Anniversaries (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Anniversaries |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 360 (4 × 90) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK from 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Margarethe von Trotta |
| script |
Christoph Busch Peter Steinbach |
| production | Wolfgang Tumler |
| music | Enjott Schneider |
| camera | Franz Rath |
| cut | Corina Dietz |
| occupation | |
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Anniversaries is a four-part German television film from 2000 based on the novel series of the same name by Uwe Johnson .
action
Gesine Cresspahl, who lives in New York, tells the family history of her eleven-year-old daughter Marie between 1967 and 1968. In flashbacks, she describes the time in Germany before and during National Socialism and the early GDR . In doing so, she also resorts to events that took place before she was born. The following aspects are important in the narrative: Gesine's mother commits suicide on the Night of the Reichspogrom , her father spied for the British Army during the war and was imprisoned by the Soviets in the Fünfeichen camp for several years after the war . After the founding of the GDR, Gesine and her lover Jakob were put under pressure by the Stasi because they did not want to fulfill certain assignments. Eventually Gesine emigrates to Germany and then to the USA.
In addition to looking back at the past, there is a second, present-day storyline that not only deals with Gesine's work at a large banking group, for which she is supposed to provide a dollar loan to the Dubček government in what was then Czechoslovakia, but also the current situation in the US touches, which divides the population into two political camps on the issues of racial segregation and the Vietnam War .
background
Originally the broadcast date was set for September 1999, the shooting should start on September 9, 1998 under the direction of Frank Beyer . The director had been working on the project on behalf of WDR since spring 1996 . However, the production company Eikon officially split up due to "irreconcilable differences" shortly before the shooting of Beyer. The director in turn announced that he had been asked to part with his main actress Julia Jäger and his long-time assistant director Irene Weigel. After he had not complied with the demands, Eikon dismissed the artistic staff on August 14, four weeks before the start of shooting, while the WDR spoke of Beyer's voluntary resignation. Despite a declaration of solidarity for Beyer initiated by Volker Schlöndorff , who was joined by around two dozen artists ( István Szabó , Georg Stefan Troller , Michael Verhoeven , Marcel Ophüls , Peter Lilienthal , Egon Monk , Reinhard Hauff , Egon Günther , Manfred Krug , Volker Braun , Jutta Brückner , Ebbo Demant , Hans-Dieter Grabe , Barbara Young and Winfried Junge , Wolfgang Kohlhaase , Fritz Lehner , Erich Loest , Kurt Maetzig , Wolfgang Menge , Helke Misselwitz , Ulrike Ottinger , Thomas Plenert and Klaus Poche ) was Margarethe von Trotta with the Directed and engaged Suzanne von Borsody for the female lead.
The film was shot between June 3, 1999 and January 24, 2000 in the USA ( New York , Long Island ) as well as in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ( Usedom , Anklam , Güstrow ), Lower Saxony and Alt-Kaster in the Rhineland. In the ARD the four parts were performed on 14, 16, 21 and 22 November 2000 was the first. The production cost 16 million marks.
Reviews
"The director Margarethe von Trotta succeeds in a small TV miracle: She transforms Uwe Johnson's literary chronicle 'Anniversaries' into a soulful television picture sheet about German fates in the shadow of war and dictatorship."
Awards
- 2001: Award for film composer Enjott Schneider at the Festival International de Programmes Audiovisuels in Biarritz , honorable mention for Margarethe von Trotta
- 2001: Nominations for the Adolf Grimme Prize in the categories of best multi-part television series / series and actor (Edgar Selge)
- 2001: Golden Camera for Suzanne von Borsody for best TV actress
- 2001: German television award for Matthias Habich as best leading actor, nomination for the scriptwriters Christoph Busch and Peter Steinbach
- 2001: Nomination for the International Emmy Awards for best television drama
literature
- Martin Wiebel (ed.), Assumptions about Gesine , Uwe Johnson's anniversaries in the film adaptation of Margarethe von Trotta, Suhrkamp, 2000 ISBN 978-3-518-39716-9
Web links
- Anniversaries in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Anniversaries at filmportal.de
- A family chronicle over four decades of German history, ARTE News on DVD
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bottom line . In: the daily newspaper , August 31, 1998, p. 17.
- ↑ "Absurd accusation" . In: Focus , September 7, 1998, No. 37, pp. 228-229.
- ↑ Diary: Displaced . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 9, 1998, No. 286, p. 42.
- ^ Nikolaus von Festenberg, Women in the Storm of History, Spiegel Online, 45/2000. Retrieved September 12, 2010 .