Transpapa
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Transpapa |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Sarah-Judith Mettke |
| script | Sarah-Judith Mettke |
| production | Jochen Laube |
| music | Christopher Bremus |
| camera | Philipp Haberlandt |
| cut | Kaya Inan |
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Transpapa is a German feature film by Sarah-Judith Mettke from 2012 with Luisa Sappelt and Devid Striesow in the leading roles. The German premiere took place at the 33rd Max Ophüls Preis film festival in January 2012 in Saarbrücken , the film had its international premiere at the Zurich Film Festival in September 2012. The German theatrical release of the teamWorx feature film production in coproduction with SWR , BR and the Film Academy The film produced in Baden-Württemberg was on November 22, 2012. The film had its television premiere on December 5, 2012 on SWR television as part of the series Debut in the Third .
The shooting took place in January and February 2011 in Cologne and the surrounding area.
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The 15-year-old Maren Probst lives in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg with her half-sister with her mother Ulrike. She has not seen her father, an artist, for five years. After receiving a birthday card from him, she learns very hesitantly from Ulrike that her father is not on a self-discovery trip in Nepal , as she believes , but is transsexual and has meanwhile undergone gender reassignment measures , is now called Sophia and lives in Cologne .
On the pretext of earning the money for the driver's license from the aunt of her school friend Zora at Mercedes-Benz in Stuttgart , Maren secretly makes his way to Sophia in Cologne, to the narrow suburban house of the widowed pensioner Wolfgang, the alleged great-uncle of Sophia's good friend, whose household she runs. Sophia is overjoyed about the encounter. But Maren finds it very difficult to accept her father as a woman. When Maren secretly spends the evening with the neighbors' grandson, she learns from him that Sophia and Wolfgang are a couple. In the meantime, Sophia has informed Ulrike about Maren's stay in Cologne. The next day, Maren receives the money for the driver's license from Wolfgang, Ulrike picks up Maren, and they both drive back to Berlin.
Awards
At the film festival Max Ophüls Preis 2012 the film received the prize of the Saarland Prime Minister .
At the Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2012, Sarah Judith Mettke received the NDR Director's Prize and the Prize of the Jury of the German-Language Film Critics in the FIPRESCI and Devid Striesow and Luisa Sappelt the prize for the best acting .
Reviews
“The drama, carried by two convincing main actors, cleverly subverts transsexual (film) clichés and any form of theses. A film that is as clever as it is unobtrusive, subtly based on nuances, about an extraordinary parent-child relationship. "
"Devid Striesow plays his anti-father, who has mutated into a woman, terrific and without any fumbling clichés."
“With her graduation film from directing at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy, Mettke succeeded in creating a soulful but never sentimental ballad with the value of virtues such as honesty and openness. [...] The film becomes a moving narrative of the difficulty of finding oneself. A problem that affects everyone, regardless of their origin or sexual orientation. Since this problem is illuminated in an extremely effective way, the film has great chances of an enormous audience success. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Transpapa . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2013 (PDF; test number: 138 089 V).
- ↑ Transpapa. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Peter Zander: The foreign being father. Missing parental role models and the care of dementia determine the graduation films of German-speaking film schools this year. In: Berliner Morgenpost from August 14, 2012
- ↑ The difficulty of finding oneself. In: Focus online from November 19, 2012
Web links
- Transpapa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Press release (PDF; 260 kB) of the BesserAlsEcht Bettina Gries & Sarah Judith Mettke GbR