Animals (2017)

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Movie
German title Animals
Original title Animals
Country of production Switzerland , Austria , Poland
original language German
Publishing year 2017
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Greg Zglinski
script Greg Zglinski based on a book by Jörg Kalt
production Stefan Jäger ,
Katrin Renz ,
Antonin Svoboda ,
Bruno Wagner ,
Łukasz Dzięcioł
music Bartosz Chajdecki
camera Piotr Jaxa
cut Karina Ressler
occupation

Animals (also: Animals ) is a Swiss - Austrian - Polish coproduction from 2017 by Greg Zglinski .

action

The marriage of chef Nick and children's book author Anna is in crisis because Nick cannot keep his hands off other women. A six-month break in Switzerland should save the relationship. The children's author, who suffers from writer's block, wants to finally write her first adult novel there, and Nick wants to collect rare local recipes. Nick ends his affair with Andrea, who lives in the same apartment building in Vienna , who kills herself by jumping from the third floor. It hits the ground audibly, but there is no trace of the corpse below.

The attractive bon vivant Mischa, who Anna thinks looks like Nick's lover Andrea, is supposed to take care of the apartment during the break and move in there. She may feel comfortable there, but under no circumstances sleep in a double bed or enter the room at the end of the hall. Misha, however, cares little about the two prohibitions and soon sleeps in their bed. Mischa meets with doctor Tarek after a head injury. One day the flower seller Harald, who thinks Mischa is his ex-girlfriend Andrea, is at the door. Anna also thinks she recognizes Andrea in an ice cream seller in Vevey . Harald lies in wait for the lover of his supposed ex-girlfriend and cuts off a finger.

After a collision with a sheep on a Swiss country road, a series of strange events happened between Anna and Nick. After a short stay in hospital, Anna drives to the holiday home with Nick, but begins to doubt her sanity. Things happen in the holiday home that apparently only Anna can perceive. For example, a cat who speaks to her confirms that Nick is having an affair with the ice cream seller who looks like Andrea or Mischa. Anna wonders whether it was the car accident, whether she's just imagining it or dreaming, or whether Nick actually has a relationship with the ice cream seller.

Mischa takes a look into the room from which strange animal noises can be heard and is now in Andrea's apartment one floor above. She puts on a wig that she finds in the living room and sleeps on the sofa. She sees the cat that Anna has already spoken to in Switzerland.

The car accident with the sheep seems to happen a second time, but Anna is hospitalized afterwards because of her injuries. Nick drives to the holiday home alone and receives the news of Anna's death the next day, but immediately afterwards hears her voice calling for him.

production

The shooting took place in May and June 2016, and the shooting took place in Vienna , Switzerland and Poland. The film was supported by the Austrian Film Institute , the Vienna Film Fund and Filmstandort Austria , and the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation was involved . The film was produced by the Swiss tellfilm , co-producers were the Austrian coop99 and the Polish Opus Film . Reto Stamm and Felix Bussmann were responsible for the sound, Tanja Hausner for the costume design and Gerald Damovsky for the production design. The director Jörg Kalt , who died in 2007, originally wrote the book to film it himself. Greg Zglinski read the script as part of his work as a member of the Zurich Film Foundation commission, and almost ten years later he filmed the material himself.

performance

The premiere took place on February 13, 2017 as part of the Berlin International Film Festival 2017 in the Forum of Young Films section. The film was shown in Austria on October 30, 2017 at the Viennale . The film was released in Switzerland on October 5, 2017, in Germany on November 9, 2017 and in Austria on November 17, 2017. In South Tyrol, the film was shown for the first time on April 10, 2018 at the Bolzano Film Festival Bozen.

reception

Björn Becher wrote on film releases that Greg Zglinski transferred his fascination for Jörg Kalt's script for the lynch-like psychological thriller , interspersed with black humor, to the viewer. How much the book gripped the director can also be seen in the finished film. However, the original uncertainty that resonates in the director's comment that he did not understand the script can still be seen in the finished film. Becher came to the conclusion: "A sometimes fascinating psychological thriller finger exercise - but in the end there is more appearance than reality."

The Tagesspiegel described the mixture of psychodrama and mystery thriller as a “top-class puzzle game of realities and linearities. [...] The question of what is and what is appearance occasionally develops a surreal appeal. Nevertheless, the film remains a bloodless headbirth. Even the sound design, which constantly suggests threats, does not help. Especially since the motive that a woman thinks she is going out of her mind while she suspects that her husband is having an affair is not exactly one of the most original cinematic experimental arrangements. "

The Berliner Morgenpost said: “The way Birgit Minichmayr and Philipp Hochmair tear their love and life apart is a fantastic act. And yet one remains at a loss. Greg Zglinski's forum post Animals wants to be too much: chamber play, mystery thriller, crime thriller, surrealist drama. At the end of the day, you doubt your own world; you haven't fully understood that of the film. "

Festivals (selection)

Premiere of the film as part of the Forum section of the Berlinale 2017

Awards and nominations

Web links

Commons : Animals (2017)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for animals . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 173854 / K). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ^ Animals. Switzerland, Austria, Poland 2017. In: Opus Film. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
  3. ↑ animals. In: Austrian Film Institute . Retrieved July 14, 2017 .
  4. ↑ animals. In: Vienna Film Fund. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
  5. ↑ a b c Björn Becher: Animals. In: film starts . Retrieved July 14, 2017.
  6. ↑ Brigitte Häring: Swiss Berlinale film: A dead sheep brings the world out of balance. In: Radio SRF 2 Kultur . February 15, 2017. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b Animals (2017) in the Internet Movie Database (English)Template: IMDb / Maintenance / "imported from" is missing
  8. ↑ Animals - Cinema. In: Vienna Film Fund . Retrieved July 14, 2017.
  9. ↑ Calendar | Bolzano Film Festival Bozen 2018. Accessed March 29, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Gunda Bartels: Berlinale Forum: "Animals": Silverfish meets sea frog. In: Der Tagesspiegel . February 14, 2017. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
  11. ↑ Elisa von Hof: Berlinale: And suddenly you dream of killing yourself. In: Berliner Morgenpost . February 16, 2017. Retrieved July 14, 2017.
  12. ↑ SWISS FILMS: Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantastic de Catalunya. Retrieved August 27, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Zurich Film Festival (2017). Retrieved August 27, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Istanbul International Film Festival (2017). Retrieved August 27, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Nominations for the Austrian Film Prize 2018 . Retrieved December 6, 2017.
  16. ↑ Swiss Film Prize: Nominations 2018 . Accessed January 31, 2018.