Lena's country

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Movie
Original title Lena's country
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 1999
length 11 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Lars Monday
script Friedrich Dönhoff ,
Lars Montag
production Dirk Kämper
music Pascal Comelade
camera Harald Cremer
cut Marc Schubert
occupation

Lena's Country is a 11-minute German film drama of director Lars Monday , the next Friedrich Dönhoff also collaborated on the screenplay, from the year 1999. In the lead roles embody Melina Hennen and Philipp Danne siblings Lena and Bernard.

action

Fourteen-year-old Bernhard, Lena's brother, is paraplegic after an accident and is in a wheelchair. Despite his physical handicap, he is mentally very creative, he can out of the impromptu dense whole novels. When the two are left alone by their parents, as is often the case, because they want to watch a contemporary ballet performance , Lena begins her usual ritual with her brother: she turns his wheelchair towards her, takes the hamster out of the cage and sits down to listen eagerly to what her older brother told her. He tells of a child who can sing colors and conjure up rainbows that glow even in the night. The plot of the short film takes a turn in which Lena is asked by her brother to take two plastic bags with the “smiling faces” out of the closet and pull them over their heads together. He justified his request with the fact that he and Lena can come to the country in which the boy who can sing the said colors lives.

Lena follows her brother's instructions, but expresses the fear that he would then not get any more air. Her brother invalidates this fear by saying that she shouldn't worry, since he will breathe “his own air”. This explanation makes Lena satisfied and she pulls the plastic bag, as he has applied it, firmly over his head. Lena also pulls a bag over her head, but keeps peeking out of it for a moment and asks her brother whether he has already achieved his goal.

When the free-roaming hamster trips over a toy and makes an unusual noise, Lena pulls the bag from her head and runs after the hamster. At the same time, the parents come home, so that Lena completely forgets that her brother still has the bag on his head. In the meantime, the viewer hears that her brother's breathing is getting weaker and slower. When Lena is asked by her mother whether everything is okay, she answers the question in the affirmative and pushes her brother's wheelchair towards the window again, as she is used to when the parents come home.

The plot of the film thus has an open ending. It remains unclear whether Bernhard intended his suicide and whether his death will occur at all.

performance

Lenas Land was shown at the 1999 Munich Film Schools International Festival .

Production, promotion

Dirk Kämper produced Lenas Land for the production company Ben's Watch, Das Label für Visionen GmbH (Cologne) and the Art Academy for Media Cologne . The production was funded by the Kuratorium Junge deutscher Film and Filmbüro NW eV

Awards

The short film was given the rating of particularly valuable by the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) . At the international festival of film schools in Munich , the production won the Silver Film Academy Award .

Reviews

The German film and media rating judges: “Without exaggerating or moralizing, the film tells a very poetic story and dares to tackle a very serious topic: the inner world of a handicapped, mentally neglected young person. The film idea sustains and masters delicate dramaturgical cliffs. The only weakness remains the short parallel montage of stage play and children's world ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b project: Art Academy for Media Cologne. (No longer available online.) In: khm.de. Archived from the original on December 26, 2015 ; Retrieved December 25, 2015 . 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.khm.de
  2. ↑ a b Film Lenas Land - German film evaluation and media evaluation FBW. In: fbw-filmbeval.com. Retrieved December 26, 2015 .