Harmony Lessons
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Harmony Lessons |
| Original title | Russian: Уроки гармонии (Uroki garmonii) Kazakh: Асланның сабақтары (Aslannyng sabaqtary) |
| Country of production | Kazakhstan , Germany , France |
| original language | Kazakh |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Emir Baighasin |
| script | Emir Baighasin |
| production | Anna Katschko Rebekka Garrido Michael Reuter |
| camera | Asis Shambakiev |
| cut | Emir Baighasin |
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Harmony Lessons ( Russian Уроки гармонии , Kazakh Асланның сабақтары ), TV title Teaching Lessons of Harmony , is a feature film by the Kazakh director Emir Baighasin from 2013. It tells the story of 13-year-old Aslan who was subjected to humiliation and exclusion from a village Defend.
action
In a school in an unnamed village near Almaty , a hierarchical system of blackmail and humiliation has developed among the students. The shy Aslan, plagued by an incessant need to clean, is teased and marginalized by his classmates. The violent gang leader Bolat is particularly hard on him. In his grandmother's house, Aslan ventilates his suppressed aggression on caught cockroaches, for which he devises increasingly perfidious and absurd torture methods. Mirsain, a new student from the city, initially opposes the ruling power structures, but finally has to accept his powerlessness. After Bolat beats another classmate to the hospital in order to get his new sneakers, Aslan decides to kill the adversary.
When the bloodied corpse of Bolat is found a little later, both Aslan and Mirsain are suspected. In the detention center they are tortured by the officers for days; but both students affirm their innocence. But after Mirsain has agreed to tell the officers that Aslan is the perpetrator, Aslan apparently kills him in self-defense, so that he has to be released himself, as the officers can no longer prove him.
background
Harmony Lessons is the debut feature film by the Kazakh director Baigazin. The film was funded by the World Cinema Fund of the German Federal Cultural Foundation. It was the very first Kazakh production to be invited to the Berlinale competition . There it celebrated its world premiere on February 14, 2013.
reception
The festival reviews were mostly positive. In addition to the social issues and the performance of the young actors, the aesthetics and camera work of the film were particularly praised. David Assmann writes in the Tagesspiegel , “The precisely composed pictures of the cameraman Asis Schambakijew” gave “the action the neutrality of an experimental arrangement” and at the same time exuded “a poetic, almost meditative calm”. The Berliner Morgenpost readers' jury selected Harmony Lessons as the best film in the competition.
Awards
Cameraman Asis Schambakijew won the Silver Bear for outstanding artistic achievement .
Web links
- Harmony Lessons in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Harmony Lessons in the Berlinale program
- Criticism, excerpts and still images on critic.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Katzenberger: Tips from the program in the Berlinale blog : Uroki Garmonii sueddeutsche.de, February 8, 2013
- ↑ David Assmann: Man is man's lamb tagesspiegel.de, February 14, 2013
- ↑ Awards from independent juries berlinale.de