Narcissus and Goldmund (film)

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Movie
Original title Narcissus and Goldmund
Country of production Germany , Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2020
length 118 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Stefan Ruzowitzky
script Stefan Ruzowitzky
production Helge Sasse ,
Christoph Müller ,
Thomas Pridnig ,
Peter Wirthensohn
music Henning Fuchs
camera Benedict Neuenfels
cut Britta Nahler
occupation

Narcissus and Goldmund is a film by Stefan Ruzowitzky . It is a film adaptation of the story of the same name by Hermann Hesse from 1930. The title roles of Narcissus and Goldmund were cast by Sabin Tambrea and Jannis Niewöhner . The film was released in German cinemas on March 12, 2020 and the following day in Austrian cinemas.

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In the middle ages. Once the young, beautiful and intelligent Goldmund had been sent by his father to study in the monastery and befriended the pious monastery student Narcissus after he had defended the slender boy against older beaters. Narcissus became Goldmund's teacher, and Goldmund grew up to be a well-read model student. After some time, the artistically talented Goldmund began to struggle with everyday life in the monastery and realized that the perspective on life that the monastery offered him did not match his ideas of freedom. When Narcissus realized that Goldmund longed for more than friendship, he withdrew. While Narcissus lived and acted ascetically according to the strict rules of the religious community, one day Goldmund went in search of his mother.

Now, 22 years later, Narcissus and Goldmund, who has been appointed abbot, meet again in a precarious way: at a prince's celebration, at which Narcissus is present, the completely undressed Goldmund is suddenly led in. He stayed in the princess's apartments. Narcissus visits him under a pretext in the dungeon, finds him badly mistreated and helps him to escape. In the abbey, Goldmund tells of his adventures. He spent the next few years wandering, learned the craft of sculpture and met his great love, Lene, who died of the plague. He couldn't find his mother either. In order to keep him a little longer in the abbey, Narcissus asks him to make an altar. Goldmund creates a masterpiece that no one has seen before; each figure of a saint bears the face of a woman who shaped his life.

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“I find Hermann Hesse's understanding of these young characters incredible. This is not the top view that you sometimes have as an adult or this assessment. It is completely unbiased, with a great love for the longings and fears of young people. I think it's great how Hesse managed it. "

- Sabin Tambrea
Narcissus and Goldmund in the first edition from 1930

The film is a film adaptation of the story Narcissus and Goldmund by Hermann Hesse from 1930. The novel was his most successful book during his lifetime and has been translated into 30 languages.

Hesse used some strong biographical references for this work, which can also be found in the names of the places. Hesse was born in 1877 as the son of the missionary Johann Hesse from Estonia. The family lived in Basel from 1881 to 1886. At this time Johann Hesse had acquired Swiss citizenship. Hermann Hesse studied at the Göppingen Latin School from 1890 to 1891 and passed the Württemberg state examination. Because he wanted to pursue a theological career, his father therefore acquired the Württemberg citizenship. In September 1891 Hesse entered the Protestant monastery seminar in Maulbronn. Narcissus and Goldmund are apparently two sides of Hermann Hesse, according to Joseph-François Angelloz : “Since he was supposed to take up the pastor's profession, he was a student in the Maulbronn monastery. So he introduces us - in the novel - to the Mariabronner monastery. There teaches a young novice who is loved or envied for his beauty, his knowledge of Greek, his refinement, his thoughtful and profound look; he has been given the gift of reading in souls and in the future, to direct people to their fate. ”In Goldmund, Narcissus discovered“ his opposite pole and his complement ”and“ the other half of his own nature ”, says Angelloz.

production

Staff and film funding

The director was Oscar-winner Stefan Ruzowitzky . As early as 2014 it became known that he was working on a script adaptation of Hesse's novel. The fact that Narcissus did not appear in the book for a very long time led to a problem for a film adaptation. For this reason, a dramaturgical model with nested flashbacks and flashbacks was used. The starting point is the point in time when the adult Goldmund returned to Narcissus in the Mariabronn monastery and told him about his adventures.

