Sascha (film)

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Movie
Original title Sasha
Country of production Germany
original language German , Serbian , Croatian
Publishing year 2010
length 101 minutes
Rod
Director Dennis Todorović
script Dennis Todorović
production Ewa Borowski
music Peter Aufderhaar
camera Andreas Koehler
cut Britta Strathmann
occupation

Sascha is a German tragic comedy by debut director Dennis Todorović , which was released in German cinemas on March 24, 2011. The film is about a secretly gay son (title character Sascha, played by Saša Kekez ) of a Montenegrin guest worker family in Cologne.

He was at various European LGBT - film festivals and as excellent.

action

On the way back from a family vacation in Montenegro, 19-year-old Sascha secretly buys a gay magazine in a kiosk . At the border, the Petrović family is checked by customs officers; but the policeman who searches Sasha's backpack and finds the magazine does not reveal him. After arriving at home in Eigelstein , where they are expected by Sascha's brother Boki, Sascha has piano lessons in the jazz house school with his teacher Gebhard Weber, with whom he is secretly in love. He confesses to him that he received confirmation of a professorship in Vienna during Sascha's vacation and that he will be moving in a few days. Sascha storms out sadly, hugging Gebhard beforehand. Meanwhile, his mother Stanka, who makes connectors for video and cassette recorders at home , has a conversation with her boss, who offers her a permanent position in Fischenich , but she refuses. Sascha meets with his neighbor and best friend Jiao, to whom he admits to be gay , whereupon she runs away because she believed that he was in love with her. When she arrives at home, Jiao is approached by Boki, but annoyed she pushes him, causing him to fall and injure himself. What he reports about it leads her parents to suspect that Sascha is with Jiao.

Later Sascha goes to the swimming pool, where he secretly watches Gebhard in the pool and hears him inviting a friend to a farewell party in a night club . The evening of the next day, Sascha and Jiao go to this club together. After encouragement from Jiao and the bartender, Sascha approaches Gebhard, who notices him and addresses him rudely. Sascha kisses him twice, but is knocked down by a man with whom Gebhard had flirted before and whom Sascha snubbed with a derogatory remark.

The next day, Sascha and Jiao, who plays the violin, take the entrance exam at a conservatory . When Sascha gets there, Jiao has already passed her exam, and Boki joins them. During the exam, Pero, Sascha's uncle, sees Gebhard on the street as he is kissed by his former partner Peter. Sascha plays Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 21 , but has a blackout and also breaks off his second attempt. He yells at the examiners that he doesn't really want to study the piano and storms out, past Jiao and Boki, who are smooching together. When he stopped again, exhausted, he received a call from Gebhard, who offered to come to him. In his apartment they kiss and have sexual intercourse. After Boki comes home with Jiao and they tell that Sascha has run away, Pero recognizes Gebhard in a photo in the pub of Sascha's parents and tells the others that he is gay. At night Stanka finds the gay magazine in Sascha's room and is shocked.

At breakfast together, Gebhard rejects Sascha's declaration of love and makes it clear that he will continue to move to Vienna. Sascha calls Jiao so that she will say that he was with her that night, and they decide that Gebhard should come to his parents' house. In the pub they meet Sascha's father, Vlado, who is upset after an argument with his wife. He sees through that Sascha is lying to him, and when he admits that he was with Gebhard, he realizes his son's secret. When the other family members hear a noise and rush into the bar, they see Vlado aiming a gun at Gebhard. Instead, the shot hits Boki in the shoulder.

Six months later, Stanka, who is now working in Fischenich, visits her husband in prison, who will be deported to Montenegro after his stay in prison. But he wants her not to come with him when the time comes, but to stay in Germany with her sons. When Sascha arrives, a fellow inmate makes a derogatory remark, but his father defends him. Later, while practicing paddling with his brother, Sascha meets Peter again.

Demonstrations and publication

Sascha was in the first 2,010 United States in the LGBT - film festivals Frame Line in San Francisco and Outfest in Los Angeles and the Chicago demonstrated International Film Festival. The German premiere of the film took place at the 44th Hof International Film Festival 2010 . In the UK , the film was shown at the 25th London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in early April 2011. In Vienna was Sascha in November 2012, the opening film of the first Queer migrant Film Festival; Todorović and Kekez were present at the performance.

