Nobody loves Me

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Movie
German title Nobody loves Me
Original title Nobody loves Me
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1994
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK from 12
Rod
Director Doris Dörrie
script Doris Dörrie
production Christoph Holch , Gerd Huber , Renate Seefeldt
music Niki Reiser
camera Helge Weindler
cut Inez Regnier
occupation

Nobody Loves Me is a German feature film by Doris Dörrie from 1994. For her portrayal of the main character, actress Maria Schrader received a Federal Film Prize and a Bavarian Film Prize in 1995 .

action

Fanny is a lonely single and meanwhile, at almost thirty years of age, convinced that she will be hit by an atom bomb rather than find a suitable man again. The airport employee is depressed and gives in to morbid moods. She attends a course on “self-determined dying”, which includes building your own coffin and ends with a simulation of your own funeral.

In the desolate skyscraper in which she lives, Fanny meets the eccentric, colorful life artist Orfeo by chance: when they meet, he wears a skeleton costume, is homosexual and poses as a medicine man and medium. The two become friends and begin to spend time together. Combined with all sorts of fuss, Orfeo predicts that she will soon meet a prince charming.

Fanny promptly falls in love with Lothar, the yuppiesque caretaker, who matches the prophecies. He drives a sleek car, looks good and has charm, but the romance between Fanny and him doesn't really develop. When Fanny later learns that Orfeo is terminally ill, she instead realizes that she found love with him of all people and in a completely different way than she would have thought during her search.

Meanwhile, Orfeo has also put fleas in the ears of other house residents and with their help is preparing the arrival of "aliens". Some of the lonely residents are only too happy to participate in his voodoo-esque escapades. In the end, Orfeo disappears in a more magical way than simply dying. Fanny looks more hopeful and above all more open to the future and Orfeo's prophecies come true again.

background

'Nobody loves me' is Doris Dörrie's last collaboration with her partner Helge Weindler, who died in 1996 . She had worked with him almost exclusively as a cameraman since her film Men .

Reviews and awards

Maria Schrader received a lot of praise and several awards for her portrayal of Fanny Fink, including the Federal Film Prize 'Filmband in Gold' for 'acting achievements' (in connection with her portrayals in Burning Life and One of my oldest friends ) and the Bavarian Film Prize in Gold. Marion Löhndorf writes in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: “Maria Schrader plays Fanny with great charm. Defiantly and with a bleeding heart, she tears into the air all wisdom about the joys of solitude. It is funny and touching, childishly honest. "

In addition to the praise for Maria Schrader, the reviews of the film were a bit more divided. In the FAZ, Löhndorf attested that the film was only really good in the first few minutes, but later missed the elegant tightrope walk in the sway between the real and the unreal, from which a very special reality could have emerged. In the Frankfurter Rundschau, Heike Kühn wrote that the screenplay had phases in which it simply couldn't decide: “On the one hand, [the film] succeeds in making bad jokes about an inflationary spirituality, on the other hand, it assures itself [...] of mystical whisperings halfway serious magical thinking. At times history moves a bit by leaps and bounds [...]. "

More positively expressed z. B. Peter Buchka in the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He writes: “But that's the nice thing about this film, that all these details, in which there is a good portion of staging considerations, seem quite incidental, not thought up at all. That is what makes this comedy about joy of life and longing for death so pleasantly self-evident that it is difficult to even allow it to fall. "

According to 3sat, the film was a 'great cinematic success' in 1995 and also received the Silver Film Ribbon and a nomination for Doris Dörrie in the Best Director category at the awarding of the German Film Prize .

Soundtrack

The soundtrack for the film was released in 1994 by EMI Electrola.

The following titles are listed in the credits of the film:

  1. Non, je ne regrette rien - Edith Piaf
  2. Lover Man - Billy Holliday [sic!]
  3. A ship is coming - Lale Andersen
  4. Queen of the Night (Aria from the Magic Flute ), soprano: Edita Gruberova , Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch
  5. Queen of the Night (Aria from the Magic Flute), soprano: Edita Gruberova, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor: Bernard Haitink

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Marion Löhndorf: The whining is des singles lust ( memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) from: FAZ from January 17, 1995
  2. ↑ Heike Kühn: Bad jokes and mystical whisperings ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), from: FR from January 12, 1995
  3. ↑ Peter Buchka: Germany, a Faschingsmärchen ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), from: Süddeutsche Zeitung from January 12, 1995
  4. ↑ http://www.3sat.de/3sat.php?http://www.3sat.de/specials/04600/index.html