Henry (2015)
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| Original title | Henry |
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| Country of production | Germany , Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 53 minutes |
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| Director | Philipp Fussenegger |
| script | Philipp Fussenegger, Constanze Klaue |
| production | Lisa Thalhammer |
| music | Constanze Klaue, Viola Evers, Klaus Evers, Dominik Susteck |
| camera | Dino Osmanovic |
| cut | Judy Lankammer |
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Henry is a German medium-length feature film by Austrian- born director Philipp Fussenegger , which premiered on October 24, 2015 at the 49th Hof International Film Festival.
action
The musically gifted but emotionally introverted Henry (14) is coming to a private and secluded music boarding school for the new school year. There he meets the ambitious and self-confident classmate Erik (14), who as an outstanding organist is the figurehead of the school. Henry has to move into Erik's room and is introduced to everyday school life by him. Both of them come under increasing pressure: One because he is being pushed out of his isolation and the other because the newcomer is increasingly questioning his abilities. Because Henry not only discovered his fascination and passion for Erik's preferred organ playing, but also his first feelings for Erik's girlfriend. The two become bitter competitors. Erik, Mik (14) and Sebastian (13) tease and sabotage Henry wherever they can. Only when he secretly plays the organ does Henry find the peace and refuge he longed for from the problems in the boarding school. When the music teacher and choir director finally becomes aware of Henry's talent, his position towards the roommates worsens. Erik and his friends do everything in their power to prepare Hell on earth for Henry. In the end, not only does blood flow, Erik also has to leave the boarding school forever.
production
Production history
It acts with Henry to a production of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne . For director Philipp Fussenegger, who studied here and took over the direction of the film, the subject of music addressed in the film also has autobiographical traits, because he himself was a student at a music conservatory, which, according to his own statements, has shaped his life.
The film was produced by funfairfilms and the Art Academy for Media Cologne in cooperation with the University for Television and Film Munich . Many sponsored the project, such as the Film and Media Foundation NRW , Come On / Kultur Niederösterreich, the State of Salzburg, the State of Vorarlberg and the Sankt Blasien college . In spite of everything, the production was more expensive than expected and so the production had to acquire further funds through a crowdfunding campaign . The actor Leon Löwentraut , who plays the role of Mik, even made some of his internationally traded paintings available especially for this purpose .
You can watch the making of the film on VIMEO .
Casting
Because the director wanted to cast the roles with the best actors, the production invited 400 young people across Germany to the casting. In the end, in addition to Lukas Till Berglund, who played the main role, the young Nino Böhlau stood out. He was not only convincing as an actor, for his role he also had to learn parts of Chopin's revolutionary etude in a short time. He played this almost flawlessly after just a few exercises. Later during the shoot, according to the director, the greatest difficulty was “that there was no continuous shooting, but that we had to follow the school calendar of our protagonists and our locations. The shooting was integrated into everyday school life at the Sankt Blasien college. When the students were in class, we turned in the corridors, there weren't any organ lessons in the ballroom, then we sat down to the piano or the organ. The whole crew also always had lunch with the teaching staff or the boarding school groups. The boarding school gave us a rotation rhythm that we had to adapt to. In retrospect, it's kind of amusing that the film team also had to go through a timed daily routine in the college. "
publication
Henry celebrated its premiere on October 24, 2015 as part of the 49th Hof International Film Festival. On March 9, 2016, the film was shown at the Diagonale '16 Kaleidoskop in Austria. This was followed in 2016 by many performances at a wide variety of festivals such as Athens, Montreal and Fipa in France. In April 2016 during the 5th International Student Film Festival Sehsüchte ran Henry in the program and was nominated for the producer price.
In July 2016 Henry was nominated for the German First Steps Award in the category Best Medium-Length Film , which he finally won. Shortly afterwards, the film goes on tour internationally under the label Österreichische Kurzfilmschau 2017 of the Academy of Austrian Films.
review
Bayerischer Rundfunk : "Philipp Fussenegger shows how you can draw fascinating characters with few resources - without revealing too much, without doctoring around psychologically, simply with images and sounds that create an almost hypnotic pull."
FAZ “Philipp Fussenegger appeared much more dazzling. Outwardly somewhere between high elf and crystal chandelier, he now offered all those who doubted his film “Henry” the mirrored forehead: “Many people said at the beginning that you couldn't do it. But I kept telling myself and everyone else that we can do it. We can do it! ”Art break, political endorsement:“ Oh, and if I can say that as an Austrian - then you can do it too ”."
Awards
- First Steps Award 2016: Best medium-length film
- Austrian Film Award 2017 - nomination in the category Best Short Film
Web links
- Henry in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Henry at filmportal.de
- Henry on the funfairfilms [15] website
- Behind the scenes on Vimeo [16]
Individual evidence
- ↑ Philipp Fussenegger: Quotation from school time at the music boarding school. (No longer available online.) Fffyeah.com, November 14, 2015, archived from the original on September 2, 2016 ; accessed on June 13, 2016 (German). 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.
- ↑ Express.de: Art talent celebrates its premiere on Saturday with “Henry”: Leon Löwentraut: Now he's also a film star. Retrieved August 31, 2016 .
- ↑ Making-of. Retrieved June 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Quoting about school days at the music boarding school. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 2, 2016 ; accessed on June 13, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ Michael Wopperer: 5 young filmmakers for the future of German cinema. www.br.de, October 21, 2015, accessed on June 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Diagonale 2016 film info. Retrieved June 11, 2016 .
- ↑ Program 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 10, 2016 ; accessed on June 13, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ MONTREAL WORLD FILM FESTIVAL. Retrieved June 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Henry. Retrieved June 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Program Sehs sucht 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 12, 2016 ; accessed on June 12, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ Sehs sucht 2016. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 12, 2016 ; accessed on June 12, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ Nomination for the FIRST STEPS Award 2016. Accessed on August 13, 2016 .
- ^ Austrian Short Film Show 2017 (PDF) Academy of Austrian Films. Retrieved May 8, 2019.
- ↑ Michael Wopperer: 5 young filmmakers for the future of German cinema. https://www.br.de/index.html , October 21, 2015, accessed on June 13, 2016 .
- ^ In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. September 21, 2016.
