Behind closed doors
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Behind closed doors |
| Country of production | Switzerland , FR Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 80 minutes |
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| Director | Anka Schmid |
| script | Anka Schmid |
| production | Mano Film , DFFB |
| music |
Klaus Wagner , Stefan Schiske |
| camera | Ciro Cappellari |
| cut | Anka Schmid, Inge Schneider |
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Behind closed doors is a feature film by director Anka Schmid from 1991, which tells of the everyday life of seventeen residents of a house in Berlin - Kreuzberg .
action
At first glance, the seventeen residents of the old apartment building in Berlin-Kreuzberg don't have much in common other than their home address. And so are the reminiscing old photographer Kempinski, Hannelore, who dreams of distant lands, who temporarily shares her apartment with her lovesick niece, Bona, who has a beer with his roommate every now and then and teaches French in the kitchen, the two teenage sisters with their mother, who recently fell in love, the medieval caretaker couple and the young couple whose daughter Paula prefers to sit on the staircase than to go to school, unexpectedly familiar when Kempinski invites them to his apartment to celebrate his 80th birthday.
Festivals and Awards
With Behind Closed Doors , Schmid won the Swiss Young Talent Award, the Film Award of the City and Canton of Zurich ( Zurich Film Award ) and the 2nd award at the Schwerin Film Festival.
Other festivals : Saarbrücken Film Festival / Max Ophüls Prize , Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival, Chicago International Film Festival , Bergamo Film Meeting, Warsaw International Film Festival , Créteil International Women's Film Festival
reception
Walter Ruggle, Züritipp , August 30, 1991
“Anka Schmid moves with Ciro Cappelari, who took care of the rapturous black and white photography, in the labyrinth of this fictional and yet so real house, advantageously not even trying to capture the whole. It is limited to a few of these small expressions, which by no means all have to be verbal, from which one the other and a handful together result in surprisingly clear contours of a whole picture. In the montage there is a variation of her intention: There she takes up life in tones, follows individual tracks, then immediately gives up again and takes up the next. The transitions appear as fluid as the connections, and there is at least as much content on the sound track of life as there is on the visual level. "
Georg Kreis , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , September 6, 1991
"In the character drawing of her figures, Anka Schmid uses strikingly wide or even delicate lines in beautiful alternation, creating lively figures with individual faces and at the same time exciting images from everyday Berlin."
Web links
- Behind closed doors in the Internet Movie Database (English)