Acid (film)

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Movie
German title acid
Original title Кислота
Kislota
Country of production Russia
original language Russian
Publishing year 2018
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Aleksandr Gorchilin
script Valery Pecheykin
production Sabina Eremeeva ,
Natella Krapivina
camera Kseniya Sereda
cut Vadim Krasnitskiy
occupation

Acid (original title in Russian Кислота Kislota , German 'acid' ) is a film drama by Alexander Gorchilin that celebrated its international premiere on February 8, 2019 as part of the Berlin Film Festival and was released in German cinemas on August 8, 2019. The film paints the picture of young men in today's Russia between wild parties and drugs.

production

It is Alexander Gorchilin's debut film. In relation to the film, the international title Acid not only stands for the techno variety and LSD, but also quite simply acid , in which the artist puts the busts of Russian pioneers and disguises them like acid sacrifices.

Filipp Avdeev took on the role of Sasha, Alexandr Kuznetsov the role of Petya. Arina Shevtsova, Alexandra Rebenok and Savva Saveliev can also be seen in other roles.

The film was first presented in June 2018 in the competition of the Russian film festival Kinotawr , where Gorchilin won the main prize for his debut film. The film was released in selected Russian cinemas in early October 2018. In February 2019 it celebrated its international premiere as part of the Berlin Film Festival , where it was shown in the Panorama section. A theatrical release in Germany took place on August 8, 2019.

reception

Age rating

In Germany the film is FSK 16 . The statement of reasons for release states that some dramatic and drastically played out twists and turns, as well as constant drug use, could overwhelm children and adolescents under the age of 16, but that the Russian setting, far from their everyday world, could make it easier for 16-year-olds to distance themselves.

Reviews

Leading actor Aleksandr Kuznetsov at the premiere as part of the Berlinale in February 2019

Björn Schneider from the Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater writes that filmmaker Aleksandr Gorchilin follows his lost generation of millennials through a truly wild, stirring cinematic trip from start to finish . It is the portrait of a group of ultimately deeply desperate young people who not only lack the goal, but also the stability in life and who hate the backward political conditions in their home country and the fragile family relationships, almost all of them without paternal reference - and identification figure grew up. Sasha, who is secretly sensitive and emotionally fragile, is particularly suffering from this, Schneider continues. On the dramaturgical as well as the narrative side, the director leaves many gaps, especially in terms of content, which often leave the viewer questioning because there are no final answers. When Gorchilin shows his twenty-somethings in shimmering, energetic images during tests of courage, sex and group sex, spontaneously held rave afternoons and excessive parties in dark clubs only flooded with strobe lights, it becomes clear that the group around Petya and Sasha is mostly bored "Suffers". The main actors Aleksandr Kuznetsov and Filipp Avdeyev convinced Schneider because they authentically and emphatically conveyed the anger, emptiness and emotional rollercoaster rides of their characters.

Carolin Weidner from Spiegel Online remarks that the answer to the question of what would be a reasonably sensible path that could be followed in this Russia of the late decade , left the film guilty, but the story of the film emerged from this gap: " Tensioned between idiots who propagate bad art and celebrate their megalomania with orgies, as well as the elderly, who can not think of anything better than to bring their unwitting sons and daughters back on track with a few juicy slaps, is not much. "With Gorchilin Debut film directed a majority of the anger of these millennials against themselves.

Awards

goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film 2019

  • Awarded the Golden Lily (Aleksandr Gorchilin)

Nika 2019

  • Nomination for Best Sound (Vasily Fedorov)
  • Nomination for Discovery of the Year (Aleksandr Gorchilin)

Kinotawr 2018

  • Award in the category Best Debut in Competition (Aleksandr Gorchilin)

Prize of the Guild of Film Critics of Russia 2019

  • Nomination for Best Supporting Actress for the White Elephant (Aleksandra Rebenok)
  • Nomination in the category Best Debut (Aleksandr Gorchilin, Sabina Eremeeva, Natella Krapivina)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for Acid . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 191269 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/queerspiegel/acid-im-berlinale-panorama-russlands-jugend-im-drogenrausch/23969404.html
  3. ↑ a b Björn Schneider: Acid. In: programmkino.de. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
  4. ↑ https://ru.hellomagazine.com/kino-i-televidenie/kino/26340-kinotavr-2018-kapkova-kurkova-akinshina-i-drugie-na-premere-filmov-kislota-i-podbrosy.html?section = 5
  5. ↑ http://www.kinometro.ru/news/show/name/kinotavr_winners_8765
  6. ↑ https://daily.afisha.ru/cinema/9204-kislota-aleksandra-gorchilina-samyy-ubeditelnyy-debyut-na-kinotavre/
  7. ↑ Panorama 2019, first half of the program has been determined: Joanna Hogg, Jenna Bass, Jonah Hill, Syllas Tzoumerkas and PJ Harvey in the program. In: berlinale.de, December 18, 2018.
  8. ↑ Start dates Germany In: insidekino.com. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
  9. ^ Reasons for approval for Acid In: Voluntary Self-Control of the Film Industry. Retrieved August 9, 2019.
  10. ↑ Carolin Weidner: Youth in Russia: Let acid rain! In: Spiegel Online, August 7, 2019.
  11. ↑ Ioana Florescu: goEast's Golden Lily goes to Acid. In: cineuropa.org, April 17, 2019.
  12. ↑ http://www.kinometro.ru/news/show/name/Nika_nominants_2019_9921