Better to live
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Better to live |
| Original title | Patients |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Minos Grand Corps Malade |
| script | Grand Corps Malade Fadette Drouard |
| production |
Eric Altmayer Nicolas Altmayer Jean-Rachid |
| music | Angelo Foley |
| camera | Antoine Monod |
| cut | Laure Gardette |
| occupation | |
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Lieber Leben (Original title: Patients , alternative spelling: Lieber Leben ) is a French tragic comedy by Minos and Grand Corps Malade from 2016. It is based on the autobiographical novel Patients by Grand Corps Malade.
action
Ben is an active athlete, plays basketball and studies in order to later become a PE teacher. With friends, he breaks into a swimming pool in the evening and ends up in the hospital after diving into the water that is far too shallow and has a fractured vertebra. After an operation it is clear that he is quadriplegic but can move a toe, he is transferred to a rehab center. François will be his therapist and will accompany him for the next few months. Ben quickly gets to know the processes: he is woken up every day by the cheerful carer Jean-Marie, carer Christiane also takes care of him and François begins with simple exercises to get Ben out of the lying position so that he can drive in an electric wheelchair.
In the rehab center, Ben gradually gets to know more patients: Farid has been dependent on a wheelchair since he was four and has been in the rehab center for a long time. He made Ben familiar with the building and the various stations when he was able to use the wheelchair for the first time after a while. Ben is moved to a room that he shares with the motorcycle-crazy Eric and later with the gang member Eddy. In addition to Farid, Ben befriends Toussaint, who is paralyzed after a car accident, and with quadriplegic Steeve, who is depressed because of his immobility and who has to be hospitalized after being poisoned by alcohol. New to the rehab center is the beautiful Samia, with whom Ben falls in love. When he learns that she has caused a car accident out of lovesickness, which seriously injured her and ultimately led to her stay in the rehab center, he distances himself without telling her the reason.
After a few months, Ben's condition improved. He can move his hands and starts his first running exercises. While he is still thinking of playing basketball again one day, the facility’s chief doctor, Dr. Challes that he will never be able to do competitive sport again. Rather, his goal should be to regain his independence. Ben is shaken, but realizes that he is luckier than other patients whose condition has not improved even after months. Farid states that all of them don't have to give up their hopes, but rather change them.
One day Toussaint is transferred to a home for the disabled because he is no longer making any progress in rehab. A few months later, just before he was released home, Ben found out that Toussaint had died of a heart attack. The group around Ben, Farid and Steeve mourn him; nobody knows if the news of the heart attack is the truth. After a year in the rehab facility, Ben is released home. His basketball team is contesting an important final that day and Ben surprisingly appears at the game, walking slowly with a stick. The game begins and Ben watches from the team bench.
production
Lieber Leben is based on the autobiographical novel Patients by Grand Corps Malade, which was published in 2012. Grand Corps Malade, actually Fabien Marsaud, describes his recovery process in the Coubert rehabilitation center after a swimming accident paralyzed his legs. The shooting of Lieber Leben took place for seven weeks at the Coubert rehabilitation center, and some of the real-life role models for characters in the film took on guest appearances. The final scenes of the basketball game were filmed at the Stade Auguste Delaune in Saint-Denis, where Marsaud and Mehdi Idir, known as Minos, met as children at an NTM concert in the early 1990s . Claire Lacaze created the costumes . Better to live was the film debut for Marsaud and Idir, who had previously worked together on music videos.
The film premiered on November 10, 2016 at the Festival du film de Sarlat and opened in French cinemas on March 1, 2017. The cinema release in Germany was on December 14, 2017.
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Ben | Pablo Pauly | Julius Jellinek |
| Farid | Soufiane Guerrab | Ozan Unal |
| Toussaint | Moussa Mansaly | Leonhard Mahlich |
| Samia | Nailia Harzoune | Melanie Hinze |
| Steeve | Franck Falise | Tim Sander |
| François | Yannick Renier | Till Endemann |
| Lamine | Jason Divengele | Nico Sablik |
| Dr. Challes | Dominique Blanc | Monica Bielenstein |
| Jean-Marie | Alban Ivanov | Stefan Krause |
| Christiane | Anne Benoît | Katharina Koschny |
| Eric | Côme Levin | Konrad Bösherz |
| Samir | Samir El Bidadi | Julien Haggège |
| Ben's father | Xavier Mathieu | Viktor Neumann |
Awards
When César 2018 was dear life four nominations: in the categories Best Film , Best debut , Best Young Actor (Pablo Pauly) and Best Adapted Screenplay . Grand Corps Malade and Minos were nominated for a prize in the Best Picture category at the Globes de Cristal. At the Prix Lumières both received a nomination for a Prix Heike Hurst for the best first work. Pablo Pauly was nominated for a Prix Lumières as the best young actor; Angelo Foley and Grand Corps Malade received another nomination for best music.
Web links
- Rather live in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Better to live at allocine.fr
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Lieber Leben . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 168461K).
- ↑ Dear life. In: filmdienst.de. Film service , accessed March 23, 2019 .
- ^ Maxime Longuet: Grand Corps Malade, du livre au film . lejsd.com, December 5, 2016.
- ↑ a b Making of the film on the DVD Lieber Leben , Neue Visionen Medien, 2018.
- ↑ Secrets tournage - Une aide précieuse on allocine.fr
- ↑ Better to live in the German synchronous file