Clear cutting (2018)
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| Original title | Clear cutting |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Max Gleschinski |
| script | Max Gleschinski |
| production | Jean-Pierre Meyer-Gehrke, Torsten Wichner, Max Gleschinski |
| music | Axel Meier |
| camera | Jean-Pierre Meyer-Gehrke |
| cut | Marco Zanoni |
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Kahlschlag is a German feature film directed by Max Gleschinski . It celebrated its world premiere on October 24, 2018 at the 52nd Hof International Film Festival , where it was awarded the New German Cinema Prize.
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Martin and Eric had been best friends since childhood. They went to the reservoir to fish together and finally fell in love with the same girl: Frenni. The inseparable trio spent many years in their homeland, the Mecklenburg province - it was a down-to-earth idyll that not even Eric's problematic twin brother Basti could destroy.
But now everything has changed: Basti has been dead for a few weeks, Martin and Frenni live in the same family house, and they have not had any contact with Eric since an incident. One day, however, Eric unexpectedly appears at the couple's door. He asks his old friend Martin to accompany him on one last trip to the nearby reservoir.
At the reservoir, Eric Martin finally wants to confront everything that has burdened him since then and that he could never really say. The situation between the two friends is getting worse and worse and Martin not only realizes how much he has hurt his best friend, but also what he is now capable of. Truths, fears and misunderstandings take their course.
While the fishing trip escalates into a brutal game of cat and mouse, Frenni also makes his way to the reservoir to prevent worse.
production
Kahlschlag was produced by Von Anfang Anders Filmproduktion. Co-producers were Schwarzraum Media, Rabauke Filmproduktion and the Rostock Institute for New Media. Kahlschlag was funded by the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Cultural Film Fund . Other financing components were crowdfunding and support from regional companies.
Kahlschlag was implemented without the participation of a television broadcaster and without economic film subsidies and is the first self-sufficient feature film to be produced in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Nobody on the team attended a film school.
On March 5, 2020, Kahlschlag celebrated its nationwide cinema release.
criticism
“Max Gleschinski's debut film shows that there is original cinema to be discovered far away from German film funding. His film is a love drama and home thriller, told in flashbacks, charged with genre elements and located in an East German world that offers space for the big questions about class differences, lack of perspective and anger about absent happiness. "
“Of course, 'Kahlschlag' is genre cinema that flaunts violent cinematic effects with a booming soundtrack and fun. In conjuring up an almost Shakespearean love conflict, however, the film shows a rare daring and in between even risks a few rather silly jokes about a Saxon tourist family. "
“Apart from a few awkward directing ideas and a Saxon couple who are curving along the country road as a running gag, 'Kahlschlag' combines promising ingredients for a successful genre film with a socially critical foundation. But there is too much clutter in the script. It's packed with conflicts and sub-texts, such as natural metaphors or allusions to the mythological brothers Romulus and Remus, which would be enough for several films. Most of it has potential, but is often only touched on and thus appears half-baked. "
“In addition to the camera work by Jean-Pierre [Meyer-] Gehrke, the achievements of the central acting trio are also remarkable. Bernhard Conrad in particular demonstrates in his dual role as a pair of twins a considerable wealth of facets; On top of that, the intimate moments between Eric and Frenni are painfully beautiful, when the two sit in the bathtub together and almost look like a happy couple from a Hollywood production. Seldom has deep love felt so cruel as in this film. Gleschinski consistently brought this to an end with a nasty ending and a nasty last shot. "
Awards
After its world premiere on October 24, 2018 at the 52nd Hof International Film Festival , Kahlschlag won the New German Cinema Award there . In 2019, performances at numerous German and international film festivals followed , at which Bernhard Conrad and Maike Johanna Reuter were awarded film prizes for their acting performances. In addition, Kahlschlag was honored as Best Debut Film and Best Fiction Film at the Prague Youth Film Festival and won the Munich Camgaroo Award for young talent .
Web links
- Deforestation in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Clear cutting on the lenders website
Individual evidence
- ↑ release document for clear-cutting . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ a b Wolfgang Höbel: 52nd Hof Film Festival: There is hope in this radicalism - DER SPIEGEL - culture. In: Der Spiegel. October 28, 2018, accessed March 9, 2020 .
- ↑ KAHLSCHLAG - Filmbüro MV - Film funding, production funding. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
- ^ Kahlschlag (2018) by Max Gleschinski | Species germ². In: UCM.ONE. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Which films are worthwhile - and which are not. In: sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Clear- cutting. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Clear- cutting (2018). In: kino-zeit.de. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
- ↑ Chris Hastings: SEIFF 2019 Awards. In: SEIFF Second Year. October 21, 2019, accessed March 9, 2020 (American English).
- ^ Prague Youth Film Festival. In: Facebook. Retrieved March 9, 2020 .
- ↑ The winners of the Camgaroo Award 2019. Accessed March 9, 2020 .