Heart leap (film)
Herzsprung is a German feature film that was co-produced with DEFA -Studio Babelsberg GmbH, Thomas Wilkening Filmgesellschaft mbH and ZDF and directed by Helke Misselwitz .
action
The small town of Herzsprung is located on the federal motorway 24 from Berlin in the direction of Hamburg and Rostock . The film begins in a large kitchen where geese are being prepared for sale. It is the time after the reunification, everything is in disintegration. The Russian soldiers are leaving, the factories are closing and people are losing their jobs. One of them is Johanna, who has previously plucked geese with her colleagues. On the way home she meets a strange black man who has just done business with Russian soldiers. Since he sold his bike in the process, she takes him to the train station in Herzsprung.
Her own husband Jan was thrown off course by unemployment and is addicted to alcohol. One day when she was lying in the bathtub, she heard gunshots from the nearby cattle shed. She quickly runs there, still in her bathrobe, and finds Jan, who first shot all the cattle and then shot himself. After the funeral service, she lets a boy from the village, who goes by the nickname Solyanka and who loves her, drive her to her friend Lisa's hairdressing salon on his motorcycle, and then with freshly dyed red hair takes her to the city to dance .
Her older former colleague Elsa, who occasionally takes care of her two children, is asked by Johanna's widowed father, Jakob, if they want to live together. Since she does not want to continue to live alone, she tentatively agrees. Johanna's friend Lisa is also fulfilling a long-cherished dream. She shows Johanna the essentials of her craft, hands over the hairdressing salon to her and sets off south to seek her fortune by the sea.
One day the black stranger is looking for Johanna in Herzsprung and finds her. She falls in love with the stranger who finds work in a snack stand on the highway. Soljanka, who would like to have her for himself, has formed a group with his friends that is not only outwardly right . He is outraged that Johanna has fallen in love with a foreigner. To get him out of the way, he sets fire to the cart at the rest area, ties the stranger to a tree and threatens him with throwing knives. What Solyanka does not know is that Johanna is in the burning snack bar from which she can escape. When he blindly throws a knife at the man who is bound, he unintentionally kills Johanna, who was protecting her lover.
production
Herzsprung was filmed under the working title Illusion of Awakening on Fuji Fujicolor and had its world premiere on October 30, 1992 during the Hof International Film Festival. It was first broadcast on television on June 13, 1994 on ZDF .
criticism
Michael Hanisch writes in the Neue Zeit that Herzsprung is certainly not a combative film. "Fortunately," he also lacks any kind of confusion or self-pity, and there are no complaints and complaints. The film shows a description of the state with many nuances, because the simple black and white truths are not there.
The lexicon of international films states that the superbly photographed and played debut film impressively conveys a largely cliché-free image of a region characterized by unemployment, hatred of foreigners and a lack of prospects, although it is narrative bumpy and too intrusive in the use of symbolic references.
Awards
- 1992: 40th San Sebastian International Film Festival : Honorable Mention in the First Feature Section
literature
- F.-B. Habel : The great lexicon of DEFA feature films . Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7 , pp. 244 to 245 .
Web links
- Herzsprung in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Heart jump at filmportal.de
- Heart leap at the DEFA Foundation
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neue Zeit of November 24, 1992, p. 13
- ^ Jump from the heart in the Lexicon of International Films