Just the wind
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Just the wind |
| Original title | Csak a szél |
| Country of production |
Hungary Germany France |
| original language | Hungarian |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Bence fly out |
| script | Bence fly out |
| production |
Rebekka Garrido Pierre Fleurantin Ernő Mesterházy András Muhi Mónika Mécs |
| music | Bence Flieg on Tamás Beke |
| camera | Zoltán Lovasi |
| cut | Xavier Box |
| occupation | |
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Just the Wind ( Eng : "Nur der Wind"; original title: Csak a szél ) is a Hungarian feature film from 2012. The director was Bence Fliegauf , who also wrote the script . The drama was of a real series of murders of Roma in Hungary inspired. It tells of a day in the life of a Hungarian Roma family in a climate of fear and persecution.
Just the Wind ran in the competition at the 62nd Berlinale and had its world premiere on February 16, 2012.
In September 2012, the film was selected as Hungary's official candidate for an Oscar nomination in the category of Best Foreign Language Film .
The film was shown regularly in German cinemas from July 2013.
action
The film tells of a day in the life of a Hungarian Roma family from daybreak until late at night. For some time, Roma have been persecuted by a group of racists who have murdered four families in night raids. The perpetrators were always able to escape unseen. A fifth crime occurs in the immediate vicinity of Mari's home. She lives with her eleven-year-old son Rió, their daughter Anna, who is a few years older, and their grandfather, who is suffering from the effects of a stroke, in a house in the woods. Mari's husband and father of the children emigrated to Canada and has been promising his family for months now.
Both Mari and her children have to endure humiliation and discrimination in everyday life because of their ethnic origin. Mari spends the hot summer day in the mornings as an assistant at the motorway maintenance depot, where she collects the rubbish lying next to the road. In the afternoons she cleans at her children's school. The family has debts which Mari plans to settle with the house in return once they emigrate to Canada. The school caretaker points out to Mari that everyone is replaceable when she shows up late for work. On the way home, she is molested by older men, Roma members, and meets the grandfather in need of care, who is sitting on the grass not far from the house.
On her way to school in the morning, Anna meets a young man who is a member of a vigilante group that was newly founded due to the series of murders. He asks if she has noticed strangers in the area and advises her to keep the cell phone switched on at all times. At school, where Anna is teaching herself English, the caretaker questions the girl about the theft of a computer monitor. Anna later communicates via Voice over IP with her father in Toronto, who advises her to keep windows and doors closed at night due to the incidents. Anna spends the afternoon with her little cousin at a lake and picking flowers.
Instead of going to school, Rió plays PlayStation with friends . Later he penetrates the nearby house of the murdered Roma family, where he steals, among other things, a Madonna figure . Rió is surprised by two police officers during his raid and hides in a closet. He overhears their discussion about which Roma are worth living and which are not. Rió brings the Madonna figure home. He stores his stolen goods, including his mother's coffee, in a hiding place in the forest, where he is surprised by the young man from the vigilante group. He promises to keep the hiding place a secret. On the forest road, Rió is briefly followed by a strange car, and he also spends some time bathing with friends in a lake. When he finds the escaped piglet of the murdered Roma family dead, he tries to carry it home. When he fails to do this, he buries it in the forest.
In the evening Mari warns her son to bring back the stolen coffee, while Rió wants to show his mother a secret place in the forest the next day. When they hear noises shortly after going to bed, the mother initially soothes her children by saying that this is just the wind. Then a car stops. Several men break into the house and use hunting rifles to open fire on Mari, Anna and their grandfather - only Rió can escape into the forest through the bedroom window.
background
Bence Fliegauf's film refers to actual events in 2008 and 2009 when there was a series of murders against Roma in Hungary, which killed eight people. The film was produced by Inforg Stúdió , with The Post Republic and Paprika Films as co-producers . The Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung sponsored Csak a szél with 80,000 euros. Overall, the film had a budget of 515,165 euros, of which the Hungarian state and state subsidy funds provided 240,359 to 274,755 euros.
