Murer - anatomy of a process
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Original title | Murer - anatomy of a process |
Country of production | Austria , Luxembourg |
original language | German , Yiddish , Hebrew |
Publishing year | 2018 |
length | 137 minutes |
Age rating | JMK 12 |
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Director | Christian frog |
script | Christian frog |
production |
Viktoria Salcher , Mathias Forberg , Adrien Chef , Paul Thiltges |
music | Anselme Pau |
camera | Frank Amann |
cut | Karin Hammer |
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Anatomy of a process - Murer is a feature film by Christian Frosch from the year 2018 . The premiere of the Austrian - Luxembourg co-production with Karl Fischer in the role of Franz Murer and Karl Markovics as Simon Wiesenthal took place on March 13, 2018 as part of the Diagonale film festival , where the production was shown as the opening film and was awarded the prize for best feature film. The Austrian theatrical release was on March 16, 2018. In Germany, the film was released on November 22, 2018. The first broadcast on ORF is scheduled for September 6, 2020.
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In this court film the case of the respected is based on original documents Styrian politician and rich peasants Franz Murer traced that in World War II, one of the main people responsible for the killing of Jews in 1941-1943 Vilnius was.
In 1962 Murer was brought to court in Austria because of Simon Wiesenthal's legal intervention . Holocaust survivors arrive to testify against him. Despite the overwhelming evidence, the trial ended in 1963 with an acquittal.
Production and Background
The shooting took place from April to June 2017 in Vienna , Lower Austria and Luxembourg. The production was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund , Filmstandort Austria (FISA), CINE ART Steiermark and the Film Fund Luxembourg . The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation was involved . The film was produced by Austrian Prisma Film , coproducer was Paul Thiltges Distributions from Luxembourg . Gregor Kienel was responsible for the sound, Alfred Mayerhofer for the costume design, Katharina Wöppermann for the production design and Fredo Roeser for the make-up.
Director and screenwriter Christian Frosch explained that he saw the production not as a historicizing, but as a political film. He did not want to recount the crimes of the Nazi regime , but rather to understand how the various groups of perpetrators, victims and bystanders in the Republic of Austria represented and continue to present themselves. Here you can see how the Austrian narrative works. It would not be based on repression, but deliberately lied and veiled, thus making the perpetrators victims and declaring the victims to be the real culprits.
reception
In his review for Friday , Jens Balkenborg writes that Murer - the anatomy of a process "is not" another Nazi film "" but "historical precision cinema par excellence." Frosch brings the "historical impossibility of the Murer case" with "a sober one Staging and an inner, almost incidentally creeping tension [...] into a filmic form ”and dissect it“ with medical meticulousness ”. The “polyphonic narrative” is put together “bit by bit to form a harrowing picture of time”.
Awards and nominations
Diagonal 2018
- Big Diagonale Prize / Best Feature Film
Viennale 2018
- Vienna Film Prize - Special Jury Prize
- Award for best feature film
- Nomination for Best Male Leading Role ( Karl Fischer )
- Award for the best female supporting role ( Inge Maux )
- Nomination for the best male supporting role ( Gerhard Liebmann )
- Nomination for Best Director (Christian Frosch)
- Nomination for Best Screenplay (Christian Frosch)
- Nomination for the best costume design ( Alfred Mayerhofer )
- Nomination for the best mask ( Fredo Roeser )
Diagonal 2019
- Thomas Pluch Screenplay Prize (Main Prize; Christian Frosch)
- Nomination in the category Best Director Feature Film (Christian Frosch)
The Papierene Gustl 2018
- Best Austrian film
- Award for the ensemble
Web links
- Murer - Anatomy of a process in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Murer - anatomy of a process at crew united
- Murer - Anatomy of a process on the Prisma Film website
- Murer - Anatomy of a process filmladen.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age designation for Murer - Anatomy of a process . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b orf.at: "Murer" and Geyrhalter-Doku get main prizes ( Memento from March 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Article dated March 17, 2018, accessed March 17, 2018.
- ↑ a b c orf.at: Diagonale opens with “Murer” ( Memento from January 26, 2018 in the Internet Archive ). Article from January 25, 2018, accessed on January 26, 2018.
- ↑ a b c d Diagonale: Opening film'18: Murer - Anatomy of a process . Retrieved January 26, 2018.
- ↑ a b Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved January 26, 2018 .
- ^ ORF premiere: Murer - Anatomy of a process. In: ORF.at . Retrieved August 19, 2020 .
- ^ Vienna Film Fund: Murer - Anatomy of a process . Retrieved January 26, 2018.
- ^ Prisma Film: Murer - Anatomy of a process . Retrieved January 26, 2018.
- ↑ Scandal process - cake in between. Retrieved September 26, 2019 .
- ↑ orf.at: Viennale 2018: rain of prizes and good occupancy . Article dated November 8, 2018, accessed November 8, 2018.
- ↑ Austrian Film Prize 2019: Nominations . Retrieved December 6, 2018.
- ↑ Prize winners Austrian Film Prize 2019 . Accessed January 30, 2019.
- ↑ Thomas Pluch Script Awards 2019 . Retrieved March 22, 2019.
- ^ Kurier: The nominations of the ROMY Academy 2019 . Article dated March 26, 2019, accessed March 26, 2019.
- ↑ "Three Billboards outside Ebbing" is the best film in 2018 . Article dated March 29, 2019, accessed March 29, 2019.
- ↑ German Acting Award for “Murer - Anatomy of a Process”. In: Filmecho.de . September 10, 2019, accessed September 11, 2019 .