Restlessness
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| Original title | Restlessness |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 56 minutes |
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| Director | Thomas Imbach |
| script | Thomas Imbach |
| production | Thomas Imbach |
| music | Peter Bräker |
| camera | Peter Liechti |
| cut | Dominique Freiburghaus |
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Restlessness is a one-hour fiction film by Swiss director Thomas Imbach from 1991 .
action
In restlessness , Imbach documents the everyday life of three characters who travel by train between Zurich, Basel and Bern. The restlessness, but also the movement between places, the journey as such, they are in the foreground in restlessness . The two main characters, two women and a man, who imagined themselves to be the center of existence in the early 1980s, seem as if they are now themselves driven, who have come to terms with the fact that they are not believed to be the center of the world. represent.
criticism
«The second longer film work by Thomas Imbach appears primarily as an expression of the optical fascination in view of the railway phenomenon. The restlessness of the title certainly refers to the everyday life of the three main characters, from whose lives the film presents some fragments. But the railroad becomes the medium of their restlessness, the carrier substance of their fates, which aimlessly and senselessly through anonymous landscapes. Christoph Egger, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, September 6, 1991
«The anonymity of the big city functions as a mood space. In restlessness, the similar city, train station and track landscapes suggest and the montage suggests possible relationships between the people. It is conceivable that they will meet in the course of time, the film era. On the contrary: We meet the jazz singer several times, at rehearsals, during recordings, or the young Welsh woman, Anne, who drives back and forth between cities, or Max, who comes out of prison and is reluctant, straight away with a job To step in place. They are all constantly on the move, restlessness. Children of the mobile society. Always on the way, but no arrival leads to staying. The train runs. The landscape flies by. The destination stations are interchangeable. Interchangeable, but authentic. Imbach shot in the Bern-Basel-Zurich triangle. It is not the people and actors that hold the story together, but the locations and scenes. The figures go through it. " Basler Zeitung, January 26, 1991
“The interwoven story of the 'restlessness and perplexity' of Anne, Nina and Max in the golden railway triangle Zurich-Bern-Basel is reminiscent of Godard in terms of its design, but conveys a climate of determined disorientation in today's times : Thomas Imbach reflects the present in the perfect surface. " Der Bund, January 25, 1991
Awards
Restlessness received the EDI quality award . He was also nominated for the Max Ophüls Prize in 1991.
Web links
- Website of Thomas Imbach's Bachim Film
- Restlessness in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Thomas Imbach at Swiss Films
Individual evidence
- ^ Restlessness and perplexity: "Restlessness" (Thomas Imbach, 1990). In: Heinz Nigg ; Felix Aeppli: We want everything, and subito! The eighties youth riots in Switzerland and their consequences. Limmat Verlag , 2001, pp. 416, 529. ISBN 978-3-85791-375-4