Head burst
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Head burst |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Savaş Ceviz |
| script | Savaş Ceviz |
| production |
Christoph Holthof , Daniel Reich |
| music |
Jens Südkamp , Savaş Ceviz |
| camera | Anne Bolick |
| cut |
Frank Brummundt , Savaş Ceviz |
| occupation | |
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Head bursting is a film drama by Savas Ceviz that in October 2019 at the São Paulo International Film Festival celebrated its world premiere and was released in Germany on 20 August 2020th The film tells the story of the pedophile Markus, played by Max Riemelt , who has the feeling that he can no longer hold back his inclinations.
action
"What is done out of love always happens beyond good and evil."
Markus is 29 years old, handsome but still single and a respected architect. Nobody around him suspects that he is a pedophile. Little boys' bodies excite him. He hates himself for his thoughts and has to fight his desires every day.
When the single mother Jessica moves into the apartment next door, she falls in love with the nice new neighbor. Her 8 year old son Arthur likes Markus from the beginning. Markus, who sometimes takes care of the boy and is then alone with him, notices that he can no longer keep his desires under control.
background
"Pedosexuality is so outside the norm that" outing "is not an option."
At the end of 2015, the news magazine Der Spiegel reported on a survey that scientists carried out with a total of 28,000 test subjects. According to this, every 20th man in his life had at least one pedophile , i.e. sexual fantasy directed towards children. According to medical experts, sexual fantasies with children are far from being equated with pedophilia. Only when the person concerned feels the urge to want to turn those same fantasies into reality, one speaks of it.
production
Staff and film funding
Directed by Savaş Ceviz , who also wrote the screenplay and the film music together with Jens Südkamp and acted as film editor together with Frank Brummundt . In preparation for the film, Savaş had dealt intensively with the Berlin Charité's project “Not becoming a perpetrator”, which aims to help pedophiles to avoid becoming perpetrators.
The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media granted a script funding in the amount of 30,000 euros, also received head bursting production subsidies from the MfG Media and Film Society Baden-Württemberg totaling 800,000 euros.
Cast and filming
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Max Riemelt took on the role of Markus, Isabell Gerschke played his new neighbor and girlfriend Jessica and Oskar Netzel played her son Arthur. Riemelt said of his willingness to take on this role that as a movie he could not have imagined the subject at first, let alone play the main character, also because he is a father himself. It took him a few weeks to get used to the idea, but after that there were always phases in which he was unsure. He did not meet those affected in preparation for his role; instead, Savaş showed him videos of people talking about it anonymously on the Internet.
According to Riemelt, the project was about playing a person who is totally isolated by their disposition and who also finds it difficult to open up, seek and receive help due to the social taboo on the subject and the associated exclusion . The main difficulty was to design the figure in such a way that it does not appear unsympathetic from the start, and thereby to build a bridge that allows the viewer to deal with the facts without judging directly, says Riemelt. Regarding Oskar Netzel's preparation for the role of Arthur, Riemelt says that in addition to his talent for acting, he also had the understanding to take on this role: "His parents prepared him well, accompanied and protected him."
The shooting took place from November 14th to November 22nd 2017 in Karlsruhe. Anne Bolick acted as camerawoman . The production design comes from Uli Friedrichs and Madeleine Schleich. Joachim Hentschel from the Süddeutsche Zeitung explains about a scene in which Oskar Netzel becomes a cameraman when Arthur takes the camera in the swimming pool, with which Markus has just taken a few innocent-looking, essentially longing pictures of him: “The child is on Shutter release, it photographs back. Becomes from object to subject, from seen to seen. "
publication
The first screening took place on October 18, 2019 at the São Paulo International Film Festival . The German premiere took place on October 24, 2019 as part of the Hof Film Festival . In November 2019 it was presented at the Braunschweig International Film Festival in the New German Films series. The film was originally scheduled to hit German cinemas on April 2, 2020, but the start has been postponed indefinitely due to the coronavirus pandemic . Beginning of April 2020 was head bursting substitute published as the first online-only premiere of the film distribution Salzgeber on the streaming platform Salzgeber Club. The new start date in Germany was August 20, 2020.
reception
Age ratings and reviews
In Germany, the film was approved by the FSK from the age of 16. The statement of reasons for the release states that the film is staged in a calm, realistic style and has a haunting atmosphere. The main pedophile character is not portrayed as a “monster”, but as a perpetrator and victim at the same time. Young people from 16 years of age are easily able to understand this two-sided representation and can view the behavior of the main character and his tragic development with emotional distance and process them appropriately.
