Cockchafer fly (film)

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Movie
German title Fly maybeetle! (DE)
Original title Fly maybeetle
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2016
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Mirjam Unger
script Sandra Bohle ,
Mirjam Unger
production Gabriele Kranzelbinder
music Eva Jantschitsch
camera Eva Testor
cut Niki Mossböck
occupation

Maikäfer flieg is an Austrian feature film directed by Mirjam Unger from 2016 . The script is based on the autobiographical novel Maikäfer, fly !: My father, the end of the war, Cohn and I by Christine Nöstlinger from 1973.

The premiere took place on March 8, 2016 at the Diagonale in Graz, the cinema release was in Austria on March 11, 2016. In Germany, the film was released on April 27, 2017. ORF premiere was on October 25, 2017. The first broadcast on 3sat is scheduled for September 4, 2020.

action

In Vienna , towards the end of the Second World War, the Göth house in Hernals was hit in an air raid and badly damaged. The mother of eight-year-old Christine therefore accepts the offer from Ms. von Braun, the widow of a National Socialist , to move with her two daughters into a villa in Neuwaldegg , while the grandparents stay in the bombed apartment. Christine's father was seriously wounded in the legs as a Wehrmacht soldier , he deserted from the hospital with shrapnel in his leg and returned to his family. As a deserter , he must first be hidden from both the German and Russian soldiers. After the Wehrmacht surrendered, Russian occupation soldiers took up residence in the villa. While most of them fear the soldiers with their unpredictable manner and their constant drunkenness, Christine befriends the Russian field cook Cohn. Cohn brings Christine to her grandparents' house in a horse and cart and promises to pick her up again soon to bring her back to the villa, but does not show up again. Instead, her father picks her up. Cohn was arrested because he was thought to be a deserter. After the Russians have withdrawn, the Göths move out of the villa.

production

The shooting took place from June to August 2015 in Vienna , Lower Austria and South Tyrol . The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund , the South Tyrol Business Location (BLS), the Austria Film Location (FISA) and the Province of Lower Austria , and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation was involved . The film was produced by KGP - Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production . Dietmar Zuson , together with Thomas Pötz and Sebastian Watzinger, was responsible for the sound, Caterina Czepek for the costume design and Katharina Wöppermann for the production design .

The film was released on DVD in 2017 as part of the Edition Österreichischer Film von Hoanzl and the Standard .

Awards and nominations

Lino Gaier, Paula Brunner, Zita Gaier, Sebastian Watzinger, Thomas Pötz and Dietmar Zuson at the Österr. Film award 2017
Mirjam Unger, Hilde Dalik, Zita and Lino Gaier, Ursula Strauss, Gerald Votava u. a. at the Vienna premiere (2016)

reception

The daily newspaper Die Presse praised the film as a “wonderful film adaptation” of Nöstlinger's novel and Zita Gaier as “the perfect cast for the clever, mischievous, defiant Christine”.

DerStandard.at, on the other hand, criticized the film adaptation as “a little too non-binding and tame”, wrote: “Zita Gaier portrays the girl as a stubborn being, only the restlessness, the defiance is not always taken from her” and found “Unger staged close to the Template. [...] Telling scenes too explicitly can also be a sign of too much respect for the original. "

Web links

Commons : Cockchafer flies  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for cockchafer flies . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 166425 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age rating for cockchafer flies . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Maikäfer flieg (2016) - Release Info - IMDb . Retrieved February 8, 2017.
  4. ↑ The end of the Second World War from a child's perspective: First trailer for Christine Nöstlinger's adaptation "Maikäfer, fly!" . Article dated February 7, 2017, accessed February 8, 2017.
  5. ↑ “Maikäfer flieg”: ORF premiere for the award-winning Nöstlinger film with Gaier and Strauss. In: ORF.at . Retrieved August 29, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Tanja Beeskow: Don't miss: The best TV tips of the week. In: goldenekamera.de. August 28, 2020, accessed August 29, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Vienna Film Fund: Maikäfer flies . Retrieved February 8, 2017.
  8. ↑ Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved February 8, 2017 .
  9. ↑ derStandard.at: From "Toni Erdmann" to proletarian cinema . Article dated October 1, 2017, accessed October 2, 2017.
  10. ↑ Thomas Pluch Script Award 2016 . Retrieved March 16, 2017.
  11. ↑ KURIER ROMY Academy Awards 2017: The nominations . Article dated March 20, 2017, accessed March 20, 2017.
  12. ↑ Awards of the 27th FILMKUNSTFEST Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . Article dated May 5, 2017, accessed May 7, 2017.
  13. ↑ diepresse.com: Film review for "Maikäfer flieg": An adventure in the dust of the wall . Article dated March 7, 2016, accessed February 8, 2017.
  14. ↑ derStandard.at: "Maikäfer flieg": The war as an upside down nursery . Article dated March 8, 2016, accessed February 8, 2017.