Hardness (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | hardness |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Rosa von Praunheim |
| script |
Nicolas Woche , Jürgen Lemke , Rosa von Praunheim |
| production | Rosa von Praunheim |
| music | Andreas Wolter |
| camera |
Nicolai Zörn , Elfi Mikesch |
| cut | Mike Shepard |
| occupation | |
as well as Steffen Bielig , Agnes Herrlein, Benno Wenz, Ivana Vukovic, Luise Schnittert , Sascia Haj, Marcus Lachmann , Stephan Schill , Harro Korn . | |
Hardness is a German biography by Rosa von Praunheim about the German martial artist and former pimp Andreas Marquardt , based on his 2006 published autobiography Hardness - My way out of the vicious circle of violence . In the film, Marquardt is portrayed by Hanno Koffler . The film premiered at the Berlin International Film Festival on February 6, 2015 in the “Panorama Special” section. The cinema release was on April 23, 2015.
action
Andreas Marquardt's difficult childhood shaped life. As a 2-year-old, his father doused him with water and put him on the balcony when it was below zero. When he was six years old, his mother began to abuse him. He channels his aggression as an adult in martial arts. When he is offered to work in the red light district, he finds himself in a world of money, violence and prostitution.
Traumatized by sexual experiences with his mother, he appears rude and bossy towards his wives, which some people are amazed at. When he meets the accountant Marion, he wants her to work for him as a prostitute. Bored with her dreary day-to-day work, she agrees.
Marquardt later served eight years in prison for his machinations. Nobody sticks to him except Marion, whom he even sent to the streets on Christmas Eve. In spite of everything, she loves him and encourages him to find his way back to a middle-class life. When he was released, both found a martial arts school in Berlin-Neukölln, where Marquardt still teaches children and young people.
background
The film is a production by Rosa von Praunheim Filmproduktion in co-production with Westdeutscher Rundfunk , Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg and Arte . The film received film funding from the Filmförderungsanstalt and the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW , which supported the film with 30,000 euros. The film distribution for the theatrical release lies with missingFILMs .
reception
The Berliner Zeitung ruled that "this film hurts". It shows "violence that is not perpetrated with fists" and is "a more subtle, but no less cruel crossing of borders, from which no one is immune". The reviews of Marquardt's life in “theater-like backdrops in black and white” are “chamber plays of social brutality”. The film website kino.de describes the film as an "unusual, equally massive and haunting document [that] also bears the typical Praunheim signature". The magazine Stern judged that the film was a "shocking, depressing and at the same time encouraging work". In particular, the depiction of the abuse situations was "sometimes difficult to bear". It is emphasized that the topic of sexual violence by mothers has rarely been a topic in the cinema up to now.
Awards
At the Berlinale, the film received 3rd place in the Panorama Audience Award. He was also shortlisted for the German Film Prize 2015 . Although the film itself was not nominated, Hanno Koffler received a nomination for best leading actor. Katy Karrenbauer was awarded the special prize "Jaeger-LeCoultre Homage to German Film" for her role.
Web links
- Hardness in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Film data sheet (PDF; 369.1 kB). Berlin International Film Festival
- Andreas Marquardt: "I was really a pig" . Der Tagesspiegel , February 7, 2015
- A film with a lot of emotion . Rosa von Praunheim in conversation with Deutschlandradio Kultur
- Hannah Pilarczyk: Films About Abuse: Where Violence Begins , Spiegel Online , April 23, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for hardness . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2015 (PDF; test number: 150 574 K).
- ↑ hardness. Berlin International Film Festival, accessed on March 30, 2015 .
- ↑ a b hardness. film-dienst , accessed March 30, 2015 (credits).
- ^ Company credits. Internet Movie Database , accessed March 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Kerstin Krupp: Your cock is mine! Berliner Zeitung , February 5, 2015, accessed on March 30, 2015 .
- ↑ go: hardness. In: kino.de . Busch Entertainment Media, accessed March 30, 2015 .
- ^ "Hardness": Drama of abuse with Katy Karrenbauer. Stern , April 20, 2015, archived from the original on April 25, 2015 ; accessed on October 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Press releases Panorama 65th Berlinale. (No longer available online.) Berlin International Film Festival, February 14, 2015, archived from the original on February 16, 2015 ; accessed on February 16, 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.
- ↑ The preselection for the GERMAN FILMPREIS 2015. (PDF; 122.6 kB) German Film Academy , January 12, 2015, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 30, 2015 .
