Cherry blossoms - Hanami
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| Original title | Cherry blossoms - Hanami |
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| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 121 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Doris Dörrie |
| script | Doris Dörrie |
| production |
Molly von Fürstenberg , Harald Kügler |
| music | Claus Bantzer |
| camera | Hanno Lentz |
| cut | Inez Regnier |
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Cherry Blossoms - Hanami is a film drama by Doris Dörrie from 2008. The production with Elmar Wepper , Hannelore Elsner and Aya Irizuki in the leading roles tells the story of the terminally ill Rudi, who travels to Japan after the unexpected death of his wife Trudi Place to make up for their missed life.
action
Trudi and Rudi Angermeier live secluded in rural Schongau . After a medical examination, Trudi learns that her husband is seriously ill and does not have much longer to live. The doctor suggests one last joint venture. Trudi decides to keep the disease a secret and to follow the advice. She persuades Rudi to visit some of her children and grandchildren in Berlin with her. Once there, however, the two discover that their children are so busy with their own lives that they do not care about their parents.
You then decide to go to the Baltic Sea . Trudi dies unexpectedly there. Rudi is completely thrown off track and doesn't know how to proceed. When he found out from his daughter's girlfriend that Trudi had given up his own life plans for his sake, he saw his deceased wife with new eyes.
Rudi tries to make up for Trudi's missed life. Since her secret passion was Japan and the Japanese expressive dance Butoh , Rudi travels to his son Karl , who works in Tokyo , and moves into his apartment. Karl is soon overwhelmed by the situation and wants his father away again. At the time of the cherry blossom time, Rudi met the young Japanese girl Yu, who he noticed because she dances the butoh there every day. Yu lives in a tent, only lost her mother a year ago, can understand Rudi's situation very well and helps him to find his way around the big city. Despite linguistic communication problems and great cultural differences, the two soon understand each other very well.
Since Trudi would have liked to see the holy mountain Fuji , Rudi persuades his new girlfriend to go there with him. However, the mountain top lies behind a thick blanket of clouds, and so the two of them move into a room in a traditional guesthouse by a lake and wait for days for better weather. Rudi's health is deteriorating. When he woke up one night and stepped outside the door, Mount Fuji was clear of clouds in the bright moonlight. Rudi puts on his wife's clothes, puts on make-up like a Japanese dancer and begins to imitate the slow movements of the Butoh on the lakeshore. In a vision, his deceased wife appears to him, takes him by the hands, and both unite to dance together in front of the sublime backdrop of water and mountain.
When Yu sees Rudi's empty bed the following morning and looks for him, she discovers him dead on the bank of the lake. In his luggage you can find photos of his wife and an illustrated book about Mount Fuji as well as a large envelope (“For You, Yu”) in which Rudi left her all of his savings.
Two contrasting scenes conclude the film: on the one hand, Rudi's cremation in Japan, during which his son Karl and Yu place the remains of bones in a Japanese urn with chopsticks in a solemn ceremony; on the other hand, the table talk marked by complete incomprehension between his other children in Germany, who are outraged by their strange father and his scandalous weakness for Trudi's clothes and his friendship with the young woman.
background
Emergence
Cherry blossoms - Hanami was guaranteed after enlightenment (2000) and Der Fischer und seine Frau (2005) the third film by Doris Dörries, which - at least partially - was made in Japan. Dörrie had already visited the Asian island nation in the mid-1980s to present her first feature film Mitten ins Herz (1983) at the Tokyo International Film Festival ; In 1994 she returned to Japan for a vacation with her daughter Carla. Two years later, in 1996, Dörries husband, the cameraman Helge Weindler , died while filming the comedy Am I beautiful? (1998) in Almería, Spain, on meningitis . Dörrie, who had initially believed that she would not be able to direct any more film without Weindler, was finally persuaded by a friend of her deceased husband, Werner Penzel, to shoot the documentary film Moment for the series Thinking of Germany ...
The director liked the spontaneous, unstaged nature of the shoot, far away from large film teams, a fixed script and a precisely planned shotlist . Dörrie then tried to apply the same approach to her next feature film, the road movie guarantees enlightenment , which had an intentionally not formulated script, two small video cameras, the two actors Gustav Peter Wöhler and Uwe Ochsenknecht and a crew of only five people, mainly in Japan originated. With Nackt (2002) and Der Fischer und seine Frau , she then filmed projects whose “scripts neither justified the digital recording nor the guerrilla-like production method” and were produced with a large staff on conventional 35mm film .
