In the fire (2020)
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| Original title | In the fire |
| Country of production | Germany , Greece |
| Publishing year | 2020 |
| length | 93 minutes |
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| Director | Daphne Charizani |
| script | Daphne Charizani |
| production | Martin Hampel , Thanassis Karathanos , Michael Weber , Viola Fügen , Kostas Lambropoulos |
| music | Florian Tessloff |
| camera | Falko Lachmund |
| cut | David J. Rauschning |
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In the fire is a German-Greek feature film directed by Daphne Charizani , who also wrote the script . The film celebrated its world premiere at the Berlinale 2020 in the section Perspektive Deutsches Kino . The film shows the influence of flight, displacement and integration on our identity.
action
Rojda is a native Kurd . In order to find her place and her place in society, she decides to report to the Bundeswehr. When her mother escapes from Iraq and her sister is missing there, she lets herself be transferred to her old home to look for her sister. There she and her unit train Kurdish Peshmerga fighters for the fight against the so-called Islamic State . Nobody should know that she is actually looking for her missing sister. Working in her old home allows her to see her situation in a whole new light. And suddenly she is in the middle of a fight and has to decide.
Production and sales
The film is a German-Greek co-production by Pallas Film , The Match Factory and View Master Films in collaboration with Arte and a co-production with ZDF ( Das kleine Fernsehspiel ) and the Greek public broadcaster Elliniki Radiofonia Tileorasi (ERT). Producers were Thanassis Karathanos , Martin Hampel , Michael Weber , Viola Fügen and Kostas Lambropoulos . Falko Lachmund was responsible for the camera, David J. Rauschning for the editing and Florian Tessloff for the music . The project was funded by the Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein , the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW with 350,000 euros, the DFFF , the Greek Film Center , EKOME SA and The Post Republic . The development was supported by the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA).
World distribution is in the hands of The Match Factory.
The fire was shot in 2018 in Greece, Germany ( North Rhine-Westphalia ) and Iraq.
Rojda is played by Almila Bagriacik . Other roles include Niels-Bruno Schmidt , Christoph Letkowski , Judith Neumann . Zübeyde Bulut , Lucas Prisor , Gonca de Haas , Maryam Boubani , Eva Maria Sommersberg and Yiannis Niaros can be seen.
The film celebrates its world premiere at the Berlinale.
title
The international title of the film is Sisters Apart .
criticism
Those in charge of the Berlinale classified the film as a work that poses new questions in a world in which the concept of home is changing. He shows women who move the fate of the world in small and large contexts and have their own idea of home. It is shown what influence flight, displacement and integration can have on our identity.
Web links
- In the fire in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the fire | Film 2020. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e IN FIRE - Pallas Film GmbH. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
- ↑ a b “In the Fire” by Daphne Charizani at the Berlinale 2020. In: Film und Medien Stiftung NRW. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
- ^ Sisters Apart. In: The Match Factory. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
- ↑ IM FIRE in the section 'Perspektive Deutsches Kino' of the 70th Berlinale - Pallas Film GmbH. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
- ↑ IN FIRE - Pallas Film GmbH. Accessed February 1, 2020 (German).
- ^ A b Perspective German Cinema: Heimatfilm and Heimathorror. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
- ↑ Berlinale critics ratings. Accessed February 1, 2020 .