Suspicion (2015)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Suspicion |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 2015 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Sabine Boss |
| script |
Urs Bühler Daniel von Aarburg |
| production | Karin Koch |
| music | Lorenz Dangel |
| camera | Quinn Reimann |
| cut | Stefan Kälin |
| occupation | |
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Suspicion is a Swiss television film from 2015, directed by Sabine Boss . It was premiered at the Zurich Film Festival on September 29, 2015 and celebrated its television premiere on October 4, 2015 on SRF 1. The location is St.Gallen .
action
Starting position
The journalist Eva Gruber and her husband Max, artist and drawing teacher, lead a calm married life. Max has just finished a sculpture for a retirement home and the celebration is coming up. But Max does not appear at the party organized by Eva. Instead, he is arrested by a young, ambitious public prosecutor . Under the eyes of his students at the grammar school. Max is accused of having made pornography accessible to young people and there is a suspicion that he abused Xenia, one of his students.
For Eva, the allegations are untenable. She wants to prove that there is a gross miscarriage of justice , if not an abuse of the law. She confronts Xenia's parents, who have filed charges against Max, with the destructive consequences that an allegation of abuse will have on her husband. But Eva learns that Xenia has spent a night with Max in his studio.
Further course
During the interrogation with the public prosecutor, Max's attempts at justification are quickly brushed aside. The fact that Max often interpreted the curriculum in a very unconventional way in his lessons and did not shy away from explicit art excursions makes his situation more precarious. The stumbling block are works by Egon Schiele , Pablo Picasso , Balthus or Gustave Courbet , which Max had discussed with his underage students in drawing class, including Courbet's L'origine du monde from 1866, a naturalistic representation of the pubic hair only veiled vulva of a woman.
This picture not only confirms the suspicion of the public prosecutor's office that the teacher is taking advantage of the dependency of his students, but also arouses the feelings of the angry parents. After the parents' evening, some fathers decide to take matters into their own hands.
Eva continues to stand by her husband. For her, the allegations against Max are untenable, even if she has to recognize that he was not always honest with her. As a journalist, she sees the media and social agitation against Max-den-Lehrer as the result of an increasingly over-sensitive and hypocritical way society deals with the topic of sexuality .
Max is in the custody branded and beaten by other prisoners as a pedophile. Eva manages to get him out of custody with the help of a lawyer.
After one more stormy night of love, she discovered links to porn sites with teenagers on his computer. Max declares them to be quite ordinary wank templates. But Eva knows less and less what to believe him.
Then Max also loses his job as a teacher due to pressure from his parents. And the prosecution discovered a nude photo of his student Xenia in the style of Courbet's L'origine du monde under Max's deleted cell phone data .
Confronted with this, Max explains to his wife and the public prosecutor that he received the nude photo from Xenia. She shot it herself and sent it to him, but then noticed her mistake and visited him in his studio that same night. He, Max, found himself in an unsolvable dilemma : If he reports the sending of this intimate picture to the school administration, Xenia is thrown from the school - if he does not report it, he gets into problems himself. They had therefore decided to delete the picture on their cell phones at the same time and to agree to remain silent . Otherwise nothing happened between him and his student. The public prosecutor remarks, however, that the perspective of the picture required a second person, Xenia cannot possibly have shot it herself.
Now Eva's bravely maintained solidarity with her husband collapses. Even if he is not taken into custody a second time, she throws him out of the apartment and gets hopelessly drunk.
The next day, Eva's residents demand that Max should be banned from a rayon to protect the children in the neighborhood . The completely hungover Eva collapses again in a crying fit. Shortly afterwards she is visited by Xenia's friend Deborah, who confesses full of regret that she told Eva only half the truth in the last conversation.
Everyone at the public prosecutor's office learns the whole truth during a discussion between Xenia, Deborah, their parents and lawyers, Max and Eva. The "sex photo" was nothing but a stoned, drunken joke of the two friends Xenia and Deborah.
The charges against Max are dropped. Still, Max doesn't find a new job as a drawing teacher. Xenia's father, an influential business lawyer, made sure that all secondary schools in German-speaking Switzerland were informed of the incident.
