Seven hollows and a corpse
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Seven hollows and a corpse |
| Original title | Seven Dumpsters and a Corpse |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2007 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Haemmerli |
| script | Thomas Haemmerli |
| production | Mirjam von Arx |
| music | Adrian Frutiger, Alexander T. Fähndrich |
| camera | Thomas Haemmerli, Ariane Kessissoglou, Erik Haemmerli |
| cut | Daniel Cherbuin |
Seven hollows and a corpse is a documentary by the Swiss journalist Thomas Haemmerli .
action
On his fortieth birthday, of all times , Thomas Haemmerli found out about his mother's death. The next shock is the completely littered apartment of the deceased. For a month Thomas and his brother Erik clean up and find family photos in the chaos that go back to the 1930s. There are two story lines: on the one hand, the fight against chaos, in which the apartment is becoming increasingly empty and cleaner, and on the other hand, the story of the family, which is becoming increasingly chaotic. The film is very open about messie syndrome .
backgrounds
Director Haemmerli tried to come to terms with the death of his mother by using his camera to document the surroundings - as he is used to working as a television journalist. When it was later noticed that the material met with great interest, a documentary was made from it.
“My brother and I had suspected that the apartment would be rather chaotic, but what we encountered exceeded our worst fears. Like most messies, our mother moved heaven and earth to never let anyone into her four walls. For a month we cleaned up the apartment and worked our way through the mountains of materials. We found a lot of evidence from the family history: photos that go back to the 1880s. Footage from the 30s and 40s, and everything my mother made from the 60s. The unusual material was the starting point for the film: around seventy years of family history. And the possibility to shoot in the apartment without relatives vetoing it. "
"I always believed that the stories you tell on a fun evening are also the ones you should tell a wider audience."
Reviews
"I admire Haemmerli's merciless attitude towards his parents - as a father she also repels me."
“The film is disrespectful, shameless and indiscreet. The Haemmerlis are politically correct at most by mistake. [..] It's an evil, sometimes maddeningly funny film that has a lot to say about our culture of remembrance in glossy albums that make it stink. "
"The topic is extremely uncomfortable, its implementation extremely irreverent: both together are great."
“One can find this way of dealing with the deceased mother tasteless, exploitative and cynical. But the disturbing lightness and the cool perspective are at the same time the great strength of the film. 'Seven hollows and a corpse' has the courage to want to entertain instead of wallowing in grief. "
“The mere fact that the living conditions of women contradict all the typical love of order and order is a license for the Swiss to erase their dignity forever. [...] Every proof of love of the woman, yes her whole life is trodden and trashed in front of the camera. "
“[The film] is being sold as a black, humorous attempt to counter the taboo against death. What the Haemmerlis have actually delivered with their »docu-comedy« is not the deconstruction of a taboo, but the documentation of their own emotional neglect. "
useful information
The young Kofi Annan appears in the film because he was a guest at the wedding party of Haemmerli's parents.
The film was funded in 2006 by the Zurich Film Foundation with CHF 90,000.
International publication
The first official screening outside of Switzerland was in April 2007 on the occasion of the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival in Toronto / Canada under the title "Seven dumpsters and a corpse".
The film was shown at several film festivals in Germany in autumn 2007. It was released in cinemas in Switzerland in March 2007, launched across Germany on April 17, 2008 and in Austria in October 2008.
Awards
- Zurich Film Prize 2007
- Audience Award of the Duisburg Film Week 2007
- Nomination for the Swiss Film Prize 2008
Web links
- Seven hollows and a corpse - film
- Trailer ( English )
- Seven Dumpsters and a Corpse in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- »Messies have a thousand tricks up their sleeves« - Interview with director Haemmerli
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for seven hollows and a corpse . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2008 (PDF; test number: 113 321 K).
- ↑ a b Thomas Haemmerli: Notes from the director
- ^ "What was left of mother" , Franz Kasperski, 3sat Kulturzeit, March 28, 2007
- ↑ "Son against dead mother" , Kerstin Roose, Tagesspiegel, April 17, 2008
- ^ "When mom died in the trash" , Daniel Sander, Spiegel Online, April 17, 2008
- ^ "Shameless" , Daniel Kothenschulte , Frankfurter Rundschau, April 17, 2008
- ↑ »Seven hollows and a corpse is an attempt to break a taboo« ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ariane Mohl, Märkische Allgemeine, April 18, 2008
- ↑ Zürcher Filmstiftung: Documentary Film Commission: all supported projects in 2006 ( Memento of November 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Zürcher Filmpreis 2007 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Audience Award of the Duisburg Film Week 2007 ( Memento from April 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Nomination for the Swiss Film Prize 2008 ( Memento of December 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
