Marmorera (film)

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Movie
German title Marmorera, also: Marmorera - The curse of the mermaid
Original title Marmorera
Country of production Switzerland
original language German
Publishing year 2007
length 95 minutes
Rod
Director Markus Fischer
script Dominik Bernet , Markus Fischer
production Markus Fischer, Jörg Bundschuh , Josefa Haas
music Peter Scherer
camera Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein
cut Bernhard Lehner
occupation

Marmorera (2007) by Markus Fischer with Anatole Taubman , Eva Dewaele and Mavie Hörbiger in the leading roles is a Swiss feature film based on the novel of the same name by Swiss writer Dominik Bernet , who also worked on the script. The film combines the genres of mystery , horror film , thriller and Heimatfilm and addresses the mystery of the identity of the village of Marmorera in Graubünden , which was flooded by the construction of the Marmorera reservoir . It's about a young woman who emerges one day from this lake without a name, origin or language skills. A young Zurich psychiatrist takes care of them.

action

The Zurich psychiatrist Simon Cavegn is with his newly married wife Paula on his wedding excursion to his hometown Marmorera. During the journey, a squirrel that appears out of nowhere jumps in front of the car. However, after the emergency stop, he cannot find it. While both of them visit the old cemetery, a counter-cut shows a fisherman on the reservoir who is hooking a woman's corpse. When they arrive at the lake, they go for a walk on the embankment and take photos of themselves with the lake as a background, on which the boat can also be seen, but without the fisherman. When the couple turned back to the lake, they saw only the woman lying on the bank of the boat that had meanwhile been driven ashore, whose death he had to find out. At his request, the police called for search for the fisherman with divers and find him dead in the lake near the old cemetery. Unfortunately, it appears he strangled himself with his fishing line.

The young woman is now awakening to new life in the ambulance, where the paramedic Thomas Palottas is seriously injured when he tries to treat her with a defibrillator . In the hospital, it turns out that all the medical devices show completely nonsensical values. With no identity or language, she is transferred to the Burghölzli Psychiatric University Clinic in Zurich , where Cavegn is employed, by helicopter flight, during which the radio communication fails . At the behest of the head doctor, Prof. Ball, he takes care of her and calls her Julia «after the mountain stream that flows into the reservoir».

Meanwhile, more bizarre deaths accumulate, in the course of which the patient of the Lozzo clinic, the father of the paramedic Palottas and also the host of the excursion restaurant with a view of the reservoir, to which the couple had previously stopped, the chief engineer of the power plant, the retired hunter Sonderegger and finally the investigating police commissioner Motta himself died after paying the psychiatrist a nightly visit. Cavegn discovers that there have been unexplained deaths in his own family as well. In all cases, water or electricity played a deadly role. He suspects that there is a connection between all of these events and his patient, especially since he has to discover that the films with which he records his sessions with the patient are blurred and show scenes that he had not recorded. In addition, electrical and electronic devices and apparatus in his environment suddenly tend to inexplicable interference and he is often confronted with squirrels, for example in pictures and in coats of arms. Julia even runs away from the clinic, looks for Cavegn's house, rummages through it, finds his wife's wedding dress and puts it on.

He receives unexpected help from the cemetery administrator and gravedigger Giovanoli, who formerly organized the resistance against the flooding of the valley and lives in the (still real) house called "La Resistenza". He believes that the deaths have to do with the vote on the pros or cons of the flooding, with Cavegn suspecting that the city of Zurich, for whose energy supply the reservoir was once built, could be one of the possible locations for further deaths.

But the more Cavegn takes care of the patient, the more he alienates himself from his wife and the environment. He is given leave of absence from Prof. Ball because he hears Julia speak, although medical reports show that she does not have a language center. Suddenly he can recognize things in advance and, through the strange sequences on his videos and his “random” selection of music, has an inkling of who will be next to death. When he sees the young paramedic going into the lake, he jumps after him to save him, after which he comes to in a hospital. Giovanoli “kidnaps” him from it to inform him that he is right in assuming that Zurich could also be the target of the strange deaths.

His madness goes so far that, towards the end of the film, he puts himself in danger: While his baby is being born, he receives a call from the restaurant saying that "she [Julia] is back" and that the top of the church tower of the sunken Marmorera is off again would look at the lake. When a squirrel jumped against the windshield, he lost control of his car while driving there. The film ends with Simon finding himself at the bottom of the reservoir in the time before the flood and Julia sees Julia in a window of one of the old houses. Then you can see the city of Zurich at night, with all the lights slowly going out, while sirens wail in the background.

background

The film was shot in Swiss German and Romansh and dubbed into High German at the original locations and in Savognin , in Zurich and there especially in the Weinegg district and on the Münsterbrücke .

The synchronized swimming club Limmat-Nixen also took part in the production, as did the actors Roeland Wiesnekker as power plant technicians Gigi, Ueli Jäggi and Patrick Frey in a minor supporting role .

Awards

Peter Scherer's soundtrack was awarded the Suisa Prize for best film music at the 2007 Locarno Film Festival . Also in 2007, Marmorera was recognized as “best film” and for “best camera” at the Malaga Film Festival .

Reviews

The lexicon of the international film judges: "Mystery thriller with a number of mythological motifs, the script of which is very confused, but which fascinates with its brilliant camera work and a highly suggestive 'look'."

Kino.de writes: «A beautiful unknown and a mysterious series of deaths bring movement into the orderly existence of a young psychiatrist. Atmospheric and visually stunning horror thriller from Switzerland. "

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. See the film at Swiss Films under the web links
  2. ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007. Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9
  3. Marmorera on Kino.de , accessed on September 8, 2015