Heart pounding
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Heart pounding |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Elisabeth Scharang |
| script | Elisabeth Scharang |
| production |
Thomas Pridnig , Peter Wirthensohn |
| music | Thomas Jarmer |
| camera | Jörg Widmer |
| cut | Alarich Lenz |
| occupation | |
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Herzjagen is an Austrian fiction film from 2019 by Elisabeth Scharang with Martina Gedeck and Rainer Wöss . The screenplay is based on the novel Herznovelle by Julya Rabinowich . The premiere took place on July 1, 2019 as part of the Munich Film Festival in the New German Television series . At the end of August 2019 the film was shown at the Festival of German Films . The first broadcast on ORF took place on November 13, 2019. In the first , the film was shown for the first time on June 17, 2020.
action
Caroline Binder is a perfectionist who has a beautiful home and has a happy marriage with her loving husband Sebastian. However, she suffers from chronic heart failure . Together with her husband, she arranged her life around her congenital heart defect. Heart specialist Dr. One day Paul Hoffmann suggests a surgical procedure from which he expects a full recovery. The operation is going well, Dr. Hoffmann can keep his promise and Caroline is considered healthy.
Nothing stands in the way of a carefree life. But Caroline is not happy, she does not seem to be able to say goodbye to her previous life without any excitement or responsibility and taking it easy. She becomes moody, irrational and unpredictable and turns to Dr. again after a panic attack and racing heart. Hoffmann. He referred her to his colleague, the psychiatrist Dr. Erika Pielach. She tries to convince Caroline that life is worth living and that her luck is in her own hands. After Dr. Pielach falls from the roof of the hospital due to end-stage cancer and dies, Caroline takes her life back into her own hands and starts working again in her original job as an architect.
production
The shooting took place from May 28 to June 28, 2018 in Vienna . The film was produced by Lotus Film , the Austrian and Bavarian broadcasters were involved, and the production was supported by the Austrian TV Fund and the Vienna Film Fund .
William Edouard Franck was responsible for the sound, Hannes Salat for the production design , Veronika Albert for the costumes , Katharina Erfmann for the mask and Lisa Oláh for the casting . The writer Julya Rabinowich , whose novel Herznovelle served as the template for the script, has a cameo in the film .
reception
Thomas Gehringer from tittelbach.tv described the film as a visually expressive film adaptation of Julya Rabinowich's novella. The fact that obsession, Weltschmerz and self-pity of the main character Caroline Binder are not exhausting is due to Gedecks acting, Scharang's sensitive direction and the terminally ill with cancer psychiatrist. Herzjagen is a touching, poetic film about the fear of death and the value of life.
Wilfried Geldner wrote in the Weser Kurier that Herzjagen was undoubtedly an actor film. The protagonist Caroline Binder develops into a state of increasing alienation, which disturbs the viewer as well as the main character in the film. Director Scharang often uses symbols. A change of genre is always dared. There are scenes of comical ease, at other times everything seems to amount to a psychological thriller. Caroline's relatives took care of the grounding, and their ignorance was interspersed in a weird folk-play. All of this is captured in consistently beautiful cinema images by a sliding camera.
Gabriele Schoder called Herzjagen a typical Austrian film in the best sense of the word in the Badische Zeitung . Elisabeth Scharang has a great sense of the dark side of the human condition, of disturbance, irritation and the loss of all security. Scharang and cameraman Jörg Widmer find beguiling images somewhere between burlesque and psychological thriller. Martina Gedeck is simply fantastic. The subtle play of table setting and Ruth Brauer-Kvam make the film a worth seeing drama about lust for life and fear of death, about responsibility and courage and fear as an overrated feeling.
Judith v. Sternburg wrote in the Frankfurter Rundschau that there would be something galling in the good outcome, which reminds us that Austrian art's view of the world is often a bit more slyly. Scharang distinguishes sharply between existential and non-existential problems. Caroline does not understand that her problem is no longer existential. In addition, a few sentences that would be suitable for behind-the-ears writing.
Awards and nominations
Thomas Pluch Script Award 2020
- Nomination for the main prize and the special prize of the jury (Elisabeth Scharang)
Web links
- Heartbeat in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Heart chasing at crew united
- Heartbeat on the Lotus Film website
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d “Herzjagen”: Elisabeth Scharang's ORF / BR drama with Martina Gedeck . OTS notification dated June 29, 2018, accessed June 12, 2019.
- ↑ a b Munich Film Festival: Herzjagen . Retrieved June 12, 2019.
- ^ Festival of German Film: Herzjagen. Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
- ^ ORF-2 premiere for Elisabeth Scharang's “Herzjagen” with Martina Gedeck. October 24, 2019, accessed October 24, 2019 .
- ↑ ORF-2 premiere: Martina Gedeck has “Herzjagen”. In: ORF.at . Retrieved November 13, 2019 .
- ^ A b Thomas Gehringer: Cinema co-production "Herzjagen". In: tittelbach.tv . Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Herzjagen at crew united . Retrieved June 12, 2019.
- ↑ Wilfried Geldner: An angel who falls from heaven. In: Weser Courier . June 9, 2020, accessed June 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Gabriele Schoder: The drama "Herzjagen" with Martina Gedeck can be seen on ARD. In: badische-zeitung.de. June 15, 2020, accessed June 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Judith v. Sternburg: Martina Gedeck in "Herzjagen" (ARD): A feat in itself. In: fr.de. June 18, 2020, accessed June 18, 2020 .