Willing to shoot on a smaller scale again, Dörrie set out to look for a suitable story that would also convince producers that it would be guaranteed to be realized in a manner similar to Enlightenment . According to her own statements, the director was decisively inspired by Yasujirō Ozu's film Die Reise nach Tokyo (1953), the story of which in turn is based on the US production No Place for Parents by Leo McCarey from 1937 and a journey from West to East and told back. Inspired by the initial constellation in Ozu's film, which, like all of his productions, is based on the family theme and reports on a widowed father, Dörrie further developed the character from which the role Rudi would later become.
production
Was produced Cherry Blossoms - Hanami by Molly von Furstenberg and Harry Kügler from the Olga Film GmbH. Both had already taken over production at Dörries feature film Paradies in 1986 . The executive producers were Patrick Zorer and Ruth Stadler. Degeto Film , Bayerischer Rundfunk and ARTE acted as co-producers . The FilmFernsehFonds Bayern supported the production with 500,000 euros and for distribution with 150,000 euros. Further funding was made available by the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg , the Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) and the German Film Funding Fund .
The BR also produced an audio description for the DVD release , which was nominated for the German Audio Film Award in 2009 . The image descriptions are spoken by Christian Baumann .
The shooting took place between March and April 2007 in a non-chronological order, first in Japan and then in Germany. During the two-week stay in Japan, scenes in the west of Shinjuku , at the south exit of Shinjuku station , the Kabuki-cho entertainment district and the river promenade in Meguro , Yoyogi Park and Inokashira Park were shot in the Tokyo area . The traditional Japanese guesthouse "Maruya-sō" ( 丸 弥 荘 ), where Rudi and Yu spend the night at the end of the film, is located on Lake Kawaguchi in Yamanashi prefecture , at the foot of Mount Fuji . In Germany, filming continued at various locations in Berlin, including the ACUD Kunstverein on Veteranenstrasse in Mitte , Oranienburger Strasse near the New Synagogue and the main train station in the Moabit district and the Spreebogen near the Reichstag building . Then the crew moved to the Baltic Sea . The shooting in the Allgäu around Dörries long-term residence Bernbeuren was completed , including the communities of Burggen and Steingädele in the Upper Bavarian district of Weilheim-Schongau .
review
Reviews
“... when she (Doris Dörrie) comes to her final pictures, pictures of almost unreal beauty, you hold your breath in disbelief: because she is big enough not to savor this triumph at all, because she lets the moment slip again with ease that one wants to hold onto it like a precious apparition, like happiness itself. ... "
“A work that really goes to the heart. And never slide into embarrassment. This is mainly thanks to the main actors who show themselves here old and unvarnished: Hannelore Elsner, who is sorely missed after the first lesson, and Elmar Wepper, whom Dörrie discovered late for the big cinema. "
"... moving and without false sentimentality - not least because of the grandiose achievements of Hannelore Elsner and Elmar Wepper, who plays the role of his life here with the first leading role in the cinema."
“Once again Doris Dörrie has created characters that neither she nor the rest of the world have to take very seriously. Keeping their confrontation with death at bay is about as easy as reading Brigitte in the waiting room. "
"The best that German film production currently has to offer."
"... moving to tears and with first-class cast, the celebrated Berlinale contribution tells of a couple who in a certain way only find each other again through death."
"In a touching and melancholy way, Doris Dörries' new film revolves around the recurring themes of her work, love and death, grief work and family relationships and Japan as a perspective for a new meaning in life."
"Doris Dörries 'Cherry Blossoms - Hanami' is a wolf in sheep's clothing - the only superficial coating with a Far Eastern philosophy of life conceals an insubstantial film, which in the second half also slips into the ridiculous."
success
The film premiered as part of the competition at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2008 , where it was received in “a first screening with applause and great recognition”. The production was one of only two German films in the competition for the Golden Bear . Cherry Blossoms celebrated its nationwide cinema release - finally Hanami on March 6, 2008 at Majestic Filmverleih . At the end of the first screening weekend, the film counted around 61,400 visitors in the cinemas and immediately placed ninth in the German cinema charts. The box office total was 431,087 euros with 111 copies. Subsequently, the film succeeded in increasing its number of copies to a total of 185 copies and climbing to seventh place in the German cinema charts. Hanami recorded the 500,000 visitor after six weeks; the one million visitor mark was again exceeded after 25 weeks on September 13, 2008. A total of more than 1.08 million cinema-goers saw the film by the end of the year. The total box office result in Germany was 6.9 million euros. The production thus took eighth place among the most successful German productions of the year. Nonetheless, cherry blossoms became the most popular art house film of 2008.
