Summer in front of the balcony
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Summer in front of the balcony |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andreas Dresen |
| script | Wolfgang Kohlhaase |
| production |
Peter Rommel Stefan Arndt |
| music | Pascal Comelade |
| camera | Andreas Höfer |
| cut | Jörg Hauschild |
| occupation | |
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Summer in front of the balcony is a movie by director Andreas Dresen , shot in Germany in 2004. It has been shown at film festivals since September 2005 and was officially released on January 5th, 2006. In Germany, the film reached almost one million moviegoers.
action
The friends Katrin and Nike, both over thirty, live in the same old apartment building in Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin . Katrin, who moved from Freiburg , is unemployed and a single mother of one son. Nike is a trained seamstress, but works as a mobile geriatric nurse. Both get to know the truck driver Ronald when he almost ran over Katrin. After a night of love with Nike, Ronald moves in with her. This makes Katrin feel left alone by her friend. She tries to numb her unemployment and loneliness with alcohol. After a disco evening, Katrin's life situation escalates. She is admitted to psychiatry for alcohol abuse and receives support. In the meantime, Nike takes care of Katrin's son Max, who in turn has his first heartache . Nike's new relationship with Ronald is not going smoothly either. She learns that he is married and has three children from different women. When Katrin comes back from the hospital, he goes for her too. After one last night, Nike unceremoniously puts macho Ronald in front of the door. Then the friends find each other closer again and spend the summer evenings on Nike's balcony again. The final picture shows the house in autumn for renovation scaffolding and now uninhabited.
background
The film was filmed in the vicinity of the Helmholtzplatz in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg. The tenement house is on the southeast corner of the square. The bar scenes, however, were filmed further away in the “Esmarch-Eck” bar on Esmarchstrasse in Bötzowkiez . Axel Prahl makes a cameo as a pub guest. A pedestrian bridge over the S-Bahn near Schönhauser Allee , which Katrin's son is crossing, was already in the picture 25 years earlier in the film Solo Sunny by the same screenwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase .
The soundtrack humorously sets numerous German hits like Guten Morgen, Sonnenschein by Nana Mouskouri , He Belongs to Me by Marianne Rosenberg and I love the life of Vicky Leandros .
With 967,767 moviegoers, summer in front of the balcony was 9th among the German-language productions that were released in 2006.
Reviews
“The all-round coherent melancholy comedy about love, friendship, solidarity, unemployment and loneliness unobtrusively conveys the issues raised and, despite the pensive mood, shows a subtle sense of the comic in everyday life. Convincing actors, the almost documentary look and the clever choice of music make the film an experience. "
“With a precise eye and great love for the characters, director Andreas Dresen filmed the story of two friends. They sit on the balcony between heaven and earth and look at the colorful, difficult existence in which the right men are often the wrong ones. "
“ Summer in front of the balcony is a social comedy that inspires, touches and downright delights the audience - something that can rarely be said about a film. This is due to the brilliant script by Solo Sunny author Wolfgang Kohlhaase, the refreshingly natural play of its leading actresses Nadja Uhl and Inka Friedrich and, in particular, Andreas Dresen's special ability to depict the little everyday life around the corner unfiltered and lifelike. With the greatest of ease, Dresen incorporates amateur actors into the plot, who become an indispensable part of the film and root it coherently in the respective milieus. This summer is a gift. Do not miss it. "
"Andreas Dresen is the lucky child among German directors: the critics like him, but so do the viewers."
Awards
- Bavarian Film Prize 2005: Director's Prize for Andreas Dresen
- Six nominations for the German Film Award 2006 : Best Feature Film, Best Acting Achievement - Female Leading Role (Inka Friedrich and Nadja Uhl), Best Acting Achievement - Male Supporting Role (Andreas Schmidt), Best Director, Best Screenplay
- Silver Shell for Best Screenplay (International Jury Prize for Best Screenplay), at the San Sebastián International Film Festival 2005 (Andreas Dresen was nominated for the Golden Seashell)
- Silver Hugo Award - Best Actress (International Jury Prize for the best actresses) for Inka Friedrich and Nadja Uhl at the 41st Chicago International Film Festival
- Ernst Lubitsch Prize 2006
- German Film Critics' Prize 2006 for the best screenplay
- Undine Award 2006 for Vincent Redetzki for Best Film Debutant; Nominations for Lil Oggesen (best film debutante) and Stephanie Schönfeld (best young supporting actress)
- The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating of particularly valuable .
literature
- Jörn Glasenapp : Prenzlberg nights are long: tragic-comic everyday life in Andreas Dresen's 'Summer on the balcony'. In: Jörn Glasenapp and Claudia Lillge (eds.): The film comedy of the present. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-8252-2979-5 , pp. 289-308.
Web links
- Summer in Berlin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summer in front of the balcony at filmportal.de
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for summer in front of the balcony . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2005 (PDF; test number: 104 147 K).
- ↑ Film hit list: Month June 2007 ( Memento of the original from June 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , Filmförderungsanstalt, requested on August 5, 2009
- ↑ Berliner Zeitung of January 5, 2006
- ↑ This story was a few years away, Welt.de from January 6, 2006
- ↑ Top 100 Germany 2006 , inside kino, queried on July 25, 2012
- ↑ Summer in front of the balcony. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ filmstarts.de
- ↑ Cinema.de
- ↑ epd-film.de
