In the desert (1987)

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Movie
Original title In the desert
Country of production Federal Republic of Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1987
length 75 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Rafael Fuster Pardo
script Horst Stasiak
production dffb
music Inti Illimani ,
Jocelyn B. Smith
Andreas Hommelsheim
camera Rafael Fuster Pardo
cut Rafael Fuster Pardo
occupation

In the desert is a film by director Rafael Fuster Pardo , shot in Berlin in November and December 1985. It is based on a story by Antonio Skármeta .

action

The film describes 24 hours in the life of two friends, strangers in a big city. Unemployed and without a penny of money, the prospects are more than bad, mainly because their stomachs growl. Fernando, the Chilean, has reached the lowest point of his mental state, and it would all be really hopeless if his friend Timur, the Turk, did not always find a way out.

So they set out on an odyssey through West Berlin, which was then still walled in. They manage to get a warm meal and thus be able to better assess the situation with new strength.

Fernando meets Anna, who works in a department store with Timur's Turkish friend Sema. The four of them spend the evening in bars and music cellars on the Berlin scene. For a moment, during a concert at "Quasimodo", time seems to stand still for Jocelyn B. Smith's performance . Anna and Fernando get closer to each other through music and dancing, and finally Anna stays with Fernando for the night. The next morning the magic of love changed Fernando; it lets him see the world with different eyes, even if the news from home is still more than bad.

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Quote from the movie

“We should get out of this country.” “And what would we do anywhere else?” “The same as here ... breathe in, breathe out, eat, sleep. That's all."

Reviews

  • Berlin city magazine "Zitty": "(...) one of the most beautiful Berlin films (...) An admirably cheerful film that captures a piece of Berlin reality in a memorable way in concise scenes."
  • "Der Tagesspiegel", Volker Baer: "The camera precisely captures the less attractive parts of Berlin through which the two [main characters] move ... The street lines, the clear cuts caused by war or incorrect renovation also reflect the inner condition of the two, how at a later point in time the pre-Christmas atmosphere of the inner city seems to indicate a temporary high mood (...) Fuster Pardo in any case leaves the end open in this story, in which the backyards and side streets of Berlin play a not insignificant role ... "
  • "Tip-Berlin", Wolfgang Brenner: "'In the desert' can still be seen where it belongs first and foremost: in Berlin, in the city, the ruggedness and beauty of which Fuster-Pardo's film is about."
  • “Stuttgarter Nachrichten”: “The city is called Berlin - and the Spaniard Rafael Fuster Pardo, who came to this city, not only hits exactly what is happening in this city with the title, but also with the images of his film 'In the Desert' the point. Out of the distress and banality of Berlin reality, he skilfully carves out two fates and two temperaments. "
  • “SZENE Hamburg”, Dietrich Kuhlbrodt: “The small is the big one” “A bitter and beautiful film (...) A document from the urban desert of Berlin, a fictional film of revealing wit and a hope for the cinema. With a feeling for the small oases in the great Berlin desert. "
  • "Hollywood Reporter", Ronald Holloway: "Beckett Lost in Berlin" "IN THE WILDERNESS" is based on a story by Chilean exile writer Antonio Skarmeta, but it just might as well be described as 'Didi and Gogo lost in Berlin' - a typical Beckett situation transferred to the jungle of Berlin. (...) The story of many a hungry young unemployed guest-worker and asylum-seeker surviving in Berlin-Kreuzberg can be read into the images and situations as the chronicle of a 24- hour day unfolds. It's this slice-of-life that makes IN THE WILDERNESS memorable and well deserving of its recognition at Saarbrücken. "
  • Fischer Film Almanach: “[The] debut feature film sponsored by the Kuratorium Junge deutscher Film is quiet and modest, but of great intensity and expressiveness. Seen through the eyes of foreigners, new, previously barely perceived Berlin perspectives are opening up for us. A typical milieu with its real-life figures is represented here (...) in an authentic and atmospheric manner. "
  • "Süddeutsche Zeitung", Peter Buchka: "The longer you watch his two - at first quite strange - characters, the more familiar they become: cheerful rascals who hold up a mirror to our society without even lifting their voices or forefingers: A victory of man over race. "

literature

  • Antonio Skármeta : The cyclist from San Cristobal. Narratives . German by Willi Zurbrüggen, published here with a new title as “Im Treibsand”. Piper, Munich and Zurich, 2002, ISBN 978-3-4921136-4-9 .

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