You can never be sure
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | You can never be sure |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nicole Weegmann |
| script |
Eva Zahn Volker A. Zahn |
| production | Micha Terjung |
| music | Birger Clausen |
| camera | Judith Kaufmann |
| cut | Andrea Mertens |
| occupation | |
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You can never be sure is a German TV film from 2008. The film was produced by WDR . The film will also be shown internationally under the alternative title Outta Control .
action
For professional reasons, Thomas Rother moves to a new city with his family. His son Oliver has to find his way around a new high school. The 17-year-old boy is very closed and expresses himself mainly through his hip-hop texts. With this he encountered incomprehension with his new German teacher Selma Vollrath. For his essay on Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther , he received a six because of his hip-hop style. In an argument with the teacher about his work, he leaves the school lesson and loses one of his rap lyrics. The drastic song is a violent fantasy in which his hatred of the teacher Vollrath culminates in the murder. Selma Vollrath is horrified and forwards the text to the school director. When the headmaster calls the police, Oliver is arrested.
During a house search, Chief Inspector Weigel secures the boy's computer and finds an indexed violent video game there. The police fear that the boy will run amok, but can no longer hold him. She wants to send him to a psychiatric clinic for an examination. Oliver's parents finally agree. During the examination in the closed institution , Oliver meets the borderliner Katja. The prison doctor cannot see any danger that the boy could pose. Oliver is released and goes back to school. But the environment is now only more hostile to him. Oliver only finds support with his friend Micha. The German-Russian is just like Oliver a rapper. He experiences hope from his classmate Charlotte Stollberg, who falls in love with Oliver. However, the romance is destroyed by Charlotte's father Max. Charlotte has to go to boarding school . When Katja, the acquaintance from the closed institution, shows up, the situation escalates. Katja wants to prove her love for Oliver by putting the boy's murder fantasies into practice. She penetrates the school and stabs the teacher Vollrath. Oliver can save the dangerous situation and overwhelms Katja.
background
The film was shot in February 2008 near Cologne . On June 25, 2008, he was at the Munich Film Festival premiere, starting on 22 October 2008 at the first program of the ARD broadcast.
Reviews
"Drama against the background of youth and school violence, which comprehensibly describes how an initially harmless situation rocks up dangerously through loss of communication and misunderstandings."
Awards
As part of the Baden-Baden TV Film Festival in 2008, the film won the 3sat audience award , special awards for the best screenplay and the best leading actor (Ludwig Trepte), and the student jury award. He also won the DEFA Foundation Award at the Schlingel 2008 International Film Festival for Children and Young Audiences in Chemnitz. At the FIPA (Festival International de Programs Audiovisuels) in Biarritz 2009 he won the main prize in the fiction section, the FIPA D'OR, as well as the prize for the best screenplay. He also won the Austrian TV award Romy for the best film of the year.
Eva Zahn and Volker A. Zahn (book), Nicole Weegmann (director) and Ludwig Trepte (main role) were awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize 2009. You can never be sure that you won the audience award at the Festival of German Films 2009 in Ludwigshafen . The film was nominated for the German Television Award 2009 in the categories of Best Television Film and Best Director .
Individual evidence
- ↑ You can never be sure. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 20, 2017 .
- ↑ School drama wins the 3sat audience award ( memento of the original from November 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 3 sat
- ↑ The 2008 Prize Winners ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. German Academy of Performing Arts
- ↑ Sponsorship award of the DEFA Foundation ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. International film festival for children and young audiences
- ↑ Awards Lists 2009 ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. FIPA.
- ↑ Prize winners ( Memento of the original dated December 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Adolf Grimme Prize
- ↑ You can never be sure - the jury's reasoning ( memento of the original from December 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Adolf Grimme Prize
Web links
- You Can Never be safe in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- “You can never be sure”: My son, Joachim Hirzel's gunman, Focus Online, October 23, 2008
- When teachers are afraid of students by Christoph Mathieu, Kölnische Rundschau online, October 21, 2008