In the corridors

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Movie
Original title In the corridors
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2018
length 120 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Thomas Stuber
script Clemens Meyer ,
Thomas Stuber
production Jochen Laube ,
Fabian Maubach
camera Peter Matjasko
cut Kaya Inan
occupation

In the aisles is a German feature film by Thomas Stuber from 2018 . The melodrama is based on a short story by Clemens Meyer and shows the world of a simple employee (portrayed by Franz Rogowski ) in the east German province.

The film premiered on February 23, 2018 as part of the 68th Berlinale and was released in German cinemas on May 24, 2018.

action

The film is loosely divided into three chapters named after the three main characters.

Christian

Somewhere in East Germany, in the present. Christian begins his probationary period in a remote wholesale market. The older Bruno from the drinks department, a former truck driver with a GDR biography, takes the silent young man under his wing. He teaches him all kinds of tricks and tips and becomes a fatherly friend. At work, Christian falls in love with the somewhat older Marion, who works in the confectionery department in the aisle next door. He finds a headband of hers that he takes home with him in a sparsely furnished prefabricated apartment in which he lives alone.

Marion

Marion begins to flirt with shy Christian at the coffee machine, calls him a "newbie" and admires his arm tattoos hidden under his work clothes. Meanwhile, Bruno introduces Christian to driving forklifts . He attends an extra- occupational course and finally, with the support of his colleagues, gets his forklift license . Christian's affection for Marion does not go unnoticed by Bruno. Christian surprises Marion with a Yes-Torty and candle for her birthday . But he learns from a colleague that Marion is married, even if allegedly not very happy. Due to the different shift work, Christian does not see Marion again until the company Christmas party. He tells her that he used to work in construction but was fired after an argument with his boss. Both exchange gentle caresses. In the following years Marion suddenly avoids Christian. One day when he speaks to her about it, she almost begins to cry and denies that he was the reason.

When Marion is suddenly on sick leave for a long time, Christian falls into a deep hole and gets drunk with former friends. He is late for work and receives a warning. Bruno tells Christian that Marion's husband is an "asshole" and that he shouldn't ask her if he likes her. Christian then wants to visit Marion with a bouquet of flowers. He finds the single-family house in a new housing estate seemingly abandoned and gains access through the ajar patio door. He secretly watches Marion taking a bath, but flees when she notices him. Later he gets drunk in a bar.

Bruno

One day, Bruno takes Christian home with him after work. He lives in a yard nearby, supposedly with his wife. Bruno confronts Christian with his suspicion that he was in prison. Christian affirms this and explains to him that as a teenager he committed break-ins with friends. Because he was still under juvenile criminal law at the time, the entry in the certificate of good conduct has meanwhile been deleted, which is why he was able to take up the position in the wholesale market at all. Bruno praises Christian as a “good man” and tells him that he missed his previous job as a truck driver - “the road” - very much.

When Marion comes back to work, she thanks Christian for the flowers accidentally left behind in the house. Both of them exchange tenderness again in the freezer after Christian tells her about the Eskimo greeting, which consists of noses touching when greeting.

When the workforce learns that Bruno, who actually lives alone, has committed suicide, Christian strolls through the now abandoned and rather neglected courtyard and the house. Later he and the other colleagues visit the urn burial .

Christian successfully completes the probationary period and takes Bruno's place in the drinks department. One day Marion shows Christian a trick that she once learned from Bruno: If you drive the empty fork of the forklift all the way up and then slowly lower it, the hydraulics of the forklift produce a sound reminiscent of the sound of the sea.

production

The director was Thomas Stuber , who also wrote the screenplay for the film together with Clemens Meyer . It is based on Meyer's short story of the same name, which he published in 2008 in his book of short stories, Die Nacht, die Lichter . The author himself had worked as a forklift driver in a wholesale store for three years. In 2015, Stuber and Meyer were awarded the German Screenplay Prize for the film script. After the short film Von Hunden und Pferde and the film drama Herbert , it is the third collaboration between Stuber and Meyer. The latter was awarded the German Silver Film Prize 2016 in the “Best Feature Film” category. Von Hunden und Pferde won the German Short Film Award in gold in 2011 and was awarded the student Oscar in silver in 2012.

Cast and crew at the presentation of the German Film Prize in April 2018

The film received a production grant of 340,000 euros from the Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg , from the BKM in addition to a script grant of 30,000 euros, a production grant of 200,000 euros from the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg 100,000 euros and from the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung in the amount of 450,000 euros and a grant of 378,206 euros from the German Film Fund.

The shooting took place in Leipzig , Wittenberg , Bitterfeld and Karlsruhe and began on February 28, 2017 near Leipzig. After further shooting in Wittenberg, where the scenes were shot in the confectionery department, photos were taken inside the Hamberger beverage wholesale market in Bitterfeld, where most of the film was shot. While there was customer traffic there during the day, filming took place at night. In Karlsruhe, scenes were filmed in which Christian is getting his forklift license, in a driving school and in a hall in Hagsfeld . On April 12, 2017, filming ended after 30 days of shooting.