The film premiered on February 16, 2012 in the competition at the 62nd Berlinale . At the press conference, what appeared to be a statement from the Hungarian Ministry of Public Administration and Justice, which also financially supported the film, was circulated. The paper presented the series of murders and conveyed that the integration of the Roma is a central issue of Hungarian politics. The film team was not informed of the distribution of this statement. In the film, Fliegauf dealt with the consequences of the social situation after the system change. He said at the press conference: "I think that it is very good for the PR of a country that you can make a film that describes a social taboo of this country." The actress Katal Toldi had also already had her own experience with discrimination, because she is a Roma.
Reviews
Liz Jung reviewed the film for Kulturzeit and came to the conclusion: “And of course this film is shocking and touching to the core. Especially since you don't see the right way out of this number. Fliegauf accuses a society in which such racists are allowed to spread. Even the most annoyed gets that. "Csak A Szél" is a deeply moving film that won't let you go for a long time. With a chance of winning the main prize. "
For Cosima Lutz from Berliner Morgenpost , the film explored the question of what a life feels like in a climate of xenophobia and the success of right-wing parties and groups that is no longer normal. For the presentation of this topic, Fliegauf “prescribed a reductionism with which he can build on the old mastery of his" dealer "."
Anke Westphal from Frankfurter Rundschau saw the film as a candidate for the Golden Bear . She underlined this position as follows: “'Csak a szél' was to be awarded to the Golden Bears. Anything else would be wrong. ”She showed up with the words“ What a movie! “Csak a szél - Just The Wind” takes your breath away from the first sequence; you can no longer lean back, no longer look away. One does not want to say “Roma” any more, as if this people were just one mass ”. He was deeply impressed and stated that Fliegauf had found a compelling film language for this topic.
Daniel Kothenschulte, who reviewed the film for the Berliner Zeitung , praised him with the words: "In a sensitive visual language that is completely his own, with sparing light but a lot of warmth, the young director processes a tragedy from the recent past."
Thorsten Funke from Critic.de emphasizes that the film, like its protagonists, shrinks from violence: “By completely removing the crime from the picture and limiting it to the abstraction of a few written sentences against a black background at the beginning of the film, Fliegauf makes its story so simple as with an act of violence of this monstrosity [sic] only possible. "
Awards
In 2012 the film was invited to the competition for the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, where it was awarded the second most important prize, the Grand Jury Prize. As part of the film festival, Just the Wind was also awarded the Peace Film Prize and the Amnesty International Film Prize.
literature
- Berlin International Film Festival (ed.): 62nd Berlin International Film Festival . Berlin 2012, ISSN 0724-7117 .
Web links
- Just the Wind in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Datasheet on berlinale.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Just the Wind . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2013 (PDF; test number: 140 028 K).
- ^ AP : Hungary: Roma movie "Just the Wind" for Oscars , September 7, 2012 (accessed September 30, 2012).
- ↑ Information on imdb.com, accessed on February 17, 2012.
- ^ Jan Mainka: Hungary at the Berlin International Film Festival on budapesttimes.hu from February 11, 2012, accessed on February 17, 2012.
- ↑ "Csak a szél (Just The Wind)" starts cautiously in the competition on rbb-online.de on February 16, 2012, accessed on February 17, 2012. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was created automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Liz Jung: The Smell of Death - "Csak A Szél" by Bence Fliegauf on 3sat.de on February 16, 2012, accessed on February 17, 2012
- ↑ Cosima Lutz: Just the Wind - Pogrom mood in Hungary's hinterland: "Csak a szél" on morgenpost.de from February 17, 2012, accessed on February 17, 2012
- ↑ Anke Westphal: Berlinale Competition - The Day After the Murder on berliner-zeitung.de on February 17, 2012, accessed on February 17, 2012
- ^ Art and Humanity on berliner-zeitung.de of February 17, 2012, accessed on February 17, 2012
- ^ Film review by Thorsten Funke on Critic.de from February 16, 2012
- ↑ Prizes from independent juries 2012 at berlinale.de (accessed on February 18, 2012).
