Kill Me Today, Tomorrow I'm Sick!
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Kill Me Today, Tomorrow I'm Sick! |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German , English , Serbian , Albanian (some with German subtitles) |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 126 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Joachim Schroeder , Tobias Streck |
| script | Joachim Schroeder, Tobias Streck |
| production | Joachim Schroeder |
| music | Robert Pope |
| camera |
Gergely Timar , Peter Pasztor |
| occupation | |
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Kill Me Today, Tomorrow I'm Sick! is a German tragic comedy by directors and film producers Joachim Schroeder and Tobias Streck from 2018 . It is set in 1999 on the Balkan Peninsula and is about "being human and the blindness of the rich West". The film is inspired by the diary of a whistleblower who worked as an OSCE activist in Kosovo .
The plot
The movie is set in 1999 in Pristina , the capital of Kosovo. The NATO has Serbia bombed and the Kosovo Albanians celebrate this as "their" victory over the Serbian oppressors. The hatred between the races is still raging. The international community starts the largest and most expensive aid operation since 1945 and sends many thousands of workers to pacify and rebuild the region.
Anna, who works for an OSCE media project, is highly motivated and proud to make her contribution to democratic change and is fully absorbed in her work. After her initial euphoria about being able to do good, however, she soon realizes with horror that many of her colleagues are neurotic, ignorant, unethical, corrupt and bored with their own mission. Commander Rhaci, the celebrated alleged Kosovar freedom fighter and favorite of the West, acts like a mafia boss and exploits the country.
Anna, the idealistic young German, meets the soldier of fortune, slider and charmer Plaka, who loves the "internationals" above all for their money and initially appears to be opportunistic.
Plaka picks Anna up at the airport when she arrives. On the way to her new job, she talks to Plaka and says weightily and convinced of her mission: "I want to help build free and democratic media here after decades of oppression". Plaka laughs loudly and cynically. The viewer already suspects in this scene that everything will turn out differently in this film than Anna had hoped for. Anna's pedagogically correct, high morality is thwarted by brutal, realistic scenes in the course of the further action. Together, however, Anna and Plaka finally fight courageously against career-oriented Western bureaucrats, unscrupulous revolutionaries and against their own prejudices. While the conflicts between the ethnic groups continue to escalate, the warlords of yore and their killers fuel the hatred between the ethnic groups and earn splendidly from the arms, girls and organ trafficking.
Anna learns that the OSCE staff, who were actually sent out to maintain peace and democracy in the region, seemingly let the chaos run its course and are preoccupied with their own interests, needs, affairs and vanities. Anna soberly realizes that because no one has chosen the organizations and employees, they have no basis to which they should seriously answer. They move from the IRK to the WHO, from the WWF to the IMF, from the OSCE to the OECD and back. The war rages on inexorably even in peacetime. So the commitment to the good is not only a farce for Anna and also extremely dangerous.
With Plaka, Anna installs the subversive pirate station Radio One Kosovo , which brings the two closer together, but threateningly provokes all sides. The small radio station sends hope into the desperate hearts of radio listeners with humor and a casual sound. Here, however, taboos are broken and light is brought into the darkness of the events that are staged in the film with a lot of black humor . Over time, Anna realizes that she has to cheat the institution in order to get money out of it and do good with it.
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The film was released in theaters in spring 2020. The premiere was on January 14, 2020 in Berlin and on January 23, 2020 in Bremen.
It celebrated its world premiere in September 2018 at the Montreal World Film Festival in Canada, for which it was nominated in the First Fiction Films category. Kill Me Today, Tomorrow I'm Sick! was awarded the Silver Zenith .
The German premiere of the film took place on October 24, 2018 on the occasion of the Hof International Film Festival. The film was also nominated for the 24th Baden-Württemberg Film Show, which took place in Stuttgart from December 5 to 9, 2018 .
Kill Me Today, Tomorrow I'm Sick! is the first feature film by directors and producers Joachim Schroeder and Tobias Streck, who have so far been involved in productions such as the political satire Entweder Broder (with Henryk M. Broder and Hamed Abdel-Samad ) and the controversial documentary Chosen and Excluded - The Hate made a name for Jews in Europe .
Schroeder and Streck were inspired for the film by the diary notes of Henriette Schroeder , Joachim Schroeder's sister, who worked for the OSCE (Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe) in Kosovo from 1999 to 2001 to develop independent media.
In many scenes of the film not only German and English are spoken, but also Albanian and Serbian. The subtitles are in German. This gives the international events a high degree of authenticity on the one hand, but also a lot of comedy due to the downright Babylonian confusion.
