East wind (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | east wind |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Katja von Garnier |
| script |
Lea Schmidbauer , Kristina Magdalena Henn |
| production |
Ewa Karlström , Andreas Ulmke-Smeaton |
| music | Annette Focks |
| camera | Torsten Breuer |
| cut | Dirk Gray |
| occupation | |
| |
| chronology | |
|
Successor → |
|
Ostwind (also subtitled: Together we are free ) is a German feature film from 2013 by Katja von Garnier . It is the first film in the Ostwind series .
action
The rebellious Mika failed the school year. Instead of going to a holiday camp with her friend as planned, she now has to spend the summer holidays studying. Her parents, both ambitious scientists, send her to the riding stables of embittered grandmother Maria Kaltenbach, a former successful show jumper who had to give up her career because of an accident. There, at the “Kaltenbach” stud, Mika should find the necessary “calm and discipline” to learn. So that Mika really does something for the school, Maria Kaltenbach has her granddaughter supervised by the stable boy Sam (actually Samuel).
Mika secretly befriends the shy stallion Ostwind, the horse that is blamed for Maria's accident and has since been considered unusable and dangerous. Only Sam's grandfather, Mr. Kaan, a riding trainer who is at odds with Maria because of his spiritual training methods and from whom Sam is also estranged, recognizes the connection between Mika and Ostwind. In order to save the horse from the threatened sale to the "Hungarians" (presumably a skinner or horse butcher), Mika wants to take part in the upcoming show jumping competition and thus prove that the east wind is not "unusable". In fact, Mr. Kaan manages to teach Mika to ride in less than four weeks.
When Maria saw her granddaughter for the first time on Ostwind on the eve of the tournament, she agreed to let the two compete for the stud at the tournament, especially since she was disappointed with the poor performance of her protégé Michelle and hopes, yes to be able to achieve another victory for Kaltenbach. She also begins to see Mika as her successor, whom her daughter Elisabeth, Mika's mother, could never be.
But the jealous Michelle sabotages Ostwind's gaiters with a highly irritating ointment for blood circulation, so that the horse causes an accident at the tournament in which Sam is dangerously injured. Alerted that the stallion should be sold to the "Hungarians" after all, Mika flees on Ostwind's back and hides with her friend in the holiday camp. Mika's mother learns of her disappearance and comes to Kaltenbach, where she and Maria first have to work through their own complicated mother-daughter relationship. In the meantime, east wind gets colic and as a result - due to her strong connection to east wind - Mika also suffers a breakdown. Mika's mother is called, comes along with the horse farm's vet and takes her to a hospital. There Mika meets the recovered Sam. Mika is also fit again, and the two conclude that Michelle must have sabotaged the gaiters. In order to rehabilitate Ostwind, Mika escapes, with a brief distraction from her parents by Sam, makes it possible to leave the hospital and takes a taxi to Kaltenbach. There, however, she has to realize that the "Hungarian" east wind has already taken with it. Devastated and heartbroken, Mika drives back home with her parents. Silently and in lethargy, she takes the drive until she suddenly becomes aware when the car has to stop because of a traffic jam on the country road. Once again, her strong connection to the east wind is noticeable. Out of an uncertain feeling, she gets out of the car and runs across the fields to Mr. Kaan's paddock, perplexed but anticipating. A few moments later, to Mika's surprise and relief, an east wind appears from the undergrowth. A bird's eye view of the entire scene shows that the traffic jam was caused by the overturned horse transporter of the "Hungary", from which the east wind evidently escaped.
Michelle is expelled from the court and Maria approaches Mr. Kaan again. Mika is finally seen by her mother for who she actually is, just as Mika's mother is finally recognized by Maria. Everyone recognizes Mika's ability and is very surprised.
background
Ostwind was shot in summer 2012 on the main motif Gut Waitzrodt (Gut Kaltenbach) in Immenhausen in Hesse, in the district of Kassel , on the Beberbecker Hute near Beberbeck in Reinhardswald and in Friesland . The movie was released on March 21, 2013 in Germany, where over 750,000 viewers saw the film by the end of May of that year. In 2013, 820,121 visitors were counted at the German box offices nationwide, making the film the 41st place among the most visited films of the year. According to a study by the Filmförderungsanstalt , Ostwind received an audience rating of 1.31, the best rating of all films shown in German cinemas in 2013, on par with Fack ju Göhte . The film has been available for streaming on Disney + since September 25, 2020.
Film music
A CD with the same title ( Ostwind - Together we are free ) with the soundtrack has been released for the film.
Reviews
“Ostwind is a horse film that captures the magic of riding in the great outdoors in impressive images. The cast is also great, in front of all the other young star Hanna Binke in her first leading role. These strengths, however, are diminished by the over-constructed script and the intrusive music. "
“Solid horse film made in Germany. The focus on the deep relationship between horse and human helps through many a cheesy movie minute. "
"Fairytale-like girl's film about taming each other, told in an exciting way, even if not completely dramaturgically."
Awards
The film received the rating “particularly valuable” from the German Film and Media Assessment . At the Munich Film Festival in 2013, Ostwind was awarded the children's media prize “ The White Elephant ” in the categories “Best Film Director” and “Best Young Actress” ( Hanna Binke ). He also received the Gilde Film Prize at the Leipzig Film Art Fair for the best children's film and the 2014 German Film Prize for the best children's film.
Sequels
Ostwind shouldn't have any sequels, but due to the great success of the book about the film, which stayed in the bestseller lists for months, the publisher cbj published a sequel to the film in the form of a novel in March 2014. The book was written by the authors of the original script, Lea Schmidbauer and Kristina Magdalena Henn. The novel rose to number 2 on the Börsenverein's fiction bestseller list in the month of its publication. In June 2014 Constantin Film announced a sequel. Ostwind 2 opened in theaters on May 14, 2015. By 2020, a total of five feature films and six books were made in the Ostwind series .
Web links
- East wind in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ostwind at filmportal.de
- Website for the film
- Expert opinion of the German film and media rating
- Reviews:
Individual evidence
- ^ Ostwind at filmportal.de , accessed on August 17, 2013
- ↑ KINOaktuell: What you wanted: Münster's cinema year 2013, C. Lou Lloyd, Filminfo No. 4, 23-29 January 2014, p. 24f
- ↑ FFA press release , June 4, 2014
- ↑ Disney + increases: Cooperation with German distributors closed. Retrieved September 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Film review on Filmstarts.de
- ↑ Film review on CountryMusicNews.de
- ↑ East wind. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed April 15, 2013 .
- ↑ FBW press release and jury statement. German Film and Media Rating FBW, accessed on May 4, 2013 .
- ^ Munich Film Festival: The White Elephant ( Memento from October 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 17, 2013
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.kinderkino.de/blog/allgemein/ostwind-gemeinsam-sind-wir-frei-ausgezeich-als-bester-deutscher-kinderfilm/
- ↑ http://www.randomhouse.de/Buch/Ostwind-Rueckkehr-nach-Kaltenbach-Band-2/Lea-Schmidbauer/e447900.rhd
- ↑ http://www.boersenblatt.net/793252/
- ↑ Constantin Film announces Ostwind 2 for next May. In: filmfutter.com. Retrieved June 17, 2014 .