Picco (film)

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Movie
Original title Picco
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2010
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Philip Koch
script Philip Koch
production Philipp Worm ,
Tobias Walker
camera Markus Eckert
cut Andre Bendocchi-Alves
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Picco is a German movie from 2010. Directed by Philip Koch , who also wrote the script. In it, Koch takes up the torture murder in the Siegburg correctional facility in autumn 2006.

action

As a newcomer ( Picco ), Kevin is put in a cell with three other teenagers. While Tommy is just as passive as himself and hardly intervenes, Marc and Andy feel violence and humiliation right from the start. He does not want to adapt at the beginning and believes in “the good in people”. The inmates, especially Tommy, are slowly making it clear to him that he will not get through his imprisonment like this, but that he has to adapt to the system in order to get out of the role of victim .

When it happens by chance that July, an inmate he had befriended shortly before, was arrested on a "gay line", he is now regularly verbally humiliated by the other inmates and ultimately even raped, with Tommy and Kevin being witnesses, look away for fear of harassment. After Juli can no longer endure the constant torture, he finally commits suicide. This leads to an argument between Tommy and Kevin, as Kevin appeals to Tommy's conscience, but does not want to allow this thought of guilt ("Everyone is responsible for himself"). When Kevin is about to be humiliated again, he seizes the chance to direct the humiliation on his cellmate Tommy and so pull his own head out of the noose.

While he himself only appears as a spectator for the time being, he later messes with Tommy himself. The spiral of violence around Tommy intensifies. Eventually Marc and Andy decide they'd love to see his suicide . While the two keep pushing him to do it and making him mentally and physically ready, Kevin tries at first to prevent this or at least to stay out of it. When Tommy fails to voluntarily commit suicide, Marc and Andy ask Kevin to kill him. After Kevin resists, the two put strong psychological pressure on him ("he or you"). Eventually he breaks his principles and brings a staged suicide to an end.

The final scene shows Kevin, Marc and Andy in their cell, where they are all three obviously plagued by a guilty conscience, talking about the future.

reception

The film caused a scandal when it premiered at the Max Ophüls Preis 2010 film festival because of its portrayal of violence, but was nevertheless awarded the festival's second main prize (the Saarland Prime Minister's film prize). A few months later, Picco was invited to the Quinzaine des réalisateurs series at the 63rd Cannes Film Festival .

Reviews

"Picco is simply the German discovery of the year."

- Kino-zeit.de

“'Intensity' hits the spot. 'Picco' is oppressive to the point of unbearable. A brilliant team of young actors is let loose on each other and the horror comes out. A small masterpiece. "

- Filmstarts.de

"By far the most gripping German film of the year."

- programmkino.de

“Picco hurts, is ruthless and cruel. A simply great film! "

- Filmbewertungsstelle Wiesbaden

"Those who can take it will be rewarded with the most consistent German contribution in Cannes."

- Welt.de

"An intense, productively uncomfortable chamber play that wouldn't let you go even after days - and not just because of socio-pedagogical anxiety."

- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Picco . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2010 (PDF; test number: 124 176 K).
  2. ↑ cf. DDP : «Gravity» clears away . January 24, 2010, 3:17 PM GMT (accessed via LexisNexis Economy )
  3. ↑ Kino-zeit.de - Picco by Joachim Kurz (accessed on March 14, 2010)
  4. ↑ - Picco by Alex Todorov (accessed March 14, 2010)
  5. ↑ programmkino.de - Picco by Dieter Oßwald (accessed on March 14, 2010)
  6. ↑ - Picco (accessed March 14, 2010)
  7. ↑ - Picco by Hanns-Georg Rodek (accessed on March 14, 2010)
  8. ↑ - Picco by Rüdiger Suchsland (accessed on March 14, 2010)