Samaria (film)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Samaria |
| Original title | Samaria ( 사마리아 ) |
| Country of production | South Korea |
| original language | Korean |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kim Ki-duk |
| script | Kim Ki-duk |
| production | Baek Jeong-min, Kim Dong-joo, Kim Ki-duk, Kim Yoon-ho |
| music | Park Ji-woong, pieces of music by: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart , Erik Satie , Frédéric Chopin |
| camera | Seon Sang-jae |
| cut | Kim Ki-duk |
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Samaria is a 2004 film by South Korean director Kim Ki-duk .
action
The two students Jae-young and Yeo-jin have the dream of traveling to Europe. In order to be able to fulfill this, the underage Jae-young goes to buy , while Yeo-jin acts as her manager. Yeo-jin, whose mother died about a year ago, is plagued by strong feelings of guilt towards her friend. But she regards her actions as an almost sacred task and tries to calm Yeo-jin down. She tells of the whore by the name of Vasumitra, who was able to satisfy her customers so much that they all became pious Buddhists after a visit.
During a police raid, Jae-young jumps out of the window of a multi-story house and is seriously injured. After several hours in the hospital, she dies.
Yeo-jin then decides to visit all of her friend's previous suitors . As a process of atonement, she sleeps with them again and then gives them back the money.
At one of these meetings with the suitors, Yeo-jin is seen without realizing it by her father, a police officer. He is unable to speak to her about it; The extraordinary delicacy of his relationship with his daughter had already been shown at the beginning of the film. He is now trying to prevent suitors from meeting Yeo-jin again. Initially, without too brutal means and with some success. But then he goes to a family man at home and introduces him to his family only, after which the suicide commits. Finally he kills one of them without removing his traces.
The father and daughter visit the mother's grave in the mountains. They spend another night there, in a hut. Yeo-jin already suspects - in a dream scene - that her father knows. The father teaches his daughter to drive her car as much as possible in a short time. Then he calls his colleagues and turns himself in. Yeo-jin stays behind.
background
The film, shot in just one month, won the Silver Bear for directing at the Berlin Film Festival in 2004 and received numerous good reviews, for example in the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Frankfurter Rundschau .
criticism
“ Samaria moves along the break between tradition and new beginnings, childhood and growing up, and so the professed Christian Kim Ki-duk with his parable of pain has also managed a balancing act between horror and beauty. He does not denounce any of his characters in their desires and motives, but ultimately leaves no doubt that sex with schoolgirls is a crime. "
“Kim Ki-Duks Samaria turns out to be less a drama about the evil of child prostitution than an almost philosophical reflection on things that cannot be undone, on the loss of childhood and the only way out of misery - the way forward . "
“Intense, cinematic, sophisticatedly interwoven study of moral alienation between the generations. Brief narrative forms, original visual ideas and a complex structured story condense into a contemporary and universal drama about guilt and atonement. "
Web links
- Samaria in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Samaria atRotten Tomatoes(English)
- Review by jump-cut
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Samaria . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2005 (PDF; test number: 99 953 DVD).
- ↑ Prizes & Awards 2004. Berlinale , accessed on November 2, 2012 .
- ↑ Oliver Hüttmann: Faith, Love, Sex. Spiegel Online , December 11, 2004, accessed November 2, 2012 .
- ^ Hanns-Georg Rodeck: Men and Girls. Die Welt , February 11, 2004, accessed November 2, 2012 .
- ↑ Samaria. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 22, 2017 .