Elective Affinities (short film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Elective affinities |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 7 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nils Loof |
| script | Levin Alexander |
| production | Nils Loof, Nicole Lingner , Michaela Warlich |
| music | Pit Przygodda |
| camera | Christian Kaiser |
| cut | Nils Loof |
| occupation | |
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Elective Affinities is a German short film by Nils Loof from 2001 based on an idea by Nicole Lingner . The grotesque, xenophobia and power mechanisms discussed in subtle ways, playing in the foyer of the Municipal Theater, the Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe lists. The short film has received several awards, including the German Short Film Prize and the Murnau Short Film Prize .
action
Dr. Brandt, an ophthalmologist and local hero in a small town, would like to see Die Wahlverwandschaften in the town theater together with his family . Unfortunately the performance is sold out, there are only a few tickets left. When Dr. Brandt notices that there are foreigners in line in front of him, he uses a brazen ruse and demands a check of the origin of the audience ...
Production and publication
The short film was produced in three days of shooting in Hanover. A first shooting date was postponed on the advice of the State Criminal Police Office, as the director Nils Loof had previously received a threatening letter. During the filming, the Hanoverian police were on patrol to protect the shooting, but there were no incidents.
Elective Affinities were brought to German cinemas by Kinowelt , the distributor of the Hamburg Short Film Agency and Interfilm Berlin . The NLI provided 1000 VHS cassettes for use in teaching at schools in Lower Saxony.
Awards
- German Short Film Award , 2001
- Murnau Short Film Award , 2002
- Odense International Film Festival : Special Jury Award 2002
Web links
- Elective affinities in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Elective affinities at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.ms.niedersachsen.de/startseite/z_ablage_alte_knotenpunkte/12804.html
- ^ (Former) Lower Saxony State Institute for School Development and Education