Rendezvous (2005)

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Movie
Original title date
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2005
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Alexander student
script Tim Lang
production Alexander student,
Sven Walser
music Michael Rodach
camera Leif Karpe
cut Omar Abulzahab
occupation

Rendezvous is a German feature film by Alexander Schüler based on a script by Tim Lang under the pseudonym Bob L. Sack, which was made with the assistance of Nikolai Hormeß as dramaturge and Alexander Schüler as director .

action

The film is about the couple Anna and Walter, who lead a well-off life in a shared luxurious apartment. Walter works as a bank manager, Anna comes from a wealthy family.

When Anna surprisingly returns home early one day, she finds Walter there, which she hadn't expected, because he was supposed to be on a business trip at the time. A mistrust arises between the two, because Walter also suspected Anna was visiting her mother. Since there has been little consensus on important topics and further life planning in the relationship for some time, disputes arise, especially with regard to the topic of "offspring".

Suddenly, Jost, a mutual friend of the couple, appears who actually wanted to discuss his financial situation with Walter alone. He stays to eat. Meanwhile, the communication between Anna and Walter comes to a head, who attack, curse and expose one another. When Anna and Jost kiss, believing that they are unobserved by Walter, the situation escalates completely and Walter confronts Jost with the hopeless financial situation of Jost's forwarding company, which is on the verge of bankruptcy.

Following this scene, Yvonne, Jost's wife, joins and it becomes known that she has a relationship with Walter.

production

The film, shot with a DV video camera in compliance with the rules of the Dogma 95 manifesto, is Schüler's debut as a film director. The film premiered at the Munich Film Festival in 2005. The film is distributed in Germany by Pandora Film Verleih.

The film was shot with a budget of 50,000 euros. Tim Lang, then an actor at the Deutsches Theater, worked on the script with the help of the dramaturge Nikolai Hormeß and Alexander Schüler. The director Alexander Schüler is self-taught as a filmmaker and director . Filming began in October 2003 in Berlin . Post-production took two years.

Other collaborators on the film project were: Claudius Lohmann (production), Beatrice Papiri (equipment), Keria Schreiber (costume), Kuen Il Song.

reception

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The dramatic adaptation of a chamber play by Tim Lang appears like the contemporary German version of the modern stage classic " Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf" . With its contemporary characters, their everyday problems and their lifelike expressions, the fabric appears contemporary and authentic. In terms of formal structure, on the other hand, it appears classic in the best sense of the word: the action takes place between sunset and sunrise, limited to one place of the event and has only an ensemble of four characters. In addition, the choice of subject matter has an almost archaic core, namely that of collective human violence, which is looking for a fatality among its ranks. The great quality and originality of the film can be seen in the way it consistently exploits and exhausts this limited chamber play-like situation and the tight constellation of characters in order to make the deadly escalation of this archaic power structure out of the everyday and seemingly banal relationship problems understandable. However, he does not do this in the sense of a top-heavy teaching piece, but creates it by pulling the viewer into the inner worlds of his strong and plastic, very well typed figures. As a result, their actions not only appear coherent and consistent, it can still be emotionally understood down to the final abyss.

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for rendezvous . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2006 (PDF; test number: 105 142 K).
  2. ↑ Rendezvous. In: pandorafilm.de. Pandora Movie , accessed July 12, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Talent zum Unglücklichsein welt.de, accessed on July 11, 2019