Divided into four at dawn
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Divided into four at dawn |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 14 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Norbert Keil |
| script | Norbert Keil |
| production |
Roland Lippoldmüller (Aquarius Film Production) |
| music | Philipp F. Koelmel |
| camera | Ralf Leistl |
| cut | Dirk Vaihinger |
| occupation | |
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Four parts at dawn (international title: Quartered at Dawn ) is a German horror short film by Norbert Keil from 1999 with English subtitles .
General
The short film was Keil's first film open to the public. The 14-minute no-budget strip with Minh-Khai Phan-Thi , Florian Wagner and Michou Pascale Anderson was produced at Aquarius Filmproduktion; The producer was Roland Lippoldmüller, the film music was written by Philipp F. Kölmel and Georg Korpás was involved in the production as a make-up artist . Keil's assistant director was Ann-Kristin Reyels , at that time still under her maiden name Wecker . According to the credits , Frank Böer , Gregor Hutz, the lighting technician involved in the set, Stefan Sikora, and Klaus Zimmermann play the killer, whose face is only shown briefly in the film .
action
The film essentially shows two separate scenarios that still take place in close proximity to each other, are faded in alternately and only merge at the end. On the one hand there are Sarah and Marc, a young couple who, on a beautiful winter morning somewhere in the snow-covered foothills of the Alps, on the back seat of an old Mercedes, are exchanging intimate and increasingly passionate tenderness. At the beginning of the scene, the viewer hears a loud bang in the area around the vehicle. The second event explains this bang: a wrecked, smoking car wedged between trees with a seriously injured driver who managed to break free from the vehicle and collapsed in the snow.
While the scenario in the Mercedes focuses almost exclusively on the passionate couple, mysterious things happen at the scene of the accident. The accident victim, who is still lying in the snow, suddenly reaches around in panic, seems to be looking for something in his coat, pulls the broken glass hand in front of his face and lets out a scream. She can pull the glass splinter out of her hand with her mouth, crawls back into her vehicle and there reaches for a pistol. The injured person leaves the vehicle, falls back into the blood-smeared snow and loses the pistol in the process. A matt black Ford Mustang approaches the scene of the accident and a man armed with an ax climbs out of the car. He moves towards the injured woman, who stands up spontaneously and points the gun at the man, but is knocked down by the man with an ax. She loses her pistol again and lets out another scream. The man chops off the victim's foot. The woman can grab the gun and shoots her tormentor. She remains seriously injured in the snow.
Marc heard the bang of the accident and the victim's screams, but Sarah shows little interest in Marc being able to concentrate on something other than her. After the couple is finished, they both put on their clothes again, light cigarettes and start the journey home. When reversing rapidly with the Mercedes, Marc suddenly applies the brakes for whatever reason and comes to a stop right in front of the head of the injured man who went unnoticed by him. The victim is still alive and tries to grab the pistol now lying under the rear tire of the car. Marc backs up again, feels a jolt in the car and comes to a stop again. The “ Stan Marsh ” cloth doll on the rear shelf of the Mercedes falls down onto the rear seat bench due to the jolt. Furthermore, the obviously overjoyed couple noticed nothing of the accident that had just occurred behind or under their own vehicle. They drive forward, laughing with happiness and the woman's corpse remains in the blood-smeared snow.
This is followed by the credits, which are faded in by a kissing scene of the traveling couple. They drive towards the black Ford Mustang with the door open on the street in front of them. To the left, slightly off the road, is a Suzuki Vitara . For the continuation of the credits, the scene is faded out again, the viewer hears a tire squeal and an impact noise. Then you see Marc walking towards the Suzuki, confused. The door of the off-road vehicle involved in the accident is open and dented, next to it is a pool of blood in the snow - it is the woman's accident car. Sarah is visibly shocked at the sight. Marc turns around, his facial features change. You can hear the sound of a blow, Sarah twitches and then notice blood dripping into the snow below. Startled, she tells Mark that there is something. Marc replies: “I told you.” The killer with the ax appears in the picture and pulls out ... the picture is cut up, then the detailed credits follow.
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- ↑ The area surrounding the accident is not shown as devastating as before.
Performances and publications
The German premiere took place in August 1999 at the Fantasy Film Festival . In the United States , the film was first shown on November 4, 2000 at the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and, among other things, at the Midnight Madness event at the Toronto International Film Festival .
The film was officially selected as the opening act for the screening of Scream 3 (2000) in German cinemas and had its cinema premiere on June 22, 2000, so to speak. Divided into four at dawn ran in 2002 as "Shocking Short" on the pay-TV channel Premiere World ( 13th Street ).
The short film was also released as an extra on the following DVDs :
- on German film rental DVDs from Scream 3 :
(each with audio commentary by Norbert Keil, Roland Lipoldmueller, Minh-Khai Phan-Thi, Florian Wagner, Philipp Koelmel and sound designer Wolfgang Lechenmeyr) - on the DVDs for Keil's movie … no way ! (2005)
- Cult Movies, 2007; FSK 16
- Starmedia Home Entertainment, 2008; FSK 16
In 2010 the film was shown at the DragonCon Independent Film Festival. In 2012, director Norbert Keil published the entire film on the video portal vimeo .
Soundtrack to the film
(included on the DVD versions; music: Philipp F. Kölmel; vocals: Florian Wagner)
- Main Title - divided into four
- At dawn
- End Credits - Ouch, that hurts!
- Divided into four at dawn - Remix
Web links
- Quartered at Dawn on vimeo; published by Norbert Keil
- Four Divided at dawn in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Divided into four at dawn in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ^ High German Profile at the Toronto Film Festival - Ten German films and 16 German-international co-productions in the official program. ( Memento of the original from September 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) 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. German Films, August 24, 2000
- ↑ Divided into four at dawn in the online film database
- ↑ Quartered at Dawn. DragonCon Independent Film Festival, 2010.
- ↑ see web link to the video at vimeo
