Sleeper (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | sleeper |
| Country of production | Austria , Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Benjamin Heisenberg |
| script | Benjamin Heisenberg |
| production |
Barbara Albert , Burkhard Althoff , Martin Gschlacht , Jessica Hausner , Peter Heilrath , Antonin Svoboda |
| music | Lorenz Dangel |
| camera | Reinhold Vorneider |
| cut |
Karina Ressler , Stefan Stabenow |
| occupation | |
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Sleeper is an Austrian-German drama directed by Benjamin Heisenberg from 2005 .
action
Johannes, a scientific researcher who is newly hired by an institute and who takes care of his grandmother at home, is asked by the secret service to monitor a colleague. Farid - a supposed sleeper - works with him and personal, professional and political levels mix.
The opening scene shows a woman from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Mrs. Wasser, tries to recruit Johannes before his first day at work. He is supposed to spy on his Algerian science colleague Farid and report on him. Frau Wasser looks upright and has nothing of the cliché of a secret service employee. Johannes decides not to work together and starts working as a scientist, but his view of Farid is now biased. Although they are scientific competitors, both try to cooperate and get to know each other better in their free time, over beer and computer games together. When the two meet the waitress Beate, Johannes falls in love with her and the three of them do something more often. Later it becomes clear that Beate is getting together with Farid.
In the next shots you can see Johannes making contact with Ms. Wasser from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution and reporting on Farid's contacts. Johannes continues to try to win Beate, they also have sex in the gym, which however has no consequences for the relationships. Despite the noticeable tensions, the three continue to do something together, but Farid is increasingly annoyed by Beate's "attention-seeking". In this context, he also reports to Johannes that he got caught up in the computer search. Again and again we see scenes in which Farid, for example, changes into a foreign language with a colleague, it is mentioned that he has silver foil in front of his windows and that he has contacts. Johannes finally terminates the cooperation with the protection of the constitution. Finally, Farid can publish in the journal "nature", but Johannes feels cheated of his contribution and his co-authorship, and a dispute arises between him, his professor and Farid. He asks Farid if he is praying, which clearly irritates him.
On the same evening, as the radio sequences make clear, an attack on a building in Munich took place and Farid continues to fall under suspicion. One scene finally shows how Farid is overpowered by several men on the way home after Johannes said goodbye and is driven away in the car while Johannes openly observes the scene but does not intervene. Johannes would have the opportunity to testify to the woman from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution that he was with Farid at the time of the attack; However, he does not comment, although the woman expressly points out that she will interpret his silence as no. At the institute, the professor informed him that the situation had changed due to the events surrounding Farid and that the study would now be published under his - Johannes' - name. John takes note of this without comment. He returns to his grandmother's home and prays Psalm 23 from the Bible for her, who lies there motionless .
criticism
“The first work takes the attacks of September 11, 2001 as an opportunity to paint the picture of a deeply insecure society that puts its members under general suspicion. A subtly developed film that makes the atmosphere of anxiety and paranoia perceptible and congenially uses its formal means to serve this experience. "
Awards (selection)
- 2005: First Steps Award
- 2005: Midas Prize, Europaws, for best fiction drama set in science and technology, London.
- 2005: Award Cinéma Tout Ecran best movie, Perspectives, Festival Tous Écrans , Geneva
- 2006: Special Jury Prize, Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers
- 2006: Max Ophüls Prize (best film, best book, best music).
- 2006: Best Film, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Film Festival .
- 2006: Best Movie, Festival du Cinéma Politique, Barcelona.
Web links
- Sleeper in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sleeper at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for sleepers . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2006 (PDF; test number: 105 620 K).
- ↑ Sleeper. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 16, 2016 .