Warrior stick

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Movie
Original title Warrior stick
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2009
length 27 minutes
Rod
Director Joseph Lippok
script Nathan Raimann
production Tobias Leveringhaus
music Tarwater
camera Roland Stuprich
cut Mathias Dombrink
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Kriegerstock is a German short film from 2009 with which Joseph Lippok (director), Nathan Raimann (screenplay) and Tobias Leveringhaus (production) graduated from the International Film School in Cologne . The film celebrated its premiere on October 28, 2009 at the Hof International Film Festival .

The film was made in coproduction with the Bayerischer Rundfunk broadcaster and was funded by the Filmstiftung NRW .

The story is inspired by the graphic novel of the same name by Astrid Raimann (ASRA).

The film was shot with an Arricam ST on 35mm using the Techniscope method.

action

Astrid is in her mid-thirties and lives alone in Cologne. Her 80-year-old father Wolf lives near Cologne and suffers from senile dementia. He keeps disappearing and doing things. Astrid decides to take him in and take care of him.

Wolf completely messes up Astrid's life. She hardly has any time for herself. Her life revolves around her father only. He demands your full attention. In addition, he doesn't know what to do with her art and keeps mistaking her for his sister. Astrid is close to despair.

Astrid has practically no more private life. She doesn't even get to paint. When she has put her father to bed, she is far too exhausted and drained. Her everyday life is accompanied by the constant monologue of Wolf's stories, which also gnaws at her nerves. They are stories from another time, a strange world that Astrid does not know and does not want to know. She just wants to paint.

Astrid comes under more and more pressure. She just doesn't manage to get involved with her father. The two argue and Wolf disappears to look for a woman he knew 50 years ago. When Astrid finds him, he wanders around the street. She tries in vain to persuade him to come home and finally looks for the woman with him. Of course you won't find them. But when the two rest a little, Astrid really listens to her father for the first time.

Astrid lets herself into the world of her father's stories and memories. This brings the two closer together again. Astrid recognizes the real wealth and strength that lie in the stories of her father. She starts drawing again. A comic in which your father finds himself and his stories as well as the common story.

Performances & festival participation

National

International

  • 2010: Vilnius Film Shorts (competition entry)

The graphic novel

"Kriegerstock" is a graphic novel by Astrid Raimann .

Cover graphic novel

"Kriegerstock" tells the story of a very old man who experienced the time of National Socialism and the Second World War as a professional soldier, is now looked after and remembers by his grandson.

The narration takes place on two levels. In the foreground, as ink drawings, in the panel frames, everyday life takes place, the present. The everyday life of an old man whose strength is dwindling and who needs more and more help.

Underneath, like a carpet, lies the second level: the past as a pencil drawing. It is the life of a man who has worked hard all his life, as a farmer, soldier, pilot, fireworker, miner. Born in the Ukraine, raised in the poorest conditions in East Prussia, the intelligent young farmer's son sees the Reichswehr as the only chance to learn and escape a life that consists of dung shovels. As a professional soldier he can maintain his humanity under a murderous regime even in war, because as a fireworker he defuses bombs and does not have to shoot them.

His story is a piece of European-German contemporary history as a personally experienced history, unique and typical at the same time.

Kriegerstock was created when the author was caring for her father-in-law until his death at the age of 93.

Autobiographical background

The figure of the wolf is based on Ernst Raimann (* 1914, † 2007). Ernst Raimann is the father-in-law of Astrid Raimann, author and illustrator of the graphic novel “Kriegerstock” and the grandfather of Nathan Raimann, screenwriter of the short film. Ernst Raimann suffered from senile dementia, which got worse and worse in the last years of his life. Until his death he lived with the family, who shared care among themselves. The stories that Wolf tells in the graphic novel and also in the film Kriegerstock are the stories that Ernst Raimann told from his life. At some point Astrid Raimann began to record them with a tape recorder. She also recorded the maintenance processes in drawings. This resulted in the graphic novel "Kriegerstock". The film Kriegerstock, on the other hand, is inspired by Astrid Raimann's graphic novel.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kriegerstock on the website of the Hof International Film Festival , accessed on December 11, 2009
  2. ^ Kriegerstock Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Vilnius Film Shorts: Kriegerstock Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 / filmshorts.lt
  4. ↑ s. http://www.as-ra.de/kriegerstock.html

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