Still life (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Still life |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sebastian Meise |
| script | Sebastian Meise, Thomas Reider |
| production |
Erich Lackner , Oliver Neumann , Sabine Moser |
| music | Soap & Skin |
| camera | Gerald Kerkletz |
| cut | Julia Drack |
| occupation | |
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Still life is a from Austria originating feature film from 2011 with Daniela Golpashin and Christoph Luser in the lead roles. It was directed by Sebastian Meise , who came up with the idea for the film together with screenwriter Thomas Reider .
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A family man pays prostitutes to pretend to be his daughter in role-playing games . The shocking discovery of a lifelong concealed obsession shakes a fragile family structure.
“I would like to watch you take a shower.
You don't dry yourself off.
You sit on my lap
Then I'll dry you off.
I want to caress your body.
I would like to call you Lydia. "
When Bernhard found these instructions in a letter to a young prostitute, his family's life changed fundamentally. Because Lydia is the name of his sister and the author of this text is his own father. Lydia comes home to help her father with therapy for his alcoholic illness. Bernhard joins them and puts the piece of paper he found on the table with a rigid expression, whereupon the father leaves without a word. The father is unable to talk about his pedophile tendencies, but leaves a previously hidden box with the children's photos of Lydia lying open in the workshop. Bernhard and Lydia discover the pictures and recognize what they are for. Lydia then wants to leave. Bernhard tries to find out what happened in the past. At first Lydia doesn't want to talk about it, she is torn between her desire to flee and her affection for the family. The mother tries to maintain the appearance of normality on the outside and the father seeks a way to cope with his feelings of shame and guilt. When the father takes a rifle from the basement to repent in his own way, the siblings learn to trust each other.
background
Still Life is Sebastian Meise's feature film debut. The film premiered at the 2011 San Sebastian International Film Festival . The film was produced by the companies FreibeuterFilm and Lotus Film . FreibeuterFilm is a production company for documentary and feature films that was founded in 2007 by Oliver Neumann, Sudabeh Mortezai , Sebastian Meise and Sabine Moser. The documentary film Outing , which Sebastian Meise and Thomas Reider realized together, was made in the course of research into the project development for still lifes .
Award
- Large Diagonale Award for Feature Film - Best Austrian Feature Film, Diagonale 2012
- Thomas Pluch Screenplay Award - Appreciation Award 2012
- Award for best picture design for a feature film to Gerald Kerkletz, Diagonale 2012
- Prize for best costume design fiction film to Katharina Wöppermann , Diagonale 2012
- Special Jury Mention - New Directors Competition, Festival Internacional de Cine de San Sebastián 2011
- Carl Mayer Screenplay Award 2007
Web links
- Still life in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Website for the film at stillleben-derfilm.at
Individual evidence
- ↑ Still life on moviepilot.de, accessed on December 1, 2013.
- ↑ a b Still life on kino-zeit.de, accessed on December 1, 2013.
- ↑ Austrian films in Toronto and San Sebastian 2011 ( memento of the original from November 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. afc.at, accessed on November 13, 2013.
- ^ Still life - review of the film on vienna.at, accessed on December 1, 2013.
- ↑ Carl Mayer script award ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on afc.at, accessed December 1, 2013.
