Patong girl

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Movie
Original title Patong girl
Country of production Germany , Thailand
original language German , English , Thai
Publishing year 2014
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Susanna Salonen
script Susanna Salonen
production Andrea Ufer ,
Gunter Hanfgarn
camera Yoliswa from Dallwitz
cut Bettina Boehler
occupation

Patong Girl is a German-Thai feature film from 2014 directed by Susanna Salonen , who also wrote the screenplay. Max Mauff plays the young German Felix who falls in love with the transgender Thai woman Fai while on vacation with his family in Phuket . The premiere of the film was on June 22nd, 2014 at the 10th Festival of German Films in Ludwigshafen. The film was officially released in theaters on December 25, 2014. The film was awarded the Grimme Prize in 2016.

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The German Schröder family had imagined their Christmas vacation on the Thai holiday island of Ko Phuket to be somehow different. You end up in a cheap hotel in the tourism industry of Patong because of a booking error . There, his son Felix, who has just come of age, falls in love with the pretty, young Thai woman Fai. Fai comes from Isaan in northeastern Thailand. Felix is ​​carried away by Fai and she seems to reciprocate his feelings. Felix's older brother Tommy thinks Fai could be a prostitute . His parents Annegret and Ullrich have similar assumptions. Nobody suspects Fai's secret. At the end of their vacation there is a sad farewell when Felix decides to follow his heart and just stay longer. Felix drives to the Thai province with Fai - and his worried mother Annegret drives after. During the bus ride, Fai Felix shows her identity card, which shows her gender as "male". Fai is a "Patong Girl" ( Kathoey ) - a biologically male person who was anatomically adapted to the female gender through plastic surgery. While Fai returns to his parents' house, Felix finds accommodation in a hotel. Fai would like to introduce Felix to her family at a joint dinner, but refrains from doing so, as Felix has recently consumed a large amount of alcohol. Later both of them sit on a bank and watch the nocturnal water. The end of the film leaves open whether Fai and Felix have a future together.

Prize winners Max Mauff and Aisawanya Areyawattana at the Grimme Prize 2016

background

The director Susanna Salonen worked as a diving instructor in Phuket in the 1990s . There she got to know the world of Thai vacation spots, and her 1999 travel documentary "Monsoonregen" also began there.

The low-budget project was shot from February 3rd to April 15th 2013 in Lower Saxony, Hamburg and Thailand. For cost reasons, the filming took place mainly in the small towns of Nakhon Nayok , Chonburi , Jomtien and Pattaya . The film was made in co-production with ZDF ( Das kleine Fernsehspiel ).

criticism

The Berliner Tagesspiegel wrote: “In clichés, 'Patong Girl' […] lures you gently away from it again and again. Sometimes the film gets loud and wants to get tangled up in situations, but that makes the quiet all the more effective. "The film-dienst said that the" in the figure drawing sometimes a bit woodcut-like feature film debut avoids an overly narrow definition of a genre "and broads" rather the Look at the intercultural between brothel and Buddhism ”. The film website kino.de wrote that Salonen was drawing a “subtle and representative portrait of a very ordinary German family who were confronted with their prejudices against Thailand”. An “intelligent and authentic picture of Thailand, far removed from all clichés”, was achieved. Ulrich Sonnenschein from epd Film praised the film and awarded it 4 out of 5 stars. Susanna Salonen attaches "great importance to an authentic view", her film is "above all a plea for acceptance." Her easily told story penetrates "deeper into the problems of this country than a feature film should". The “documentary claim” does not harm the film in any way.

Awards

Grimme Prize 2016 in the "Fiction / Special" category

Awards at the Transgender Film Festival 2015:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for Patong Girl . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2014 (PDF; test number: 148 469 K).
  2. ↑ Prize Winner - Grimme Prize. Accessed March 31, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Barbara Sichtermann: TV review: Yes word under water . The time Nº 49/2000, November 30, 2000, accessed on May 29, 2014.
  4. ↑ Patong Girl. Filmportal.de , accessed on December 28, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Felix loves Fai. Retrieved January 2, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Patong Girl. film service , accessed December 28, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Patong Girl. Busch Entertainment Media (kino.de), accessed on December 28, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Review of Patong Girl. epd Film (epd-film.de), accessed on April 23, 2015 .
  9. ↑ http://traumgmbh.de/transgender-film-festival/