Eva finds out and Max then applies for a drawing teacher in French-speaking Switzerland - where he also finds a job. When he started his first day of school there, his new students asked their cell phones who Max Gruber was about. The Internet answers: To a teacher who was fired for introducing pornography to his students.
production
Suspicion was developed by the Zurich film production company Dschoint Ventschr in cooperation with the feature film editorial team of Swiss television .
The idea comes from the Swiss director Daniel von Aarburg . He was inspired to the story by real events, etc. a. a teacher murder in St.Gallen in 1999 and the dismissal of a German teacher in Zurich because he discussed Frank Wedekind's puberty drama Spring Awakening with underage high school students in class in 2009 , which had led to a complaint about pornography by the mother of a schoolgirl. Von Aarburg wrote a treatment. This served as the basis for screenwriter Urs Bühler , who subsequently created the script versions of Verdacht . The final screenplay was filmed in autumn 2014 by director Sabine Boss in St.Gallen and Schlieren ZH.
The main role of Eva was played by Mona Petri , her husband Max was played by Imanuel Humm and the role of the student Xenia was taken on by Rabea Egg , who was only 15 at the time of shooting , who was in Solothurn in January 2016 for her next role in the film Lina with the Swiss Television Film Prize was awarded.
criticism
The Swiss tabloid Blick wrote: "In her ambitious TV drama, Sabine Boss shows how social and media agitation drives a teacher into a corner."
Simone Meier publishes at Watson : "The subversion of today's children [...], which shows" suspicion "very nicely, [...] lies in the uninhibited control of their electrical appliances. Because the suspicion to which the teacher is exposed is not confirmed by reality, but by virtuality. And the web that is being spun is diabolically durable. And whenever you think that this solution could now be a bit obvious, then it will be much better. And it comes quickly. "
With Bluewin TV reads, "With" suspicion "takes director Sabine Boss, which is also when many preigekrönten movie" Der Goalie bin ig "directed by, a highly sensitive topic. Whether sexual abuse, vigilante justice or media hunt - the filmmaker approaches the complex facets of the story without fear of contact and tells them with extraordinary sensitivity. The main actor Imanuel Humm can shine in the film, which was inspired by real cases. "
Awards
Suspicion was sent into the race by Swiss television because of its explosive topic, to compete with the best European and German-language television films in 2015 and 2016.
Nominations
- Baden-Baden TV Film Festival 2015
- Prix Europa 2015
winner
- Swiss TV Film Award for Best Actor 2016, presented to Imanuel Humm at the 51st Solothurn Film Festival
Web links
- Suspected in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ suspicion. Swiss Radio and Television SRF, October 4, 2015, accessed on April 27, 2018 (Swiss Standard German).
- ^ Programm.ARD.de - ARD Play-Out-Center Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany: The teacher murder of St. Gallen. Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Mario StäubleReporter @ mario_staeuble: Rämibühl: Teacher is not on the black list . In: Tages-Anzeiger, Tages-Anzeiger . September 4, 2013, ISSN 1422-9994 ( tagesanzeiger.ch [accessed on April 27, 2018]).
- ↑ These are the winners of the Swiss TV Film Awards 2016 . In: az Aargauer Zeitung . ( aargauerzeitung.ch [accessed on April 27, 2018]).
- ↑ Look: Suspicion. Archived from the original on June 24, 2018 ; accessed on April 27, 2018 .
- ↑ teacher + student + sex = disaster. Now in Swiss films . In: watson.ch . ( watson.ch [accessed April 27, 2018]).
- ↑ Sexual abuse in the award-winning Swiss drama. Retrieved September 17, 2019 .
- ↑ The 12 nominations for the 27th Baden-Baden TV Film Festival . ( medienkorrespondenz.de [accessed on April 27, 2018]).
- ^ Prix Europa program booklet p. 69: TV Fiction. Prix Europa, October 18, 2015, accessed April 28, 2018 .
- ↑ These are the winners of the Swiss TV Film Awards 2016 . In: az Aargauer Zeitung . ( aargauerzeitung.ch [accessed on April 27, 2018]).