Nevrland

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Movie
Original title Nevrland
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2019
length 90 minutes
Rod
Director Gregor Schmidinger
script Gregor Schmidinger
production Ulrich Gehmacher
camera Jo Molitoris
cut Gerd Berner
occupation

Nevrland is an Austrian feature film by Gregor Schmidinger from the year 2019 with Simon Frühwirth and Paul Forman in the lead roles. The premiere took place on January 16 , 2019 as part of the Max Ophüls Prize film festival , where the film was invited to the competition and won the prize of the youth jury. Leading actor Simon Frühwirth was also recognized as the best young actor. The Austrian premiere took place as part of the Diagonale in Graz in March 2019. The Austrian cinema release was on September 13, 2019, in Germany the film was released on October 17, 2019.

action

The 17-year-old Jakob lives with his grandfather and father in a small apartment in Vienna . In order to earn some money for his planned studies, he works as a temporary worker in the slaughterhouse where his father also works. Jakob is struggling with an anxiety disorder that makes life increasingly difficult for him.

One night he met the 26-year-old artist Kristjan in a sex cam chat. A virtual friendship develops between the two at first without a real meeting initially taking place. Only after a difficult stroke of fate does Jakob muster up all his courage and meet with Kristjan in his apartment.

production

The shooting took place in March and April 2018 in Vienna and Upper Austria . The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund and the Province of Upper Austria , and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation was involved . The film was produced by Orbrock Filmproduktion .

Gregor Kienel and Thomas Pötz were responsible for the sound and sound design, Christine Ludwig for the costume design, Conrad Moritz Reinhardt for the production design and Stefanie Lamm for the mask. The casting director was Lisa Oláh .

reception

“In his strong feature film debut Nevrland [...] Gregor Schmidinger processed a lot of autobiographical information: his father is also a butcher and he himself suffered for many years from massive fear and delusions. And if you continue researching your name on the Internet, you will experience a very informative young man who naturally talks about potency or relationship problems, dating apps or porn consumption in and outside the gay scene, ”writes film critic Simon Hauck on kino-zeit.de and speaks of a "brilliant feature film debut".

Jens Balzer described the film in time as symbolically highly charged, beautifully photographed and rhythmic narrative of the of meaning, self and sex Search of an adolescent male. He found that the symbolic overload of the story in an occasionally somewhat unfavorable manner paired with the lack of originality of the symbolism. "When the picture puzzles are as easy to solve as in Nevrland, the joke of the puzzle is somehow lost."

Andrey Arnold wrote in the daily newspaper Die Presse that Schmidinger's loud aesthetics betrayed his affiliation with the local directors. Like Monja Art ( seventeen ) and Katharina Mückstein ( L'Animale ), he prefers affect rather than distance. Gaspar Noé is recognizable as a cinematic source of inspiration . In the context of the domestic film landscape, the pulsating directness is powerful and refreshing. Nevertheless, they are only partially convincing. Schmidinger goes too far into the cliché box when describing his type and milieu, his catalog of symbols and his arsenal of effects seem too worn out. Often the surreal artificiality of the film seems to be extremely strained - or not consistent enough. “But it's easy to forgive such things for a debut. Nevrland is brimming with ambition and arrogance. That alone cannot harm the Ösi-Kino. "

Awards and nominations

Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize 2019

  • Best young actors (Simon Frühwirth)
  • Prize of the youth jury

Diagonal 2019

Film Festival Kitzbühel 2019

  • Award for best feature film

Heimatfilmfestival 2019

  • Prize of the youth jury
Thomas Pötz, Gregor Kienel and Rudolf Gottsberger (Austrian Film Award 2020)

Austrian Film Award 2020

  • Award in the category Best Male Supporting Role (Josef Hader)
  • Nomination in the category Best Male Supporting Role (Wolfgang Hübsch)
  • Award in the category Best Camera (Jo Molitoris)
  • Nomination in the category Best Editing (Gerd Berner)
  • Nomination in the category Best Production Design (Conrad Moritz Reinhardt)
  • Award in the category Best Sound Design (original sound: Gregor Kienel, sound design: Thomas Pötz, Rudolf Gottsberger, mix: Thomas Pötz)

Romy Awards 2020

  • Nomination in the category Best Young Male (Simon Frühwirth)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kleine Zeitung: 69th BerlinaleMarie Kreutzers "Boden unter dem Füssen" in the competition . Article dated December 13, 2018, accessed December 13, 2018.
  2. ^ Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize: Nevrland . Retrieved on January 12, 2019.
  3. ↑ Conversation with competition director Gregor Schmidinger: A healing act of creative destruction . Article from January 18, 2019, accessed on January 19, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b c Austrian Film Institute. Retrieved December 13, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Austrian Film Institute: Nevrland . Retrieved December 13, 2018.
  6. ↑ Nevrland at crew united . Retrieved December 13, 2018.
  7. ↑ Simon Hauck: Nevrland (2019). In: film-zeit.de. Retrieved January 21, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Jens Balzer: "Nevrland": search for meaning, self and sex. In: ZEIT ONLINE . October 15, 2019, accessed October 15, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Andrey Arnold: Teens in Psychological Hell. In: The press . September 13, 2019, accessed October 15, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize: The Prize Winners 2019 . Retrieved January 19, 2019.
  11. ↑ Thomas Pluch Script Awards 2019 . Retrieved March 22, 2019.
  12. ↑ Diagonale 2019: Acting Awards . Retrieved March 23, 2019.
  13. ↑ By Julia Schafferhofer | 9:30 p.m., 23 March 2019: Diagonale Prize: very first role in "Nevrland", second prize: Simon Frühwirth is a natural talent. March 23, 2019, accessed March 27, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Joachim Leitner: Otto Schenk and Helmut Berger: "We were addicted to naturalness". In: Tyrolean daily newspaper . August 26, 2019. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Heimatfilmfestival: Feature film award for French women. In: Upper Austrian news . August 26, 2019. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .
  16. ^ Nominations for the Austrian Film Prize 2020. In: Academy of Austrian Films . Retrieved December 4, 2019 .
  17. ↑ ROMY Academy Awards: The playing field for experts. In: Kurier.at . March 11, 2020, accessed March 11, 2020 .