The film premiered on February 23, 2018 as part of the 68th Berlinale . On April 8, 2018, In the Gänge was presented as the closing film at the Lichter Filmfest . The film was released in German cinemas on May 24, 2018. In July 2018 the film was shown at the Polish film festival Nowe Horyzonty .

reception

Age rating

In Germany it was approved by the FSK from the age of 12, but allowed from the age of 6 if accompanied by the parents. The reason for the release states: “The film concentrates entirely on its lovingly drawn characters and tells of the world of the wholesale market with calm and laconic, sometimes almost slapstick-like humor . Children under the age of 12 can irritate individual drastic moments in combination with the subliminal tragedy of some characters and the dreary atmosphere of the location, but already 12-year-olds can distance themselves sufficiently from these aspects. "

Reviews

So far, Stubers directorial work has impressed 87 percent of all Rotten Tomatoes critics and received an average rating of 7.6 out of a possible 10 points. In the corridors received 2.9 out of four possible stars in the international critics of the British trade magazine Screen International and, together with the Norwegian contribution Utøya, took 3rd place among all 19 Berlinale competition films. Wes Anderson's animated film Isle of Dogs - Atari's Journey (3.3) topped the ranking.

Hanns-Georg Rodek from Welt Online thinks, In the Gangs there is a tender, funny and precise film to which the routines and rituals of this work environment are important, which approaches them respectfully and yet uses them for its own purposes. Rodek recognizes a wall on the shelves; After the warehouse workers had only lost the protection of the wall around their land, they would have found it again in the even smaller: "The wholesale market is the replacement GDR, its residents move along clear routes, are obliged to maintain order on the shelves, and those who stick to these rules will be left alone. "

Regarding the world of work, the beverage market, says Kerstin Decker from Tagesspiegel , the temporary, contract and warehouse workers are their slaves, barely qualified, universally interchangeable and busy on revocation: “ In the aisles you implant a strange soul, as it were, the soul of people , which still exist, and thus, as if incidentally, a monument to the working world of the GDR, its basic solidarity. "

Frank Junghänel from the Berliner Zeitung says that you first have to have this courage, this narrative power and this cinematic vision to settle a love story almost exclusively in the world of a wholesale market illuminated by cold neon light. Thomas Stuber always chooses a wide image section, continues Junghänel, who emphasizes the strictly geometrical layout of the action space: “This is the frame in which Bruno, Marion, Christian and the others move. Everyone has their task, for which there are fixed rules. But everyone also has a life that is hidden under the blue coat. "

The halls of the wholesale trade are a home for the employees, says Fabian Tietke from the taz , and the film rarely leaves the microcosm of the high halls, from which the film's recordings elicit all its facets between sterile neon light, shredding and cozy familiarity: “The strict ones symmetrical images, the many axial movements of the camera create space in which the forklifts can dance like figure skaters and in which the proximity and distance of the people in the room can be read. ”Tietke goes on to say that there is an actor's film in the corridors , something for both of them Leading roles, Christian and Marion, as well as Bruno and the other employees apply. An ensemble performance like the one in this film is far too rare in German film, according to Tietke.

Jessica Kiang from Variety says that you could forever watch Sandra Hüller and Franz Rogowski shyly look at each other, sometimes with their strangely serious, sometimes happy or mischievous looks.

Stephen Dalton of The Hollywood Reporter describes the film as a lyrical portrait of emotionally disturbed outsiders, and this one is full of human empathy for its oppressed protagonists.

From the German Film and Media Review was in the corridors with the predicate particularly valuable provided. The reasoning says about the chosen setting: “It is a very fine irony in the basic concept of the film to choose a supermarket as the setting and thus a temple of consumption, in which the ritual of shopping that sustains capitalism is performed hundreds of times a day . However, the people who work here have long since been repulsed by the system they serve. [...] The figures emphatically reflect the loss of self-confidence and perspectives and the forced departure from identity and accustomed life in the former GDR, which was suddenly declared wrong from one day to the next. " The reason that characters touched in the film, although there are deliberately empty spaces in their biographies, inconsistencies arise and details of the past of some characters remain in the nebulous, precisely these empty spaces and open questions made the film so authentic.

Use in school lessons

In May 2018 was in the corridors of kinofenster.de presented as a "film of the month". The online portal also offers materials on the film for use in lessons. There the film scholar Hannes Wesselkämper writes that the closed world of the wholesale market can be viewed at eye level, thanks to the gaze of the newcomer Christian: “As a rather quiet protagonist, he gradually learns the processes of everyday work in the drinks department. Dealing with crates of drinks becomes safer, relationships with colleagues intensify. "The film is a classic heroic story, except that the ant is not a mythical monster from Homer's Odyssey, but a complicated lifting device," Wesselkämper continues and sums up: "The film takes a look at a milieu that is not based on sociological standards, but lives from a fascination for the interaction of a specific group of people. For the presentation of their language, their very own style and the constant alternation between harshness and cordiality are just as important as the actual content of the dialogues. "

Awards

Franz Rogowski was inspected during the German Film Award in 2018 for best male lead award

German Script Award 2015

German Film Award 2018

German Acting Award 2018

  • Nomination for a strong performance ( Gerdy Zint )

Berlin International Film Festival 2018

Protestant Film Work Jury

  • Awarded as film of the year 2018

Film Festival Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 2018

  • FIPRESCI Award

Günter Rohrbach Film Prize 2018

literature

  • Meyer, Clemens: In the corridors . In: The night, the lights . Frankfurt, M.: Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verl., 2010. - ISBN 978-3-596-17487-4 . Pp. 187-212.