Almost all pieces of music were composed and recorded especially for the film by the composer and musician Robert Papst and his long-time musician friend Hugo Siegmeth , so that many songs that are true to the original can be used for the story about the radio station. Only three songs come from The Lurkers , another from a different pen. Extensive research was necessary to reproduce the musical style of the Balkans in the 1990s. Yugo-pop, Serbian rock, oriental disco, Albanian folklore were written in the style of the time and the attitude towards life of that time was reflected accordingly. The title song is a classic rock song that will be released on CD along with other pieces from the film.
The shooting took place in Merano and Bolzano , among others .
Awards and nominations
- 2018: 42nd Montreal World Film Festival, nominated in the First Fiction Films category . Award: Silver Zenith
- 2018: 52nd Hof International Film Festival, nominated.
- 2018: 24th Baden-Württemberg Film Show, nominated.
- 2019: 24th Film Festival Turkey Germany - Best Actor: Carlo Ljubek for his role as Plaka
- 2019: Öngörön Prize for Democracy and Human Rights ("The film is convincing as a multi-layered mix of unsentimental melodrama with satirical elements and gripping docu-drama, which is primed by the authentic diary entries of an OSCE activist." Jury statement)
Reviews
"Here the good German loses his illusions: The material is based on the diary of a real OSCE activist, which the directors spread long but briskly, with as much macabre humor as horror." The OSCE ", they admit in Hof, is appealing the film doesn't. " One likes to believe that. "( Frankenpost , on the occasion of the nomination at the Hof International Film Festival )
"Kill me today, tomorrow I'm sick" relentlessly addresses the role of international organizations in the crisis regions of the world. "( MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg)
“One could certainly make another 1,000 films about the self-righteousness and naivety of international organizations and their functionaries. It's good that there is already one - and a very successful one at that. "(Marc Neugröschl, The Times of Israel )
“Schröder and Streck deliver a cynical, sometimes screamingly funny, but in the heart desperate situation report about the helplessness of the sensible. Without a trace, all well-intentioned people are robbed of their hopes for a better world. "( Wolfgang Höbel , Spiegel Online )
"What at first glance looks like a surprising UFO in German cinema is in truth a brilliant sign of life, a satire without ethical instructions for use. [...] A good dose of exuberance of desperation and grim humor regardless of loss result in a humanistic attitude without any moral kitsch, told in a tone that, in view of the mountains of corpses, is also an accusation of eternal world stupidity. " (Dominik Graf, FAZ Sunday newspaper, January 12, 2020)
"The movie poster is reminiscent of a western - no wonder, because there was a“ Wild West ”mood in Kosovo back then." (Dirk Krampitz, BILD , January 14, 2020)
"The film describes a trouble spot that is perhaps symptomatic of all other trouble spots in the world." ( BR-Fernsehen , February 19, 2020)
"A shocking black comedy about a lost country in the middle of Europe and a totally overwhelmed West. I laughed a lot." (Hamed Abdel-Samad)
Web links
- Kill Me Today, Tomorrow I'm Sick! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Kill Me Today, Tomorrow I'm Sick! Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 180479 / K).
- ↑ kinokino extra - BR - TV program. Accessed November 24, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Kill Me Today, Tomorrow I'm Sick! Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Kill Me Today, Tomorrow I'm Sick! Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Home - Kill Me Today, Tomorrow I'm Sick! Retrieved December 7, 2019 .
- ↑ 42nd Montreal World Film Festival Awards | World Film Festival. Retrieved November 24, 2018 (Canadian English).
- ↑ Anja Blum Grafing / Montreal: With humor to the zenith . In: sueddeutsche.de . September 7, 2018, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed November 24, 2018]).
- ↑ KILL ME TODAY, TOMORROW I'M SICK! | Hof International Film Festival. Accessed November 24, 2018 (German).
- ↑ Film Show 2018. Accessed November 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Anja Blum: Cool songs for tough scenes . In: sueddeutsche.de . August 31, 2018, ISSN 0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed November 24, 2018]).
- ^ Crew United - The network of the film and television industry. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
- ↑ Kill Me Today, Tomorrow I'm Sick! | filmportal.de. Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
- ↑ HCS Content GmbH: Frankenpost App | Kill me today, ... Retrieved November 24, 2018 .
- ^ MFG BW: "Silver Zenith" award for "Kill Me Today, Tomorrow I'm Sick" . In: MFG BW . ( mfg.de [accessed on November 24, 2018]).
- ↑ Wolfgang Höbel: Hofer Filmtage: There is hope in this radicalism . In: Spiegel Online . October 28, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed January 4, 2020]).
- ↑ Super User: Bling Bling. Accessed January 17, 2020 (German).
- ↑ Kosovo cinema satire: "Kill me today, tomorrow I'm sick!" - now in the cinema. Retrieved February 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Guest in the studio: Henryk M. Broder. Retrieved on February 19, 2020 (German).