September - everything has its time
| Movie | |
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| German title | September - everything has its time |
| Original title | September - Ψάχνοντας μια θέση στη ζωή των άλλων |
| Country of production | Greece , Germany |
| original language | Greek |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Penny Panayotopoulou |
| script | Penny Panayotopoulou, Kallia Papadaki |
| production | Burkhard Althoff , Thanassis Karathanos , Penny Panayotopoulou , Konstantina Vonorta |
| music | Giorgos Zachariou |
| camera | Giorgos Michelis |
| cut | Petar Markovic |
| occupation | |
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September - Everything has its time (Original title: Septemper - Ψάχνοντας μια θέση στη ζωή των άλλων ) is a Greek drama by director Penny Panayotopoulou from 2013. The film deals with loneliness.
action
Anna lives alone with her dog Manu in a small apartment. During her working hours in a large furniture store, the dog waits in the car, but she worries about him. Manu is Anna's purpose in life. She reads to him, speaks to him - she has no human friends. Her social environment consists of her work colleagues and occasional phone calls with her mother. Through her dog, Anna gets in contact with her neighbors, Sofia and Stathis, a couple with two children.
Eventually Manu becomes ill and dies shortly afterwards.
In a nightly action, Anna asks her neighbor Sofia to bury Manu on her property. This creates an emotional bond with the neighbors. Anna cannot compensate for the emptiness in her life following the death of the dog. So she sleeps in the car in front of Manu's grave. Sofia tries to comfort Anna.
Ultimately, in her loneliness, Anna pushes her way into the life of the neighboring family. She constructs pretexts for visits. Sofia and Stathis' amicable sympathy turns into tolerance and finally turns into rejection. The situation escalates when Anna goes on a trip with the neighbors' children without their knowledge. It threatens to lose touch with reality.
Towards the end of the film Anna breaks the bridges behind her old life, leaves the city by bus and drives to the sea. She spends a night alone on the beach - in the morning a stray dog runs up to her.
background
The actor Christos Stergioglou , who plays a supporting role as a bus passenger in this film, played a leading role in the Greek drama Dogtooth .
reception
The program text for broadcasting on arte describes: "When Manu suddenly dies, Anna's small universe falls apart, she loses control of her life."
The ZDF writes in the press release about the film co-produced by the broadcaster: "With September - Alles hat seine Zeit , director Penny Panayotopolou has succeeded in creating a clever, poetic-melancholy feature film."
According to the TV feature film, "... the sad portrait of a lonely soul develops, which at least ends with a glimmer of hope."
Awards (selection)
Kora Karvouni won the award for Best Actress at the Hellenic Film Academy Awards in 2014. The production has also received several international nominations.
Web links
- September - Everything has its time in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ September - Everything has its time. (No longer available online.) Arte, archived from the original on June 11, 2015 ; accessed on June 11, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ September - Everything has its time. ZDF, accessed on July 3, 2015 .
- ↑ September - Everything has its time. TV feature film, accessed January 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Award (IMDB). IMDB, accessed January 30, 2015 .