The film was shown in German cinemas on March 24, 2011. The DVD was released on September 27, 2011 by Salzgeber Medien & Co. GmbH .

reception

The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) gave the film the rating “valuable” and wrote in the explanation: “You can tell that the director is familiar with the milieu and that he looks at it lovingly despite all the criticism. The characters are believable, drawn in great detail, and well taken. The film skilfully alternates between the migrant milieu, artist and gay scene and manages to combine an emotional story about growing up, gay melodrama and multicultural family history. The use of different languages ​​and styles of music adds to the special charm. The clash of different cultures and the resulting dramas and conflicts are well developed and brought to a head and resolved with beautiful directorial ideas, without any of the characters being denounced or seriously harmed. This is also a great achievement by the actors. Even in tragedy, everyone retains their dignity and the severity of the conflicts is broken by irony and comic situations. The summery atmosphere, which is captured well in beautiful pictures and elegant tracking shots, also contributes to the lightness. "

For Jörn Seidel from Zeit Online the film is "aesthetically [...] a little discouraged, but thematically an ambitious, technically impressive and sensitive young film." The director succeeds in balancing cultures, characters, themes and genres, whatever the sympathetic actors and who, despite all the tragedy, are in a good mood. Peter Gutting from the cinema days particularly praises the music from humorous Balkan pop and the tone of Peter Aufderhaar: “The folkloric arrangements hold together the dramaturgical mix of multicultural comedy, family drama and development novel. And give it a zest for life, which is fed by southern temperament. "

Sissymag , a magazine for non-heterosexual films, explains in an analysis of the film how it is more than a coming-out film in a migrant milieu, namely also a serious and subtle examination of the self-image of Balkan men, a film about the problems of guest workers and a complex relationship drama. The actually tragic figure is Vlado, an image of many fathers who are torn between patriarchal tradition and modern society and become losers. David Hall formulates the topics similarly for Gay Celluloid and praises the main actor: “Todorovic constructs a strong understanding of Montenegrin machism, of parents who live their dreams through their children and of a father who is visibly uncomfortable with the liberal attitude of big city life . The result is a film filled with longing for love and acceptance and broken-hearted lives by the side, with Saša Kekez, who painfully conveys the suffering of a young man who desperately tries to be himself in the face of the expectations of others. "

Awards

The film won awards at various LGBT film festivals:

In 2012 the film received the prize of the Queer Migrantischen Filmtage in Vienna, at which actor Saša Kekez was also awarded as best actor. The actress Željka Preksavec was honored as best actress for the role of Stanka at the Festival de la Luna in Valencia in 2011 . The German Film Award went to composer Peter Aufderhaar at the Hof International Film Festival .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sascha at MUBI
  2. ↑ a b Carsten Weidemann: Film start "Sascha": Coming out of a piano student . In: queer.de . March 24, 2011. Accessed December 5, 2019.
  3. ↑ Mark Wilshin: Film Festival: 25th London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival 2011 . In: Dog and Wolf . April 9, 2011. Accessed December 5, 2019.
  4. ↑ a b Herwig Hakan Mader: The first queer migrant film days start tomorrow in Vienna . In: ggg, at . November 5, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
  5. ↑ Production information for the DVD
  6. ^ Sascha at the German Film and Media Rating
  7. ↑ Jörn Seidel: My papa, the macho from Montenegro . In: Zeit Online . March 24, 2011. Accessed December 4, 2019.
  8. ↑ Peter Gutting: Alone among machos . In: cinema time . Retrieved December 5, 2019.
  9. ↑ Nenad Kreizer: macho men from Montenegro . In: Sissymag . July 26, 2018. Retrieved December 4, 2019.
  10. ↑ David Hall: Sascha at Gay Celluloid . Retrieved December 5, 2019: “Todorovic builds a strong sense of Montenegrin machismo, of parents living their dreams through their offspring and of a father clearly ill-at-ease with the liberal outlook of city life. The result is a film ingrained with yearnings for love and acceptance and the shattered hearts of life that can often be found alongside, with Saša Kekez achingly conveying the pains of a young man desperately trying to be his true self in the face of what others expect of him. "
  11. ↑ Sascha at m-appeal
  12. ↑ Saša Kekez at the theater guest performances in Fürth
  13. ↑ Željka Preksavec at wfilm.de