Home is not a place
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Home is not a place |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Udo Witte |
| script |
Lo Malinke , Philipp Müller |
| production | MWM Writing Pictures |
| music |
Biber Gullatz , Eckes Malz |
| camera |
Hans Joachim Radermacher , Yvonne Tratz |
| cut |
Trevor Holland , Sabine Matula |
| occupation | |
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Heimat ist kein Ort is a German TV film from 2015. The dramedy produced for ARD is based on the script by Lo Malinke and Philipp Müller and directed by Udo Witte . The film is set in Poland and was shot there and in Berlin . The picturesque landscape of the Baltic Sea island of Wollin and around Stettin was the backdrop for the actual East Prussia . The film lives particularly through the acting performances of Marie Gruber , Jörg Schüttauf and Sönke Möhring , who, as warring siblings, exchange blows on equal terms. The journey in the footsteps of their father and grandfather becomes a journey to themselves for the protagonists. If the comedic passages predominate at the beginning of the film, melancholy sequences take their place at the end. The image of the father also changes completely. The calm narrative voice of Dieter Mann , which runs like a red thread through the film, describes a fate that many families affected by displacement and flight experienced.
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The Kurbjuweit siblings, Inge (54), Klaus (53) and Uwe (44), have no contact with one another. After their mother died, their father put them in a home as children. Uwe in particular, who grew up with various foster families as the youngest, never got over the fact that his older siblings never looked after him. Inge had had a child at a very young age and, since she was raising her daughter Jule on her own, had to stop studying medicine. In her job as a nurse, she made it up to the head nurse in the hospital. She now projects all of her unfulfilled hopes onto Jule, who, at the urging of her mother, has started to study medicine. Klaus, who actually earned his living as a taxi driver, has just lost his driver's license after being caught driving under the influence of alcohol. His wife kicked the now unemployed alcoholic out. The gay single Uwe earns his money with his "walker service" for working dog owners; his search for a lasting relationship has so far been unsuccessful.
After calling all three of them, they see each other again years later. The father, with whom they had no longer contact, died. The siblings and Inge's daughter appear at a notary to open a will. There they learn that they can only inherit if they fulfill the last wish of the deceased. They have to travel together to Poland within 14 days to scatter his ashes in places of his old homeland, East Prussia , chosen by him . The young Polish notary Krzysztow accompanies them on their journey from Germany to Poland to check and record that everything is going according to the last wish.
The journey begins with a " bull bath " converted into a mobile home ; Klaus is at the wheel and nobody knows that he had to surrender his driver's license. The route is precisely defined, it leads via Frankfurt (Oder) , Posen / Poznań , Bromberg / Bydgoszcz and Allenstein / Olsztyn to Nikolaiken / Mikołajki , the birthplace of the father. The documents handed over to the family by the notary Krzysztow include not only the father's notes, but also a photo of a handsome villa in Nikolaiken from 1936. The siblings' initially negative attitude is gradually disappearing due to the hope for an apparently worthwhile inheritance. At some point the question arises as to where the father's ashes are actually located. Klaus had taken care of everything; instead of applying for an export permit, for the sake of simplicity he had transferred the remains of the father from the urn into a coffee can.
Notary Krzysztow witnesses how badly the siblings treat each other and only finds common ground to talk to Inge's daughter Jule. The first place where the father's ashes are to be scattered is a bridge where his father was killed in World War II. The siblings bring it about disrespectfully and in an argument. A short time later, the journey is over for everyone. During a police check, Klaus measured 0.9 per mil. When the others found out that he had also driven without a driver's license, they attacked each other and attacked the two Polish police officers, all of whom with the exception of the notary were taken into custody. After spending one night in the cell, the Polish police forgave her mercy and let her go free. For the first time, however, the notary persuades them to behave properly.
The siblings slowly find each other after learning more and more about the fate of their father, who first lost his father and then his mother as a child. A romantic relationship begins between the young notary and Jule. Krzysztow brings the four to his sister's wedding, where his ex-girlfriend throws herself on him, which Jule completely misunderstands. Inge enjoys the attention of the charming Jurek at the party, while Klaus and Uwe drown their loneliness in alcohol and land in the middle of the wedding cake as the crowning glory. Soon afterwards they reach the destination of their journey. The villa they hoped to inherit turns out to be a popular photo opportunity; apparently the photo was only a memory of the beloved home for the father, nothing more. The notary finally takes her to a dilapidated house where her father is said to have lived. But it seems more important for her to go to the grave of her father's little sister, who died in 1945. Anna, a childhood friend of the father's who still lives in Mikołajki, takes her there. According to the father's wish, they scatter the rest of his ashes here. You stand at the grave like a normal family; with flowers and tears, they all show decency, respect, and compassion.
The journey together changed the four of them. They wish their brother Uwe success in their search for a good job and a steady partner. Inge tells her daughter for the first time that she loves her, and both women dare to start over with men, Jule with Krzysztow and Inge with Jurek. Uwe succeeds in threading a phone call with Klaus' wife after all of his previous attempts had failed. Krzysztow soon announced that the father's last will had been fulfilled and that each of the four would inherit 321.46 euros. You take it with humor - it doesn't seem to matter. When they see pictures in an old photo album that show their father as a child by the sea, they spontaneously decide to go to the sea. Laughing, they walk along the beach together and for a moment you see a little boy in a sailor suit building a sand castle, when they turn around again he is gone.
Web links
- Home is not a place in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Home is no place - feature film Germany 2015. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 25, 2017 ; Retrieved October 25, 2017 . 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.
