Why don't you just die!

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Movie
German title Why don't you just die!
Original title Papa, sdochni
Country of production Russia
original language Russian
Publishing year 2018
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 18
Rod
Director Kirill Sokolov
script Kirill Sokolov
production Sofiko Kiknavelidze
music Vadim QP ,
Sergey Solovyov
camera Dmitriy Ulyukaev
cut Kirill Sokolov
occupation

Why don't you just die! (AKA Papa, sdochni (in German "Papa, verrecke"), Russ. Notation Папа, сдохни ) is a black-humored comedy thriller by Kirill Sokolov , who came in April 2019, the Russian cinemas on January 16, 2020 come to German cinemas should.

action

Andrei Gennadievitch lives in a Moscow apartment with his wife Tasha. One day he receives an unexpected visitor. Young Matvey rings the doorbell, his daughter's friend Olya. He hides a hammer behind his back and is determined to kill Andrei, because the policeman is not only corrupt but also sexually abused Olya as a child. She asked him to commit this murder. To encourage his criminal nature, she also told Matvey that her father is hiding a large amount of money in his apartment.

First he and Andrei sit nervously across from each other at the dining table for a few minutes. But before long, the violence escalates. The murder assignment turns out to be harder than expected for Matvey, but Andrei also finds that the young man is not as easy to kill as he thought. A bloodbath breaks out in the small Moscow apartment.

production

Directed by Kirill Sokolow , who also wrote the script. After several short films, it is his directorial debut in a feature film. The approximately 12 minutes in which Andrei and Matvey sit across from each other at the dining table and the subsequent hammer attack serve as a prologue and lay the foundation for everything that follows. Every few minutes the film flashes back into the past to show how the characters first met and what motivation drives them. Peter Debruge from Variety , the look is reminiscent of The Fabulous World of Amélie when production designer Viktor Zudin and costume designer Natalya Belousova gradually swap the two main colors green and red during the film, until in the end practically everything that was once green appears scarlet. The film title Why don't you just die! (English for "Why don't you just die?") refers to the fact that Matvey has a much higher pain threshold than most other people, which makes Andrei's efforts to kill him more difficult than he thinks.

The actor Alexander Kuznetsov took on the role of Matvey, Evgeniya Kregzhde plays his girlfriend Olya and Vitaliy Khaev plays her father Andrei Gennadievitch. Elena Shevchenko took on the role of mother and wife Tasha. Michael Gorevoy plays Andreis police colleague Yevgenich, who later takes the stage.

The German synchronization was based on a dialogue book by Andreas Barz and the dialogue direction by Yannik Raiss on behalf of DMT - Digital Media Technologie GmbH, Hamburg. Nina Witt lends her voice to Olya in the German version.

Dmitriy Ulyukaev acted as cameraman . The score was composed by Vadim QP and Sergey Solovyov .

The film premiered on August 13, 2018 as part of the Russian Vyborg Film Festival and was released in Russian cinemas on April 4, 2019. In September 2019 it was shown for the first time at the Fantasy Filmfest in Germany and also in September 2019 at the Fantastic Fest in Austin. An official theatrical release in Germany is planned for January 16, 2020.

reception

Reviews

The film has so far won over 97 percent of all Rotten Tomatoes critics and achieved an average rating of 7.4 out of a possible 10 points.

Alexander Kuznetsov plays the leading role Matvey

Peter Debruge from Variety writes because Why don't you just die! Almost exclusively in the Moscow apartment, the film seems like a neatly conceived chamber piece with borrowings from a black comedy, as in films by the Wachowski siblings such as Queer - Noir Bound or Sidney Lumet's Deathtrap , in which a simple setup is transformed into an unimaginable mess . Why don't you just die! also belongs to the sub-genre of films like Criminal Lovers or The Last Seduction , in which a stubborn fool tries to prove his chivalry by killing someone on behalf of his lover. However, Kirill Sokolow doesn't focus so much on this underlying motivation, but instead devotes his creativity to all the ways in which these characters can harm each other.

Rafael Motamayor of Flickering Myth explains in his review that Sokolow clearly uses the action style of the filmmaker Quentin Tarantino in his film when the violence escalates exponentially and bloody. He describes Why dont you just die! as the most bizarre and violent film in years, when Matvey and Andrei want nothing more than to murder each other, but neither want to die. The difficulty in killing someone shown in the film reminds Motamayor of The Night Comes for Us by Timo Tjahjanto from 2018. The flashbacks to the past, which show how the two protagonists met and developed into enemies, felt more like each other like commercial breaks on as organic additions to the story. Nevertheless, it is an impressive debut film with a fantastic and inventive camera work with a gripping depiction of violence like in a cartoon , as if Itchy & Scratchy had been brought to life.

Sidney Schering writes what begins as if someone had made a brute, witty short film, and thanks to Sokolov's wealth of ideas, he always finds an energy reserve. After 15 minutes you think “Yes, that was funny, but it won't last for 80 more minutes”, Sokolov shuffles the cards again while he secretly prepares a new chain reaction of mishaps, improvised traps and deliberately semi-predictable weapons that wants to be celebrated a few minutes later. Paired with wonderfully witty music and a couple of cool one-liners, why don't you just die! a real feast for all fans of pointed violent antics and sophisticated, silly roller coaster rides full of misfortunes and deceptions. Schering sums up: "An ideal film to watch in a large group and with lots of nibbles."

Awards (selection)

Fantasy Filmfest 2019

Grimmfest 2019

  • Award for best film
  • Award for the best director (Kirill Sokolov)
  • Honorable Mention for the camera work
  • Honorable Mention for the special effects
  • honorable mention at the audience award

Montreal Fantasia International Film Festival 2019

  • Award for best feature film (Kirill Sokolow)

Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival 2019

  • Nomination for Best European Fantasy Film for the Méliès d'argent (Kirill Sokolow)

Sitges Film Festival 2019

  • Nomination for best film in the Midnight X-Treme section (Kirill Sokolow)

Web links

Individual evidence

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  13. ↑ competition. In: fantasyfilmfest.com. Retrieved October 2, 2019.
  14. ↑ Michael Rosser: 'Why Don't You Just Die!' takes top prize at Grimmfest. In: screendaily.com, October 14, 2019.
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