Nobadi

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Movie
Original title Nobadi
Country of production Austria
original language German
Publishing year 2019
length 89 minutes
Rod
Director Karl Markovics
script Karl Markovics
production Dieter Pochlatko ,
Jakob Pochlatko
music Matthias Loibner
camera Serafin Spitzer
cut Alarich Lenz
occupation

Nobadi is an Austrian feature film by Karl Markovics from the year 2019 with Heinz Trixner and Borhan Hassan Zadeh in the lead roles. The premiere took place on September 7, 2019 as part of the Toronto International Film Festival 2019 in the Contemporary World Cinema section . The Austrian premiere was on September 25, 2019 in the Wiener Gartenbaukino , the Austrian cinema release on October 4, 2019.

action

The 93-year-old Henry Senft lives in an allotment house on the Vienna melting , on his arm he has a SS - blood type tattoo . After his dog dies, he wants to bury it in the garden. When the handle of his pickaxe breaks off, he gets a new one at the hardware store. On the way home, Adib Ghubar, a refugee from Afghanistan , asks him about work. Adib agrees to an hourly wage of just three euros. During work, the two get to know each other a little better. For example, Heinrich learns that Adib owes his knowledge of German to his work in Camp Marmal with the German armed forces. After the pit is completed, there is an argument, Senft cannot find his money to pay Adib, secretly suspects that Adib would have stolen it and threatens the unsuspecting Adib with an old gun, has him empty his pockets and even take off his pants. Meanwhile, Adib believes he has been cheated out of his wages. Finally, Senft remembers that he had hidden the money himself for fear of being stolen, and Adib can still pay it.

Some time later, Senft finds the refugee at a bus stop. Although Adib has a serious injury to his foot, he refuses to undergo medical treatment for fear of being deported . Senft diagnoses the blood poisoning as fatal sepsis and takes him to a veterinarian so that she can give him painkillers and antibiotics. However, she wants to call the rescue, so Senft lures her into the treatment room and strangles the confidante. He steals surgical instruments , medicine and bandages and brings Adib back to his garden shed. Senft is convinced that the only way to save Adib's life is to dig up his medical knowledge from the war and amputate Adib's foot . Senft first makes his "patient" professionally painless with "cross stitch" ( spinal anesthesia ) and amputated his foot with a Stanley knife while fully conscious . During the vividly depicted operation (which is "not for the faint of heart" but symbolizes atrocities of war), the awake Adib begins to tell the old man his story. Senft falls asleep exhausted from the concentrated activity, while Adib, who has been immobilized with an anesthetic , bleeds to death . The pit in the garden becomes Adib's grave. With that his flight to Europe and hope for a better life failed. A social worker who brings food in the morning discovers the bloody disaster .

The film's title is derived from a tattoo from the Afghan refugee on the forearm of the boys is Nobadi a mocked form of "Nobody". This is the name he was given in the NATO camp in Afghanistan, where he worked as an errand boy and later as a translator, and at the same time an allusion to the trick of Odysseus in the Cyclops' cave (see there ). If Nobadi had died, one could rightly have said that “nobody” had died and that there was no need to support the bereaved. At the same time, the Odyssey is intended to create a parable on the refugee movements of the 21st century.

production

The shooting took place from April 3 to May 17, 2018, and the shooting took place in Vienna and Lower Austria . The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund and the Province of Lower Austria , and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation was involved . The film was produced by Epo-Film .

William Edouard Franck and Philipp Mosser were responsible for the sound and sound design, Caterina Czepek for the costume design , Andreas Sobotka for the production design and Martha Ruess for the mask.

Leading actor Borhanulddin Hassan Zadeh came to Austria as a refugee from Afghanistan in 2012 . After his first stage experience as part of a theater project initiated by Hilde Dalik , this was his first film and his first leading role. For Karl Markovics this is the third feature film after Atmen (2011) and Superwelt (2015).

reception

Andrey Arnold described the film in the daily newspaper Die Presse as a “brute parable”, in which everything was symbolic. “The dynamic between the typical protagonists is intended to illustrate a mentality that does not recognize the dignity of the other even in the gesture of alleged mercy: Heinrich's personal refugee is always only a substitute for pets. The powerful actors give the event a profile, but Nobadi Makrovics' weakest film so far: Its course may be unpredictable, the message isn't. "

Awards and nominations

Austrian Film Award 2020

  • Nomination in the category Best Editing (Alarich Lenz)
  • Nomination in the category Best Sound Design (Original Sound : William Edouard Franck, Sound Design: Philipp Mosser, Reinhard Schweiger, Mixing: Bernhard Maisch)

Thomas Pluch Script Award 2020

  • Nomination for the main prize and the special prize of the jury (Karl Markovics)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nobadi. In: Toronto International Film Festival . Retrieved September 1, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Nobadi - Premiere. In: film.at. September 18, 2019, accessed September 18, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Nobadi. In: Austrian Film Institute . Retrieved September 1, 2019 .
  4. ↑ a b c d Austrian Film Institute: Nobadi . Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  5. ↑ “Nobadi”: Markovics packs the big world into a small space. In: Upper Austrian Volksblatt . September 8, 2019, archived from the original on September 17, 2019 .;
  6. ^ Wolfgang Popp: Markovics drama in the allotment garden. In: ORF.at . September 24, 2019, accessed September 24, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Nobadi at crew united . Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  8. ↑ Vienna Film Fund: Nobadi . Retrieved September 1, 2019.
  9. ↑ Andrey Arnold: “Nobadi” and “Chaos”: Refugees in the allotment garden. In: The press . October 6, 2019, accessed October 7, 2019 .
  10. ^ Nominations for the Austrian Film Prize 2020. In: Academy of Austrian Films . Retrieved December 4, 2019 .