Our last summer (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Our last summer |
| Original title | Letnie przesilenie |
| Country of production | Poland |
| original language | German , Polish |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michał Rogalski |
| script | Michał Rogalski |
| production |
Ewa Borgunska , René Frotscher , Maria Golos , Thomas Jeschner , Eva-Marie Martens , Maciej Strzembosz |
| music |
Alexander Hacke , Rainer Oleak |
| camera | Jerzy Zieliński |
| cut |
Joanna Brühl , Milenia Fiedler |
| occupation | |
| |
Our last summer (Polish original title Letnie przesilenie , English title Summer Solstice ) is a Polish-German war drama by Michał Rogalski .
action
Romek is a Polish stoker and Guido is a German soldier. Both are 17 years old, like jazz music and the same pretty girl. But her life in 1943, somewhere in a village on the railway line between Warsaw and Treblinka in Nazi-occupied Poland, changes very quickly.
Awards
- 2015: “Particularly valuable” rating from FBW
- 2015: "Best Screenplay" at the Montreal World Film Festival
production
The film was produced by the Polish Prasa i Film and the German Sunday Filmproduktions GmbH. The film was shot from August to October 2013 in Wroclaw and Warsaw .
The project was funded by a number of institutions, including BKM , Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung , Deutscher Filmförderfonds , Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and the Polish Film Institute.
The Polish actors were not dubbed but subtitled.
reception
The film just made it into the top 10 at the German theatrical release in October 2015, but overall the number of visitors to German cinemas remained low. Tittelbach considers the lack of synchronization to be one of the possible reasons.
The FBW awarded the film in 2015 with the rating "particularly valuable":
“The director dedicated the film to his grandmother, who“ told him EVERYTHING ”. Seventy years after the end of the Second World War, for which many films are currently being released, he is gaining a new facet from the genre that is characterized by a lot of courage and great humanity. "
The press response is divided:
“Without judging, without judging, Rogalski, born in 1970, creates a harrowing picture of what the war makes of young people. Youth under the wheel. Even peace, should they ever experience it, will not be able to change anything. "
“You could say that“ Our Last Summer ”is simply incredibly poorly told. Rogalski, who was inspired by old family albums, did not make a film, but a photo novel: a series of clichés. "
"You think you know what's coming, and in Michał Rogalski's melancholy, reserved drama it doesn't turn out any other way, but in a fascinatingly different way."
"Director Rogalski, who won the Polish edition of the Hartley-Merrill competition with this complex and provocative script, also displays a keen visual sense that makes clever use of contrast. [...] Rogalski also deserves praise for knowing when to cut, and letting the viewer's imagination and an accomplished sound design conceive more powerful horrors than he could possibly show. "
“Director Rogalski, who won the Polish edition of the Hartley Merrill competition with this complex and provocative script, also shows a keen visual instinct that uses contrasts skillfully. […] Rogalski also deserves praise for knowing when to cut and for allowing the viewer's imagination and a successful sound design to create more powerful horrors than he could ever show them. "
Web links
- Our last summer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Our last summer at crew united
- Our last summer at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for our last summer . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2015 (PDF; test number: 152 757 K).
- ↑ a b c Our last summer. In: FBW. 2015, accessed May 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Awards of the Montreal World Film Festival 2015. (No longer available online.) In: ffm-montreal.org. Montreal World Film Festival , September 7, 2015, archived from the original on September 11, 2015 ; accessed on September 14, 2015 (English / French).
- ↑ Inside Kino , German Cinema Charts Weekend 43 from October 22 - 25, 2015, accessed on May 20, 2020
- ↑ Cinema co-production “Our Last Summer”. In: tittelbach.tv. May 20, 2017, accessed May 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Peter Zandler: Loss of Innocence: "Our Last Summer". In: Berliner Morgenpost. October 22, 2015, accessed May 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Philipp Stadelmaier: Hormone build-up in front of the Holocaust backdrop. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. October 22, 2015, accessed May 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Andrea Seitz: Review of Our Last Summer. In: epd film. September 18, 2015, accessed May 16, 2020 .
- ↑ Alissa Simon: Film Review: 'Summer Solstice'. In: Variety. Retrieved May 16, 2020 .