Unforgettable (2017)

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Movie
Original title Unforgotten
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2017
length 53 minutes
Age rating FSK " teaching program " according to § 14 Abs. 7 JuSchG
Rod
Director Luca Zug,
Alexander Spöri
production Alexander Spöri
music Arno Brugger
camera Leon Golz, Paul Schweller
cut Alexander Spöri
occupation
  • Michalis Christoforidis
  • Beo Yalcin
  • Stephanie Liebl
  • Veronika Tieschky
  • Selina Rochelle Lembert
  • Korbinian Schultze
  • Vera Marlene Peintinger

Unforgettable is a German documentary drama by Alexander Spöri and Luca Zug about the people who died in the attack in Munich at the Olympic shopping center , which, due to the special approach, called for a change of perspective from reporting focused on the perpetrators to reporting on the deceased, surviving dependents and relatives.

action

According to its genre, the film shows a mixture of cinematic and documentary key scenes. Both are based on reality.

Bruno Matijevic, the teacher of the late Can L., walks through the corridors of the elementary and middle school in Unterhaching , pointing to the empty seat of the killed student. Kinematically, the viewer learns through simulated acting scenes how the 14-year-old youngster was sitting in his seat. After a detailed look, the docu-drama is interrupted with opening titles and music by Buffalo Springfield . In retrospect, another victim is shown in his everyday life. By mixing elementary interview statements from relatives, friends, acquaintances, classmates, original video material of the nine young victims and re-enacted scenes, the film cannot be fully assigned to a specific film genre.

After the lives of Can L. and Dijamant Z. has been shown in two ten-minute sequences, another storyline is added. Now the individual fates of the families concerned are shown, including statements from the Munich police and the Bavarian State Criminal Police Office .

After the evening of the crime has been dealt with in a metaphorical way, without a single mention of the term perpetrator, the production shows the extent of the mourning at the vigil on Hanauer Strasse in Munich and the solidarity with the victims. Another film sequence also shows the status quo of the families affected as well as the mental, psychological and physical processing of the event.

At the end of the documentary drama, the filmmakers show their interpretation of the facts. Contrary to the LKA, the Munich I public prosecutor's office , the expert Alexander Horn , who carried out the operational case analysis , and the Munich police, the production made allegations of concealing right-wing extremist crimes, as in the case of the NSU .

background

On July 22, 2016, David S. shot and killed nine people in front of the Munich Olympic shopping center, including eight young people. Due to the age parallelism and the supposedly monotonous reporting with a focus on the perpetrator, the producers want to take a look at the young dead in order to enable the public to commemorate them.

criticism

The project was initially reflected very critically in the media. At the beginning, the mentally emotional reappearance of the attack in cooperation with the relatives as well as a possible profiling of the perpetrator were rated negatively. Subsequently, all critics rejected this claim and revised their statements.

The tz / merkur media group speaks of a “cinematic memorial for eternity”, the Süddeutsche Zeitung of a “deeply moving, unforgettable work”.

World premiere and television broadcast

Unforgotten was premiered on July 29, 2017 in front of 400 people, including the families involved, international media representatives and public figures, in the Mathäser-Filmpalast in Munich . In advance, the editor-in-chief of münchen.tv showed the film partially in his program Stadt talk.

Media reception

After an initially critical view, the documentary drama was almost consistently rated positively by the nationwide press, including the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the Handelsblatt , the Stern , the ZDF and the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

Awards

"Unforgotten" was nominated for the Camgaroo Film Award and won the main Tassilokulturpreis 2018/19 of the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Franziska Gerlach Taufkirchen: Overwhelming power of memories . In: sueddeutsche.de . July 23, 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed August 1, 2017]).
  2. ↑ "Unforgettable": From the life of the victims of the rampage . In: https://www.merkur.de . January 21, 2017 ( merkur.de [accessed August 1, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Christina Hertel Taufkirchen: "Unforgotten": Young people make a film about the OEZ rampage . In: sueddeutsche.de . January 12, 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed August 1, 2017]).
  4. ↑ OEZ rampage: Unterhaching students shoot docu-drama . In: https://www.tz.de . February 21, 2017 ( tz.de [accessed August 1, 2017]).
  5. ↑ a b Schoolchildren create a filmic memorial for victims of the rampage . In: https://www.tz.de . July 21, 2017 ( tz.de [accessed August 1, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Commemoration for victims of amok: "Infinite pain" . ( rtl2.de [accessed on August 1, 2017]). Commemoration for victims of amok: "Infinite pain" ( Memento of the original from June 25, 2018 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.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / news.rtl2.de
  7. ↑ Munich rampage: Young filmmakers look at from a victim's perspective. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , July 19, 2017.
  8. ^ Munich rampage - Documentation from the victim's perspective. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 1, 2017 ; accessed on August 1, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / app.handelsblatt.com
  9. ↑ STERN.de. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 1, 2017 ; accessed on August 1, 2017 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mobil.stern.de
  10. ↑ Young people from the Hachinger Tal make a film about the rampage . In: https://www.hallo-muenchen.de . February 8, 2017 ( hallo-muenchen.de [accessed August 1, 2017]).
  11. ↑ A film for the victims . In: https://www.hallo-muenchen.de . January 25, 2017 ( hallo-muenchen.de [accessed August 1, 2017]).
  12. ↑ Unforgotten - a filmic memorial for the victims of the rampage in Munich. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Producer of the documentary rampage 'Unforgotten'. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
  14. ↑ Can's death is still imminent . In: https://www.merkur.de . July 8, 2017 ( merkur.de [accessed August 1, 2017]).
  15. ↑ The victims in focus . In: sueddeutsche.de . March 17, 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed August 1, 2017]).
  16. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: "Unforgotten" from March 1, 2017: Schoolchildren shoot a documentary about the Munich rampage | BR media library VIDEO. Retrieved on August 1, 2017 (German).
  17. ↑ 17:30 SAT.1 Bayern - Munich after the rampage: Unforgettable. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
  18. ↑ Second German Television (ZDF): Munich: Investigators: Mobbing as a motive for rampaging - today news. Retrieved August 1, 2017 .
  19. ↑ The nominees for the Camgaroo Award 2017. Accessed on April 20, 2018 (English).
  20. ↑ Stosiek, Tobias, Bayerischer Rundfunk: Tassilo Culture Prize: Young filmmakers from Taufkirchen awarded | BR.de. April 18, 2018, accessed on April 20, 2018 (German).
  21. ^ Tassilo main prize for young filmmakers . In: sueddeutsche.de . April 19, 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed April 20, 2018]).
  22. ↑ Interview by Christina Hertel: Coole Oberstreber . In: sueddeutsche.de . April 19, 2018, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed April 20, 2018]).