Snow country
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Snow country |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2004 |
| length | 145 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Hans W. Geißendörfer |
| script | Hans W. Geißendörfer |
| production | Hans W. Geißendörfer |
| music | Irmin Schmidt |
| camera | Hans-Günther Bücking |
| cut |
Peter Przygodda , Oliver Grothoff |
| occupation | |
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Schneeland is a German film drama by Hans W. Geißendörfer from 2004. The screenplay is based on the novel of the same name by Elisabeth Rynell .
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Depressed writer Elisabeth loses her husband Ingmar in a car accident. He leaves her and three children. Desperate, she decides to follow him to death and flees into the solitude of the cold and snow of Lapland. This is where she met her husband - one shot shows how she finds the tree again with a heart with the initials E and I carved into the trunk.
Elisabeth gets lost in the wasteland of the snowy desert and repeatedly encourages herself not to give up. After an indefinitely long time, she reaches an abandoned courtyard, where she discovers the body of an elderly person, almost completely buried by the snow. In the house she finds diary entries from 1937. It turns out that the corpse is Ina - a character that the audience previously knew as a young woman who looked after her mother Hilma until her early death and finally is left alone with her irascible father Knövel. Elisabeth asks the deceased for permission to enter her house and finally lives in it. While she researches Ina's legacy, her life story is told in flashbacks. While her mother was still alive, Ina was regularly beaten up by her father. After his mother's death, he also raped her, which for him justifies the belief that she is now both for him: "Hilma and Ina", wife and daughter.
Ina grows up to be a grown woman and starts to rebel against her father. After an argument, he falls on the stairs and hits the back of his head. He becomes bedridden and Ina takes care of him while he continues to bully her. During this time she meets the horse herdsman Aron, who camps with his herd near her farm over the summer months. The two fall in love and want to get married so that Ina can finally escape the clutches of her father.
On the way to run errands for the upcoming wedding, Aron breaks into a supposedly frozen lake and dies.
Meanwhile Ina is pregnant and - as you can only learn from the stories of Elisabeth - despite the hard loss, she continues her life, brings up her child, a son, and later has several grandchildren.
Touched by Ina's life story, Elisabeth goes back to her children, because "love is as strong as death".
Reviews
“Dramatic film adaptation of a novel about love and death as the fateful driving forces of life, as well as remembering and narrating as a means against transience. In the beginning the actors don't really fit into the wintry-archaic landscape, but then the story gains more and more suggestive power and unfolds moving moments. "
Awards (selection)
Cinematographer Hans-Günther Bücking was awarded a German Film Prize in 2005 and a Bavarian Film Prize in 2006.
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Web links
- Snowland in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Snow Country. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .