Accomplices out of fear
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Accomplices out of fear |
| Original title | Pelon maantiede |
| Country of production | Finland , Denmark , France , Germany |
| original language | Finnish |
| Publishing year | 2000 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Auli mantila |
| script | Auli mantila |
| production | Tero Kaukomaa |
| music | Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson |
| camera | Heikki Farm |
| cut | Kimmo Taavila |
| occupation | |
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Accomplices from fear (reference title Geographie der Angst , original title Pelon maantiede ) is a Finnish thriller from 2000 , which was directed by Auli Mantila . The literary film adaptation is based on the novel Pelon maantiede by Anja Snellman , published in Finland in 1995 under her maiden name Anja Kauranen, and published in Germany in 2001 under the title Geographie der Angst .
action
The dentist and pathologist Oili Lyyra and her friend, the investigating detective Eero Harakka, are busy investigating the death of an unknown man who was stranded in the port of Helsinki . It turns out to be extremely difficult to identify the already decomposed corpse, which is only wearing red bathing trunks. Lyyra works closely with the pathologist Lipponen.
A few days after the body was found, Oili Lyyra meets her sister Laura's friends, a feminist group that has vowed to take revenge on all violent men if it can get hold of them. She doesn't particularly like women. Setting the tone among them is Maaru Tang, known from television, an author who gives lectures and interviews on the subject of fear and deals with what the conditions should be for a life without fear.
Oili's sister Laura is an insecure young woman who quit her medical degree five years ago and has never really gained a foothold since. She feels patronized by Oili, which is also one of the reasons that she has joined Maaru's group. At a chance meeting at night, the women tell Oili that they killed the man they recovered from the water. Actually, they just wanted to give him a lesson about his way of dealing with women. It is believed that his heart failed and the body was thrown into the water. Oili must assume that her sister was also involved in the act. When the women ask her to prevent the body from being identified, Oili is in a difficult position. While she is still fighting with herself, Laura is the victim of a brutal attack. And then the pathologist also learns that the women's group has the driving instructor Rainer Sakari Auvinen as the next victim, because he wanted to blackmail young Rika to come with him to the hotel, after which she would be able to secure her driver's license.
Between the fronts of fulfilling her duty on the one hand and protecting her sister on the other, Oili has to decide whether and how she will investigate the feminists. After all, her next victim, Auvinen, is said to have scared women in Helsinki for over 15 years. Oili wants Laura to leave the country because she is afraid for her. But the women around Maaru are also plagued by fears, not because the thought occurs to them that they are doing the wrong thing, but because they do not know how Oili will decide and are afraid of being exposed and then not being able to pursue their goals any further .
production
Production notes
Auli Mantila's second directorial work was an international co-production, with Finnish, Danish, French and German production companies such as Blind Spot, the Finnish Broadcasting Company, Nordisk Film & TV-Fond, the Finnish Film Foundation (Suomen Elokuvasäätiö), Zentropa , Eurimages , Arte , the NDR and the desert film production were involved. The budget was around 8.5 million Finnish marks .
Differences between book and film
The book caused a sensation when it was released in Finland in 1995. Unlike in the film, the plot is formulated more drastically and the women's vengeance is not limited to rape and just one murder. The composition of the women's group was changed slightly. Unlike in the film, where only the leader is an academic, all women in the book have this background. The film does not explain how the women came to be united; in the book they were all participants in an extreme feminism seminar and were between thirty and forty years old. In the film, the youngest is just getting her driver's license from a macho, while the oldest is middle-aged.
publication
The film was released in Finnish cinemas on January 21, 2000. In Germany it was first broadcast on June 18, 2001 on Arte , where it was broadcast again on August 8, 2002. It ran in BR on January 30, 2007.
In addition, the film was presented on March 12, 2001 under the title La geografia del miedo at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata in Argentina. On November 9, 2001 it was published in Denmark under the international title Geography of Fear . Further publications found out in Spain, Finland, France, Croatia, Hungary and in Poland.
Reviews
"After only two films, Auli Mantila's directorial style is described as individualistic and distinctive, and that doesn't just refer to the challenging subjects she deals with," wrote Finnish writer Jussi Karjalainen.
“A cinematically quite remarkable film that addresses the propensity for violence of women who do everything they can to be able to lead a life without fear. Apart from this feminist thesis, which is worth discussing, the film is a disappointment. "
"Social psychological thriller from Finland that targets certain tendencies of feminist violence."
“Director and author Auli Mantila paints a gloomy picture less of Finland than of society itself: while the soundtrack swings lively, the protagonist Oili (Tanjalotta Räikkä) grabs half-decayed water corpses in her mouth. [...] However, the distribution of the roles from the thriller plot on the characters of the more consistent theoretical superstructure [...] seems rather awkward. Since the director shows all the action indirectly anyway, as consequences in the characters' faces, dramaturgical weaknesses are also less significant. The unusual work is convincing both emotionally and academically "
Cinema pointed out that the women's vigilante crime thriller was based on a “feminist bestseller by Anja Kauranen” and drew the conclusion: “Provocative contribution to the subject of violence.” TV Wishlist ,too,was of the opinion that the film told “provocatively about women” who no longer want to be victims in an aggressive world ”.
Awards
At the presentation of the Finnish Jussi Film Prize , the film received three nominations, namely in the categories
- "Best Film" ,
- "Best Actress" - Tanjalotta Räikkä and
- "Best Screenplay" - Auli Mantila, with only Mantila receiving the award.
- Auli Mantila was awarded the Fipresci Prize at the Sochi International Film Festival 2000 . Reason: "For a provocative film that is very passionate about the problem of violence in modern society, in a non-didactic and well-constructed way."
- Auli Mantila was nominated for the Golden Dolphin at the Festróia - Tróia International Film Festival 2001
Web links
- Accomplices of fear in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Fear accomplices in the online film database
- Geography of fear (also accomplices of fear - Pelon maantiede ) adS follow-me-now.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Pelon Maantiede adS arsenal-berlin.de
- ↑ Fearful accomplices. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Fear of accomplices adS prisma.de
- ↑ Section accomplices out of fear adS spiegel.de
- ↑ Fear of accomplices adS cinema.de (with 3 film images). Retrieved October 31, 2017.
- ↑ Accomplices of fear (The Geography of Fear) adS wunschliste.de. Retrieved October 31, 2017.