Woyzeck (2013)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Woyzeck |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Nuran David Calis |
| script | Nuran David Calis |
| production | Christian Rohde |
| music |
Ketan Bhatti , Vivan Bhatti |
| camera | Bjorn Knechtel |
| cut | Simon Blasi |
| occupation | |
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Woyzeck is a German television film by Nuran David Calis based on the stage work of the same name by Georg Büchner . The film premiered on January 23, 2013 at the Max Ophüls Preis film festival in Saarbrücken. The first broadcast was on October 14, 2013 on Arte .
action
The simple soldier Franz Woyzeck lives with Marie and their child in the Berlin district of Wedding today. Woyzeck has little self-confidence, so that he is exploited and bullied by his captain. He recently lost his restaurant to him and is now doing everything he can to get it back.
He spends almost all of his meager wages on the support of the family. Because there was not enough money, he took part in a medical study in which he was supposed to go as long as possible without sleep. However, the drugs give him delusions and a temporary erectile dysfunction. In order to regain his self-esteem, Woyzeck works hard in his other two part-time jobs as a rail cleaner and as an assistant in his former café. As a result, he neglects Marie, who is increasingly drawn to the drum major, a Berlin neighborhood big. When he catches her cheating on the last day of the trial, the situation escalates.
background
With Woyzeck , 3sat and Arte are continuing their series of theater films. Nuran David Calis had previously presented a theater adaptation with Spring Awakening (2009). Here he relocated Büchner's dramatic fragment Woyzeck to the Wedding of the present and shows how “timelessly up-to-date Büchner's relentless view of the abysses of the human psyche” is. Tom Schilling plays Woyzeck, a member of the “German majority society that has become a minority”. Nuran David Calis, himself of Turkish-Armenian-Jewish descent:
“I'm interested in ethnic and religious conflicts. I needed someone who was a minority within a minority. In Berlin-Wedding, 'the German' is in the minority in every respect. Our bourgeois canon of values is no longer correct here, other values are coming to the fore. So the film also revolves around German identity. "
Wedding stands for a “Kiez that the police no longer dared to enter”, a “lawless zone, one-euro shops and run-down streets, divided between gangs from all over the world”. The film also reflects the tension between the neighborhood and Büchner's language: outside the neighborhood speaks (“Shut up, you stupid cunt”), inside Büchner (“It's so quiet, so quiet, as if the world were dead”). For Calis, the quotes are “a kind of cross-check and reference to the original”.
criticism
The film service believes that Woyzeck is "an outstanding theatrical film thanks to its emphatically cinematic staging and fascinating actors". Schilling's performance is emphasized in many reviews, he plays “brilliantly” ( Der Tagesspiegel ). 100 years after the world premiere of Woyzeck at the Munich Residenztheater, the film comes “depressingly close” to “its utter failure and breakdown”; This is "mainly due to the great performance of Tom Schilling, who finds precisely the measure in his fragility and somnambulistic movement that is needed to constantly balance between madness and normality," writes the Süddeutsche Zeitung .
Rainer Tittelbach sums up that Calis has succeeded in creating a “piece of sensual Arthaus TV” that “alternates between pulsating multicultural life on Berlin's streets and cinematic, stylized, parable-like scenes” and develops an “extremely exciting narrative flow”. 3sat judges that the film "is startled, gets under your skin". It is "frightening how up-to-date the pre-revolutionary Büchner appears". This is also the tenor of the daily newspaper that Woyzeck is an “extremely sad and depressing film”. Calis found the “framework for this, and he created the images that ground the classically unbound material in the counterpart [sic!]”. The film also wins from the fact that Calis "outwardly dares to step onto a ground that is littered with prejudices and fears". He provokes “consciously, but he does so without judging”; For him it is “also about the German identity” in a world in which “Christian-occidental values, laws of democracy” no longer apply.
Awards
Woyzeck received a nomination in the fiction category at the 2014 Grimme Prize .
Web links
- Woyzeck in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Woyzeck at filmportal.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Woyzeck . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , December 2013 (PDF; test number: 142 406 K).
- ↑ Release Info. Internet Movie Database , accessed March 29, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Woyzeck. Film service , accessed March 29, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c d Renate Meinhof: "Woyzeck" on Arte: Desperate in the test laboratory . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . ISSN 0174-4917 ( online ).
- ↑ a b c d Woyzeck. In: tittelbach.tv. Retrieved April 13, 2016 .
- ↑ a b Abysmally contemporary - Georg Büchner's “Woyzeck” as a television film. In: 3sat.de. Retrieved April 13, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c d "Woyzeck" in Wedding. In: tagesspiegel.de. March 13, 2013, accessed April 13, 2016 .
- ^ Katrin Bettina Müller: Theater film at Arte: Woyzeck in Wedding . In: the daily newspaper . ( online ).
- ↑ Awards. Internet Movie Database, accessed March 29, 2016 .