Forget me
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Forget me |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jan Schomburg |
| script | Jan Schomburg |
| production |
Christoph Friedel , Claudia Steffen |
| music |
Christopher Bremus , Steven Schwalbe , Tobias Wagner |
| camera | Marc Comes |
| cut | Bernd Euscher |
| occupation | |
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Vergiss mein Ich is a German feature film by Jan Schomburg , who also wrote the script for the film. Forget my I celebrated its world premiere on January 27, 2014 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and was released in German cinemas on May 1, 2014.
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Lena Ferben, who has long been married to her husband Tore, suddenly suffers from retrograde amnesia , as the doctors describe her condition. The cause is undiagnosed encephalitis. As a result, Lena lost her entire memory overnight. She can still speak, but all memories of her previous life have been erased. Her friends and parents are suddenly strangers to her. She doesn't even recognize her husband Tore.
Lena's old life becomes a story for her that others have to tell her. First, she tries to fill her "old" role in this story and thus meet the expectations of her social environment. But Lena develops her own individual personality, who refuses to do what her environment expects of her and what she is urged to do - namely, to become herself. From time to time Lena realizes that her "new" self has completely different desires and needs.
Reviews
“As in Jan Schomburg's debut ' Über uns das All ' (with Sandra Hüller, who plays Lena's best friend here), ' Vergiss mein Ich ' also shows what makes a person special. Not only this very special situation is fascinating, also how Maria Schrader wonderfully plays different layers and personality designs. "
“In addition to the pleasantly unconsidered reflection on what it actually is that makes a person, Schomburg also seems to want to take a closer look at a couple relationship that has yet to withstand the new situation. After all, Torbe had once built his life with a discussion-mad, woman-animated, wild bumblebee, not with a bare-eyed, literally self-forgotten, lovesick puberty. "
“Nevertheless, even in Vergiss mein Ich, Schomburg succeeds again and again in developing a strong scenic tension from encounters with figures, from the small irritations in words, looks, gestures. The most beautiful moment in the film, however, does not show a failed, but rather a 'postponed successful' communication: On the sunny roof terrace of a nursing home, Lena has a familiar conversation, accompanied by tender gestures, with a demented old lady, in which both mistakenly mistake each other for mother and daughter. Here the film captures the state of self-forgetfulness as a gentle magic between happiness and melancholy - in a scene that does not derive its strength from the mental superstructure, but from itself. "
Awards
- 2012: Nomination for the German Film Award in the Best Screenplay category - unfilmed for Jan Schomburg
- 2014: Nomination for the Tiger Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam for Jan Schomburg
- 2014: Film art award for Jan Schomburg at the Festival of German Films
Web links
- Forget-me-I in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Forget me at filmportal.de (with trailer and photo gallery)
- Forget my self - The German website for the movie . Distributing real fiction films .
- Expert opinion of the German film and media rating
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for forget me . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2014 (PDF; test number: 143 989 K).
- ↑ See filmtabs.blogspot.de
- ↑ Jenni Zylka on Spiegel.de
- ↑ See critic.de