And I'll be dead tomorrow noon
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | And I'll be dead tomorrow noon |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Frederik Steiner |
| script | Barbara te Kock |
| production |
Peter Heilrath Sven Burgemeister Andreas Bareiss |
| music | Daniel Sus |
| camera | Florian Emmerich |
| cut | Bernd Schlegel |
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And tomorrow at noon I'm dead is a German feature film from 2013 that addresses the issue of assisted suicide / assisted suicide in the seriously ill. He was in co-production a . a. with the broadcasters SWR and arte and was released in German cinemas on February 13, 2014.
action
The film is set in the year of creation (2012). 22-year-old Lea ( Liv Lisa Fries ) has been seriously ill with cystic fibrosis since childhood . Now the disease is in the final stages, even the smallest physical exertion overwhelms her lungs and blood circulation, although she is already breathing oxygen from a concentrator that she has to carry around with her all the time. Other functions of your body also have to be kept alive more or less makeshiftly with extensive medication. Her older brother also suffered from the hereditary disease and died years ago as a result of the surgery while attempting a lung transplant.
Lea has therefore made the decision to pass out of life on her 23rd birthday at 12:00 with the help of a Swiss euthanasia organization. To do this, she goes to Zurich, Switzerland , on her own and without having spoken to her family beforehand . Meanwhile, her mother, who lives in Germany, is in a state of excitement because Lea started the trip alone and without notice. Her grandmother and sister, however, suspect the reason for the trip when Lea reports at home and asks the family to come to Zurich for her birthday.
Lea moves into a boarding house and turns to the euthanasia organization with which she was already in contact from Germany . An assistant, who will accompany you during the procedure, picks you up at the pension and takes you to a doctor. He asks her in detail about her condition and her wish to part with life. After being convinced of her very poor and excruciating condition, he prescribes the medication necessary for her to die.
In the meantime, the members of the family have arrived in Zurich and Lea informs them of their plans. It's a shock to everyone. While the mother reacts with harsh rejection, the sister and especially the grandmother are concerned but composed. Lea spends a day in Zurich with an acquaintance from the pension, who also stayed there because he wanted to leave life due to psychological problems. However, he was denied the prescription.
On the eve of the birthday, the family goes to a restaurant together to eat “the last schnitzel”, as Lea says. At 0:00, the family toast the birthday together in the guesthouse room. This actually beautiful evening is thwarted in the film by the following night, in which Lea, gasping for breath and coughing in agony, cannot sleep anymore.
The next morning, after breakfast, the family goes to the organization's dying room, in which there is a hospital bed, and where the medication - an antiemetic and then a strong, high- dose anesthetic - is supposed to take place. The euthanasia attendant explains again that Leah still has the opportunity to withdraw from her plan. But Lea takes the tablet, which is supposed to prevent any vomiting of the actual drug. Before she takes the medication for dying, she has a panic attack and takes a short escape to the bathroom. The look in the mirror makes her aware of her own condition again, and she decides to go the way to the end.
To do this, she asks the family and the helper to accompany her outside to the playground on the meadow. There she finally drinks the beaker with the medicine and falls asleep in her mother's arms.
criticism
The film was received favorably by the critics. In addition to articles in Die Zeit and in Spiegel, the film was discussed in the cinema sections of the daily newspapers. In the magazine muko published by the German Cystic Fibrosis Association. info appeared in 2014, a film review by a patient.
evaluation
Due to the difficult and emotionally moving subject, the film was only shown in very few cinemas, for example in Berlin for five weeks in the cinemas Urania-Filmbühne, eiszeit and Sputnik Südstern. Individual copies travel through German cinemas. The DVD was released on August 15, 2014, and the TV premiered on June 5, 2015 on arte .
Awards
Liv Lisa Fries was honored with the Young Actress Awards at the Bavarian Film Prize 2013 and the Max Ophüls Festival 2014 for her role as Lea . The film received the rating "particularly valuable" from the German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) . At the 19th International Film Festival for Children and Young Audiences in Chemnitz, the film received the DEFA Foundation Award .
See also
- There and away - a film from 2014 with the same topic and a very similar idea
Web links
- And tomorrow at noon I'll be dead at filmportal.de
- And tomorrow at noon I'm dead in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ And I'll be dead tomorrow at noon. (PDF; 1.5 MB) Press kit. In: presse.arte.tv. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; Retrieved June 29, 2017 .
- ↑ Parvin Sadigh: Tearing Jokes Up to Suicide on zeit-online from February 14, 2014, accessed on June 14, 2015
- ↑ Maren Keller: Euthanasia Film: Die Mukomagie on spiegel-online from February 13, 2014, accessed on June 14, 2015
- ↑ Birgit Gerhardus: "And tomorrow at noon I'll be dead" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in muko.info, issue 1/2014, page 60, accessed on June 14, 2015
- ↑ And tomorrow at noon I'll be dead at filmportal.de , accessed on March 21, 2014
- ↑ The winners of the 19th SCHLINGEL have been announced , accessed on June 14, 2015
