The others are always to blame
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The others are always to blame |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Lars-Gunnar Lotz |
| script | Anna Maria Praßler |
| production |
Matthias Drescher , Philipp Knauss |
| music | Daniel Benjamin |
| camera | Jan Prahl |
| cut | Julia Boehm |
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It's always the others to blame is a film drama from 2012 directed by Lars-Gunnar Lotz based on a script by Anna Maria Praßler . It is Lotz's debut feature film and his graduation film at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy .
action
The choleric, criminal kid Ben has a serious problem. He hits and kicks violently and uncontrollably again and again when he is ticking away. He breaks the jaw of a landlady when she doesn't want to sell him any more beer because he's blue. He kicks the baby in the stomach of a pregnant woman because she drops the money she had to pull out of the machine for him during a robbery.
Ben is always to blame for the others. If he weren't so choleric, nothing would stand in the way of his career as a contract car cracker. But because of the violence against the landlady he ends up in the youth prison, where he is beaten and quickly becomes a victim himself. Nobody knows that he and an accomplice also committed the robbery on the pregnant woman. The case has not been resolved.
The victim experience in jail makes Ben reluctantly dare to try to serve his sentence in an open prison. Social worker Niklas gets him out of jail and takes him to the "Waldhaus", a kind of family-run youth home. Niklas and his wife Eva live in the “Waldhaus” with their five-year-old daughter. The couple bring delinquent young people back on track with strict rules and hard physical work in the woods and fields. Just as the experiment started to look promising for Benjamin, the next low blow overtook him: The social worker Eva, whom he initially did not get to know, returned from the hospital to the "Waldhaus". Benjamin recognizes in her his victim from the most recent robbery.
Ben first tries to evade his guilt; However, he cannot escape the confrontation with the other young people any more than the brutal confrontation with his victim Eva, who understandably acts unprofessionally when she learns who Ben really is. Which drives him to the desperation in which she is already. And although Ben finally regrets what he did, the victim-perpetrator balance does not work out. Eva does not manage to forgive the perpetrator.
production
The film is a production by FFL Film- und Fernsehlabor in coproduction with the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy , the TV channels SWR and ARTE ; it was funded by MFG Baden-Württemberg . The producers are Matthias Drescher and Philipp Knauss as well as Franziska Specht, all graduates of the film academy.
reception
The Hamburger Abendblatt praised:
“The story is played around a dramaturgically extremely pointed, terribly failed perpetrator-victim compensation by a top ensemble of young German actors. Above all in the leading roles Hasanović as Ben and Brendler as Eva. Edin Hasanović, who has already appeared in several crime series, brilliantly plays his first leading role in a movie and passes his master's examination with a one with a star. Julia Brendler adds another big gig to previous successes. But Pit Bukowski's performance as Tobias, the leading juvenile offender in the 'Waldhaus', is also worthy of a prize. "
Kino.de rated the film with five (out of 5) stars and wrote:
"Thanks to the strong acting performance of Edin Hasanović ( KDD - Criminal Investigation Service ), the audience experiences the inner development of a broken person into a socially acceptable, empathic individual who can feel remorse and affection again"
Oliver Armknecht commented critically:
“The film's biggest flaw is its lack of plausibility. Even the initial situation - a criminal and his former victim live under one roof - would be quite a coincidence. There are also other small events and twists and turns that sometimes make German films seem a bit artificial and unrealistic. If you come to terms with it, you quickly realize that the story is constructed a bit, but also very exciting. After all, Eva has no idea who the newcomer is, Ben was wearing a mask at the time. Especially the question of whether she gets to him, he will lose his nerve at some point, always makes the others to blame, at times turn into a chamber play-like thriller. [...] But behind this cat-and-mouse game lurk much more fundamental questions about guilt and atonement, responsibility and forgiveness. Can I forgive someone who ruined my life? Do I even want that? The others are always to blame, but also, and that is what makes the German drama so special, empathizes first hand with how a perpetrator encounters his former victim and has to deal with his crime. An interesting approach to break out of the mostly dominant victim perspective. We don't learn that much about Ben, just like all the characters tend to stay on the surface. "
Dorothee Herrmann expressed similar reservations in the Schwäbisches Tagblatt :
"In the film [...] the camera always stays painfully close: the brutal robbery with which Ben is introduced as completely depraved, and the charged atmosphere in the education camp, which can only be tamed by the strictest rules ('no body contact') . Unfortunately, the film pimps Ben's development - as he gradually learns not to freak out immediately, to look at himself from a distance - with an extreme conflict. "
Awards
Blame the others are always received in 2012 the NDR Film Prize for the young, the Bernhard Wicki Film Prize and the DGB Film Award , and in 2014 the Young Investigator Award from NDR Studio Hamburg for best director. In addition to Edin Hasanović for the best performance in the male lead role, Anna Maria Praßler was also nominated for the German Film Prize 2013 with her script . In 2013 the film was nominated for the Günter Rohrbach Film Prize and the 2014 Grimme Prize .
Web links
- Blame the others are still in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Portrait side
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for guilt are always the others . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2013 (PDF; test number: 137 494 K).
- ↑ http://www.filmakademie.de/en/aktuelles-veranstaltungen/presse/pressemitteilungen/pressemitteilungen-details/?tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=10&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=581&cHash=9539c0764e27fdbbec69593beb8c6860 ( page no longer available , searching web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Stefan reason: television premiere of "guilt is always the others" (2014) in the Hamburger Abendblatt
- ↑ http://www.kino.de/kinofilm/schuld-sind-immer-die-anderen/133780
- ↑ http://www.film-rezensions.de/2014/01/schuld-sind-immer-die-anderen/
- ↑ http://www.tagblatt.de/Home/kino/kino-aktuell_filmid,4362.html
