in the constraints of society, their beliefs and their culture". The film critic's final sentence is benevolent: “Miguel Alexandre evokes the attitudes of his protagonists from the images, the looks and the gestures.

The author and film critic Dieter Wunderlich noted with appreciation that Harald Göckeritz and Miguel Alexandre to concentrate on "[...] the question of how anyone can be a terrorist [...] and they put the development in Greetings from Kashmir comprehensible represent. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Greetings from Kashmir (TV Movie 2004) - Filming Locations - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Retrieved November 22, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Greetings from Kashmir (TV Movie 2004) - Release Info - IMDb. In: imdb.com. Retrieved November 22, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Grimme Prize - Greetings from Kashmir. (No longer available online.) In: grimme-institut.de. Archived from the original on November 21, 2015 ; accessed on November 22, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grimme-institut.de
  4. ↑ Greetings from Kashmir - film review - film - TV SPIELFILM. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved November 22, 2015 .
  5. ^ Greetings from Kashmir - review of the film - Tittelbach.tv. In: tittelbach.tv. Retrieved November 22, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Greetings from Kashmir (film tip). In: dieterwunderlich.de. Retrieved November 22, 2015 .