Strength 6

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Movie
Original title Strength 6
Country of production Switzerland , Germany
original language Swiss German , German
Publishing year 2013
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Sabine Boss
script Claudia Kaufmann
Urs Bühler
production Marcel Hoehn , Uli Aselmann
music Lorenz Dangel
camera Roland Schmid
cut Stefan Kälin
occupation

Strength 6 is an environmental thriller from 2013 directed by Sabine Boss . The Swiss-German TV co-production by SRF and SWR addresses the question of what will happen to the more than 3,000 tons of ammunition in Lake Lucerne if the region is affected by an earthquake of magnitude 6, as was last the case in 1601 .

The first broadcast took place in Switzerland on March 3, 2013 on SRF 1 and in Germany on August 20, 2014 in the first .

action

After a landslide on Axenstrasse , the geologist Mara Graf and her friend, the seismologist Gian Wyss, are commissioned by the Federal Seismological Service at the Technical University to carry out investigations. For Gian this is a welcome opportunity to spend a few weeks at home in Brunnen and introduce Mara to his grandmother Erika and his sister Julia. The next day, Gian and Mara want to anchor measuring devices on the bottom of Lake Lucerne during a dive. When Mara's air tube bursts, Gian doesn't want to wait for her and dives alone. Before Mara can follow him, a shock wave shakes her boat. In a panic, Mara pulls her friend up on the safety line, but can only rescue him dead. However, inconsistencies in her portrayal of the misfortune bring her soon to suspect investigating Commissioner Albrecht of having deliberately killed her friend.

The unusual diving accident also alarmed Sebastian Scherrer, captain in the engineering troops of the Swiss Army . He knows about the secret of the lake: tons of old ammunition which the military dumped in the depths of the Swiss lakes until the 1960s. His research shows that there should be no ammunition at the scene of the accident, but Sebastian is still concerned. His superior, Colonel Frick, forbids him to dive at the scene of the accident. Sebastian obeys the order; even then when the desperate Mara asks him for help, since she is threatened with manslaughter .

So Mara dives on her own and finds live ammunition at the scene of the accident. Finally she finds the explanation for Gian's death. Based on her discovery, Mara assesses the danger for the region as incalculable. Another rock fall into the lake, triggered by exploding ammunition, threatens a tsunami that would cause terrible devastation. With these new findings, Mara succeeds in convincing Commander Scherrer to help her. When he told Colonel Frick about the disturbing find, the latter reacted indignantly that Sebastian had disregarded his order. He forbids him to say anything about the weapon found on the grounds that the military has nothing to do with it.

But now Sebastian is no longer ready to obey the orders of his superior and mentor. Together with Mara, he tries everything in his power to alert the civil authorities. After a series of obstacles, Sebastian and Mara finally manage to produce evidence of the explosive danger on the lake bed.

production

In addition to Swiss radio and television, the production companies T&C Film from Zurich and cut-it from Munich were involved in the project, the latter for SWR.

The Swiss Seismological Service at ETH Zurich provided the film team with scientific advice. The shooting took place between June 15, 2012 and July 15, 2012. The locations were Brunnen , Schwyz and Zurich .

background

In Lake Thun , Lake Brienz and Lake Lucerne alone , the Federal Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS) carefully estimated more than 8,000 tons of sunk ammunition, some of which were still live. A large part of it was disposed of in these lakes at the behest of the Federal Council after the Second World War. The DDPS report from 2004 also mentions that "there are large stocks of ammunition from the Second World War on the German side of Lake Constance".

The film is limited to the more than 3,000 tons of ammunition lying in the easternmost part of Lake Lucerne, the Urnersee , and asks itself what could happen to it in the event of a strong earthquake. The magnitude 6 earthquake of 1601 triggered a tsunami of "two heroic bards " in Lake Lucerne , ie approx. 4 meters high. The event was described in detail by the then town clerk Renward Cysat . It is one of the first tsunami to be well documented by an eyewitness.

Hypothesis of the film

In the film, the hypothesis is put forward that "grenades and bombs dumped in Lake Uri can be worn out and detonated by small, relatively frequent landslides". The result would be larger landslides that trigger tidal waves and - worst case - even cracks that eat their way up the mountain through the brittle limestone and also cause landslides. Geologist Dr. Mara Graf, the protagonist of the film, even comes to the conclusion: "Thanks to the ammunition, it no longer takes an earthquake to trigger a tsunami catastrophe." According to their calculations, a "munitions tsunami" can be expected to reach a height of up to 6 meters.

criticism

Claudia Schwartz writes about the film in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung : “For a long time it is the outstanding German actress Claudia Michelsen who carries this film between near despair and fighter nature. (...) With Pierre Siegenthaler in the role of the responsible commissioner, who learns in the course of the investigation, Michelsen is an equal counterpart at his side. It is thanks to both of them that the drama remains extremely exciting over long stretches. "

Rainer Tittelbach writes on his film website of the same name: «The Grimme Prize winner 2013 & 2014 refines the psychologically somewhat one-dimensional dramaturgy with well-placed nuances and a lot of physicality. If you as a viewer cling to her heels, follow her into the depths of the Urner See, part of the Vierwaldstätter See, and follow the trail of anger that the film sometimes proves to some bull-neck machos "Difficult to withdraw, especially in the more exciting second half."

Awards

Strength 6 won the European Science TV and New Media Award in the category "Best TV Drama" in 2015

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Archives of the Canton of Lucerne: Tsunami and Dance Ban 1601. August 9, 2019, accessed on August 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ STRENGTH 6 . tcfilm.ch. Retrieved November 10, 2019.
  3. ↑ Historical investigations into deposits and munitions sinking in Swiss lakes. Swiss Confederation, Department of Defense, Civil Protection and Sport DDPS, August 9, 2019, accessed on August 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Claudia Schwartz: A woman under suspicion | NZZ . February 26, 2013, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed on August 9, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Strength 6 - review of the film at Tittelbach.tv. Retrieved August 9, 2019 .
  6. ^ The 2015 Science TV and New Media Award Winners. August 10, 2019, accessed August 10, 2019 .