We would be different people

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Movie
Original title We would be different people
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2019
length 88 minutes
Rod
Director Jan Bonny
script Friedrich Ani ,
Ina Jung
production Susanne Freyer ,
Judith Fülle ,
Gabriele Heuser
music Varoline Kox
camera Jakob Beurle
cut Stefan Stabenow
occupation

We would be other people is a German TV film by Jan Bonny from 2019. The film drama is based on the story Rupert by Friedrich Ani . The author also worked on the script together with Ina Jung .

action

Shortly before the end of the shift, the two police officers Horn and Bäumler are called to the house of the Seidlein family. There is supposed to be Pyotr, the son of a wanted criminal. Shortly before the end of the day and with a little beer, they realize that the situation is getting worse. The family refuses to cooperate. When Pjotr ​​attacks one of the two policemen with a blunt carving knife, the situation escalates. Only Rupert, the son of the Seidlein family, survived the following shooting. During the subsequent investigation, the boy is processed and a completely wrong course of action is suggested to him. In the following process, 15-year-old Rupert is demonstrated. The police officers are acquitted and continue their careers.

Rupert returns decades later. He moves into their parents' house with his wife Anja and works as a driving instructor in the community, which is increasingly going to the dogs. Outwardly he is cool and pretends to have forgiven and forgotten everything, but like his wife, he tends to consume more alcohol. His emotional fluctuations also often come to light.

One evening in the tennis club there is a boozy evening with the retired police chief Horn. The next day he meets him again, apparently purely by chance, on the Rhine and, knowing full well that Horn cannot swim, persuades him to take a bath in the Rhine. In an unobserved moment, he drowns Horn in the river and then alerts the police himself. At first it looks like Rupert can get away with it. Death is counted as an accident. Nobody blames him. Horn's girlfriend also befriends Anja and Rupert. But Commissioner Wackwitz is on his heels. Rupert does not tell his wife about his guilt for the death of Horn.

One evening he went to Bäumler, overwhelmed him at the front door. Then he looks for his weapon when Frau Bäumler tries to rush to his aid. When he found the gun, he first shoots Mrs. Bäumler and then the former police officer himself. He tries to make it look like an act of self- defense by Mrs. Bäumler, who then commits suicide. As a false alibi, he tries to push for a visit to Pyotr's mother.

In the night after a barbecue evening, it finally bursts out of him. He confesses the murders to his wife and says he did it to finally find peace, but there is no peace. Had none of this happened he would surely be a different person. The next morning he lets inspector Wackwitz take him away.

background

We would be other people was filmed from July 10th to August 9th 2018 under the working title Endlich Leben in Cologne and in the Bergisches Land . The film was made on behalf of ZDF by Akzente Filmproduktion with producer Susanne Freyer-Mathes and edited by Gabriele Heuser (ZDF). The film had its world premiere on June 29, 2019 in the series "Neues Deutsches Fernsehen" at the Munich Film Festival 2019 . It was also shown at the Festival of German Films in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , at the Oldenburg Film Festival and at the Transit Film Festival.

It had its premiere on free TV on August 6, 2020 on ZDF. He was approved by the broadcaster for ages 16 and up and banned from night programs. It is also only available in the ZDFmediathek after 10 p.m. or against proof of age.

reception

The film was received largely positively. The killing of George Floyd in the summer of the year it was first broadcast and various right-wing extremist incidents at the police force made the film even more topical. Heike Huppertz from the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said: "No light fare and no entertainment to look away at comfortably, but a significant work for the possibilities of contemporary television films - and an increase in complexity for interested viewers." In the Süddeutsche Zeitung , Claudia Tieschky particularly praises the acting performance of Matthias Brandt : “Perhaps this exact, radical and disturbingly beautiful film is the way it is, because you watch it with Rupert's gaze (...) Untidy everyday German life is accompanied by indifferent piano music; a bit of a sedative, a bit of disguising reality as French cinema. Perhaps you have to imagine the inner workings of Rupert in such an artificially indifferent way. In the better phases. In the worse, Rupert looks like people in pictures by Francis Bacon . There shouldn't be many who can play this double character as unrestrainedly as Matthias Brandt does here. ” Christian Buß wrote on Spiegel Kultur that the film was“ both cruel and tender. ”

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Start of shooting for the ZDF crime drama "Endlich Leben". ZDF press portal, July 10, 2018, accessed on August 8, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Film details - WE WOULD BE OTHER PEOPLE. In: Munich Film Festival. Retrieved August 8, 2020 .
  3. ↑ We would be different people. In: filmportal.de. Retrieved August 8, 2020 .
  4. ↑ We would be different people. In: Transit Filmfest. Retrieved August 8, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Nordwest-Zeitung: Filmfest criticism “we would be other people”: A man confronts his childhood trauma. Retrieved August 8, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Christian Buß, DER SPIEGEL: With Matthias Brandt into the abyss - DER SPIEGEL - culture. Retrieved August 8, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Gerald Wurm: ZDF shows the German thriller drama We would be other people only at night (Schnittberichte.com). Retrieved August 8, 2020 .
  8. ↑ a b Claudia Tieschky: Forever the eighties . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . August 6, 2020, p. 15 ( sueddeutsche.de ).
  9. ↑ Heike Hupertz: Atonement drama on ZDF: The revenge is cold . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed August 8, 2020]).