Winter trip (film)

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Movie
Original title Winter trip
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2006
length 95 minutes
Rod
Director Hans Steinbichler
script Martin Rauhaus
Hans Steinbichler
production Uli Aselmann , Robert Marciniak
music Antoni Łazarkiewicz
camera Bella halves
cut Anne Loewer
occupation

Winterreise is a German film drama from 2006 . It is about an entrepreneur who is on the verge of bankruptcy, who falls out with almost everyone and who in his desperation also picks up Kenyan fraudsters. The opening film of the Munich Film Festival in 2006 - it was also the German premiere - had its world premiere on July 5, 2006 at the International Film Festival in Karlovy Vary .

action

Franz Brenninger, who had achieved reputation and fortune as a Bavarian hardware dealer , is facing bankruptcy with his business. Because of his moodiness, he is unbearable for his fellow men and fights at every opportunity. Only his wife Martha still stands by him. Through a letter from Kenyan business people, he came into contact with the high school graduate and future ethnologist Leyla, who translated the letter for him from English. The sender is a Kenyan named Tom Kanabe. His uncles are said to be entitled to $ 15 million from a deal. Because he would have to pay 60 percent tax on the income in Kenya, Brenninger is said to receive a handsome commission of 750,000 dollars as a straw man ; However, he must advance EUR 50,000 as "security" in advance. Right now Brenninger is being urged by an ophthalmologist to have his wife operated on within four weeks, otherwise she could go completely blind. The 30,000 euro procedure is not covered by health insurance. Brenninger's son Xaver, who is a branch manager in a hardware store, terminates a building society loan agreement in order to transfer the money for the operation to his father's account. But Brenninger uses this money to enter into the dubious deal with the Kenyans.

When he realizes that it was probably an advance fraud , he and Leyla set off as an interpreter on a trip to Kenya to track down the fraudsters and get his money back. There, the German ambassador and his assistant advise him to keep his hands off the matter and give up the search. But even though it actually looks completely hopeless at first, things take a positive turn. Brenninger comes into contact with another hotel guest, a German who has lived in Kenya for many years. He shares his enthusiasm for Franz Schubert's winter journey , as it turns out when Brenninger performs a piece from this song cycle at the piano in the hotel. The man explains to Leyla the meaning of the piece as a description of a depression and quotes from the song “Die Nebensonnen ”, in which the narrator loses his mind and sees three suns in the sky.

Through contact with this man, Brenninger finally got the crucial information to track down the gangsters. After a long drive through the Kenyan desert, he finds one of the fraudsters, overpowers him and takes $ 200,000 from him. On the way back through the desert he lets Leyla drive on alone and bring the money home. He shoots himself. Immediately before that, three suns could be seen in the sky. After the two shots, the two adjacent suns also went out.

reception

  • Lexicon of international film : The film, structured by Franz Schubert's dark and melancholy song cycle of the same name, lives primarily from the brute presence of its main actor, while the individually convincing elements of the story and the different narrative styles do not combine to form a unit.
  • Die Welt : “Winterreise” is a tour de force between the First and Third World. Unfortunately, Hans Steinbichler's film is not as successful as its debut.

Awards

For his role as Franz Brenninger, Josef Bierbichler was awarded the German Film Prize in 2007 for best leading actor . The film itself was nominated in the “Best Feature Film” category. For the 2008 Academy Awards , the film was nominated in the German preselection in the “Best Foreign Language Film” category.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Winter trip. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ↑ Reinhard Wengierek: The humiliation trickles softly. In: Die Welt , November 22, 2006.
  3. ↑ filmstarts.de: Oscars 2008: Seven films are available as a German contribution ( memento from March 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) , September 10, 2007.