Waltz with Bashir

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Movie
German title Waltz with Bashir
Original title ואלס עם באשיר Vals in Bashir
Country of production Israel , France , Germany
original language Hebrew
Publishing year 2008
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 14
Rod
Director Ari Folman
script Ari Folman
production Ari Folman, Serge Lalou, Gerhard Meixner, Yael Nahlieli, Roman Paul
music Max Richter
cut Nili Feller

Waltz with Bashir is a documentary animated film with elements of a thriller from the perspective of the director Ari Folman , who was stationed in Lebanon in 1982 as an Israeli soldier during the First Lebanon War . It is based on real interviews and events. The film was nominated for an Oscar in the category Best Foreign Language Film in 2009. In this category he won the Golden Globe Award and the César . He was also nominated for the Palme d' Or.

The film title alludes to the Christian- Maronite militia leader Bachir Gemayel , who was allied with Israel, and whose murder was to be avenged with the massacre of Sabra and Shatila . In a key scene of the film, an Israeli soldier, shooting around with a MAG, performs a bizarre dance on a Beirut street crossing while he is being shot at from the neighboring skyscrapers; In the background, the idealized face of Gemayel can be seen on a huge poster.

action

The main plot of the film is that Ari Folman has a series of conversations with Israelis of his generation (Ori Sivan, Ronny Dayag, Carmi Cna'an, Shmuel Frenkel and Dror Harazi) who, like him, were deployed as soldiers in Lebanon in 1982 and which now, 26 years later, should help him to find his missing or repressed memories. Folman himself has a nightmare with a large pack of 26 snarling dogs that haunts him again and again. His only memory is obviously not one: a group of young men who arrive at the beach in Beirut at sunrise after a swim in the sea in slow motion and get dressed - a sequence that leaves those he is talking to perplexed. In contrast to Folman, these can help with realistic war memories, which, however, are mixed in with equally dreamlike-surreal elements. The trick of animation makes it possible to show the interviewees, who mostly speak their contributions themselves, according to the life path they have chosen in different scenarios, and also to show their 26 years younger, but recognizable self in uniform, partly realistic, partly in nightmarish war landscapes experienced fantastic things. The soundtrack helps recall a youth around 1982 ( Johnny Rotten , This is Not A Love Song , as well as Hebrew pop songs - made for the film - with titles such as: Good morning Lebanon or Today I bombed Beirut ). The conversation with war reporter Ron Ben-Yishai enables an additional, more political classification of the role of the Israeli military in the Sabra and Shatila massacre in addition to the perspective of the common soldiers . The viewer can only speculate that Folman's troops fired flares at night in the neighborhoods in which the massacre took place and that he was indirectly involved in the massacre and feels guilty. The film ends with a smooth transition from cartoon scenes of the desperately weeping survivors to original film recordings, with documentary images of the murdered people in the Sabra and Shatila massacres being shown.

production

Based on the research, a full script was initially written. This screenplay was filmed on video in a studio. These were interviews with the characters in the film and dramatizations of the stories they told in the interviews. This later served the animators as a template for their work. The film was cut within eight months. After test demonstrations and acceptance of the finished video film, a detailed and precise storyboard was created based on the video version. A video board was then created from the drawings of the storyboard - called animatic in technical terms . After acceptance of the Animatic, individual illustrations were created, drawn by leading Israeli and foreign illustrators. The finished illustrations were then animated.

Reviews

Folman's semi-autobiographical film, which he himself speaks of as a "cartoon documentary", celebrated its world premiere on May 15, 2008 at the 61st Cannes Film Festival . There Waltz with Bashir received high praise from the critics. For Hanns-Georg Rodek ( Die Welt ) "his trick version of the war [...] was soaked in red, disorienting, unpathetic". Dramaturgical weaknesses in an “otherwise new form of war documentary that is both visually fascinating and emotionally aroused” saw Andreas Borcholte ( Der Spiegel ). Diedrich Diederichsen ( Die Zeit ) rated the film as a work that “above all desires one thing: young viewers”, whether it has dealt with “(war) traces in the medium of the soul”. Birte Lüdeking (Critic.de) draws the conclusion that “the individual memory may be fallible”, but “Folman's film is nevertheless the stirring appeal to a collective memory”.

synchronization

There are two German language versions of the film. The first setting, recorded in 2008, took place in the Berliner Synchron studios . Heinz Freitag wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.

In 2010, a voice over was placed over the original voices , presumably to maintain the documentary style of the film . Text ton titel was responsible for creating this version. Ingrid Hessedenz was responsible for the script and direction.

role Original speaker German speaker (2008) German speaker (2010)
Ari Folman Ari Folman Christian Brückner Martin Umbach
Boaz Rein-Buskila Mickey Leon Charles Rettinghaus Philipp Moog
Carmi Cna'an Yehezkel Lazarov Ilya Richter Walter von Hauff
Dror Harazi Dror Harazi Lutz Schnell Ekkehardt Belle
Ori Sivan Ori Sivan Wolfgang Condrus Claus Brockmeyer
Prof. Zahava Solomon Zahava Solomon Arianne Borbach Sabine Kastius
Ron Ben-Yishai Ron Ben-Yishai Helmut Gauss Reinhard Glemnitz
Ronny Dayag Ronny Dayag Uwe Büschken Christian Baumann
Shmuel Frenkel Shmuel Frenkel Oliver Stritzel Crock Krumbiegel

Awards

In 2008, Folman's film competed for the Palme d'Or at the 61st Cannes Film Festival , but received no awards. In the same year was Waltz with Bashir as best film with the Israeli Film Award Ophir Award excellent, making it official Israeli contribution to a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscar ceremony in 2009 was and by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as one of five Films received a nomination. At the 2008 European Film Awards , Waltz with Bashir was nominated in four categories, but only the German composer Max Richter was awarded the prize. At the Golden Globe Awards 2009 , Folman's directorial work was recognized as Best Foreign Language Film . In January 2009 the film received the prize for best production at the History Makers Conference 2009 in New York, and weeks later the French César as best foreign film . The work also won the Norwegian Peace Film Prize at the Tromsø Internasjonale Film Festival 2009 and was voted the most popular feature film by the audience at the Warsaw International Film Festival in 2008. The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) awarded the film the "rating of particularly valuable".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for Waltz with Bashir . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ : Waltz with Bashir: Stab razor-film.de; Retrieved August 27, 2013.
  3. ↑ indiewire.com
  4. ^ AO Scott: Inside a Veteran's Nightmare. In: The New York Times. December 25, 2008, accessed February 8, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Hanns-Georg Rodek: Cannes shocks with an animated film from Israel . Welt online , May 16, 2008
  6. ↑ Andreas Borcholte: Undead in uniforms . Spiegel Online , May 16, 2008
  7. ^ Diedrich Diederichsen: Animated film: 'Waltz with Bashir' . In: Die Zeit , No. 46/2008
  8. ↑ Birte Lüdeking: Waltz with Bashir . Critic.de, October 28, 2008
  9. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Waltz with Bashir. Retrieved February 26, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Official shortlist of foreign language feature films with English titles (English; accessed October 22, 2008)
  11. ↑ The nominees for the 81st Academy Awards
  12. ↑ Den norske fredsfilmprisen . Tromsø Internasjonale Film Festival; accessed on April 5, 2011 (Norwegian)
  13. ↑ http://www.fbw-filmbeval.com/film/waltz_with_bashir
  14. ↑ Waltz with Bashir . Spiegel Online , May 5, 2009