Show day
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Show day |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 22 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Marvin Kren |
| script | Benjamin Hessler |
| production | Rike Steyer ; Hamburg Media School (film workshop) |
| music | Marco Dreckkötter |
| camera | Carol Burandt from Kameke |
| cut | Silke Olthoff |
| occupation | |
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Schautag is a German short film by the director Marvin Kren from 2009 . The film is the conclusion of Kren's two-year postgraduate course in directing at the Hamburg Media School and was awarded the Max Ophüls Prize .
The film was made against the backdrop of a case that hit the headlines in 2008. At that time, a 30-year-old had thrown a block of wood on the highway and killed a young mother in front of her family.
action
Car salesman Michael has been guilty of suppressed but still open guilt for almost 20 years. Together with his friends Toni and Pauli, he once threw stones from a bridge onto the roadway and hit the vehicle of a young family. Actually he wanted to prevent the friends from throwing a stone, but the stone hits Wolfgang Brabant's car. His wife Karin and little daughter Julia died in the accident.
In all this time Michael has so far lacked the courage to admit his guilt by visiting Wolfgang. On this Sunday, the “show day” in his car dealership, he finally manages the visit that is liberating for everyone.
reception
Wenke Husmann wrote in Die Zeit that the film shows that such an act never lets go of the perpetrator, but also the bereaved. To this end, Kren "skilfully shifts time levels into one another" and reveals "to the viewer - very gently at first, but increasingly disturbing - the horror that triggered the act".
Awards
- Short film award winner at the 30th Max Ophüls Festival 2009
- German Camera Prize and Diagonale Short Film Prize
Web links
- Official page for the film
- Viewing day in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Manfred Karsch: Working aid for the show day . Catholic film, 2009 (PDF).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kren, Marvin ›German Television Award 2018. Accessed December 21, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Max Ophüls Awards: Best Short Film, Best Screenplay (Fritz Raff Screenplay Award) and other awards. Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize, accessed on December 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Arrest warrant for murder: 30-year-old admits deadly throwing wood blocks. In: Spiegel Online. May 21, 2008, accessed December 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Wenke Husmann: The horror after the fact . In: Zeit Online . April 26, 2011 ( zeit.de ).
- ↑ Marvin Kren. re: publica, accessed on December 21, 2017 .