Always never by the sea

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Movie
Original title Always never by the sea
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2007
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Antonin Svoboda
script Antonin Svoboda, Christoph Grissemann , Dirk Stermann , Heinz Strunk , Jörg Kalt
production Coop99
camera Martin Gschlacht
cut Oliver Neumann
occupation

Always never by the sea is a feature film by the Austrian director Antonin Svoboda from 2007. The tragic comedy in the form of a chamber film was produced by Coop99 Filmproduktion GmbH and is described by its creators as a "psychogrotesque". The protagonists, portrayed by the satirist duo Stermann & Grissemann and the entertainer Heinz Strunk , are locked in their car in a remote forest after a car accident. The film title refers to the title of a short story collection published in 1999 by Stermann and Grissemann. In 2001 the Munich band Moulinettes released a single of the same name. The theater version by Bernd Steets based on the film was premiered under the same title in a co-production between the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg and the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen in 2009. Director: Dominique Schnizer. In 2016 the play will be produced at the Saarland State Theater in Saarbrücken.

The French comedy Balduin, the Sunday driver from 1971 with Louis de Funès deals with a similar topic .

action

Baisch, a history professor, goes home with his severely drunk brother-in-law Anzengruber after the opening ceremony of his wife's new book and wine shop, with whom he lives in separation. On the road they take the solo entertainer Schwanenmeister with them, who has had an accident in his car after meeting a woman walking. In the nocturnal forest, their car comes off the road after they too met the same walker and had to avoid them. The path down the slope ends wedged between two trees. The vehicle is a decommissioned company car of the former Austrian Federal President Kurt Waldheim and equipped with bulletproof glass. Since the window lifters and sunroof are defective and the windows cannot be broken, the three men are trapped in the car and have to wait for outside help. The horn doesn't work, nor does your cell phone . The only food for the three consists of a carton of sparkling wine, a bowl of herring salad and a packet of biscuits.

The increasing despair, alternated with outbursts of cheerfulness, leads in the vehicle to partly absurd, partly profound dialogues between those trapped.

When the boy Toni discovers the car, the three occupants draw new hope. But Toni, following a pronounced adolescent urge to research, is more interested in empirically studying the consequences of this imprisonment. Experienced by observing laboratory rats, he constantly exposes his objects to new stress stimuli.

Baisch succeeds in catching the boy with a noose . He hopes that the boy will be missing and wanted, which will also save the three trapped people. However, Toni manages to escape so that he can stop the search party. He then has to leave the summer camp he was in and does not inform anyone about the car that has crashed. At the end of the film you can see how a white rat (the laboratory rat that escaped from Toni's tests) touches a loose cable connection in a ventilation duct of the vehicle, whereupon the sunroof opens. Before the men sitting lethargically in the car can realize this and react, the roof closes again.

criticism

  • The Titanic writes in its October 2007 issue: The film is "highly recommended", because despite the less well-known director and actors, it is "an oppressive and entertaining torture chamber game".
  • Der Spiegel writes in its online edition of 3 October 2007: "A small, successful Alpine Beckett fully larmoyanter tirades and solipsistic musty Men crises."
  • The lexicon of the international film judges: "Cabaret experimental arrangement in the form of a claustrophobic comedy, whose idiosyncratic characters rant about God and the world, whereby the black humor is mixed with a good portion of depression."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Titanic - The Definitive Satirical Magazine: October 2007 Issue, p. 48
  2. ↑ Spiegel-Online on October 3, 2007: http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/kino/0,1518,509174,00.html
  3. ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007 . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9

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