Victoria (2015)

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Movie
Original title Victoria
Country of production Germany
original language German ,
English
Publishing year 2015
length 140 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Sebastian Schipper
script Sebastian Schipper,
Olivia Neergaard-Holm ,
Eike Schulz
production Jan Dressler ,
Sebastian Schipper
music Nils Frahm ,
DJ Koze ,
Deichkind
camera Sturla Brandth Grøvlen
occupation

Victoria is a feature film by the German director Sebastian Schipper from 2015 that consists of a single 140-minute camera shot . The film premiered on February 7, 2015 as the official competition entry for the 65th Berlinale . Norwegian cameraman Sturla Brandth Grøvlen received the Silver Bear in the Outstanding Artistic Achievement category for best camera. At the 2015 German Film Awards , the film was awarded a “golden Lola” in six categories, including best feature film and best director.

action

During a club night in Berlin, the young Spaniard Victoria meets the four young men "Sonne", "Boxer", "Blinker" and "Fuß", who introduce themselves to her as "real Berliners". You communicate with Victoria in English. New in town and looking for acquaintances, Victoria accompanies the four through the rest of the night, to the next Späti and to a high-rise roof, a regular meeting point for the group. You're fooling around. One of the things you learn from Boxer is that he was in prison.

Sonne accompanies Victoria to the café where she works underpaid and which she has to open at seven o'clock. He discovers a piano there and jingles on it a bit, after all Victoria plays a very demanding piano piece, one of Franz Liszt's Mephisto waltzes . Sun is deeply impressed; she confesses to him that she has sacrificed her whole life to her dream of becoming a concert pianist, has practiced the maximum possible physical time every day since early childhood and never had time for friends. Her fellow students at the conservatory were also more likely enemies, since they were all just competing to make their dream come true. She was recently told that she was not good enough and advised to give up her piano studies.

Flirting and getting to know the two in the café is interrupted by the rest of the group who reappear. A boxer acquaintance in prison calls for a favor. Since Fuß is too drunk and no longer able to act, Victoria is convinced by Sonne to accompany the other three. The favor turns out to be a robbery on a private bank, Victoria becomes the driver of the stolen getaway car. After the successful bank robbery , the group returns to the club and continues to party. After leaving the club, however, they return to the getaway vehicle in which they forgot to walk. When they see that the area is now surrounded by the police, they hurriedly flee and thus attract their attention. They flee into the inner courtyard of a new housing estate, where an exchange of fire breaks out. Boxers and blinkers are shot and Victoria and Sonne separate from them. You gain access to the nearby apartment of a strange couple. They put on their clothes and take their baby with them, which they leave in the opposite store as promised, and in this way escape to a hotel under cover. Victoria manages to organize a room. There, Sonne sees on the news that boxers and blinkers have died from the gunshot wounds. Only then does Victoria realize that Sonne was also seriously injured in the exchange of fire. She calls an ambulance, but it does not arrive on time; In spite of her pleading to hold out, the sun dies in a hotel bed. He had previously told her to take the money and go to Spain. Victoria, in tears, slowly regains her composure, takes the stolen money and leaves the hotel unrecognized.

History of origin

The cast of the film with director Schipper (hidden) and festival director Dieter Kosslick at the Berlinale 2015

The film was shot with a single camera angle. In order to be able to realize the unusual way of turning, the production procedure had to be adapted. The script for the two-hour long film originally consisted of just twelve pages. As a result, the film's dialogues were written together with the main cast on location and could be adapted spontaneously during the shoot, for example if certain processes took longer or shorter than planned.

A total of three full versions of the film were shot. The last of these versions was used in its entirety in the feature film and was not edited. The relatively short shooting time was compensated for by the more intensive rehearsal time.

The final version was filmed on April 27, 2014 between 4:30 and 7:00 a.m. in Berlin-Kreuzberg and Berlin-Mitte . Schipper had six assistant directors and three complete teams for the sound. A Canon C300 was used as the camera . 150 extras were used.

Reviews

The film received mostly positive reviews. Rotten Tomatoes received 108 positive and 24 negative reviews. Metacritic counted 21 positive, 6 mixed and no negative publications. On the Internet Movie Database page , 49,802 users were given a weighted average score of 7.6 out of 10.

Wenke Husmann summarizes in Die Zeit : “An insane experiment, a fantastic film [...] that will shake up German cinema for a long time. [...] You sit and look and are completely overwhelmed by what you see. And soon also of what you cannot see because you imagine how it all must have come about. It is as if a great hunger is finally being satisfied. […] In this last attempt [after two dress rehearsals that were too perfect] the spark ignited. There was a cinematic fireworks display. And if you will, Sturla Brandth Grøvlen is the pyrotechnician. [...] The film was - you have to be that realistic - actually not feasible. Just brain-cracked. It became absolutely gigantic. "

In the Berliner Zeitung , Jens Balzer praises how Schipper and his actors succeed in capturing the feeling of strangeness in Berlin in this bank robbery film, both the loneliness of the Spanish new Berlin resident and the forlornness of the Berlin ghetto boys who want to prove themselves in Berlin's hip nightlife . "Love and fear, violence and trust, the will for the future and the hopeless now" are "inextricably intertwined" in the film. The film forced figures and viewers "on a unity of space and time, in which on the one hand it creates its own time and world and at the same time reflects our present in the most generally valid way", summarizes Balzer.

