Ondine - The girl from the sea
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Ondine - The girl from the sea |
| Original title | Ondine |
| Country of production |
Ireland , USA |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Neil Jordan |
| script | Neil Jordan |
| production |
Ben Browning , James Flynn , Neil Jordan |
| music | Kjartan Sveinsson |
| camera | Christopher Doyle |
| cut | Tony Lawson |
| occupation | |
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Ondine is a 2009 Irish drama directed and scripted by Neil Jordan . It is based on the mythological figure of Undine . The main actors are Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda-Curuś . The German film launch was on October 21, 2010.
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The Irish fisherman Syracuse one day while fishing in his net, pulls a young woman on board his small boat. The woman who names Ondine is distraught and does not want to see anyone but Syracuse. So he hides her in a remote house by the sea that his mother once lived in.
Syracuse himself is an outsider in his village. He is disparagingly called "clown" by everyone, even by the priest, the only one to whom he opens himself - in the confessional. He used to be an alcoholic , but his ex-wife Maura is still; Nevertheless, their little daughter Annie grows up with her and her new boyfriend Alex. Annie has kidney disease, has regular dialysis and is in a wheelchair . During one of the long dialysis sessions, Syracuse tells Annie the tale of a fisherman who one day discovers a young woman in his net. Since the story has an open ending, Annie begins to get curious. She borrows books about selkies and nymphs and one day drives secretly to Syracuse's hut, where she discovers Ondine. She thinks she's a selkie. Ondine encourages them.
Syracuse soon believes that she has met a mythical being in Ondine. When she begins to sing a tune he does not know on board his ship, he suddenly catches more lobsters than ever before. On another day he catches a school of salmon with his trawl , which is actually impossible. Since the officials from the fisheries authority have also seen Ondine in his boat, she now shows herself to the other villagers, who soon start whispering and over time are suspicious of the young woman. But Annie is enthusiastic about her new friend, especially since they both share a secret: Ondine found an object in the sea that she buried in Annie's presence. She thinks it is Ondines Selkiehaut, as Selkies bury their skin when they want to stay on land for seven years and become human.
One day a strange man appears in the village. It becomes clear that he has something to do with Ondine. She flees from him, and Syracuse finds her hidden in a cave hours later. Both continue to spin the selkie mystery: So a selkie has a wish that will be fulfilled. Ondine wants Annie to get well; Syracuse wishes Ondine to stay with him forever. A short time later, the car of his ex-wife, who was driving drunk, crashes into the stranger's car, killing her boyfriend; Annie comes to the hospital only slightly injured, receives a kidney from her friend as an organ donation and then heals.
After the funeral, Syracuse - instigated by his ex - drinks alcohol again. Maura, who was injured in the accident and is in a wheelchair, wants Syracuse to eat Annie on the condition that "this woman" disappear. Drunk he takes Ondine to a remote, uninhabited island and leaves her there with a heavy heart.
The next day he hears the song on TV that Ondine used to sing. He realizes that she is not a mythical being, but real, and looks for her. He finds her on a nearby island that she swam to. She finally reveals to him the truth about herself. Her real name is Joanna and she was a Romanian drug smuggler. When she and her buddy were caught by the Coast Guard, she started swimming with the heroin in her backpack because her buddy is a non-swimmer. She first lost her bag and later her strength and was finally saved from drowning by Syracuse's fishing net. She found the bag a little later and buried it with Annie.
Back at Syracuse's house, she is already expecting Ondine's former friend and threatening Annie, Syracuse and Ondine with another man. They're looking for the bag, which Annie dug up and hidden in a lobster cage on the Syracuse ship. When trying to pull the lobster cage out of the water, Ondine manages to push her former friend overboard - he drowns. Ondine is arrested. You are now threatened with deportation. Syracuse, however, prevents this by taking Ondine as his wife in the end.
Background and origin
The film is loosely based on the mythological Undine , which is a water spirit or a nymph. The film was shot on the Beara Peninsula in Ireland.
Awards
- Irish Film and Television Awards for Ondine :
- Leading actor: Colin Farrell
- Production design: Anna Rackard
- Sound: Brendan Deasy, Tom Johnson and Sarah Gaines
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Ondine - The Girl from the Sea . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2010 (PDF; test number: 124 688 K).
- ^ Winners of the 7th Annual Irish Film & Television Awards , accessed June 5, 2010