Toro (2015)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Toro |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German , Spanish |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Martin Hawie |
| script | Laura Harwarth |
| music | Gregor Keienburg |
| camera | Brendan Uffelmann |
| cut | Martin Hawie |
| occupation | |
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Toro ( spelling TORO ) is a German film drama by the Peru- born director Martin Hawie , which premiered on August 31, 2015 at the Student Film Festival of the Montreal World Film Festival . Toro celebrated its German premiere at the 49th Hof International Film Festival in 2015 and received a special mention from the jury as part of the “New German Cinema” award. Toro was also invited to the 66th Berlin Film Festival in 2016 and ran in the section “Perspektive Deutsches Kino” as a special contribution to “50 Years of the Hof Film Festival ”.
action
The easily irritable Toro, whose real name is Piotr, and the sensitive Victor come from Poland and earn their living in Germany with prostitution . While Toro, who boxes in his free time and is actually a tough guy, saves for a future together in his old homeland in order to venture a fresh start there, Victor has long since given up his dreams after 10 years and is increasingly falling apart from drugs . When they lose all of their money, their friendship is put to the test.
production
Production history
It is in Toro is a production of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne . For director Martin Hawie, who studies here and took over the direction of the film, the topic of migration addressed in the film also has autobiographical features, because he is a migrant himself, which, according to his own statements, has shaped him in his life. Hawie had also observed prostitutes from around the college. The film was funded with 20,000 euros by the Film- und Medienstiftung NRW . Paul Wollin can be seen in the film in the title role of Toro, Miguel Dagger plays Victor. Leni Speidel took on the role of Victor's sister Emilia, and Kelvin Burkard plays Toro's boxing student Benoit.
publication
Toro celebrated its premiere on August 31, 2015 at the Student Film Festival of the Montreal World Film Festival and was shown from February 19, 2016 as part of the Berlin International Film Festival in the section Perspektive Deutsches Kino . In March 2016, the film was also presented as part of the Premio Maguey program section of the Guadalajara International Film Festival in Mexico, which supports innovative films on the subject of sexuality and with queer content. The film will be officially released in selected German cinemas on April 27, 2017.
reception
Age rating
In Germany the film is FSK 16 . The statement of reasons for the release states: “The film addresses drug addiction , prostitution and dependence on money; the atmosphere is increasingly oppressive. Towards the end, the supposedly popular figure turns into a murderer, whereby the killing (a strangulation) is shown longer. Due to their level of development, young people from the age of 16 are able to classify the behavior appropriately and to question it critically.
Reviews
Victor Fraga from dirtymovies.org speaks of a very mature and complex film for a director who is just at the beginning of a promising career. The film never appears amateurish, vulgar or superficial, and the audience is shaken up again, especially at the end, like a torero who has been rammed by a bull. This final act of violence appears to Kirsten Riesselmann from the taz, however, both surprising and superfluous. Riesselmann also criticizes the fact that too much black-and-white capital is made in the film from hard boys, hard drugs, hard sex and repressed homosexuality.
Even if for Carlos Esquives from cinencuentro.com neither the question of migration nor boxing are the focus of the film, he compares it to the film The Fighter from because of the martial arts theme and because of the sense of responsibility that Toro shows towards Victor David O. Russell . Christian Berndt from Deutschlandradio Kultur describes Toro, the film's protagonist, as an attractive and ambivalent figure between brutality and sensitivity.
Awards
31st Guadalajara International Film Festival 2016
- Nomination for Best Feature Film ( Martin Hawie )
49th Hof International Film Festival 2015
- Nominated for the New German Cinema Award “Special Mention of the Jury”
Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award 2016
- Nomination for Best Director ( Martin Hawie )
Filmz Mainz Festival of German Cinema 2016
- Nomination for Best Feature Film ( Martin Hawie )
21st Festival Turkey / Germany Nuremberg 2016
- Nomination for Best Feature Film ( Martin Hawie )
29th Exground Filmfest 2016
- Nomination for Best Feature Film ( Martin Hawie )
Web links
- Toro in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Toro in the program of the 66th Berlinale
- Knut Elstermann: "A relentless film with haunting actors". mdr.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release to Service for Toro . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 165700 / K).
- ↑ TORO / TAURUS ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2016 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. In: ffm-montreal.org. Retrieved February 8, 2016.
- ↑ Toro ( Memento of the original from February 10, 2016 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. In: Art Academy for Media Cologne. Retrieved February 7, 2016.
- ↑ Martin Hawie in an interview with Christian Berndt: Young films at the Berlinale. Between longing and crisis awareness In: Deutschlandradio Kultur, February 11, 2016.
- ↑ NRW with 26 films at the Berlinale 2016 In: Film und Medien Stiftung NRW. Retrieved February 16, 2016.
- ↑ Premieres in Berlin: 'Toro' and 'Verfluchte Liebe Deutscher Film' ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: filmstiftung.de, February 19, 2016.
- ↑ 66th Berlin International Film Festival. The complete festival program In: berlinale.de. Accessed February 10, 2017 (PDF; 18.9 MB)
- ↑ FICG31 anuncia Selección Oficial Competitiva Premio Maguey Evolución ( Memento of the original of February 26, 2016 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. In: ficg.mx, February 8, 2016. (Spanish)
- ↑ Official Section Premio Maguey In: ficg.mx. Retrieved March 17, 2016.
- ↑ Premio Maguey Evolution ( Memento of the original from February 26, 2016 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. In: ficg.mx. Retrieved February 25, 2016. (English)
- ↑ Reasons for approval for Toro In: Voluntary Self-Control of the Film Industry. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
- ↑ Victor Fraga: Toro In: dirtymovies.org, February 19, 2016. (English)
- ^ Kirsten Riesselmann: Berlinale - Perspective German Cinema. Show who you are In: taz, February 12, 2016.
- ↑ Carlos Esquives: Festival de Berlín 2016: Crítica de 'Toro', del peruano Martín Hawie In: cinencuentro.com, February 19, 2016. (Spanish)
- ^ Christian Berndt: Newcomer Films at the Berlinale. Between longing and crisis awareness In: Deutschlandradio Kultur, February 11, 2016.
