Mathilda (2002)
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| Original title | Mathilda |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 91 minutes |
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| Director | René Reinhardt |
| script | René Reinhardt |
| production | Miriam Pfeiffer, René Reinhardt |
| music | Heiko Schneider |
| camera | Uwe Mann |
| cut | Thomas Kleinwächter |
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Mathilda is a German thriller- style film by René Reinhardt from 2002 . Nele Rosetz , Roman Knižka and Andreas Schmidt-Schaller play the main roles. Mathilda is the first in Germany with a digital camera turned Cinemascope film.
The film premiered on November 9, 2002 in the International Competition of the 51st Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival . The German theatrical release was on January 8, 2004. The film is an independent production by the Leipzig production company Sunset-Movie Production . The shooting took place in October and November 2001 in Leipzig .
action
Moritz, a security guard during the probationary period, catches the clock thief Mathilda red-handed in an old factory building one night. When his colleague attacks Mathilda during the subsequent hunt down the stairwell, Moritz knocks him down and, fascinated by the attractive Mathilda, lets her run. Before that, he slips her a note with his phone number.
While Moritz waits for Mathilda's call, his living conditions are shown in short episodes. The grandfather sits apathetically at home, the younger brother takes drugs and goes to parties, he only meets his mother by chance. After a few days, Mathilda finally calls. In amorous hope, Moritz accepts the invitation to her apartment, where a strange surprise awaits him. Mathilda tells him, gun in hand, that she killed her father and that his body is in the closet. However, the father comes in alive through the door. Now the language comes to the actual topic of the film, the abuse of Mathilda by her father in her childhood.
Since Reinhardt originally wanted to direct the play for the theater, the film ends in the tradition of a chamber play .
Reviews
“The actors and their theater experience did the rest to make 'Mathilda' a captivating thriller, reminiscent of Hitchcock's ' Cocktail for a Corpse '. Not quite as dogmatically bound to space and time as the great master, René Reinhardt stages a jewel that revives the belief in German film. "
Web links
- Mathilda at filmportal.de
- Jörn Seidel: After Das Monstrum, the new film from Leipzig production. ( Memento from October 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ Hasso Hartmann, Ulrich Grunert, Jens-Peter Martens: 13th Film Art Festival Schwerin 7. – 11. May 2003. Catalog. P. 19.
- ↑ cineclub.de: Mathilda , accessed on March 1, 2019.