The film received production funding of 400,000 euros from the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern , 350,000 euros from the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg , 700,000 euros from the Federal Film Fund and production grants from the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung in the amount of 200,000 euros and from the Filmförderungsanstalt in the amount of 568,400 euros. On the Austrian side, FISA Filmstandort Austria contributed production funding of 538,000 euros and the Vienna Film Fund to the amount of 200,000 euros. Further funding comes from the ORF film / television agreement, the cultural funding of the State of Lower Austria and the Austrian Film Institute .

Occupation and preparation

The main actors Sabin Tambrea and Jannis Niewöhner took over the title roles of Narcissus and Goldmund. Since the friendship between the two main characters lasted for over three decades, they were embodied in their younger years by the child actors Oskar von Schönfels and Jeremy Miliker . In preparation, Tambrea and Niewöhner spent several days one after the other at Zwettl Abbey in the Waldviertel and took part in the six daily prayers. For Niewöhner, however, Narcissus and Goldmund is not a historical film in which one tries to realistically portray a certain period of time. Rather, one would have tried Hesse and the Middle Ages as he drew it. So it is more of a fictional romanticized Middle Ages: "Everything is very beautiful and captivates with dazzling colors."

Emilia Schüle as Lydia, Henriette Confurius as Lene and Uwe Ochsenknecht as Master Niklaus can also be seen in other roles . Kida Khodr Ramadan took over the role of monk Anselm, André M. Hennicke the role of monk Lothar.

Filming and equipment

The shooting took place at Hardegg Castle in the Hollabrunn district , among other places

The shooting took place from August to October 2018 in Austria and the Czech Republic. Hardegg Castle in the Hollabrunn district in Lower Austria , where filming began on August 16, 2018, served as the filming location . The castle, built in 1145, is normally open to the public, but during the filming it was authentically transported back to the Middle Ages. More snow photos should be taken in South Tyrol. Benedict Neuenfels acted as cameraman .

Film music, marketing and publishing

The film music was composed by Henning Fuchs . The soundtrack album was released as a download by Neue Meister in mid-March 2020 .

A first trailer was presented at the end of October 2019. The film was released in German and German-speaking Swiss on March 12, 2020, and in Austrian cinemas the following day. Narziss und Goldmund celebrated its premiere on March 2, 2020 at the Berlin Zoo Palast . Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the cinemas in Germany were closed in the first week of the game, so that the film initially only had a good 20,000 viewers. On April 16, 2020, like the Kangaroo Chronicles, it was published as a purchase download after the FFA had granted an extraordinary reduction in the blocking period. When gaming operations resumed in May 2020, the film was made available to the cinemas again.

reception

Age rating

In Germany it was approved by the FSK from the age of 12, but allowed from the age of 6 if accompanied by the parents. The statement of reasons for the release states that the atmosphere of the film is often gloomy, and that war and plague are also discussed. Violent and dramatic passages as well as tragic twists and turns could overwhelm children under the age of 12 due to their emotional intensity, but due to the historical setting that is far from everyday life, older children are able to distance themselves from the events and deal with the youth-related aspects of the film such as growing up, friendship and the individual The search for meaning.

Reviews

The film critic Antje Wessels notes on programmkino.de, the website of the Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater , that although the story focuses on the loving friendship between two men, the environment marked by plague, violence and death in which this friendship turns into intimate love developed, could hardly be staged better than Stefan Ruzowitzky, who is familiar with the subject : “We see corpses littered with plague blisters, torture carried out on victims in detail and bare skin in between. The backdrops always seem anything but tidy, but dirty and lively. Sometimes you have the feeling that you can smell the smell of the streets and their people in the cinema too. ”It is thanks to Ruzowitzky's precise direction that with so much violence and dirt the intimacy of the friendship between Narcissus and Goldmund never falls by the wayside , says Wessels.

Manfred Riepe from epd Film writes that as a young Adonis who shows a lot of bare skin, Jannis Niewöhner cuts a fine figure, but because of his broad Berlin dialect, Hesse's dialogues sound as if Goldmund had a tin tongue. Sabin Tambrea, on the other hand, is taken from the ascetic, self-mortifying monk earlier.

Use in school lessons

The online portal kinofenster.de recommends the film from the 11th grade for the subjects German , history, social studies, ethics , religion and philosophy and offers materials for the film for the classroom. Burkhard Wetekam writes there that in addition to dealing with the question of a successful life in ethics classes, he offers historical explorations on the role of monasteries or religious art .

