Summer sunday

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Movie
Original title Summer sunday
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2008
length 10 mins
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Fred Breinersdorfer ,
Siegfried Kamml
script Fred Breinersdorfer ,
Siegfried Kamml
music Gert Wilden
camera Anton Klima
cut Tanja Petry
occupation

Summer Sunday is a ten-minute German short film by Fred Breinersdorfer and Sigi Kamml . Awarded the most successful German short film in 2008, the film with Axel Prahl in the leading role was given the title “particularly valuable”. At the core of the plot is the dilemma of accepting the death of one person in order to save the lives of several people, a so-called trolley problem .

Carson W. Stout's short story "Midstate Bridge" was the inspiration for this and two other short films: The Bridge (1978) and Most (2003).

action

Bruno Hansen is the bridge master at the Rethe lift bridge in Hamburg . He makes sure that the lift bridge is down when a train passes and that it is up when a ship passes.

"My ex didn't pick him up again!" - he says to his colleague Richard that morning and explains why he has his deaf son Micha with him. Armed with pen and paper and his father's cap, Micha goes outside to paint a picture. Meanwhile, his father is struggling with a power outage. The bridge is up, but a train is approaching. A gust of wind made his father's cap fall on a small ledge. Micha climbs after her. “The bridge must be completely closed 3 minutes before the train arrives. Everything according to plan, ”recalls Bruno Hansen. But then he sees his son under the bridge, doomed because he cannot hear his father's warning calls.

Now Bruno Hansen has to decide: will he sacrifice 293 passengers and leave the bridge up or will he sacrifice the life of his child and close the bridge? He lowers the bridge. His son Micha dies.

Awards

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  • 1st Chinese International New Media Short Award, Shenzhen: Jury Panel's Special Innovation Award
  • 6th Eberswalde Film Festival : short film award "Das e"
  • Most successful German short film in 2008: FFA Presse
  • Special Acknowledgment: Rutger Hauer I've seen Films Festival
  • Best Editing Tanja Petry: Grand Off Festival, Warsaw
  • Bamberg Short Film Festival : Orlando Prize of the Youth Jury 2009
  • East Frisian Short Film Award 2008
  • IFK Short Film Award 2008
  • Murnau Short Film Award 2008
  • FBW short film of the month April 2008 - grade "particularly valuable"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for summer Sunday . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2007 (PDF; test number: 112 272 K).
  2. ^ Murnau Foundation - Short Film Award 2008 ( Memento from May 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at murnau-stiftung.de
  3. ↑ FBW Film Review - Summer Sunday. In: fbw-filmbeval.com. German film and media rating , accessed on October 7, 2016 .