Web links

Commons : In the corridors  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for In the aisles . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 178819 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ^ Love and death in the wholesale market: Clemens Meyer in conversation with Ute Welty . In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de, February 23, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b c MDR cinema coproduction 'In den Gänge' is being filmed in Leipzig, Bitterfeld, Wittenberg and Karlsruhe ( memento of the original from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: mdr.de, March 9, 2017.
  4. ↑ In the corridors In: moviepilot.de. Retrieved December 19, 2017.
  5. ↑ Minister of State Grütters funds film and screenplay projects with around 2 million euros In: bundesregierung.de, December 16, 2014.
  6. ↑ Funding decisions 2016. In: medienboard.de. Retrieved May 10, 2019.
  7. ↑ Central German media funding awards project funding of over 2.2 million euros In: mdm-online.de, October 15, 2015 (PDF; 66 KB)
  8. ↑ a b Stefan Schröter: Shooting in Bitterfeld MDR cinema coproduction in the aisles of a beverage market In: mz-web.de, March 19, 2017.
  9. ↑ Felix Haberkorn: Film shooting in Karlsruhe: A touch of Hollywood blows through the fan-shaped city In: ka-news.de, March 25, 2017.
  10. ↑ Press releases competition 68th Berlinale ( Memento of the original from December 22nd, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berlinale.de archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: berlinale.de, December 18, 2017.
  11. ↑ The first competition films have been selected In: Deutschlandfunk Online, December 18, 2017.
  12. ↑ https://lichter-filmfest.de/programm/filmprogramm-2018/schlussfilm-in-den-gaengen-preisverleihung/
  13. ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
  14. ↑ In the corridors. In: nowehoryzonty.pl. Retrieved July 15, 2018.
  15. ↑ Reason for release for In the aisles . In: Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
  16. ↑ In the Aisles. In: Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved July 5, 2019.
  17. ↑ Ben Dalton: 'Isle Of Dogs' tops Screen's final Berlin Jury Grid; Golden Bear winner 'Touch Me Not' scores low . In: screendaily.com, February 26, 2018 (accessed March 8, 2018).
  18. ↑ Hanns-Georg Rodek: Berlinale: Thomas Stubers Ost-Film 'In den Gänge' In: welt.de, February 24, 2018.
  19. ↑ Kerstin Decker: “In the aisles” in the Berlinale competition: The freshman and the confectionery fairy. In: Der Tagesspiegel, February 23, 2018.
  20. ^ Frank Junghänel: Berlinale Competition: A love story from the wholesale market. In: Berliner Zeitung, February 23, 2018.
  21. ↑ http://www.taz.de/!5484379/
  22. ↑ Jessica Kiang: Berlin Film Review: 'In the Aisles' In: Variety, February 23, 2018.
  23. ↑ Stephen Dalton: 'In the Aisles' ('In den gangen'): Film Review | Berlin 2018 In: The Hollywood Reporter, February 23, 2018.
  24. ↑ In the corridors. In: fbw-filmbeval.com . German film and media rating. Retrieved May 3, 2018.
  25. ↑ In the corridors. In: kinofenster.de.
  26. ↑ http://www.kinofenster.de/download/kf1805-in-den-gaengen.pdf
  27. ↑ In the aisles: Film of the month May 2018. In: kinofenster.de. Accessed April 2, 2020 (PDF; 1,228 KB)
  28. ↑ Hannes Wesselkämper: In the aisles. In: kinofenster.de.
  29. ↑ Thomas Stuber receives script award In: firststeps.de, February 18, 2015.
  30. ↑ Thomas Stuber and Clemens Meyer receive the German Screenplay Award In: focus.de, February 6, 2015.
  31. ↑ Nominations for the German Film Prize 2018 In: bundesregierung.de, March 14, 2018.
  32. ↑ http://www.mediabiz.de/film/news/gilde-filmpreis-fuer-in-den-gaengen/427219
  33. ↑ http://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/preis-der-oekumenischen-jury- geht-an-in-den-gaengen.265.de.html?drn:news_id= 854585
  34. ↑ Film of the year 2018: "In the Gangs" awarded. In: Deutschlandfunk, December 15, 2018.
  35. ↑ Film drama "In den Gänge" wins Günter Rohrbach Film Prize ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Article dated November 2, 2018, accessed November 3, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rtl.de