West (film)

Movie
Original title	west
Country of production	Germany
original language	German
Publishing year	2013
length	102 minutes
Age rating	FSK from 12 years
Rod
Director	Christian Schwochow
script	Heide Schwochow
production	Thomas Kufus
music	Lorenz Dangel
camera	Frank Lamm
cut	Jens Klüber
occupation
Jördis Triebel : Nelly Senff Alexander Scheer : Hans Pischke Tristan Göbel : Alexej Senff Jacky Ido : John Bird Anja Antonowicz : Krystina Stefan Lampadius : Jürgen Lüttich Andreas Nickl : Gerd Becker Gabriele Schulze : Mrs. Breitscheit Michael Witte : Joachim Fierlinger Tania Carlin : British intelligence officer Rike Eckermann : British secret service agent Carlo Ljubek : Wassilij Ryszard Ronczewski : Krystina's father Diana-Maria Breuer : civil servant Christian Ehrich : Civil servant Hacky Rumpel : Neighbor

West is a German feature film by Christian Schwochow from 2013 with Jördis Triebel in the lead role. It is based on the novel Campfire by Julia Franck . The writer wrote Heide Schwochow .

content

Nelly is a single mother who, after fleeing the GDR, arrived with her son Alexej in an emergency reception center in West Berlin in the autumn of 1978 . The film describes the transition period between the two political systems.

publication

The film had its world premiere on August 25, 2013 at the World Film Festival in Montreal . The film premiered in Germany on October 25, 2013 at the Hof International Film Festival.

reception

The first reviewers particularly praised Triebel's performance and Schwochow's sensitive handling of German-German issues, but they also criticized various aspects of the film. While Ronnie Scheib in Variety criticized the psychological construction of the film character Nelly Senff as too unspecific and expressive, which means that West gets entangled in details, Kerstin Decker criticized in Tagesspiegel what she saw as the too sudden and all too harmonious end of the film. Andreas Kilb saw a film with a great leading actress in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , in which the literary original was not implemented dramatically enough. Dietmar Kanthak from epd Film praised the fact that the West is not just an exciting secret service thriller and documentary fiction, but rather parabolically tells of uprooting and loneliness, the adversity of a new beginning and the revival of dead feelings.

Awards

• 2012: German Film Award - nomination in the category Best Screenplay - unfilmed for Heide Schwochow
• 2013: FIPRESCI Prize in the World Competition category at the World Film Festival for Christian Schwochow
• 2013: Best Actress Award at the World Film Festival for Jördis Triebel
• 2013: Nomination for the Grand Prix des Amériques main prize in the World Competition category for Christian Schwochow
• 2014: German Film Award Lola for Jördis Triebel in the category Best Acting Achievement - Female Leading Role

Web links

• West in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• West at filmportal.de
• Official website for the film

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Buß : In the Twilight Zone of the Cold War. In: Der Spiegel . March 23, 2013, accessed November 7, 2014 .  
2. ↑ Hof International Film Festival: West. Retrieved March 27, 2014
3. ^ Ronnie Scheib: Film Review: 'West'. In: Variety . September 29, 2013, accessed November 7, 2014 .  
4. ↑ Kerstin Decker : Where we belong. In: Der Tagesspiegel . October 28, 2013, accessed November 7, 2014 .  
5. ↑ Andreas Kilb : Greetings from Marienfelde. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 2, 2014, accessed November 7, 2014 .  
6. ↑ Dietmar Kanthak: West. In: epd film . February 19, 2014, accessed April 8, 2015 .  
7. ↑ Awards - 2013 Montreal World Film Festival. ( Memento of the original from November 2, 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. Retrieved March 27, 2014