Smoke signals (film)

Movie
Original title	smoke sign
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2006
length	125 minutes
Rod
Director	Rudolf Thome
script	Rudolf Thome
production	Rudolf Thome
music	Katia Tchemberdji
camera	Ute friend
cut	Dörte Völz-Mammarella
occupation
Hannelore Elsner : Annabella Silberstein Karl Kranzkowski : Jonathan Fischer Adriana Altaras : Isabella Goldberg Serpil Turhan : Leila Joya Thome : Jade Goldberg Nicolai Thome : Michael Silberstein Cornelius Schwalm : Hans Hansa Czypionka : Josef Erdmann Nicole Becker : Ms. Erdmann

Rauchzeichen is a film by Rudolf Thome . It premiered on July 15, 2006 at the Munich Film Festival and opened in cinemas on November 16, 2006. The film concludes the trilogy “Time Travel”, which is complete with red and blue  (2003) and woman drives, man sleeps  (2004).

action

Jonathan Fischer, exhausted from a long journey, wants to take a room in a guest house in Sardinia on Lago del Coghinas near Oschiri . The two landladies Annabella and Isabella are not there, so Jonathan has to wait a few hours. When he can finally check in, he has to fill out a long, indiscreet questionnaire. In the next few days he meets his now fourteen-year-old daughter Jade, and he also falls in love with Annabella. In order to impress her, he sets out to beautify the property with new buildings and a large pond. The paradisiacal existence is suddenly disrupted when a god kills himself and a princess is shot. The police comb the property in search of the killer. At the same time, construction workers with pneumatic drills, excavators and trucks start working on the pond as if nothing had happened. Isabella and Annabella agree to bury the dead man at the bottom of the pond. Annabella and Jonathan finally celebrate their wedding on a boat.

criticism

The film service judges that the "declaration of love to Sardinia shot in Western settings is at the same time the emphatically offensive story of a love of old age". Conceived as a “pointed attack of realism against 'bourgeois hypocrisy', the description of the generation around 60 sometimes coagulates, however, into a horror of egocentricity and imperial behavior”.

Web links

• Smoke signals in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Smoke signals at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Smoke signals. Filmdienst , accessed on May 9, 2016 (short review).