Hell (2011)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Bright |
| Country of production | Germany , Switzerland |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Tim Fehlbaum |
| script | Tim Fehlbaum Oliver Kahl Thomas Wöbke |
| production | Thomas Wöbke Gabriele M. Walther |
| music | Lorenz Dangel |
| camera | Markus Förderer |
| cut | Andreas Menn |
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Hell is an end-of-time thriller and the debut feature film by Swiss director Tim Fehlbaum . Hannah Herzsprung and Lars Eidinger play the leading roles . The film had its world premiere on June 28, 2011 at the Munich Film Festival and was then presented at the Locarno International Film Festival and the Fantasy Film Festival in Hamburg. It opened in German cinemas on September 22, 2011.
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Germany 2016: In recent years, solar radiation has increased so much that once green landscapes have turned into withered wastes. Huge solar storms rage, and without sun protection , staying in the open air is life-threatening within a very short time. Few people survived the disaster. Petrol can be found as rarely as water - the last springs are said to be above the tree line . For this reason, Marie, her younger sister Leonie and her boyfriend Philipp set off in a car to look for them.
At an abandoned gas station , they meet the mechanic Tom and, after an initial argument, team up with him. On their way to the mountain region that was destroyed by a forest fire , they come to a roadblock. Having managed to clear the obstacle, they discover a wrecked car at the foot of the slope and decide to search it for supplies. In this attempt, unknown highwaymen steal the car with all the supplies and kidnap Leonie, who was left with the car. Tom, Philipp and Marie go on a search and discover the gang's camp. But the attempt to free Leonie failed. Tom is also imprisoned, and Philipp is badly injured in the foot. Marie leaves Philipp behind in a tunnel and goes alone to find Leonie and Tom.
She finds shelter in a small mountain church and is found there by the farmer's wife Elisabeth, who saves her from dying of thirst . Elisabeth gives Marie accommodation on her homestead , where another family has already found refuge. She also promises her that one of her sons will take care of Philip. But when Marie wakes up again that evening, she has to realize that she is in the hands of the highwaymen and that Elisabeth is their matriarch . To reassure Marie, Elisabeth has Leonie brought to her and explains to the girls that she is ready to take them into the family. Since they are young and healthy, they should serve as “fresh blood” for their youngest sons and thus ensure the survival of the family clan .
With Marie's help, Leonie manages to escape, but Marie is surprised. In order to hide Leonie's escape for as long as possible, she goes to dinner with the family. In doing so, it becomes clear to her in which situation she really is. The estate's entire animal population has long since perished, and the gang set out to hunt down other survivors of the disaster to replace them. Their victims are raised , slaughtered and eaten like cattle . When Leonie's escape is noticed, Marie is brought to the property's slaughterhouse, tied up , and she has to watch helplessly as Philipp is killed with a nail gun . She manages to get hold of Philipps Leatherman , use his blade to loosen her bonds and free Tom and other prisoners from the stables . The escaping group is overtaken by the cannibals and caught or killed, except for Marie and Tom. At the edge of the forest, Marie comes across Leonie, who has been captured by Elisabeth and a son. Elisabeth approaches Marie, speaking, she can kill Elisabeth, who was hiding a long knife under her robe, and free Leonie with the nail gun with which Philip found his end.
Until then, the atmosphere of the film was dominated by partly heavily overexposed sepia-like brown tones, but the rest of the short plot is in contrast to this in relatively dark blue tones. In the final scenes of the film you can see the sisters and Tom filling bottles with water from a spring on a rock wall. Following circling birds, you get a view of the next valley from a mountain pass , but even there you can only see rocks and no vegetation .
production
Production began in 2009 under the title 2016 - The End of the Night . Tim Fehlbaum worked for a long time on the development of the story and was able to achieve initial successes when producer Roland Emmerich agreed to the project. Later the title was changed to Hell (English Hell or adjective for brightness ).
Filming finally began in April 2010. The exterior shots were shot in Eastern Bavaria , among other places . The shooting locations were the high elevations of the Bavarian Forest , the Ilz Valley Railway , the Rottal hill country and a forest fire area on Corsica .
Awards
The Wiesbaden film evaluation agency awarded the film the title “Particularly valuable”. In June 2011 Tim Fehlbaum received the German Film Direction Award for his work .
“ HELL is an outstanding directorial debut of great density and craftsmanship. Tim Fehlbaum creates something extraordinary with his first long directorial work: to bring a genre neglected in Germany with extreme stylistic confidence in visuality, with tension and strong timing to a new beginning. "
At the 44th Festival de Cinema de Sitges Fantastic received Markus conveyor and Tim Fehlbaum the award for Best Cinematography . Andreas Menn received the Bavarian Film Prize 2011 for editing Hell .
At the ceremony of the German Film Prize 2012 film composer was Lorenz Dangel excellent. Hell was nominated in five other categories (best feature film, best production design, costume design, make-up image, best sound design). The day before, Fehlbaum had received the New Faces Award for the best debut film.
Reviews
“After graduating from the University of Television and Film in Munich, Fehlbaum absolutely wanted to make his debut with a genre material; he worked on 'Hell' for years. [...] Above all, Fehlbaum's persistence pays off for the German cinema audience - despite weaknesses in the details, 'Hell' offers damn exciting genre material from local production. Now the audience just has to accept the end times drama - then we should still hear from Tim Fehlbaum in the future. "
“The film […] is gripping and yet a challenge, because in addition to the horror of the conditions, explicit depictions of violence and cannibalism are part of Fehlbaum's version of the end of human civilization. Fehlbaum virtuously shows that he knows the classics of the genre, he combines their set pieces in an imaginative and coherent way. It must be emphasized that 'Hell' is not least a great producer achievement and does not need to hide itself next to Hollywood productions: This applies to the 'look' of the film, its production design, and also to the speedy narrative: Fehlbaum masters his means with ease. "
Web links
- Official web presence of the film
- Light in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Expert opinion of the German film and media rating
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clearance certificate for Hell . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2011 (PDF; test number: 128 774 K).
- ^ Passauer Neue Presse , September 16, 2011: "East Bavaria as an end-time hell in the cinema"
- ↑ Report of the German Film and Media Assessment
- ↑ Five awards for six talents in German film . Archived from the original on February 21, 2013. 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. Retrieved March 9, 2011.
- ↑ Sitges Film Festival, 2011 Awards: Red State, best motion picture . Retrieved October 17, 2011
- ^ Review on Filmstarts.de . Retrieved July 27, 2011.
- ^ Rüdiger Suchsland: Hell film-dienst, September 2011.