Jens Balkenborg from epd Film writes that head bursts have a lot in common with Shame , Steve McQueen's sober, intense character study of a sex addict. Like the English director, Savaş Ceviz does not rely on exhibited drama , but on psychological anxiety: "He takes us into the head of pedosexual Markus, lets us see the world through his eyes." However, the film never stylizes Markus as a monster, but even when you get close to him, he stays away from you. Max Riemelt plays this difficult role with minimalist bravura as the silent wolf and a tragic, torn personality. It is a tightrope walk between empathy and problematization, which Ceviz consistently succeeds in, and one would hardly believe that head burst is his feature film debut, says Balkenborg.
Ulrich Kriest from Filmdienst explains that this creates a tragedy that is all the more touching as the film neither demonizes nor exonerates its protagonist. All of this would be exciting enough in its ambiguity, but the way in which Riemelt literally weighs every movement and every look, knowing about an invisible limit, which he must not come near, for himself and outward, makes his head burst a sensation, so Kriest. In memory of the great, theatrical appearance of Peter Lorre in M - A City Seeks a Murderer , Riemelt succeeds in playing his tension, his despair and his powerlessness inwards with the finest nuances.
The film critic Antje Wessels writes that a conversation between Markus and a psychologist who explains to his patient that his tendencies will not go away until the end of his life, he can only avoid dangerous situations and moments for himself, will be particularly remembered. When Arthur's mother gets behind the inclinations of her new boyfriend, she automatically condemns him, even though he has so far done absolutely nothing to her son. But before the makers ran the risk of making their film too forgiving, arguing too much on the part of the perpetrators, they kept throwing in moments in which it became clear what kind of danger Markus and thus pedophiles pose, according to Wessels . With Markus' regular visits to swimming pools, he is introduced as a ticking time bomb right from the start, with which Savaş Ceviz skillfully circumvents the mistake of stirring up false sympathies for his main character. Nevertheless, he does not expose him as a perpetrator, but emphasizes the urgent need to seek necessary treatment as a pedophile.
Awards
São Paulo International Film Festival 2019
- Nomination in the New Directors Competition
- Award for best debut film (Savaş Ceviz)
Web links
- Head burst in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Head burst at crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for head bursts . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 196873 / K).
- ↑ a b Jens Balkenborg: Head burst . In: epd Film, April 3, 2020.
- ↑ Friedrich Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil . 1886. Fourth main part: Proverbs and interludes .
- ↑ Head burst. In: kurhausproduction.de, accessed on March 29, 2020.
- ↑ a b Ulrich Kriest: head burst. In: Filmdienst. Retrieved April 18, 2020.
- ↑ khü / dpa: Sexual research: Pedophile fantasies in every 20th man. In: Spiegel Online . September 18, 2015, accessed May 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Alina Schadwink: Pedophilia: Every therapy counts. In: zeit.de . October 25, 2016, accessed May 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Antje Wessels: head burst. In: wessels-filmkritik.com. April 27, 2020, accessed May 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Head burst. In: filmdienst.de, accessed on March 29, 2020.
- ↑ Wenke Husmann: Savaş Ceviz: "How worthwhile is a life in which you are never allowed to have sex?" In: zeit.de . April 2, 2020, accessed May 8, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Patrick Heidmann: "At first I couldn't imagine playing this role". In: FAZ.net . April 2, 2020, accessed May 8, 2020 .
- ↑ a b head burst. Interview: four questions for Max Riemelt. In: salzgeber.de. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
- ↑ a b Joachim Hentschel: Film streaming premiere “Head burst”: Fight against the instincts. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 6, 2020.
- ^ Head burst. In: mostra.org. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
- ↑ Head burst. In: hofer-filmtage.com. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
- ↑ Head burst. In: filmfest-braunschweig.de. Retrieved March 29, 2020.
- ↑ Asokan Nirmalarajah: "Matrix 4" star Max Riemelt wrestles with pedophile tendencies in the trailer for "head burst". In: filmstarts.de, March 15, 2020.
- ^ Salzgeber Club. In: vimeo.com. Retrieved April 11, 2020.
- ↑ https://salzgeber.de/kopfplatzen
- ^ Reason for release for head bursts In: Voluntary self-control of the film industry. Accessed August 21, 2020.
- ↑ Antje Wessels: head burst. In: wessels-filmkritik.com. Retrieved March 29, 2020.