Nobody is an island (movie)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Nobody is an island |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carlo Rola |
| script | Knut Boeser |
| production |
Oliver Berben Caroline von Senden |
| music | Helmut Zerlett |
| camera | Frank Küpper |
| cut | Friederike von Normann |
| occupation | |
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Nobody is an island is a German television film from 2011 . The film drama is a literary adaptation of the novel of the same name by Johannes Mario Simmel , published in 1975 .
action
Sylvia Moran is a great and acclaimed film star. She is also the patron of a charity gala for disabled children. However, the sight of those disabilities arouses in her fears that lead to a breakdown backstage. Your seemingly perfect and bright life has more cracks than you might think. Enough people are busy maintaining this facade. Her assistant Clarissa organizes her entire life and shields her from the press. Her partner Philip is always by her side to provide the press with a glamorous picture.
But someone knows Sylvia's dark secret. Somebody managed to save this as a sound recording. Now she is being blackmailed. When her daughter Nele fell ill with meningitis and was threatened with paralysis, Sylvia could hardly be stopped. But her perfect facade and the pressure of a film shoot on Rügen , the pressure of the producers and the press prevent her from taking care of Nele. Instead, Philip steps in again. Although Sylvia throws herself into work, she loses more and more control over her life.
background
The film was shot from April 8 to May 7, 2010 in Berlin and on Rügen . The film was broadcast for the first time on June 8, 2011 on the Austrian television station ORF 2 . He was seen by around 655,000 people. It was first broadcast in Germany five days later, on June 13, 2011, on ZDF , where it was seen by 4.16 million viewers, corresponding to a market share of 12.6 percent.
Reviews
“The television melodrama 'Nobody is an island' for its part offers a famous actress of our day a role platform: Iris Berben [...] pulls out all the stops between hysteria and depression, between radiant aura, eccentric moodiness and total abandonment. Such an ensemble of characters and feelings is commonly associated with the term diva. But Iris Berben's playing consistently seems as if she herself no longer believes in the pathos that the diva role basically demands - and which has simply worn out a lot in the meantime. "
“Based on the bestseller of the same name by Johannes Mario Simmel, published in 1975, Iris Berben's in-house director Carlo Rola staged this melodrama, which was designed entirely for its leading actress. Berben is convincing in the role of the no longer very young but celebrated film diva, whose outwardly perfect facade is gradually beginning to crumble. However, screenwriter Knut Boeser [...] packed a little too much of a good thing into the story. The split mother-daughter relationship alone would have provided material for a film, quite apart from the elaboration of the star cult with all its disadvantages. But this is also how the problem of handicapped children is addressed, blackmail is supposed to create tension and finally there is also a general settlement with the oh-so-bad film and media company. "
“The latest Simmel production 'Nobody is an island' (the novel was published in 1975) in any case guards the sheer nothingness behind the beautiful glow of its pictures. If ZDF is serious about rejuvenating its audience, it should put an end to this Simmel-Berben-Rola box as soon as possible. [...] The fictional Sylvia Moran, played by Iris Berben with disciplined affectation on the line between beauty and monster, stands strangely lost in the gallery of unfortunate celebrities that film and television love and have to stage again and again. You don't really want to know anything about this synthetic figure. Anything that points beyond the simple plot, that could be generalized and even reveal something new about the difficulty of remaining human as a mega-star, is in vain. "
Interviews
- Anne Meyer-Minnemann: Iris Berben: "Makes life so much joy!" , Gala , June 7, 2011
- Nicole Richter: The Berben went swimming for BILD , bild.de , June 11, 2011
- Martin Weber: Interview: Always curious about everyday life , wz-newsline.de , June 10, 2011
- Mike Powelz: “I'm not a diverted diva,” Iris Berben in an interview , TV Digital , June 3, 2011
- Interview with Iris Berben , rtv
Web links
- No man is an island in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Nobody is an island in the lexicon of international film
- Nobody is an island on constantin-film.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nobody is an island , crew-united.de
- ↑ 655,000 for "Nobody is an island" , derstandard.at
- ↑ Berben-Film gets stuck with moderate ratings , dwdl.de
- ^ Medea on Rügen , faz.net
- ↑ Nobody is an island , prisma.de
- ↑ Dust of the Times , tagesspiegel.de