Doll (movie)
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| Original title | Doll |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Sebastian Kutzli |
| script | Marie Amsler |
| production | Claudia Gladziejewski , Clarens Grollmann and Fritjof Hohagen |
| music | Gert Wilden junior |
| camera | Stephan Vorbrugg |
| cut | Wolfgang Weigl |
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Doll is a German film drama by Sebastian Kutzli from 2013 with Corinna Harfouch and Anke Retzlaff . The screenwriter Marie Amsler processes her experiences as a teacher in a boot camp in the work .
action
16-year-old Anna lived on the street with her friend Leila for many years . Her life was marked by violence, prostitution , hunger and the constant search for a place to stay for the next night. Now she is to come to rest with the teacher Geena in Switzerland . With the support of the youth welfare office, she runs a mountain farm for young girls in the canton of Valais . Her goal is to save the girls from " jail " and to show them a perspective. The corpulent Magenta, twelve-year-old Emma and the teacher Julie live next to her on the farm.
During the first few days Anna refuses to take part in community life. But gradually she gets used to it. She takes care of Emma, who is occasionally bullied by Magenta. And also working together with the sheep of Geena's partner Francis leads to Anna slowly settling in. In flashbacks, the viewer repeatedly learns about her past. Her friend Leila was killed under initially unexplained circumstances. Anna is deeply traumatized by the incident and is hardly able to trust adults. Magenta, on the other hand, is torn between the security of the Berghof on the one hand and its impetuous nature on the other. She breaks the rules of the Berghof over and over again and Geena has to decide again and again whether she should call Magenta's probation officer to have her picked up. Magenta approaches Anna and tries to build a relationship with her - but sometimes the two youngsters just argue.
One day, Zine unexpectedly comes to visit. She was once the first street child on Geena's Berghof. She now lives in France and has her life largely under control. She goes on vacation and visits her sponsors. Anna asks Zine about a possible escape route that could lead her to Italy via Francis' mountain hut . Zine wonders about this wish and asks why Anna doesn't want to stay in the security of the Berghof. She is silent towards Geena and does not reveal anything about Anna's escape plans. One night Anna and Magenta break up and want to flee. But they don't get very far. A violent thunderstorm is approaching and the two youngsters are scared. Magenta sprains her ankle , but Anna continues walking amid great protest from Magenta. The thunderstorm is getting worse. Geena has since noticed the disappearance of the two and is with Francis' help in search of them. Finally, the adults can safely accompany the two protégés back to the Berghof.
The next day there is another argument between Anna and Magenta. Magenta then injures itself by reaching into a socket with a piece of metal . This is the only way she can feel something. Geena is appalled by the new outbreaks and wants to have Magenta picked up. As a result, she would have to spend her remaining sentence in a correctional facility . Magenta overhears the phone call and is furious. She takes out her frustration on Emma and hurts her badly. Anna finds Emma and calls Geena for help, who brings the girl down from the Berghof to the hospital. Geena asks Anna to stay at the Berghof. However, she finds her friend Leila's doll in front of the house. She suspects that Magenta, who wants to flee over the mountains, has something to do with Leila's death, and follows her.
In a flashback, it becomes clear that Magenta was a member of a criminal gang that, in addition to trafficking in drugs, also referred young girls to clients - including Leila. She was beaten up in a basement by Magenta when Leila threatened to make the disappearances of other girls public. Magenta then set the room on fire. Anna experienced the situation in a hiding place in a neighboring cellar, but did not see Magenta. However, from then on, their two fates were linked.
Anna can catch up with magenta. In the ensuing argument, Magenta, armed with a stone, knocks Anna down and flees. She also steals Anna's doll - a memory of Leila.
When Geena arrives back at the Berghof from the valley, she and Francis immediately look for the two young people, but only finds Anna, who has only suffered minor injuries. A few days later they learn that Magenta fell into a crevice while escaping, broke her leg and died there. Geena has to give up looking after young people because of these incidents. Julie leaves, but Anna wants to ask the youth welfare office to be allowed to stay with Geena and Francis.
criticism
Barbara Schweizerhof from the newspaper Die Welt is bothered by the clichés such as the majestic images of "towering rocks, whenever the stubbornness of human will is to be illustrated". At the same time, she criticizes stereotypical images such as that of the "wise shepherd with his flock, whose downforce conjures up a momentary mountain idyll for everyone, accompanied by bleating and folk music". From their point of view, all of these images interfere with the aim of the film, telling trauma and "the difficulties of overcoming them".
Michael Meyns from the programmkino.de portal, on the other hand, finds the constellation at the Berghof quite realistic. What bothers him about the film is that Kutzli is getting increasingly bogged down. Nevertheless, he keeps the "appealingly filmed, content ambitious" film in memory because of the actors.
Michael Baute on tip-berlin.de, on the other hand, welcomes the “great sensitivity for looks, gestures and postures of the protagonists.” The re-socialization story is increasingly turning into a youth drama with “thriller elements”, which “in the dramatic finale finally leads to an almost mythical confrontation runs out. "
Background and award
The film celebrated its cinema premiere in Germany on February 21, 2013. The film was shot from May 12 to June 25, 2011 in Hamburg , Duisburg , Munich and in the Swiss canton of Valais . In 2012 he was in the program of the 47th Solothurn Film Festival and the 46th Hof Film Festival . Anke Retzlaff was nominated for the New Faces Award in 2013 for her role as Anna . In the same year the film won the Leo at the 23rd Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Film Festival and was shown in the program at the 34th Max Ophüls Prize Film Festival . The German film and media rating awarded the film the rating “valuable”.
Web links
- Doll in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website , accessed January 11, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Barbara Schweizerhof: Bleating sheep drive away the difficult childhood . In: Die Welt , February 21, 2013, accessed on January 11, 2015.
- ↑ Michael Meyns' review of the filmuppe , programmkino.de website, accessed on January 11, 2015.
- ↑ In the cinema: Sebastian Kutzli's “Doll” , website tip-berlin.de, accessed on January 11, 2015.
- ↑ http://www.diekinokritiker.de/film31223.html
- ↑ http://www.wfilm.de/puppe/ Website of the rental company
- ↑ Information about the film on the ARD website ( Memento from August 13, 2015 in the Internet Archive )