In the hour of the lynx

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Movie
German title In the hour of the lynx
Original title I lossens time
Country of production Denmark , Sweden
original language Danish , Swedish
Publishing year 2013
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK from 16
Rod
Director Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
script Jonas T. Bengtsson , Per Olov Enquist , Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Tobias Lindholm
production Anna Björk, Anna Croneman, Bo Ehrhardt, Mikkel Jersin, Kristina Kornum, Lars Bredo Rahbek, Per-Erik Svensson
music Tobias Hylander, Flemming Nordkrog
camera Let Frank Johannessen
cut Peter Brandt
occupation

In the hour of the lynx (original title: I lossens time ) is a Danish-Swedish fiction film by Søren Kragh-Jacobsen from 2013 based on a play by the writer Per Olov Enquist .

action

In a winterly snow-covered northern Swedish settlement, a young, confused-looking man named Drengen brutally kills an older couple for no apparent reason. He ends up in a psychiatric institution for violent criminals. Against the opposition of the supervisory staff, the heavy cases like Drengen in preventive detention will lock up, the young psychologist Lisbeth tried the social skills to strengthen the occupants by dealing with pets. In fact, the closed Drengen develops a close bond with a red cat entrusted to him, whom he calls Valde. When a jealous fellow prisoner throws the cat over the prison wall, Drengen takes revenge and stabs him. Lisbeth has to break off her failed therapy concept and leaves the recovered cat to Drengen in order to say goodbye one last night. But Valde no longer recognizes Valde and believes he can hear the voice of God in the purring of the cat, which commands him to commit suicide. Drengen strangles the cat and then tries to suffocate himself with a plastic bag, but he is saved in time.

The psychologist asks Pastor Helen for help in dissuading Drengen from divine orders. But Helen does not get through to Drengen, who refuses any contact with the outside world and only keeps mumbling the name of the cat. She realizes that Lisbeth is primarily interested in her research, for which she exposes her patients to extreme situations. Nevertheless, she dares the experiment of being locked in Drengen's cell at night with the help of the supervisor Knud in order to make contact with him. Indeed, the young man begins to speak. He tells of his childhood with a mother who neglected him. He spent a few happy months in the house of his grandfather, who was also called Valde, and told him about the "hour of the lynx", the 25th hour in which anything could happen, and the "divine harp", the telephone lines over which the voice is transmitted God's to be heard. Years later he tried to find the house of his brief happiness. When he met an old couple instead of his grandfather, he saw them as intruders into his paradise and killed them. After the pastor said goodbye to Drengen that morning, he hanged himself in his cell. Helen makes sure that Drengen is buried with his cat. A year later she resigned because she herself began to see God in the form of a red cat. She visits the empty house of Drengen's grandfather, around which a cat of the same kind roams.

Literary template

In the hour of the lynx (Swedish original title I Lodjurets Timma ) is a play for five by the Swedish writer Per Olov Enquist , which premiered on April 9, 1988 under the direction of Göran Graffmann at the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm . The German-language premiere took place on May 30, 1990 in the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich under the direction of Heinz Kreidl . The first performance in Germany was on May 9, 1992 at the Stadttheater Ingolstadt . Directed by Werner Schnitzer . In 1991 the Hessischer Rundfunk and Sachsen Radio produced a radio play version directed by Heidemarie Rohweder . Günter Schaupp , Anke Zillich and Doris Schade spoke .

reception

At the 55th Nordic Film Festival in Lübeck , In der Luchs received the church's Interfilm Prize endowed with 2500 euros. The reasoning stated that the director asked questions about the motive of a murder, about “forgiveness and hope” in a “refined narrative” and was not afraid to “also depict brutal violence and unusual spiritual connections.” Cinema called the film a “ [i] ntensive, touching psychological puzzle "and praised the" exciting, sensitively staged journey into a confused soul, the resolution of which touches, even if it does not explain everything. " Kino.de, on the other hand, criticized the film for being" well constructed "despite good acting performances work and "cross the line to unbelievable time and again". The Danish daily Berlingske described the film as a "quiet and strong drama". According to Politiken , the film demands a certain "self-conquest" from the viewer, but if one abandons himself to his mood and mysticism, it creates a "film experience beyond the usual that has a long lasting effect."

Awards

In the hour of the lynx was nominated for various film awards, but remained unprivileged. In 2013 the film was shown in competition at the Estonian Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn . Leading actress Sofie Gråbøl received nominations for the Danish film awards Bodil and Robert in 2014 . Supporting actress Signe Egholm Olsen in the role of Lisbeth as well as producer Lars Bredo Rahbek and director Søren Kragh-Jacobsen were also nominated for the Audience Award (Best Film Drama).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Per Olov Enquist: In the hour of the lynx at Suhrkamp Theater Verlag .
  2. ↑ In the hour of the lynx in the HörDat audio game database .
  3. ^ 55th Nordic Film Days Lübeck ( Memento from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) . On the Interfilm website .
  4. ↑ In the hour of the lynx at Cinema .
  5. ↑ I lossens time at Kino.de .
  6. ↑ 55th Nordic Film Days ( memento from March 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at the Lübeck Open Canal , November 2013.