Everyone dies for themselves (2016)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | everyone dies alone |
| Original title | Alone in Berlin |
| Country of production | Germany , France , United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Vincent Perez |
| script | Vincent Perez, Achim von Borries , Bettine von Borries |
| production | Stefan Arndt |
| music | Alexandre Desplat |
| camera | Christophe Beaucarne |
| cut | François Gédigier |
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Everyone dies for himself (original title: Alone in Berlin ) is a film by the director Vincent Perez . It is based on the novel of the same name by Hans Fallada , which was based on the true story of the married couple Elise and Otto Hampel . The film tells the scene of Berlin on the resistance of the couple Otto and Anna Quangel against the Nazi regime during the Second World War. The leading roles are played by Brendan Gleeson , Emma Thompson and Daniel Brühl .
Everyone dies for himself ran in the competition at the Berlin International Film Festival 2016 .
action
In 1940 a working-class couple in Berlin, Otto and Anna Quangel, made the decision to oppose Adolf Hitler and the Nazis after receiving news of the death of their only son in World War II. An added impetus to her growing resistance to the regime is the fate of an old Jewish woman who lives in her building.
Although the official deportation of Jews to death camps had not yet started, Jews could no longer seek refuge under legal protection. Merciless Nazis - and “non-ideological” criminals - take advantage of the opportunity to ransack the old woman's apartment with impunity. Despite the best efforts of the Quangels and other good neighbors, in desperation she puts an end to her life by jumping out of a high window when she is about to be arrested.
Driven by all this, the couple begins to secretly write postcards and put them in public places to warn people about Hitler and the Nazis. At first Otto wants to do this on his own, but Anna insists on participating in this dangerous activity.
While at the beginning of the film the couple's marriage seems dried up and they are unable to comfort each other for the loss of their son, the shared danger and the meaning of their common doings bring them closer together, so that they actually fall in love again.
Escherich is the police inspector who has been tasked with solving this "postcard case". He is a police detective, but he doesn't think much of National Socialism. After three years, when the information about the "Klabautermann" (as he calls the mysterious writer of the postcards) increased, he felt a growing respect for this elusive opponent. On the other hand, Escherich is urged by the Gestapo, which has become impatient because of the lack of progress, to present a culprit by all means. Finally, when he is beaten up by a Gestapo officer and thrown down a flight of stairs, Escherich has no other choice than to put pressure on a man he knows who is only slightly suspicious until he sees no more hope and himself can be shot voluntarily. The next postcards appear a little later.
Finally, when Otto Quangel lost postcards unnoticed through a hole in his coat pocket, he was arrested for a minor mishap at his workplace. In the face of the sure death sentence that awaits him, he remains calm and only tries to take all the guilt and save Anna - but in vain. They see each other again briefly in the courtroom, then they are separated again. After the couple have been executed, Escherich sits alone in his office in the evening. He takes all of the couple's postcards seized by the police, throws them out of the open window of the police headquarters, and then shoots himself. The film ends with the picture of postcards whirling in the wind, flying through the streets of Berlin and being caught by passers-by.
production
The film was produced in English by Master Movies (France) and X Films Creative Pool .
The film was funded by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg with € 500,000 . The production received further funding from the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW , the German Film Funding Fund , the Film Funding Agency and the Central German Media Fund , the production partners of Eurimages , Mini Traité and Creative Europe Media.
The shooting, which took place in Berlin , Bochum ( Bochum Town Hall ), Görlitz , Cologne and Remscheid (Birkenwald near Preyersmühle and Feilenfabrik Ernst Ehlis ), began on March 26, 2015 and continued until early June 2015. In addition, France and Great Britain turned.
The film music was recorded by the Babelsberg German Film Orchestra .
Reviews
The majority of the critics received the film negatively. Carsten Baumgardt from Filmstarts .de, for example, rates the film with 2 out of 5 possible stars and writes that "even the exciting material and the good leading actors [...] cannot carry the wooden and largely emotionlessly staged film beyond the lower mediocre." Lars-Olav Beier from Spiegel Online has a similar view of the film: “Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson and Daniel Brühl are all great actors. Unfortunately, in this film they get far too little opportunity to fill their characters with life ”. David Steinitz judges a little more positively on Sueddeutsche.de : “He [Vincent Perez] turns 'Alone in Berlin' into a real melodrama, which sometimes works quite well. If it weren't for some stupid artistic decisions that involuntarily make the film funny. ”As an example, he cites the“ sauerkraut sound ”of the (English-speaking) actors who imitate a German accent in the original English language.
Previous film adaptations
- 1962 Everyone dies for himself alone in the Federal Republic under the direction of Falk Harnack . Anna and Otto Quangel were portrayed here by Edith Schultze-Westrum and Alfred Schieske . Other roles included a. Anneli Granget , Hartmut Reck , Martin Hirthe , Werner Peters , Sigrid Pein and Benno Hoffmann can be seen.
- 1970 Everyone dies for himself alone a TV multi-part series was created at DEFA in the GDR under director Hans-Joachim Kasprzik . The Quangel couple played Elsa Grube-Deister and Erwin Geschonneck . Other actors were here u. a. Wolfgang Kieling , Dieter Franke , Barbara Adolph , Wolfgang Greese , Fred Delmare , Christine Schorn , Fred Düren , Günther Simon and Rolf Hoppe .
- 1976 Everyone dies for himself alone . Feature film by Alfred Vohrer with Hildegard Knef and Carl Raddatz in the leading roles.
Web links
- Every Man Dies Alone in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Everyone dies for himself alone at filmportal.de (with photo gallery and trailer)
- Berlinale data sheet (PDF)
- Emma Thompson, Daniel Brühl and Mark Rylance to star in ALONE IN BERLIN
- Website at X-Films
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for everyone dies for himself . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 161881K).
- ↑ Age rating for everyone dies for himself . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b c Start of shooting of the X-Films production Everyone dies for himself ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. X-Films Verleih, March 27, 2014, last accessed: April 5, 2015.
- ↑ a b Shooting of Funded Films. Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, 2015, archived from the original on July 11, 2015 ; Retrieved April 5, 2015 .
- ^ Treasure hunt in Serbia Julia Haase, (March 30, 2015), Potsdamer Latest News , last accessed: April 9, 2015
- ↑ WAZ: Bochum town hall offers a backdrop for a movie , derwesten.de from May 28, 2015 (accessed on April 15, 2019)
- ↑ RGA: "Everyone dies for himself" is filmed in Remscheid , rga.de from April 19, 2015 (accessed on April 15, 2019)
- ↑ Scoring Stage, credits on filmorchester.de. Deutsches Filmorchester Babelsberg, accessed on May 12, 2018 .
- ↑ Carsten Baumgardt: Critique of Everyone dies for himself . Filmstarts.de , accessed on February 19, 2016
- ↑ Lars-Olav Beier: Berlinale diary: first lifeless, then dead. Spiegel Online , February 16, 2016, accessed on February 19, 2016.
- ↑ David Steinitz: Sänk ju very muddy. Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 17, 2016, accessed on February 19, 2016.
