Roula - Dark Secrets
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Roula - Dark Secrets |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Martin Enlen |
| script | Martin Enlen |
| production |
Mark von Seydlitz Ludwig Waldleitner |
| music | Dieter Schleip |
| camera | Martin Peglau |
| cut | Mona Bräuer |
| occupation | |
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Roula - Dark Secrets is a drama from 1996 by director Martin Enlen , who also wrote the screenplay. In the lead role , Anica Dobra plays the young Roula, who has been sexually abused by her father since she was a child.
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The successful children's book author Leon lost his wife in a motorcycle accident two years ago. Since then he has found no joy in life, suffers from writer's block and depression. To find some distraction and inspiration for a new book, he goes to Denmark for a few weeks with his eleven-year-old daughter Tanja.
In a bungalow park on the beach, he meets Roula, who runs the resort there with her father. Leon is immediately fascinated by the young woman. But she is distant and he feels that she is hiding a secret. Gradually he fathoms her past and suspects that she has been sexually abused and psychologically manipulated by her pedophile father since her mother's suicide. When he confronts the shy woman, who is still suppressing the abuse, with it, she pulls back, overwhelmed, and stands by her father. Roula's friend, who knows Leon as a writer, warns him of the scope of Roula's problems and advises him to concentrate better on his children's stories. Later, Leon throws one of his books into the fire in despair.
While Leon tries to start a new work, Tanja plays alone on the beach. Roula angrily accuses him of not paying enough attention to her and admonishes him to take more responsibility for Tanja. Roula's father tried several times to get closer to Tanja under various pretexts. Shortly afterwards, Roula catches her father photographing Tanja half-naked. She is horrified and confronts him with the statement that "he does have her" only to finally express her incomprehension about what he is going to do with the strange girl.
The recordings of the instant camera that Roula's father took of Tanja fall into Leon hands. Alarmed, he drives to the Sievers house. There Roula has withdrawn to her room and, crying, hugging a soft toy while at the same time pricking one of her wrists with scissors. Her father storms into the room, snatches the stuffed animal from her and throws it into an open fire. Then he forces her to cut his hair and then, as usual, to satisfy him in the bathtub. However, instead of bath products, Roula has added a flammable liquid to the bath water. When her father is lying in the tub, she lights the bath with a match and runs away while her father burns alive. Leon comes towards her in the hallway and realizes what she has done. In the last shot, Leon and Roula are pouring concrete into the corpse at a playground on the beach.
Production notes
Mark von Seydlitz and Ludwig Waldleitner produced for Roxy Film on behalf of WDR , BR and SWF . Filming began in August 1994 and ended the following month. The film was shot in Denmark , more precisely in Blokhus , Hirtshals , Løkken and Hjørring . Su Proebster was responsible for the production design , Bernd Mollenhauer helped Martin Enlen with the creation of the script and Ronald Siemoneit was the still photographer .
Publication dates
Roula - Dark Secrets was shown in German cinemas for the first time on May 23, 1996. The film was released on video on December 4 of the same year.
Reviews
TV Spielfilm states that "[t] he outstanding study of emotional anguish ... [renounces] being dismayed". The summary of the program guide is: "Taboo topic as an emotional explosive device".
The lexicon of international films is of the opinion that the film " ... suffers from the exaggerated severity of its images and motifs".
Others
Martin Enlen made his debut as a feature film director with Roula - Dark Secrets .
Web links
- Roula - Dark Secrets in the Lexicon of International Films
- Roula - Dark secrets in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Roula - Dark secrets in the online film database
- Roula - Dark Secrets at Kino.de
- Roula - Dark Secrets in TV Feature Films
- Roula - Dark Secrets at Cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roula. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved October 31, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Roula - Dark Secrets in the Lexicon of International Films
- ^ Roula - Dark Secrets - Film Review - Film - TV SPIELFILM. In: tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved October 31, 2015 .