Limbo (2019)
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| Original title | limbo |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2019 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Tim Dünschede |
| script | Anil Kizilbuga |
| production |
Fabian Halbig , Florian Kamhuber |
| music | David Reichelt |
| camera | Holger Jungnickel |
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Limbo is a German film by Tim Dünschede from 2019. It is a one-shot film that was shot without an edit. The film premiered on July 3, 2019 at the Munich Film Festival and was released in German cinemas on February 20, 2020. The first broadcast was on June 1, 2021 in the first .
plot
Ana Bergmann is working in an office in Munich on Friday evening. She is employed in the compliance department of a large company, where she makes sure that the rules are adhered to, and when she looks through the financial documents she notices strange invoice amounts. This cannot be clarified quickly over the phone. In front of the building, however, she meets CEO Frank Mailing, who is about to leave with a customer. She asks to talk to me about the discrepancies; Mailing isn't particularly interested. The customer suddenly asks Ana to just come along. Ana tries to talk again in the taxi, after all it could be fraud in the three-digit million range, as a consulting firm has been issuing completely excessive invoices for its services for years. Mailing weighs down and calls Ana an unrealistic idealist.
In an apartment, Carsten, an undercover police officer, receives instructions for one last operation. Carsten is supposed to pull important data from a gang of criminals from a computer in the headquarters and transfer it to its own server via satellite connection. In order to get to the headquarters of the gang, which is run by an Austrian - the "Viennese" - Carsten made friends with the petty criminal Ozzy. He has a few business to do with the Viennese and can take Carsten with him to the old factory hall. Illegal boxing matches take place in this private club, people drink and gamble. In such a fight it is decided on the basis of a bet whether Ozzy can do business with the Viennese.
Ana is also on the factory floor with Mailing and the customer. She confronts him about her discovery. Mailing tells her that he saved the company with these scams and that Ana should consider remaining silent and enjoying the amenities. Ana runs into Ozzy and Carsten by chance. He is her brother and his real name is Yannic. She learns from him that much of what she knows about him is wrong and was arranged so that he can work as an undercover agent. Meanwhile Ana is also in danger, because she got behind Mailings machinations and thereby endangered his business with the Viennese.
Yannic manages to pull the data onto the USB storage device and he takes the opportunity to flee with Ana when the fistfight is about to begin. Ozzy wins his bet with the Viennese. When Ana and Yannic want to drive away in the car, Ozzy comes up to him. He tells Yannic that he broke his heart and stabs him. Ana drives away with the seriously injured Yannic, who can still send the data.
background
The film was shot from September 23, 2018 to September 26, 2018. The location was Munich : The office building at the beginning is the Highlight Towers . The taxi ride goes over the Ring and Leopoldstrasse . The site of the illegal fights and the headquarters of the Viennese gang boss is the former substation in the English Garden .
A special feature of the film is that it was shot without a single cut, which is known as a one-shot film . This is not new in itself and has already been implemented in films such as Victoria (director: Sebastian Schipper ) or Tatort: Die Musik dies last (director: Dani Levy ) in German-speaking countries . For the shooting team, such an approach always means an extensive preparation phase. In an interview, director Tim Dünschede reports on the shooting that the film team shot a first version after the main rehearsal and dress rehearsal, but had to discard it due to problems with the set-up. The second take of the film then became the final version. According to the director, there were also minor mishaps here, including a bump on the camera or a few changes to the dialogue, which meant that the cameraman was missing key words and there were unplanned camera pans.
The title Limbo is derived from the Latin word Limbus and describes a place where the souls are in a kind of intermediate state. Colloquially, the word "Limbo" is used for this. The two main characters of the film, Ana and Yannic, are in such an intermediate state, on the edge of their existence, so to speak.
Limbo is a co-production by Nordpolaris, luminaries in film and Bavarian radio and was created in collaboration with the Munich University of Television and Film . In 2019, the producers Fabian Halbig and Florian Kamhuber were awarded the Young Producer Prize of the collecting society for rights of use to films (VGF) at the Hof International Film Festival, which is endowed with 60,000 euros. Cinematographer Holger Jungnickel won the IMAGO International Award as Young Emerging Cinematographer and was nominated for the Michael Ballhaus Prize 2019 and the German Camera Prize 2020.
reception
Reviews
The lexicon of international film awards only 1 out of 5 possible stars and writes: “A thriller set in finance and the underworld, which is filmed with formal ambition in a single shot. However, all other elements with fatal consequences are subordinate to this logistical challenge: The story is half-baked, the characters are one-dimensional, the dialogues are often involuntarily funny. "
Tilmann P. Gangloff, however, rates the film more positively and gives it a total of 4.5 out of 6 stars on tittelbach.tv . The critic emphasizes the courageous decision for a debut film to shoot the film without an edit. This gives it an impressive intensity and authenticity. Limbo is logistically a masterpiece, as this can only be achieved with an exact choreography of the actors and extras. Martin Semmelrogge seems like a parody of himself and would play the role of the typical film failure credibly. The main roles are also suitably cast: "Acting with the main actors Elisa Schlott and Tilman Strauss, the mix of crime, thriller & drama is worth seeing anyway."
Heike Hupertz from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung emphasizes that the film does not aim at the usual “viewing habits”, but that the filmmakers have shown courage with their debut film not to rely on convention. Even if a film with no cut is nothing new and Limbo can hardly be called perfect, the film was nevertheless successful in its own way. The audience has to get involved, it has to see more than analyze and accept the prerequisites and the “narrow character of the roles”.
Awards
- 2019: Hof International Film Festival - VGF Young Producer Award
Web links
- Limbo at crew united
- Limbo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Limbo at filmportal.de
- Official site of the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Limbo . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 195146 / V).
- ↑ Limbo. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on May 28, 2021 .
- ^ A b c Tilmann P. Gangloff: Theatrical coproduction "Limbo". In: tittelbach.tv . Retrieved May 28, 2021 .
- ↑ Limbo at crew united , accessed on May 28, 2021.
- ↑ a b Bernhard Blöchl: Editing is something for beginners. In: sz.de. Süddeutsche Zeitung , February 20, 2020, accessed on May 28, 2021 .
- ↑ Tim Schäfer: We are still waiting for a reaction from Al Pacino - Interview with Tim Dünschede on “Limbo”. In: berlin030.de. (030) Magazin , 2020, accessed on May 29, 2021 .
- ^ A b Heike Hupertz: ARD film "Limbo" - Welcome to Limbo. In: faz.de. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 1, 2021, accessed on June 17, 2021 .
- ↑ a b Jochen Müller: "Limbo" producers receive VGF Young Producer Award. In: blickpunktfilm.de. Blickpunkt: Film , October 25, 2019, accessed June 17, 2021 .
- ↑ Young producers : inside - prize - winners: inside. In: vgf.de. Collecting society for rights to use films , 2021, accessed on June 17, 2021 .
- ^ The IMAGO International Award for Extraordinary Young Emerging Cinematographer. In: imago.org. IMAGO (Cinematography), February 19, 2020, accessed June 17, 2021 .
- ↑ Michael Ballhaus Prize 2019 - nomination Holger Jungnickel. In: firststeps.de. First Steps - The German Young Talent Award , August 24, 2020, accessed on June 17, 2021 .
- ↑ Limbo. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 28, 2021 .