Minute of silence (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Minute of silence |
| Country of production |
Germany Denmark |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thorsten M. Schmidt |
| script |
André Georgi Claudia Kratochvil , Thorsten M. Schmidt |
| production |
Oliver Berben Sarah Kirkegaard |
| music | Gert Wilden junior |
| camera | Hannes Hubach |
| cut |
Andreas Althoff Margit Wiltschko |
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Minute of Silence is a German TV film from 2016 by Thorsten M. Schmidt . The material is based on the story of the same name by Siegfried Lenz .
action
Stella Petersen is returning to her hometown after her 14-year stay in England to start teaching there after the school holidays. The eighteen-year-old high school student Christian Voigt, son of a stonefisher from a German coastal town on the Baltic Sea, falls in love with the young woman at first sight. But not everyone is so positive about Stella's return. A schoolmate of Christian's, for example, calls her " Tommy - slut ". From day one, Christian seeks their closeness and invites them to take boat trips together. He enjoys the time he is alone with her. She is impressed by how responsibly he helps his father with his work. It doesn't take long for the two of them to be in love. But after school has started again, Christian hardly finds the opportunity to be alone with Stella. In public she ignores him and tries to keep her relationship a secret, after all, in the early 1960s, a relationship between student and teacher was considered a scandal. So they only meet on a small island, but their relationship does not go unnoticed. While his father fully understands his son, his mother is outraged.
When Stella and friends from England set off on a weekend sailing tour, Christian has no idea what a dramatic end their love will come to. On the contrary, he is planning their future together on the small island, on which he wants to lease the old bird watcher's hut and expand it for her. On Stella's return trip, the sailboat gets caught in a storm. When trying to lower the sails, the tree of the main sail hits her in the head and she falls unconscious into the water. She is taken to the hospital, where she falls into a coma . In the middle of the night Christian wakes up from a dream in which Stella is getting further and further away from him. He spontaneously drives to the hospital and learns that she has died. While there is a minute's silence for Stella at school , Christian drives one last time to her “bird island”. He sees himself happily united with her there. He throws himself from the boat into the water, in order to be close to her one last time and then swims back to the surface.
background
The shooting took place from September 2nd, 2015 to October 5th, 2015 in Berlin and Bornholm . The film premiered on June 25, 2016 at the Munich Film Festival and was shown for the first time on ZDF television on October 31, 2016 .
reception
Reviews
"Of the Lenz films made in recent years, this is undoubtedly the most successful, not least because of the convincingly successful teamwork between Julia Koschitz and Jonas Nay."
Rainer Tittelbach from tittelbach.tv said: “'Minute of silence' based on the novella by Siegfried Lenz tells of first great love and great happiness. The main male character lets the exciting time between the first meeting, a tragic accident and the days after that pass by in her mind's eye. The film brings together the best of the other six Lenz adaptations from the last ten years: time color, a high degree of narrative abstraction, an elaborate film language, with Julia Koschitz and Jonas Nay a charismatic cast, room for your own readings. The subject of love is not presented in a 'minute of silence' as a beautiful, telegenic TV illusion 'Herzkino'-like banal, but rather transformed into an almost philosophical discourse about growing up. "
For Kino.de , Tilmann P. Gangloff said: “Although the sad outcome of the story is certain from the start, the script [...] does not tell the story as a tragedy; even if short insertions keep reminding you what a tragic end the relationship will take. 'Minute of silence' is therefore something of an alternative to the generally cheesy Sunday film on ZDF and proof that a romance can also be told as a demanding drama with tastefully staged erotic moments. "
Ulrich Feld from the FNP wrote: The "Forbidden love between teacher and student against a wildly romantic background: That would have made a great movie."
Nikolaus von Festenberg wrote for Die Zeit and Tagesspiegel : "It is a small miracle that director Thorsten M. Schmidt , who wrote the screenplay with André Georgi and Claudia Kratochvil, succeeded in what producer Oliver Berben calls" Lenzige ”into a film. What Berben means by “lenzig” can be seen in the Nordic radiant images (camera: Hannes Hubach). Also the game of the protagonists (Julia Koschitz and Jonas Nay). It hits the spirit of the novella. "
Bernd Graff wrote for the Süddeutsche Zeitung : “Lenz settles the story of a fatal love in a fictional fishing village in the late sixties. The equally clever and visually powerful Oliver Berben production, directed by Thorsten M. Schmidt, which ZDF made of it, lets them play around ten years earlier, which makes the social ostracism of the affair even more threatening and the couple's rebellion against them Makes ostracism even more helpless. Otherwise the production remains true to the text. "
Audience ratings
The first television broadcast of the minute's silence on October 31, 2016 was seen by 4.20 million viewers in Germany and achieved a market share of 13.2% for ZDF .
Web links
- Minute of silence in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Minute of silence at filmportal.de
- Summary of the act of a minute's silence on the ZDF website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for minute's silence . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 163371 / V).
- ↑ Susanne Haverkamp: Lenz film adaptation “Minute of Silence” with Jonas Nay. noz.de, October 31, 2016.
- ^ Minute of silence at crew united
- ↑ Minute of silence. In: filmportal.de . Deutsches Filminstitut , accessed on November 1, 2016 .
- ↑ Heike Hupertz: When time no longer matters. In: Feuilleton. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 31, 2016, accessed on October 31, 2016 .
- ^ Rainer Tittelbach: Julia Koschitz, Jonas Nay, Thorsten M. Schmidt, Lenz. He was just 18 ... Film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on November 23, 2017.
- ^ Film review at Kino.de, accessed on November 23, 2017.
- ↑ Ulrich Feld: Minute's silence: Koschitz as the ideal seductress. At fnp.de, accessed on November 23, 2017.
- ↑ Nikolaus von Festenberg: Journey into the love death. At zeit.de , accessed on June 5, 2018.
- ↑ Nikolaus von Festenberg: Past all the howling buoys. At tagesspiegel.de , accessed on June 5, 2018.
- ^ An improper love at sueddeutsche.de , accessed on November 23, 2017.
- ^ Robert Meyer: Primetime Check: Monday, October 31, 2016.quotemeter.de , November 1, 2016, accessed on November 1, 2016 .