Wolfgang Höbel describes at Spiegel Online how the “always radically dynamic narrative style” creates a closeness to the characters and the vortex into which they are dragged with their actions, although some of the “sometimes creepy fluctuating images” pose a challenge when watching be. According to Höbel, Schipper succeeds in putting together an “outsider ensemble” , as in his previous buddy movies Absolute Giganten and A Friend of Mine , “that masters the male game of awkward tenderness, loose roaring and sudden admission of one's own vulnerability in an awe-inspiring and sometimes even heartbreaking manner ". The cameraman, who, according to Gunda Barrels from Tagesspiegel , “deserves respect” for the 140 minutes , is also often praised , also because he “captures the emotional worlds of the actors in a very subtle way”. Sturla Brandth Grøvlen lets his camera “be inspired by rhythm, brilliantly changes colors, brightness and sharpness, is cool and loving at the same time. Sometimes with documentary sharpness, sometimes with impressionistic graininess, ”as Jan Küveler describes it in Die Welt .

From the German Film and Media Review was Victoria with the predicate particularly valuable provided. The reasoning states: “Anyone who expects a sad chamber play with four broken ghetto youths and an inexperienced visitor to Berlin will be positively surprised by 'Victoria'. Not only because the film extends over a large area of ​​Berlin-Mitte and Kreuzberg, but because Schipper proves to be a phenomenal dramaturge. "

Jason Wood, the program director of the British art house cinema chain Curzon Cinemas , writes in his review that the “extremely ambitious film” “captures the kick of pure adrenaline”. He notes that "all actors [...] can easily cope with the hellish demands of the shoot" and that the film is therefore "worth seeing not only because of the nuanced character portrayal of the protagonist", "but also because of the way the director and his cameraman Sturla Brandth Grøvlen put it in the limelight ”.

Awards

Berlinale 2015

German Film Award 2015

  • Awarded the Gold Film Prize in the Best Full-Program Feature Film category
  • Award in the category Best Director
  • Award in the category Best Acting Achievement - Female Leading Role
  • Award in the category Best Acting Achievement - Male Leading Role
  • Award in the Best Camera category
  • Award in the category of best film music
  • Nomination in the category Best Sound Design

European Film Award 2015

  • Nomination in the Best Film category
  • Nomination in the category Best Director
  • Nomination in the category Best Actress

German Film and Media Rating (FBW)

  • "Particularly valuable" rating

BAFTA 2017

  • Nomination in the EE Rising Star Award category for Laia Costa

literature

Critique mirror in German

International review mirror

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release to Victoria . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2015 (PDF; test number: 150 281 K).
  2. ↑ Berlinale favorite “Victoria” - best Berlin film in a long time , Berliner Zeitung, February 8, 2015, accessed on February 9, 2015, archived from the original on February 9, 2015.
  3. ↑ One shot film “Victoria”: “The shoot was like a drug” Spiegel Online, June 10, 2015, accessed on December 31, 2015.
  4. ↑ a b Intro meets »Victoria« Youtube.com, June 11, 2015, accessed on December 31, 2015.
  5. ↑ Absolutely gigantic , ZEIT online, February 8, 2015, accessed on February 9, 2015.
  6. ^ "Victoria" by Sebastian Schipper , tip Berlin, February 3, 2014, accessed on February 9, 2015
  7. ↑ Victoria on rottentomatoes.com , accessed June 24, 2020
  8. ↑ Victoria on metacritic.com , accessed June 24, 2020
  9. ↑ Victoria on imdb.com , accessed June 24, 2020
  10. ↑ Jens Balzer: Berlinale favorite “Victoria” - best Berlin film in a long time. In: Berliner-zeitung.de of February 8, 2015
  11. ^ Wolfgang Höbel: Berlinale film "Victoria": The Outsider Gang . In: SPON of February 7, 2015
  12. ↑ Gunda Bartels: Victoria - Berlin uncut. In: Tagesspiegel.de of February 8, 2015
  13. ↑ Jan Küveler: Dark Berlin rocks so hard and real . In: Welt.de of February 7, 2015
  14. ↑ Victoria. Jury reasons: Predicate particularly valuable In: German film and media evaluation . Retrieved October 14, 2015.
  15. ↑ Jason Wood: Victoria (2015) . In: Steven Jay Schneider, Ian Haydn Smith (Eds.): 1001 Movies You Should See Before Life Is Over . Selected and presented by 77 international film critics. Twelfth, updated edition. Edition Olms, Oetwil am See 2017, ISBN 978-3-283-01243-4 , p. 933 (American English: 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die . New York 2015. Translated by Ueberle-Pfaff, Maja).