Warrior

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Movie
Original title Warrior
Warrior-Logo.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director David Wnendt
script David Wnendt
production René Frotscher
music Johannes Repka
camera Jonas Schmager
cut Andreas Wodraschke
occupation

Kriegerin is a German feature film by director David Wnendt about the neo-Nazi scene in Germany . It premiered at the Munich Film Festival in 2011. The cinema release in Germany was on January 19, 2012.

action

The 20-year-old Marisa is part of a neo-Nazi youth clique in a small East German town in a rural area. Her life is marked by hatred of migrants , Jews , the police and actually everyone who does not fit into her worldview. Physical violence plays a central role in the everyday life of the clique, which includes her militant friend Sandro. After the group racially insulted and humiliated the two Afghan asylum seekers Jamil and Rasul at a bathing lake , a dispute ensued, as a result of which Marisa rammed Jamil and Rasul with her car and seriously injured Jamil. Not least because Rasul then shows up at the local supermarket, where Marisa works as a cashier together with her mother, asks for food and describes his helpless situation to her, she gets a remorse and begins to give Rasul first food and a place to sleep and later in his plans to go to his family in Sweden . At the same time as Marisa's gradual exit from the scene, however, the 15-year-old Svenja, who comes from a middle-class background, is getting closer to the neo-Nazi scene, meets Marisa at a neo-Nazi party and is an accepted member of the clique from this point on. Marisa, who questions her environment dominated by hatred and violence and her patriarchal relationship with her boyfriend more and more, ultimately only has the choice of a sudden and radical break with her former life.

After making contact with a gang of people smugglers , she sets off to the apartment where the local neo-Nazi scene has gathered. At the front door there is a confrontation with Marisa's mother, who begs her not to leave her, and finally describes how badly her father abused her when he found out about her pregnancy. It was not until Marisa was born that the grandfather accepted the granddaughter and indoctrinated her as a child, as it turns out in the later sequences of the film, with the propaganda of the Nazi regime and its hostility to Jews . He accused the Jews of continually distorting history and thereby denied the Holocaust . He dies in the course of the film.

Marisa leaves her parents' house anyway, beats her boyfriend and another neo-Nazi with a baseball bat and drives with Svenja and Rasul to a meeting point on the Baltic Sea, from where Rasul is supposed to get to Sweden with the smugglers. The money that Svenja stole from her parents before they escaped from their parents' house is used for payment. There is a surrender and Rasul is taken away in a boat. In the meantime, however, Svenja has revealed the whereabouts to Sandro. He tracks down Marisa on the beach and shoots her in the chest. Marisa dies shortly afterwards on the beach under the eyes of Svenja, who only now understands which circles she has actually gotten into.

background

The film was shot in August and September 2010 in Saxony and Thuringia , Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is David Wnendt's directorial debut and his diploma film. He studied at the "Konrad Wolf" University of Film and Television in Potsdam. The film was preceded by two years of research, during which the director dealt intensively with the scene and conducted interviews with neo-Nazi gang members. Marisa's character was inspired by realities. The film was produced by Mafilm Martens Film- und Fernsehproduktions GmbH in Berlin in coproduction with the ZDF editorial team, Das kleine Fernsehspiel . The international distribution is EastWest Filmdistribution.

The final sequence of the film was shot on the beach behind the seaside resort of Prora .

During a party, the group watches the propaganda film The Eternal Jew in the film. The musician Johannes Repka wrote the violence-glorifying Nazi songs for warriors especially for the soundtrack and played them with members of Oi! -Punk bands one. The musicians distance themselves from the songs in the credits. A publication of the pieces without film images was contractually excluded.

criticism

“David F. Wnendt's 'warrior' [...] caused a stir. In this well-researched neo-Nazi drama, Alina Levshin […] plays the hateful supermarket cashier Marisa, somewhere in East Germany. To lines like 'Holocaust Reloaded', she and her clique get in the mood for acts of violence. But then the ideological certainty dissolves. A daring, unadorned film. "

- Katrin Hillgruber, Der Tagesspiegel

“David Wnendt's drama 'Kriegerin' does not offer a conclusive answer […], but instead just varies some of the typical clichés and gets tangled up in the story. [...] Unfortunately, the main actresses [...] are not performing well enough to lift the rest of the film above average. "

- Robert Cherkowski, film starts

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for female warrior . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2011 (PDF; test number: 129 802 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for female warrior . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Kriegerin ( Memento from November 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at the German distributor AscotElite Film
  4. ↑ Karin Rieck: Key scene to the explosive film "Die Kriegerin" shot in Eilenburg in LVZ Online , September 1, 2010 (accessed on September 2, 2011; link updated on December 14, 2018)
  5. ↑ Kriegerin at filmportal.de , accessed on July 10, 2011
  6. ↑ Warrior at Mafilm Martens Film- und Fernsehproduktions GmbH
  7. ↑ Kriegerin ( memento of October 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at East West Filmdistribution GmbH
  8. ↑ rfo.de ( Memento of the original from May 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rfo.de
  9. ↑ Torsten Wahl: Distance in the credits , Berliner Zeitung of January 17, 2012, accessed on January 20, 2012
  10. ^ Katrin Hillgruber: Last announcements. In: Der Tagesspiegel from July 1, 2011
  11. ↑ Kriegerin In: filmstarts .de, accessed on January 18, 2012
  12. ↑ And the “Lüdia” goes to ... - these are the winners  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 13, 2011@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.emsdettenervolkszeitung.de  
  13. ^ Prize of the German Film Critics 2012 , accessed on February 14, 2013