Nine scenes

Movie
Original title	Nine scenes
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2006
length	105 minutes
Age rating	FSK o. A.
Rod
Director	Dietrich Brüggemann
script	Anna Brüggemann , Dietrich Brüggemann
production	Gesine Reicherstorfer
music	Wedding camp
camera	Alexander Sass
cut	Vincent Assmann
occupation
	Anna Brüggemann : Magdalena; Christian Ehrich : Rudi; Richard Kropf : Julian; Leslie Malton : Magdalena's mother; Heio von Stetten : Magdalena's father; Julia Heinemann : Rudi's mother; Hans-Heinrich Hardt : Rudi's father; Klaus Manchen : Rudi's grandfather; Hildegard Kuhlenberg : Julian's mother; John Keogh : Julian's father; Alexander Hörbe : Oliver; Lena Lessing : Bride; Jörg Bundschuh : Ex-husband;

Nine Scenes is a German episode film by director Dietrich Brüggemann from 2006. The film consists of nine scenes, almost each of which is recorded from a fixed point of view without cuts. The film premiered in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino at the Berlinale 2006.

action

The plot is divided into nine scenes and begins with Magdalena and Rudi, who is in love with them, graduate from high school . 19-year-old Magdalena has to wash glasses in her father's restaurant, while Rudi and her boyfriend Julian are at the bar. But the very next morning a chain of events begins that changes everything.

When a car breaks down, Rudi realizes that his father is not as confident as he is and that his good-natured grandfather has a sinister side.

Magdalena discovers a violet in her mother and suspects her father of having done it to her. Her mother, in turn, claims that a pickle jar fell on her face.

The 25-year-old Julian is sitting at a lake with his mother and Magdalena and sees no need to choose between the two. Due to the 3-year anniversary of the relationship, Julian's mother gives Magdalena a pendant that she herself received 30 years ago.

During the wedding celebration of Julian's father and his new partner, she asks the question whether one should even say “Yes” in front of the altar, whereupon a discussion of the wedding party breaks out, in which Magdalena also takes part.

Rudi's mother reminisces and collapses shortly afterwards, whereby Rudi realizes that his parents' house has ceased to exist.

He makes the decision to confess his love to Magdalena, but when he stands in front of her door, he realizes that she is separating from Julian. Ultimately, he can bring himself to speak to her on the mailbox .

Magdalena is overwhelmed by the events and runs into a park, followed by Rudi. While crossing the park, she first meets Rudi's grandfather, Rudi's father with a new partner, her mother, Julian's mother, Julian's father with his wife, Rudi's mother with a new partner and finally Julian, before she gets on a bus.

In the last scene, Magdalena argues with her father about his behavior and in the course of the argument her father hits a table top, whereupon a pickle jar falls from the cupboard and knocks him unconscious. Shortly afterwards, Rudi arrives and believes that Magdalena killed her father. He calls the emergency doctor and lets Magdalena persuade her to pretend to be a witness.

Reviews

“On the other hand, the audience [...] honored one of the most artistically daring competition films with the audience award: The episode film Nine Scenes by the young talented director Dietrich Brüggemann demonstratively refuses to meet the expectations of cinematic realism. No shaking hand camera impressions, but static, symmetrically composed recordings are the scope of his life images. What happens in the long shots, however, makes you quickly forget the closeness to the theater: Brüggemann's humorous observations of generational misunderstandings are warm hugs of genre cinema despite the minimalist form. "

- Daniel Kothenschulte , Frankfurter Rundschau, June 23, 2006

“There is then Dietrich Brüggemann's 'Nine Scenes' as a refreshing adolescent comedy, the more convincing exercise in genre cinema. The film, which follows a few turbulences in the 2005 high school graduation class in the province, not only impresses with its hilarious script, but also because, for a change, it completely dispenses with wobbling handheld cameras and instead almost every scene from a fixed one Captures viewing angles without cuts. Sometimes the art lies in open artificiality. "

- Andreas Rosenfelder, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 8, 2006

“After the prom, the protagonists sit together at the bar. Graduated from high school - and now off to life! But life - as we experience in this intelligently told and staged round dance, in these puzzle pieces that come together to form a story - life turns out to be a roundabout of trench warfare, strategic alliances, collisions and fragile coalitions between sons, daughters, mothers, Fathers, grandfathers, ex and future spouses. In 'Nine Scenes', Dietrich Brüggemann skillfully stages nine generation conflicts in a society that presents itself as tolerant and which is not as open and nice to one another as it appears at first glance. "

- Klaus Gronenborn, Deutschlandfunk , June 11, 2006