Gunfire fear

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Movie
Original title Gunfire fear
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2003
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
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Director Ditto Tsintsadze
script Dirk Kurbjuweit , Dito Tsintsadze
production Christine Ruppert
music Ditto Tsintsadze, Gio Tsintsadze
camera Manuel Mack
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Schussangst is a German feature film from 2003 by Georgian film director Dito Tsintsadze based on the novel of the same name by Dirk Kurbjuweit .

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The conscientious objector Lukas (Fabian Hinrichs) does his community service by handing out food to old people and leads a rather dreary and lonely life. One day, however, he meets the rather crazy Isabella (Lavinia Wilson), who slips him a note on the tram that says "Help me!" The curious and hesitant advances of the two ultimately lead to Lukas falling in love with Isabella. The fact that she immediately tore up the message that was given to him makes the meeting of the two seem like a light-hearted romance at first.

But what he initially considers to be a relationship between her and an older man, quickly turns into the cause of the message in the tram for him. He finds out that Isabella's stepfather is sexually abusing her, even when she herself "hides" from the fact. The story of the street dog who, ironically, drinks greedily from the puddle and does not know where his pain comes from, although he is missing a quarter of his head, becomes a symbol of her own feelings. The more pacifist Lukas experiences a development phase of rethinking, which ends in the decision to get a weapon in order to be able to protect or save Isabella from her stepfather.

Before that, however, he is targeted by a police investigator who actually only wants to investigate the case of a stolen boat, but keeps going to Lucas because he sees a danger in him. Through the new acquaintance of an old woman who supplies him, Lukas manages to get a precision rifle, and he begins to practice using it and to prepare himself mentally for the killing, which he actually refuses as a conscientious objector. However, he has inhibitions and shrinks from taking the last step: fear of gunfire.

Isabella's stepfather leads seminars on fear, which Lukas also attends. So he is also present when he dies of a heart attack on the reading stage. Since then, Lukas has not seen or heard from Isabella. He leaves her the message on a mailbox that he intended to kill her stepfather, but even after these messages the distance remains.

The film has its tragic and surprising end in the fact that Lukas overcomes his fear of gunfire, whereby the goal has changed.

The film repeatedly lets prophetic statements and meaningful figures and constellations appear, without which the real meaning of the film cannot be grasped. The role of the policeman, who apparently foresees the events like a crystal ball, or who really first gives Lukas the idea before there are plausible reasons for it, is particularly significant. The “diver”, whom Lukas meets twice, who wants to play “dead man” with him, appears more as a bizarre harbinger of a plot than a character that promotes action. The political statue of the controversial North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, who is portrayed by Luke's neighbor as a salvific personality, could be interpreted as a symbol for the decision to use violence as an adequate means of solving problems. The main themes of the film are age and loneliness, fear in the general sense and closing and opening eyes on every level, not just on the phenomenon of gunshot fear.

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The film was shot in Halle (Saale) and the surrounding area and reflects the topographical situation unchanged. So stands z. B. Isabella's house actually on the banks of the Saale. It is located in the Kröllwitz district, on Talstraße, which also appears in a scene without the house being shown. Lukas holds the target practice in the Saale-Elster-Aue near Halle. The scenes on the water were filmed in the city area on the Saale and its tributaries.

The film "Gravity" brought Fabian Hinrichs back to Halle in a leading role. Strangely enough, Thorsten Merten (Lukas' bizarre neighbor) also plays a supporting role here.

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