Pursued (2006)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Tracked |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Angelina Maccarone |
| script | Susanne Billig |
| production | Ulrike Zimmermann |
| music |
Jakob Hansonis Hartmut Ewert |
| camera | Bernd Meiners |
| cut | Bettina Boehler |
| occupation | |
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A German relationship film by director Angelina Maccarone from 2006 is being persecuted . The film depicts the sadomasochistic amour fou of probation officer Elsa and her sixteen-year-old client Jan. The black and white film won the Golden Leopard in the Contemporary Cinema Festival at the 59th Locarno International Film Festival .
action
The successful probation officer Elsa Seifert lives with Raimar, the father of their daughter Daniela, and is completely absorbed in her work. After her daughter moved out, Elsa began to have doubts about her life and years of action. She tries to rediscover an intense attitude towards life in her everyday life. When her new client, the sixteen-year-old criminal Jan, suggests submitting and surrendering to her sexually, she discovers her new world of sadomasochism . She quickly recognizes the attraction that female dominance exerts on her. Elsa dares to accept Jan's offer; while the two implement their longings and only relate to each other more and more intensely, Elsa's life derails more and more.
backgrounds
- Followed was created without the involvement of a television broadcaster. The cast and crew contributed financially to the production and thus enabled it to come about.
- The production was funded by the Hamburg Film Fund , the FFA Young German Film Board of Trustees and MEDIA MFI.
Reviews
The film received rave reviews from the vast majority of critics:
“In artistic black and white, the director relentlessly tells a daring Sado Maso story. Maren Kroymann fascinates as a 52-year-old who enters into a dangerously intense liaison with a 16-year-old. A film of shocking openness. "
“In the Newcomer-Heron 'Cineasten der Gegenwart', VERFOLGT caused a small sensation: the story of a sad-maso relationship between a 52-year-old probation officer (great: Maren Kroymann) and her 16-year-old protégé, cautiously and completely without voyeurism or S / M cliché told. "
"... balancing on the fine line between comedy and tragedy with a beautiful naturalness."
"Maccarone's approach to the material is remarkable: free from leather eroticism, body juices and whipping bliss, in high-contrast black and white, VERFOLGT shows the fragility of these two people who are only hesitantly indulging in their passion."
“A disturbing, a disturbing film. And for the role of Elsa, Maren Kroymann deserves all of the actor awards that German film has to offer. "
Awards
- In 2006 the film received the Golden Leopard in the Cineasti del Presente competition at the 59th Locarno International Film Festival .
- 2007 Maren Kroymann was as best actress with the prize of the German Film Critics Award.
- In 2007, Kostja Ullmann received the New Faces Award for Best Young Actor.
- The Wiesbaden Film Assessment Office awarded the film the rating "Particularly valuable". The reasoning states, among other things:
“Without ever becoming speculative, director Angelina Maccarone takes up the taboo topic of SM relationships, even exaggerating it with the gender-age constellation. The daring script by Susanne Billig and Angelina Maccarone's masterly staging skills manage to create an unbelievably multi-faceted, but never overloaded, initial situation and to constantly enrich it throughout the extremely atmospheric film. (...) The very far-reaching, partly very personal discussion of the film in the FBW jury is an indication of the explosiveness of the topic and of the successful implementation at the highest artistic level, which is another high point in the creative work of the director and the production company (MMM Film Zimmermann & Co GmbH., Hamburg) and arouse the greatest hope for further, similarly impressive works. "
swell
- ↑ Hadwiga Fertsch-Röver: Heavy material: “Persecuted” by Angelina Maccarone ; online at hr-online.de ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2007 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.
Web links
- Followed in the Internet Movie Database (English)