Hangover (2016)

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Movie
Original title Male cat
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2016
length 119 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Handel Klaus
script Handel Klaus
production Antonin Svoboda
Bruno Wagner
camera Gerald Kerkletz
cut Joana Scrinzi
occupation

Kater is an Austrian fiction film from 2016 by Händl Klaus . The premiere took place on February 13, 2016 as part of the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in the Panorama Special section . The film was shown in Austria on November 1, 2016 as part of the Viennale . The cinema release took place in Austria on November 4, 2016 and in Germany on November 24, 2016.

action

Andreas and Stefan live with their tomcat Moses in a beautiful house with a large garden in the vineyards of Hernals. Both work (Andreas as dispatcher , Stefan as horn player ) in the same Viennese orchestra, performed by the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra . They love their work, their large circle of friends, are passionate about their sexuality. Stefan's inexplicable outburst of violence shakes the relationship and the self-image of the two from the ground up. What seemed familiar turns out to be unpredictable. Painful steps of rapprochement lead to a new, different common ground: love remains an irrational force.

production

Part of the film team at the Austrian Film Award 2017
Director and screenwriter Händl Klaus with actor Lukas Turtur

After March (2008) this is the second feature film by Händl Klaus . The shooting took place in Vienna from February 2014 to March 2015 . The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund , the Bern Film Fund and Filmstandort Austria ; Austrian Broadcasting was involved . The film was produced by coop99 . Klaus Kellermann was responsible for the sound, Tanja Hausner for the costume design and Enid Löser for the production design.

The film was released on DVD in 2017 as part of the Edition Österreichischer Film von Hoanzl and the Standard .

Awards

reception

The daily Die Presse praised the film as a love film of great intensity and a keenly observing character study and wrote: It is a brief moment that changes everything, it comes unannounced and is over before you even realize what happened. An outbreak of violence, nothing more should not be revealed, which is terrifying far from the Hollywood shock effects because it questions fundamental principles: Are we always ourselves? Is there an unpredictable element slumbering in each of us? Do you know the person you love, does he know himself? And: how much can love endure?

The news magazine Profil wrote The director boldly illuminates the psychological background of an inexplicable act of violence that suddenly tears up the tranquil life of the couple, without finding any simple answers. And he also gives a lot of space to the physical aspects of this shattered relationship, and does not shy away from explicitly sexual images. , however, criticized the overly forced, overly written story and judged: With the multitude of exciting questions that he raises, Handel overwhelms himself and his film, which as an aesthetic-moral experiment has its merits, but not quite the necessary narrative consistency.

The Swiss daily Der Bund said: One would almost ignore the weak seismic movements that indicate the breakdown of this idyll. (...) It is an onset of violence, the brief gaping of an abyss and the moment that breaks the backbone of the intimacy between the lovers. After that everything is different. While before the bodies were soft, cuddly and warm, the two men now stand like monoliths in the seemingly cool rooms, and there is silence between them.

Der Spiegel Online reported: The film, and that is the surprising and great thing, retains its tender gaze at the domestic scenes of its couple. He is interested in how the two men and how their bodies deal with the crisis. At the same time he draws in quiet dissonances from the horror film repertoire, which make the helpless attempts of the two of them to dissolve their insecurities and to restore the sound of the relationship seem strangely futile. The house, which previously only created a framing security for the body, now makes it invisible to one another behind stairs, cracked doors and locked rooms. The garden becomes the scene of an accident. The touch tickles. The sex takes place alone and away from the camera. Cats scream in the night.

Die Furche (weekly newspaper) spoke of a metaphor of being human: The film is about paradise (also because of the explicit nudity of the protagonists) and about losing it. And “Kater” tells of two men trying to get it back. The biblical tale of paradise is about Adam and Eve, here, perhaps post-religiously, about Adam and Adam.

Web links

Commons : Kater  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for hangover . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ^ Vienna Film Fund: Kater . Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  3. ↑ Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved September 18, 2016 .
  4. ↑ derStandard.at: From "Toni Erdmann" to proletarian cinema . Article dated October 1, 2017, accessed October 2, 2017.
  5. ↑ derStandard.at: Hongkong Film Festival: Jury Prize for Händl Klaus . Article dated April 4, 2016, accessed September 18, 2016.
  6. ↑ Film Institute: Festival participation . Retrieved September 18, 2016.
  7. ↑ Nominations for the Austrian Film Prize 2017 . Retrieved December 14, 2016.
  8. ↑ Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award 2017 - Nominations ( Memento from March 17, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  9. ↑ Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award ( Memento from March 31, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved March 31, 2017.
  10. ↑ orf.at: Large Diagonale Prizes were awarded . Article dated April 1, 2017, accessed April 1, 2017.
  11. ^ Diepresse.com: "Kater": Adam and Adam, expelled from paradise . Article dated November 3, 2016, accessed May 11, 2018.
  12. ^ Profil.at: Tilting Effects: Austrian Berlinale premieres between love and hate . Article dated February 18, 2016, accessed September 18, 2016.
  13. ↑ The covenant: Adieu, Garden of Eden . Article dated December 17, 2016, accessed May 11, 2018.
  14. ^ Spiegel Online: Relationship drama "Kater" - expulsion from the gay paradise . Article dated November 25, 2016, accessed May 11, 2018.
  15. ↑ Die Furche: If we love, everything is on the brink ( Memento from May 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Article in issue 44/2016, November 2016, accessed on May 11, 2018.