Jerichow (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Jerichow |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Christian Petzold |
| script | Christian Petzold |
| production |
Florian Koerner von Gustorf , Michael Weber for Schramm Film Koerner & Weber |
| music | Stefan Will |
| camera | Hans Fromm |
| cut | Bettina Boehler |
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Jerichow is a German feature film directed by Christian Petzold from 2008 with Benno Fürmann , Nina Hoss and Hilmi Sözer in the leading roles. The film premiere was on August 28, 2008 in the competition at the Venice International Film Festival . The German theatrical release was on January 8, 2009.
action
The soldier Thomas, released from the war in Afghanistan, returns to Jerichow , in the sparsely populated north-east of Germany, to the house he inherited after his mother's death. To a creditor he claims to be completely destitute, but has hidden a large amount of cash in order to be able to renovate the house; when his pursuer finds it, he takes everything and has a friend knock him down. Thomas is forced to take a badly paid seasonal job as a cucumber picker.
By chance he meets the Turk Ali, who drove drunk into an embankment. Thomas gets his car back on the road, claims to the police that he was behind the wheel, and even drives Ali home. A short time later, he loses his driver's license, again drunk, and hires Thomas as a driver in order to be able to deliver and control his 45 leased snack bars. It turns out that some tenants try to cheat, which Ali once violently sanctioned, but thereby putting himself in danger, so that Thomas intervenes on his first day at work in a dispute that threatens to escalate, using his acquired fighting techniques .
Ali invites Thomas to celebrate his debut with a picnic on the Baltic Sea beach and brings along his wife, the much younger, attractive blonde Laura. Once again drunk, Ali dances obliviously to Turkish music and asks the two of them to dance “German” while he moves away for a while. With that he founds a rapidly developing affair between Laura and Thomas; It is unclear whether he is doing this innocently or deliberately in order to put his wife to the test and possibly to be caught red-handed. Both men have reason to be jealous: It remains to be seen whether Laura Ali actually “only” cheated on one of his business partners financially, as she claims.
A multi-day trip by Ali further heats the relationship between Laura and Thomas - and their criminal energy. The key point, even before Ali's jealousy and occasional violence, is Laura's financial dependence on him: When he married her, he assumed her debts of 142,000 euros, but stipulated by prenuptial agreement that these will revert to her if she did divorcing him. So the idea arises for both of them to get Ali out of the way by staging a car accident that is supposed to look like a suicide.
Arriving at the planned crime scene, Laura learns from Ali that he had only faked the trip to Turkey. In reality he was in a clinic in Leipzig; he was terminally ill with heart and only had two to three months to live; he wanted to pay off her debts and give her the company; she should let Thomas help her. His request that she stay with him suggests that he is well informed about the state of their relationship. Eventually he even discovers Thomas in his hiding place and guesses what both of them were up to. Beside himself, he tells her to disappear and then puts into action what should happen to him: he drives his car over the cliffs to death.
Film idea
“When we were shooting Yella , we read in a Prignitz newspaper that the police had arrested a Vietnamese man. He was standing next to his broken car on the side of the road. Broken axle, rear axle. The trunk full of coins was enough for the arrest. It turned out that the man owned 45 snack bars, that the money in the trunk was change and daily receipts. He had built up a business, bought a house, a little outside, in a forest, far from other houses, for himself and his family. "
“At the same time, the term contains the big word 'home'. When people in Germany come up with this word, foreigners have to be careful. That is why I thought it was important that it was a Turk like Ali who had the money, the house and the company in the middle of Saxony-Anhalt. James M. Cain's template - ' When the postman rings twice ' - is about a Greek. The fact that racism also plays an important role in Cain's love story has never been appreciated enough. This racism is terribly hidden in the word 'home building'. "
Locations
The film was shot from April 21, 2008 to June 6, 2008 in the Prignitz and on the Baltic Sea in Wittenberge , Rostock and Ahrenshoop , among others . There was no shooting in Jerichow .
criticism
“A multi-layered, dramatically intense drama about dreams, longings and passion, in which the protagonists drift aimlessly through life and only believe in goods that are tangible with their hands. On the basis of a detective novel that Luchino Visconti filmed in 1942 ( Ossessione ), an impressive film was created that not only convincingly reflects German sensitivities. "
"With Jerichow , Petzold has succeeded in making a fascinating continuation of his filmography, presented with an inimitable view of landscapes, life and work life sketched with short lines - and if you want to know generations later what it looked like in this country, what people did and how they felt you will find it here. "
“From the beginning, Jerichow developed an almost physically tangible pull. It is created through images that show the German East in their clear clarity and yet have the abstraction power of a great cinema narrative. And by actors whose looks and bodies are always one step ahead of the dialogues. "
Awards
- 2008: German Film Critics' Award in the Best Fiction Film category
- 2009: Nomination for the German Film Award in the categories of Best Fiction Film and Best Director
Web links
- Jerichow in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jerichow at filmportal.de
- Official page for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Jerichow . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2008 (PDF; test number: 116 117 K).
- ↑ Jerichow (PDF; 2.4 MB) press release
- ↑ Christian Petzold: "Staying is defeat" Der Tagesspiegel of January 5, 2009
- ↑ Jerichow. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Jerichow in Venice: The Tears of Women Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from August 28, 2008
- ^ Film Festival: In the Here and Now The Time of September 4, 2008
- ↑ GERMAN FILMPREIS 2009: All nominations in the 15 categories. In: tagesspiegel.de . April 22, 2004, accessed February 22, 2019 .