Not science fiction
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Not science fiction |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Franz Muller |
| production | Franz Muller |
| music | Tobias Ellenberg |
| camera | Frederik Walker |
| cut | Franz Müller, Dirk Oetelshoven, Sean Coffey and Barbara Hoffmann |
| occupation | |
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No Science Fiction is a German fiction film by Franz Müller from 2003 with Arved Birnbaum , Jan Henrik Stahlberg and Nicole Marischka . The dialogues in the film are improvised, the story is mostly developed together with the actors. The film is also Müller's thesis at the Cologne Academy of Media Arts .
action
The motivational speaker Marius leads a management course in Cologne . In the manageable group is also the shy Jörg from Brandenburg . With the knowledge he has acquired, he hopes to be able to save his ailing company. The learning content also includes application training. Marius wants to show Jörg in the hall of the seminar building how to confidently enter a room in an application situation. When he opens the door to the seminar room, there is suddenly another group of participants who are drawing an act .
Marius and Jörg have to find out that they are in a kind of parallel world . You are still in Cologne, but everyone you knew has disappeared. A completely different family lives in Jörg's house. There is also another special feature: Marius and Jörg can communicate with other people as usual , but a door closes behind them, so nobody can remember them.
First the two try to make the best of the situation: Marius even takes advantage of the situation and dresses himself and Jörg in a posh clothing store. When they pretend to look at the fabric in daylight, the salesperson can't remember them and they leave the store without paying. The two of them stay in a hotel and can live there free of charge in their parallel world: the next day nobody knows that they have stayed there and they check in again. But over time they find that living in the parallel world also has significant disadvantages. If you have met a woman and if she only goes to the toilet briefly in a bar, for example, she will not recognize them when they return. The same applies to the receptionist Anja, who works in the hotel where the two of them are staying. Both men fall in love with the young woman and get to know her better and better in the coming days. They take advantage of the situation that Anja forgot everything the next day and gets to know them again every day when they arrive at the hotel. Due to his open nature, Marius has better chances when trying to get closer, but he too fails due to the effects of the parallel world.
One day, all three of them celebrate in a bar. They spontaneously decide to go to the sea. Marius makes his vehicle available and they spend an exuberant night there. The next day they find out that the "spell" has been broken and that third people remember Jörg and Marius, even if a door closes behind them. However, Jörg also has to recognize that Anja has chosen Marius. He therefore decides to return to his home in Forst in the Lausitz region .
criticism
The program magazine TV Spielfilm praises the “nice-stupid” and “cynical-disgusting” interaction of the seminar participants with their trainer and sees the film as an “intelligent comedy with a love story”. The Berliner Zeitung , on the other hand, occasionally sees lengths in the film, which are, however, “absorbed by the actors' perceptible playful mood”.
Web links
- No science fiction in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Web page for the film , accessed October 22, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ^ Website for the film , accessed on October 22, 2014.
- ^ [1] Criticism of the film in TV Spielfilm from March 1, 2004, Press on the film, accessed on October 22, 2014.
- ↑ Claus Löse: In the parallel universe: the feature film debut "Science Fiction" by Franz Müller . In: Berliner Zeitung , March 4, 2004, accessed on October 22, 2014