What does end here mean? The film critic Michael Althen

Movie
Original title	What does end here mean? The film critic Michael Althen
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2015
length	120 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0
Rod
Director	Dominik Graf
script	Dominik Graf
production	Joachim Schroeder
music	Sven Rossenbach Florian van Volxem
camera	Felix von Boehm, Till Vielrose
cut	Tobias Streck
occupation
Michael Althen Christian Petzold Tom Tykwer Wim Wenders Caroline Link Romuald Karmakar Hans Helmut Prinzler Moritz von Uslar Wolfgang Höbel Ulrich Khuon Andreas Kilb Tobias Kniebe Stephan Lebert Evelyn Roll Claudius Seidl Dominik Graf Jeanette Hain Philipp Moog Milan Pavlović

What does end here mean? The film critic Michael Althen is a German documentary film by Dominik Graf from 2015. The film portrays the German film critic Michael Althen . The film premiered at the 2015 Berlinale , and it opened in theaters on June 18, 2015.

content

Colleagues, friends, directors, his wife and Michael Althen himself have their say in the film. The film largely manages without film clips. Michael Althen's articles and quotes go beyond the actual film and embody a passionate dialogue with the cinema.

Michael Althen once turned his hobby into a profession and impressed with his eloquence, his choice of words and his witty observations. In 2011 Althen succumbed to cancer. Dominik Graf reconstructs his friend in all his facets on the basis of conversations with filmmakers like Wim Wenders, Christian Petzold and Tom Tykwer.

criticism

The film service judged that the film was "much more than a portrait, because it also devoted itself extensively to Althen's texts that come to life in a completely different way in the cinematic medium". At the same time, the film recapitulates "wistfully a bygone era of film criticism". In his “melancholy about lost time”, however, “his polyphony” threatens to “get a little lost”.

Awards

The film received the German Film Award 2016 nominated in the category "Best Documentary", but lost out to the film Above and Below of Nicolas Steiner .

Web links

• What does end here mean? The film critic Michael Althen in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• What does end here mean? The film critic Michael Althen at filmportal.de
• What does end here mean? The film critic Michael Althen in the online film database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Release certificate for What does end here mean? The film critic Michael Althen . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2015 (PDF; test number: 152 365 K).
2. ↑ Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed May 15, 2018 . 
3. ↑ What does end mean here? The film critic Michael Althen. Film service , accessed on May 15, 2018 (short review). 
4. ↑ Awards. Internet Movie Database, accessed May 15, 2018 .