Totem (2011)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | totem |
| Country of production | Germany |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 86 minutes |
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| Director | Jessica Krummacher |
| script | Jessica Krummacher |
| production |
Martin Blankemeyer Jessica Krummacher Philipp Budweg Timo Müller |
| music | Marina Frenk |
| camera | Björn Siepmann |
| cut | Jessica Krummacher Heike Parplies |
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Totem is a German film drama from 2011, which is counted as an author's film . The film was directed by Jessica Krummenacher staged and Arepo Media , Munich Film Workshop , kLAPPbOXfILME and favorite movie (formerly quite simply Film Production ) in collaboration with the University of Television and Film Munich produced. Marina Frenk and Natja Brunckhorst play the leading roles .
action
A young woman named Fiona finds a job as domestic help for the Bauer family. The rules that apply in this terraced house in the middle of the Ruhr area are quickly explained to her. It should help to cope with everyday life.
A time of acclimatization and discovery begins. Jürgen is still a toddler and wants to play. He must be accompanied to swimming lessons, otherwise he will get lost. Nicole is not yet of legal age, but already has a boyfriend. Ulli is twice as old as Nicole. Father Wolfgang is constantly on the move and is at home almost only on weekends. Mother Claudia is all too much. She doesn't leave the house anymore. With Fiona it should finally be different.
Fiona will get up every morning and prepare everyone for today without asking: Does it even make sense to start today? She will get rid of the dirt that they produced yesterday and the day before yesterday and last year, the dirt that they left behind because today seemed pointless to them. She'll do that without asking why. That's why they brought Fiona. So that someone is there who doesn't ask. And that's what she came for.
It's disturbing what's going on in this house. An all-encompassing loneliness hovers over this place. We don't talk to each other. When things get cozy, things get tense quickly. Only the older neighbor is worried about the young woman. But she cannot prevent Fiona from approaching her fate. This is how it seems at first and is not clear until the end.
background
Totem is Jessica Krummacher's graduation film at the Munich University of Television and Film. The shooting took place from August 13th to September 12th, 2009 in Bochum .
The production, which was made with cash of less than 30,000 euros as a so-called low-budget film , celebrated its world premiere on September 8, 2011 as the only German film of the entire 2011 festival as part of the Venice International Film Festival in the section 26th Settimana Internazionale della Critica . This was followed by festival participation in Gijón , Spain , at the Viennale and at the International Film Festival Rotterdam . The German premiere took place in January 2012 in the competition of the Max-Ophüls-Preis film festival in Saarbrücken . The German cinema premiere took place on April 18, 2012 in the Volksbühne Berlin , after which Frieder Schlaichs Filmgalerie 451 brought the film to cinemas nationwide.
Reviews
“Yes, disturbing little films are still being made in Germany without funding. Jessica Krummacher stages a petty-bourgeois nightmare with her graduation film. "
Web links
- Totem in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Totem at filmportal.de
- Information from the production company ( Memento from April 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive )