Quiet land
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Quiet land |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1992 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andreas Dresen |
| script | Laila Stieler , Andreas Dresen |
| production | Wolfgang Pfeiffer |
| music | Tobias Morgenstern , Rainer Rohloff |
| camera | Andreas Höfer |
| cut | Rita Reinhardt |
| occupation | |
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Stilles Land is a German feature film from 1992 . The film is Andreas Dresen's first feature film . Stilles Land was produced by Max Film in cooperation with the "Konrad Wolf" University of Film and Television , Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk and Südwestfunk .
action
In the north German province in the fall of 1989 in the declining GDR, the ensemble of a small town theater in Anklam rehearsed the play Warten auf Godot . The young director Kai Finke comes to the theater full of enthusiasm to stage the play and comes across disaffected actors. While some members of the theater cross the open Hungarian border into the west, others try to reform the country and write a petition to Erich Honecker . The Intendant Walz, to whom the letter was entrusted, only had the courage to send the letter when Egon Krenz came to power and there was no longer any danger.
Even after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the group failed to break out of the provinces, only Claudia, the young assistant Kai fell in love with, set off for the West and returned with an actor from Hamburg who promised the group that she would be to make it big. Although his announced help quickly turns out to be hot air, the ensemble plays more motivated than ever before, but without much success.
Claudia leaves the theater for Hamburg, Kai stays behind full of hope.
backgrounds
After several short films, Stilles Land was the first feature film that Andreas Dresen made. The film had the working title Provincial Theater . The film was first shown in the cinema on October 8, 1992; but initially only in the New Laender , in the old Laender it appeared a month later.
Andreas Dresen, who wanted to show the "turmoil of the turning point in the GDR in 1989" using the example of the "microcosm of a small theater", intended from the beginning to cast Kurt Böwe as artistic director Walz. Böwe agreed, because he was of the opinion that "the whole GDR was almost chiseled into his face" and that he no longer needed to play the waltz.
Wolfgang Bordel , the long-time director of the theater in Anklam , where the film was set, took on a small role in the film as the canteen keeper.
criticism
Der Spiegel called the film a "comedy film with the sanctimonious title 'Stilles Land'". The film turns the Waiting-for-Godot staging by a young Berlin genius into "a quietly amused, mocking, also wistful theater-people comedy: it shines the memory of the last hour of utopia before the end."
The DEFA Foundation described Stilles Land as one of the "interesting and successful cinematic reworking of the political 'turning point' in the GDR."
The lexicon of international films sees Stilles Land as "a first feature film appealing due to its biting humor and nuanced character drawings, the qualities of which, however, suffer from the extremely average staging and the wrongly cast leading role."
Awards
The film received the German Critics' Prize and the Hessian Film Prize in 1992 .
DVD release
The film was released on DVD in 2007 by the Filmgalerie 451 and the film magazine Schnitt in the Debut Films series .
Web links
- Silent Country in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Silent Land at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b turning comedy from Anklam . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1992, pp. 315 ( online ).
- ↑ Hans-Dieter Schütt: Kurt Böwe, the long, short breath. Verlag Das Neue Berlin, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-359-00786-7 , p. 275 f.
- ↑ Andreas Dresen's biography on defa-stiftung.de
- ↑ Quiet Land. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Stilles Land at Filmportal.de