Wadim (film)

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Movie
Original title Wadim
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2011
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Carsten Rau
Hauke ​​Wendler
script Carsten Rau
Hauke ​​Wendler
production Carsten Rau
Hauke ​​Wendler
music Jakob Grunert
camera Boris Mahlau
cut Stephan Haase

Wadim is a German documentary by Carsten Rau (* 1967) and Hauke ​​Wendler (* 1967) from the film year 2011 . Using the example of the refugee Wadim K. from Latvia , he addresses the deportation practice in Germany and has received several awards.

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The film documents the fate of Wadim K., who was deported from Germany in 2005 at the age of 18.

In 1992 the parents Viktoria K. and Sergej K. left Latvia with the six-year-old Wadim and his younger brother and applied for political asylum in Germany because they felt discriminated against as members of the Russian minority after the restoration of Latvia's independence . The application for asylum was rejected in 1995 and the family was only tolerated. Their nationality remains unclear, as the Soviet passports are no longer valid and, despite several inquiries, no state issues them new papers.

Wadim grew up in Hamburg , attended high school, played the bassoon and became an altar boy. However, the family is permanently threatened with deportation, they have to go to the immigration authorities at short notice and live in poor conditions. Parents are not allowed to go to work, as are the vast majority of refugees who live in Germany with a Duldung. In 1998 Latvia and Germany conclude an agreement that Latvia will accept rejected asylum seekers. From this point on, the parents develop depression , and later other serious mental illnesses. The family suffers from the battered psyche of their parents, father Sergei K. and Vadim clash more and more often. At the same time, Wadim's academic performance is rapidly deteriorating. In 2001 he had to leave grammar school, first he switched to secondary school, then to secondary school. He later obtained his secondary school diploma and began training outside the company.

On the night of February 4, 2005, the immigration authorities attempted deportation, during which mother Viktoria K. cut her wrists and father Sergej K. was arrested for resistance. Since Wadim's younger brother is a minor and cannot be separated from his parents, Wadim is deported to Riga by plane alone . Without language skills and with only ten euros, he is handed over to the Latvian border guards, who tell him that he has to look after his own accommodation. Wadim is first placed in a homeless shelter. In the following months he tries to build up a living in Riga. At the beginning of 2006, Wadim traveled illegally to Germany, France, Switzerland and Belgium in search of permanent work, but was deported to Latvia again at the age of 20.

Wadim's parents received a residence permit in Germany due to their severe mental illness . Wadim himself is subject to an entry ban on the part of the German authorities because, as is customary in such cases, he is supposed to bear the costs of his deportation, but cannot do so due to his minimal income and the precarious living conditions of the sick parents. He travels illegally several times to Hamburg, which he regards as his home. However, for fear of being deported again, his parents urge him to build a new life elsewhere. After spending the last few weeks with his friends in Hamburg, Wadim committed suicide on January 20, 2010 at the age of 23 by throwing himself in front of a Hamburg S-Bahn.

The film accompanies several of the central protagonists in their everyday lives, shows impressions from the original locations, private photos and video recordings of the family as well as interviews with Wadim's parents, their lawyer, friends, teachers and employers and the head of the Hamburg immigration authority.

background

Two weeks after Wadim's suicide, the lawyer of the Markus Prottung family turned to producers Carsten Rau and Hauke ​​Wendler, who had already made documentaries on the subject of migration with their company PIER 53 Filmproduktion , to draw the public's attention to the case. In the months that followed, the idea arose to produce a full-length documentary about Wadim's fate. A year later, the NDR agreed to appear as a co-producer, and the Hamburg-Schleswig-Holstein Film Fund supported the project, so that the financing was arranged.

The film team followed Wadim's parents for half a year, who shared their memories. In total, the production of the film took almost two years. It premiered on November 12, 2011 at the Kassel Documentary Film Festival and ran on December 13, 2011 at midnight on NDR . The international premiere took place on April 30, 2012 at the documentary festival Hot Docs in Toronto . Further screenings at festivals and in selected cinemas followed. On January 9, 2013, the ARD broadcast the film at 10:45 p.m.

Viktoria K., Wadim's mother, died on January 8, 2014 at the age of only 48 from pneumonia.

reception

The film Wadim met with positive media coverage. Christoph Twickel from Spiegel described it as an “outstanding TV documentary”. His strength is to "let the brutality of such measures [by the authorities] speak for itself objectively". Die Welt subtitled "the moving documentary" Vadim "". When the Catholic Media Prize was awarded in November 2012, the jury praised it as a “technically virtuoso film”. At the laudation , Fritz Pleitgen emphasized that the producers behaved impartially despite the emotional topic and had done important educational work with their documentation.

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ulrike Mau: Deported - Wadim only sees death as the solution. In: The world . December 10, 2011. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
  2. ↑ Dates wadim-der-film.de. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
  3. ↑ Wadim - The Film. In: www.wadim-der-film.de. Retrieved January 9, 2017 .
  4. ↑ [1] Mother died at the age of 48. Retrieved April 7, 2014.
  5. ↑ Christoph Twickel: When authorities destroy a life. In: Spiegel Online . December 13, 2011. Retrieved January 7, 2013.
  6. ↑ Catholic Media Prize 2012 www.dbk.de, accessed on January 7, 2013.
  7. ↑ Otto Brenner "Special" Prize - Hauke ​​Wendler and Carsten Rau ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2013 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. otto-brenner-preis.de, accessed on January 7, 2013. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.otto-brenner-preis.de
  8. ^ Initiative - Catholic Media Prize. In: www.dbk.de. Retrieved January 9, 2017 .
  9. ↑ German Documentary Film Award | Company . In: swr.online . ( swr.de [accessed on January 9, 2017]).