Jasmine (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | jasmine |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Jan Fehse |
| script | Christian Lyra |
| production | Christian Lyra, Felix Parson |
| music | Without music |
| camera | Jan Fehse |
| cut | Ulrike Tortora |
| occupation | |
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Jasmin (subtitle: The Story of a Depression ) is a feature film produced in cooperation with Bayerischer Rundfunk by German director Jan Fehse from 2011 . The dramatic largely in the form of intimate play staged and filmed in four days film follows the meetings between the young accused Jasmin Schückel and the psychiatrist and Dr. Gutachtenerstellerin Feldt. In the sessions, the defendant gradually reports from her life up to the night of the crime, which she initially does not fully remember.
On June 14, 2012 the film was shown in the cinema in Hamburg-Volksdorf, but was only shown briefly. The film was shown for the first time on television ( ARD ) on June 20, 2013 .
action
The film takes place almost entirely as a two-person piece in a simply furnished room which, according to the information in the film, is apparently in a psychiatric clinic. The two main characters sit opposite each other at a simple table for most of the film: As the viewer gradually learns, the psychiatrist Dr. Feldt tasked with preparing an expert opinion for the court before which Jasmin Schückel was accused. Schückel killed her little daughter and then attempted suicide , which she survived. Now she is probably charged with the murder of her child, but this is not specified.
The film follows four sessions of the psychiatric assessment, during which Jasmin Schückel, interviewed by Dr. Feldt, reports on the background of the crime from her life, from childhood with her relationships with her parents to her living conditions shortly before the night of the crime.
History of origin
Screenwriter Christian Lyra had studied several real-life infanticide cases in order to put together the case portrayed in the film.
Director Jan Fehse canceled the planned actor casting after reading an excerpt from the two leading actresses and engaged the two immediately. He is said to have chosen two experienced theater actresses with them. Because for the shoot you should be challenged with settings of up to 50 minutes; However, the film was filmed with seven cameras, so that the long shots cannot be seen in the film due to the many cuts. After Schäfer and Puls had learned their text, they went in front of the cameras without further rehearsals, where the necessary material was created in just four days.
reception
The film lexicon two thousand and one summed up: "While the actresses are convincing, the drama suffers from weaknesses in its staging, above all from the undecided fluctuation between theatricality and realism."
On Prisma Online , the film was punished with the minimum of one star (out of a possible five): “And again one of those German films that cast doubts on both the film-related and content-related expertise. Inexpensive, filmed in a spartan, chamber play style ... "Criticized are an alleged logical error (the presence of cutlery in a psychiatric clinic) and" such amateurish sayings (especially the alleged psychiatrist) ... that you listen passes quickly. "
The Hamburger Abendblatt gave a more positive assessment of the film in an article about leading actress Wiebke Puls, spoke of "highly professional actresses" and raved: "A situation that is as simple as it is effective, full of electricity." Jasmin compared positively with Romuald Karmakar's film Der Totmacher (1995, with Götz George ), who “offered a similarly glamorous forum for a cinematic chamber play”.
Awards and film festivals
Anne Schäfer was nominated for the German Film Award for her portrayal of Jasmin Schückel as “Best Actress” . The film was shown at the Munich Film Festival , the Indo-German Film Festival in Bangalore, and was released in German cinemas in 2012.
See also
- The dead man who, in a similar chamber play style, follows the psychiatric assessment sessions for a man accused of murder
Web links
- Jasmin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jasmin in the lexicon of international films
- Jasmin at filmportal.de
- Review at Prisma-Online.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Annette Stiekele (June 12, 2012). Wiebke Puls: "I long for Hamburg". Hamburger Abendblatt (accessed January 17, 2015)
- ↑ a b Jasmin in the Lexicon of International Films (accessed on January 17, 2015)
- ↑ "Jasmin" on Prisma Online (accessed January 17, 2015)