Walchensee Forever

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Movie
Original title Walchensee Forever
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2020
length 110 minutes
Rod
Director Janna Ji Wonders
script Janna Ji Wonders,
Nico Week
production Martin Heisler (producer) ,
Katharina Bergfeld (producer) ,
Nadja Smith (producer)
music Markus Acher ,
Cico Beck
camera Janna Ji Wonders,
Sven Zellner ,
Anna Werner
cut Anja Pohl (also dramaturgy)
occupation

Walchensee Forever is a German documentary film directed by Janna Ji Wonders . The director's debut film received the Bavarian Film Prize in the category of best documentary film in January 2020 and premiered at the Berlinale 2020 in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section .

action

In the film, the director tells the story of five generations of women in her family between Walchensee , hippie dreams and the so-called harem around Rainer Langhans , an experimental open community, from the perspective of women. The film moves from the family café on the Bavarian Walchensee via Mexico to San Francisco to the Summer of Love , the cave life on a Greek island, an ashram in India and back to the starting point.

The action begins before the war . Great-grandmother Apa opens an excursion café at Walchensee together with her husband. After the death of a daughter who died of the Spanish flu , her daughter Norma remains. Norma Werner is the director's grandmother. She marries an artist, has two daughters and later runs the café that she runs until she is 88 years old.

Their daughters Anna and Frauke Werner make music and yodel together, which gives them a certain regional reputation. She traveled to the USA and Mexico in the late 1960s . Back in Germany, first learns Frauke studying as well as Anna in Munich, Rainer Langhans and his political Urbanization Commune I know. She developed psychosis , possibly as a result of various drug experiences, and also spends some time in psychiatry. After that she withdraws more and more from family and friends. While Anna, who inherited her love for photography from her father and studied photography, travels to India for several months in search of enlightenment and lives in ashrams, Frauke takes her own life on New Year's Eve.

After a few months of mourning, Anna travels back to the USA and lives in a hippie commune. There she becomes pregnant with Janna, the director of the film. After several years of traveling back and forth between the US and Germany, and after the relationship with Janna's father, Jazon Wonders, has broken down, Anna returns to Germany. There she takes over from her mother, Norma, who runs the Café am See before she hands over the management to friends. The friendship with Rainer Langhans and Jutta Winkelmann , who often visit them at Walchensee, has lasted over the years. Janna Ji Wonder's life takes place between her father's farm in the USA and her home on Lake Walchensee. Again and again in this turmoil she seeks support from her down-to-earth grandmother, who only dies at the age of 105.

production

At the 2016 Berlinale , the director won the '' Made in Germany - Perspective Award '', endowed with 15,000 euros, from the Perspective German Cinema section as a scholarship to develop material for Walchensee Forever . In the same year, the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern funded the film project with 120,000 euros.

Walchensee Forever was produced by the production company Flare Film GmbH in Berlin and by Lichtblick Media , with Bayerischer Rundfunk being a co-producer. The first distribution is with the farbfilm verleih GmbH Berlin.

The concept of the film was developed by Janna Ji Wonders and the screenwriter Nico Woche ; the editor Anja Pohl received a credit for editing as well as a credit for dramaturgy .

The film celebrated its world premiere on February 24, 2020 at the Berlinale.

reception

When the Bavarian Film Prize was awarded, Walchensee Forever was described as a family epic. The film is a journey of discovery and a narrative of the century about family structures and their changes over the course of several decades. Janna Ji Wonders addresses the big questions in life: identity, home, self-realization, the search for love and the role of the family. The film captures the cycle of life in a unique way.

Awards

Walchensee Forever was awarded the Bavarian Film Prize in the category Best Documentary Film in January 2020 .

At the Berlinale 2020, Walchensee Forever was nominated for the Berlinale Documentary Film Prize and received the Compass Perspective Prize, endowed with 5000 euros . The film was also nominated for the Heiner Carow Prize of the DEFA Foundation .

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Individual evidence

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