Green desert
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Green desert |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Anno Saul |
| script | Swenja Karsten |
| production |
Katharina Trebitsch , Jutta Lieck-Klenke , Bernhard Thür , Kirsten Ellerbrake |
| music | Marcel Barsotti |
| camera |
Gero Steffen , Kim Howland |
| cut | Ingrid Broszat |
| occupation | |
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Green Desert is a German youth film by Anno Saul from 1999 . He received the Audience Award at Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose, CA .
action
14-year-old Katja lives out her dreams with her boyfriend Johann in the “Green Desert” forest near her village. Here both plan their future, which they want to spend together. However, this is threatened twice: On the one hand by the affair of Katja's mother Doris with Johann's father Simon, in which Katja's father Detlef is idly watching. On the other hand, it is becoming increasingly clear: Johann, Katja's first great love, has leukemia. The young woman now has to leave her childhood behind to cope with it.
backgrounds
The shooting ran from July 30, 1998 to October 17, 1998 in Amorbach . The production company was TPI Trebitsch in cooperation with ZDF and arte .
Green Desert had its world premiere in 1999 at the Munich Film Festival . The film was released on January 25, 2001 and was released on DVD on December 6, 2001. The first broadcast on German television was on December 23, 2002 on ZDF .
criticism
The lexicon of international films saw a "quiet, haunting film about the end of a childhood, which convinces with its visual design and above all the ambitious attempt to find a new approach to the overloaded topos of the German forest."
Awards
Martina Gedeck was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize in 2000 for her role as Doris as best actress.
Web links
- Green desert in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Green desert at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Green desert. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on July 25, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Green desert. In: Moviesection. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on August 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Green desert. In: Munich Film Festival. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Green desert. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 22, 2015 .