Beyond the line
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| Original title | Beyond the line |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 18 minutes |
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| Director | Matthias Start |
| script | Matthias Start |
| production | Ralf Berchtold |
| music | Karsten Laser |
| camera | Johannes Knaupp |
| cut | Sebastian Emeis |
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Beyond the Line is a short film by Matthias Starte from 2010. Sebastian Becker and Johann Fohl play two policemen who kidnap and torture a suspect of child sexual abuse in order to save the life of a little girl.
The film premiered at the “12. Shocking Shorts Awards Screening ”as part of the Munich Film Festival on June 30, 2011. Jenseits der Linie celebrated its TV premiere on January 6, 2012 as part of the short film magazine Kurzschluss # 568 on arte .
action
The film opens with its last scene. The obviously desperate police officer Nikolaus Müller collects the individual parts of his service weapon from the mud of a container yard and puts them together. With a gun in hand and a determined face, the scene ends abruptly.
The young police officer Amir receives a message from a desperate mother on his answering machine. They ask him, despite his suspension, to bring their daughter back.
The opening credits explain the story in excerpts from newspaper articles: Little Louisa was kidnapped. The two policemen Amir Novak and Nikolaus Müller threatened the silent suspect and are suspended. The alleged perpetrator is again at large.
With the unofficial support of Superintendent Brenner, they kidnap the suspect Stefan Rauscher from his apartment, take him to a container yard and threaten him with torture if he does not reveal where he is hiding the girl.
While Amir still doubts the correctness of her action, Niko loses control and actually tortures the suspect. A heated argument ensues because the threat was supposed to be a bluff. Two incompatible points of view arise.
Torn inwardly, Amir flees on a nightly foray through the streets of the city to clear his head. In doing so, he becomes aware of the moral consequences of crossing borders and he decides to dissuade Niko from his path. However, it is too late.
During the detailed investigation of the apartment of the suspect Rauscher they kidnapped, police officers discovered a gap in the wall. They couldn't save little Louisa alive. They never had a chance to save the girl because she was dead before they officially arrested Rauscher for the first time.
The policeman Niko is left with his self-inflicted guilt. This is the beginning of the opening scene. It remains to be seen whether Niko is pointing the gun in his hand at himself or Rauscher.
production
The film is a co-production by Ralf Berchtold and the Macromedia University for Media and Communication and was shot in Munich in October 2009. Post-production of the film was completed in September 2010. Jenseits der Linie premiered in June 2011.
Reviews
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) writes in its press release that Beyond the Line is "about the individual conscience and the decision between professional regulations and the personal conception of justice". The director Matthias Starte uses "an expressive and powerful imagery in his film, you almost have the feeling of watching a Scandinavian thriller". The actors would “convince and authentically convey the central conflict. An exciting, direct short film with the desire for more. "
"The moral questions that the film raises are enormous," begins the jury statement by the FBW for the title "Valuable". The strength of the film lies not in the psychological depth of the staging, but in the formal implementation. Seldom has a German crime story been Scandinavian. "Light, camera, actors, everything is reminiscent of colleagues from the Wallander & Co. cosmos"
background
The plot of Jenseits der Linie is loosely based on the kidnapping of eleven-year-old Jakob von Metzler in Frankfurt am Main in 2002. The then Vice-President of the Frankfurt Police, Wolfgang Daschner , ordered that the kidnapper Magnus Gäfgen be threatened with torture in order to find out the victim's whereabouts. The criminal law scholar Professor Reinhard Merkel spoke in this context of " rescue torture " and demanded impunity for police officers in similar situations, which resulted in a heated debate on the subject.
Across the line , the film was shot in Munich's only container yard for the Kloiber forwarding company in Hofbräuallee on the A94. Although the film is set in the south of Germany, the setting suggests the north.
Beyond the line , the film was shot in the XDCAM HD digital format . The camera was equipped with a Pro35 adapter from P + S Technik, which enabled the use of Zeiss Ultra Prime optics from ARRI to achieve the desired film look.
Beyond the line is the graduation film by the cameraman Johannes Knaupp , the editor Sebastian Emeis , the producer Ralf Berchtold and the director and screenwriter Matthias Starte at the Macromedia University for Media and Communication in 2009.
Awards
- 'Valuable' rating from the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) .
- FBW Short Film of the Month November 2010.
- Winner of the audience award in program 13 of the Shorts At Moonlight 2011
- 3rd prize of the short film festival Shorts At Moonlight 2011
- Nominated for the Shocking Shorts Award 2011
- Nominated for the Peer Raben Music Prize of the SoundTrack Cologne 2010.
- Nominated for the Message 2 Man International Film Festival Award Saint-Petersburg 2011
- Nominated for the Cyprus International Film Festival Award 2011
- Nominated as best short film at the Landshut Short Film Festival 2012
- Nominated for best short film at the United Film Festival - Los Angeles 2012
Festivals
- Shocking Shorts 2011 (world premiere)
- Shorts At Moonlight 2011
- SoundTrack Cologne 2010.
- Message 2 Man International Film Festival Saint-Petersburg 2011
See also
Web links
- Beyond the line in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Beyond the line Official website
- The complete film on arte +7
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 12th Shocking Shorts Award 2011 , accessed December 29, 2011
- ↑ arte +7 trailer, interviews and film
- ↑ a b c FBW press release , accessed on December 29, 2011
- ↑ Short film of the month 2010 FBW , accessed on December 29, 2011
- ↑ a b Program Shorts at Moonlight 2011 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 29, 2011
- ↑ Wiesbadener Tagblatt ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 29, 2011
- ↑ a b List of nominees Soundtrack_Cologne (DOC; 41 kB) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 29, 2011
- ↑ a b M2M website (Russian) , accessed December 29, 2011
- ↑ a b Cyprus International Film Festival ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed December 29, 2011
- ↑ a b Website of the Landshut Film Festival ( memento of the original from January 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 2, 2012.
- ↑ a b website of the United Film Festival , accessed April 28, 2012 (English)