In Austria and Switzerland, the production celebrated its theatrical release on March 27, 2008. In German-speaking Switzerland, Hanami reached number seven in the cinema charts and stayed in the top 25 for 17 weeks. A total of just under 50,000 cinema-goers saw the film there by July 2008. It was first broadcast on television on February 25, 2010 by the broadcaster ARTE , where the film reached 1.55 million viewers in prime time . The market share was an above-average 4.8 percent.
Awards
- 2008: Bavarian Film Prize to Elmar Wepper as best actor and to Olga Film - Molly von Fürstenberg / Harald Kügler as best producer
- 2008: Nomination for the Golden Bear at the Berlinale 2008
- 2008: German film award for the best male leading actor Elmar Wepper, film award in silver in the category best feature film , film award for best costume design . Further nominations in the categories Best Director , Screenplay and Supporting Actress (Hannelore Elsner)
- 2008: Nominations for the European Film Award in the Best Actor category (Elmar Wepper)
- 2008: Gilde Film Award
- 2009: German Film Critics' Award in the Best Actor category (Elmar Wepper)
In 2008 the film came out together with Tom Schreiber's Dr. Inglés , Dennis Gansels Die Welle and Andreas Dresen's cloud nine to be shortlisted as German applicants for the Oscar abroad , but was left behind compared to Uli Edel's Der Baader Meinhof complex .
continuation
At the end of 2018 Doris Dörrie shot a sequel called " Cherry Blossoms & Demons ". The cinema release was on Thursday, March 7, 2019.
literature
- The beauty of the moment . In: Berliner Zeitung , February 9, 2008; Interview with Doris Dörrie about cherry blossoms - Hanami .
Web links
- Official website
- Cherry Blossoms - Hanami in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Cherry blossoms - Hanami at filmportal.de
- Interview with Doris Dörrie about cherry blossoms - Hanami . In: Zeit Online , 2007
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Press server: Cherry blossoms - Hanami . In: Majestic Filmverleih . Majestic.de. Archived from the original on November 18, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- ↑ a b c Cherry blossoms - Hanami . In: Berlinale . Berlinale.de. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- ↑ a b c Barbara Jänichen: Nadja Uhl's first film after maternity leave . In: Berliner Morgenpost , April 11, 2007
- ↑ Enthusiasm at the FFF . Digitalproduction.com. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- ↑ Cherry blossoms - Hanami in the Hörfilm database of Hörfilm e. V.
- ↑ 7th German Audio Film Award 2009
- ^ Andreas Kurtz: Trudi and Rudi . In: Berliner Zeitung , April 11, 2007
- ↑ To you and you with Bernbeurer star director . In: Münchner Merkur . Merkur-online.de. August 25, 2010. Retrieved October 5, 2012.
- ↑ Touching: Dörries “Cherry Blossoms” at the Berlinale . In: Hamburger Morgenpost . Mopo.de. February 11, 2008. Retrieved October 13, 2012.
- ↑ Tobias Kniebe: I'll be gone then . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Sueddeutsche.de. February 8, 2008. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
- ↑ a b c weekend charts - Germany . In: Mediabiz . Mediabiz.de. Retrieved October 14, 2012.
- ↑ “Cherry Blossoms” celebrates half a million moviegoers . In: Mediabiz . Mediabiz.de. April 16, 2008. Retrieved October 14, 2012.
- ↑ Enthusiasm at the FFF . In: Digital Production . DigitalProduction.com. September 13, 2008. Retrieved October 14, 2012.
- ↑ a b Film hit list: Annual list (German) 2008 . In: Filmförderungsanstalt . FFA.de. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
- ↑ Cherry blossoms - Hanami . In: Mediabiz . Mediabiz.de. Retrieved October 14, 2012.
- ↑ “Cherry blossoms” soon in high resolution . In: Mediabiz . Mediabiz.de. February 23, 2010. Retrieved October 14, 2012.
- ↑ a b CHERRY BLOSSOMS - HANAMI . In: Hitparade.ch . Hung media. Retrieved October 14, 2012.
- ↑ Fabian Riedner: "Cherry Blossoms - Hanami" with an impressive premiere . In: quota meter . Oddsmeter.de. Retrieved October 14, 2012.