Awards

Narziss und Goldmund was shortlisted for the German Film Award at the beginning of January 2020 .

German Film Award 2020

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of release for Narcissus and Goldmund . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 197002 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ↑ Age designation for Narcissus and Goldmund . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ a b Carsten Baumgardt: FILM STARTS on the set of “Narcissus and Goldmund” - the “Game Of Thrones” of the 30s. In: filmstarts.de, September 22, 2018. (Page 2)
  4. ↑ https://www.suhrkamp.de/buecher/hermann_hesse_narziss_und_goldmund_-hermann_hesse_46573.html
  5. ^ FJ Angelloz: The maternal and the masculine in the work of Hermann Hesse. In: Series of publications by the Saarland Cultural Society 2. (PDF)
  6. ↑ a b "Narcissus and Goldmund": Ruzowitzky filmed Hesse novel. In: diepresse.com, November 22, 2016.
  7. ↑ Florian Schmitt: "Die Fälscher" director Stefan Ruzowitzky writes the screenplay for the Herman-Hesse adaptation "Narcissus and Goldmund". In: filmstarts.de, September 11, 2014.
  8. ↑ a b c Carsten Baumgardt: FILM STARTS on the set of “Narcissus and Goldmund” - the “Game Of Thrones” of the 30s. In: filmstarts.de, September 22, 2018. (Page 1)
  9. ↑ Funding decisions 2016 In: medienboard.de. Accessed April 5, 2018 (PDF; 157 KB)
  10. ↑ https://www.medienboard.de/fileadmin/user_upload/pdf/Foerderentscheidungen/Foerderzusagen_April_2018.pdf
  11. ↑ State Minister Monika Grütters is funding feature film projects with around 6.1 million euros. In: bundesregierung.de, December 16, 2017.
  12. ↑ Narcissus and Goldmund. In: filminstitut.at. Retrieved September 29, 2018.
  13. ↑ a b Start of shooting for “Narcissus and Goldmund”. In: Focus Online, August 27, 2018.
  14. ↑ https://www.ajoure-men.de/lifestyle/people/jannis-niewoehner-im-interview-ueber-seinen-neuen-kinofilm-narziss-und-goldmund/
  15. ↑ Carsten Baumgardt: FILM STARTS on the set of “Narcissus and Goldmund” - the “Game Of Thrones” of the 30s. In: filmstarts.de, September 22, 2018. (Page 3)
  16. ^ Ruzowitzky filmed Hesse in the Waldviertel. In: orf.at, February 5, 2017.
  17. ↑ Start of shooting for “Narcissus and Goldmund”. In: spielfilm.de, August 30, 2018.
  18. ↑ 'Narcissus and Goldmund' ('Narziss und Goldmund') Soundtrack Released. In: filmmusicreporter.com, March 12, 2020.
  19. ↑ Start dates in Germany . In: insidekino.com. Retrieved August 10, 2018.
  20. ↑ Narcissus and Goldmund. In: arttv.ch, January 27, 2020.
  21. ↑ Narcissus and Goldmund. In: uncut.at. Retrieved March 13, 2020.
  22. ↑ Nationwide numerous cinemas closed with immediate effect . In: stuttgarter-zeitung.de, March 17, 2020, accessed on May 2, 2020.
  23. ↑ Narcissus and Goldmund . In: mediabiz.de, accessed on May 2, 2020.
  24. ↑ "Narziss und Goldmund" available digitally from mid-April. In: blickpunktfilm.de, April 8, 2020, accessed on May 2, 2020.
  25. ↑ Reasons for approval for Narcissus and Goldmund . In: Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry. Retrieved March 12, 2020.
  26. ↑ Antje Wessels: Narcissus and Goldmund. In: programmkino.de. Retrieved March 4, 2020.
  27. ↑ https://www.epd-film.de/filmkritiken/narziss-und-goldmund
  28. ↑ Booklet 33 with materials for school and extracurricular education. In: kinofenster.de. Accessed April 2, 2020 (PDF; 4 MB)
  29. ↑ Burkhard Wetekam: Narcissus and Goldmund. In: kinofenster.de, January 15, 2020.
  30. ↑ preselection. In: deutscher-filmpreis.de. Retrieved January 7, 2020.