Summer Games (film)
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| German title | Summer games |
| Original title | Giochi d'estate |
| Country of production | Italy , Switzerland |
| original language | Italian |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Rolando Colla |
| script | Rolando Colla, Roberto Scarpetti , Olivier Lorelle , Pilar Anguita-MacKay |
| production | Elena Pedrazzoli , Amedeo Pagani |
| music | Bernd Schurer , Nikolaj Grandjean |
| camera | Lorenz Merz |
| cut | Rolando Colla, Didier Ranz |
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Summer Games (original title: Giochi d'estate , alternative title: Summer Games ) is a film drama by Rolando Colla from 2011 with Armando Condolucci and Fiorella Campanella in the leading roles. In his film, Colla describes the path of two young people in search of a father figure and growing up .
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The construction workers Vincenzo and his wife Adriana are still married, but their marriage is on the verge of collapse. Vincenzo does not want to admit the failure of his relationship and goes to a campsite on the Maremma with his two sons Nic and Agostino during the summer holidays . Already when setting up the tent there was the first argument because the 12-year-old Nic didn't feel like helping. Later they pick up Adriana together, who is coming by train. But even four people don't want a peaceful holiday mood. There is a dispute between the parents over trivialities. Vincenzo feels hurt in his honor when Adriana tries to pay for a purchase and gets violent towards her.
Nic and his younger brother flee the violence. The two make friends with some other teenagers at the campsite, including Marie. She went on vacation with her mother, but there are also differences of opinion between the two. Marie believes that it is her mother's fault that she has to grow up without her father. She believes he left the family when Marie was a baby. Her mother evades the discussion. Every time Marie wants to talk to her mother about her father's whereabouts, she blocks it.
Nic and Marie realize that they both miss their father. Marie believes that he lives in a neighboring town without her. Nic searches in vain for a father figure and doubts a largely unsuccessful “producer” who offers him little orientation. He also hates his father for raising his hand against his mother. Nic tries to endure the situation by not allowing any more feelings. At first Marie cannot believe that a person is capable of this, but Nic wants to teach her. From now on you will spend almost every free minute together with the other friends. In order not to have to spend the time with the adults on the beach, they use an old barn, which is located on a field with corn plants . There, Nic and Marie gradually get closer as they play together. The young people are only occasionally disturbed by a farmer with his dog, who looks after everything there and drives away the clique.
While Nic continues to suffer from his father's outbursts of violence, Marie finally wants to get to know her father. She can find a connection with the local public transport and sets out on a journey of several hours to the neighboring town. Marie's mother finds out about the plan, follows her in the car and intercepts her daughter on the way. Marie is beside herself and so there is another argument between daughter and mother. She confesses to Marie that her father died in a traffic accident and is buried in the neighboring town. She refuses to go there with her and begs Marie in vain to let the matter rest. Marie returns to the campsite and finds support in her clique.
Another argument broke out on a lively final evening at the campsite. However, this time the trigger is the owner of the barn. He appears at the festival and accuses the teenagers - justifiably - of having previously fatally injured his dog with stones and damaging the barn. Vincenzo then wants to beat up Nic, but he escapes and hides under Marie's apartment for the night. The next day he returns to the tent; Vincenzo beats Adriana and then wants to chastise Nic with a belt. Nic escapes and is followed by Vincenzo. When it falls into a boggy hole and threatens to drown, Nic hits him with a branch. Adriana finally arrives and pulls her husband out of the hole at the last second. Vincenzo realizes that he has failed as a father and husband, but Adriana wants to give him one last chance.
Shortly before the end of the vacation, the youngsters want to help Marie. One of them got his parents' access to a small motorboat. Together they drive across the sea to the neighboring town and look for Marie's father's grave in the cemetery there . You will eventually find it. Marie finally “finds” her father and can mourn him. Then the young people drive back to the campsite. Marie and Nic let themselves be dropped off at a remote bay and spend a few hours together before they return to the campsite.
The next day, all holidaymakers leave the campsite.
Reception and locations
The film premiered on August 2, 2011 at the Locarno International Film Festival . In Germany, the film was shown for the first time on December 19, 2011 at the Berlinale . The work celebrated its TV premiere on December 16, 2012 in Hungary .
The scenes at the campsite were filmed in the Italian town of Marina di Grosseto on the Maremma coast; the scenes on the beach on the coast of the Maremma of Grosseto between Follonica , Castiglione della Pescaia and Monte Argentario .
Awards
- 2011: Zurich Film Prize
- 2012: Swiss Film Award in the categories of Best Film, Best Cinematography and Best Screenplay
Reviews
The art-tv portal praises the film because it “takes a careful look at growing up and being an adult away from everyday life in the summer holiday camp”. The TV magazine Prisma is just as positive . She likes the “lovingly told and emotional story about the challenge of growing up”, which Colla staged with “a lot of passion”. The ARD promotes the film as "shattering family drama by Rolando Colla".
"The intense childhood drama describes the awakening of puberty as a painful experience in light-flooded pictures, with subtle details and great actors."
Web links
- Summer Games in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Summer Games , film interpretation on der-andere-film.ch, accessed on December 21, 2014.
- Peacock film distributor website , accessed December 21, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for summer games . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2014 (PDF; test number: 144 008 V).
- ↑ Iniziate le riprese del film Giochi d'estate di Rolando Colla .
- ↑ Summer Games , ARD website, accessed on December 18, 2014.
- ↑ Swiss Film Prize “Quartz 2012” - The Prize Winners ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2014 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. , Website of the Federal Office of Culture, accessed on December 18, 2014.
- ↑ Summer Games , art-tv.ch website, accessed on December 21, 2014.
- ↑ prisma.de: Giochi d'estate - Summer Games
- ↑ Summer Games , ARD website, accessed on December 21, 2014.
- ↑ TV Spielfilm, issue 16/2015, page 161
