Smash my heart
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Smash my heart |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | Romani , Slovak , German |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating | JMK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alexandra Makarová |
| script | Alexandra Makarová, Sebastian Schmidl |
| production |
Simon Schwarz , Konstantin Seitz |
| music | Johannes Winkler |
| camera | Georg Weiss |
| cut | Lisa Zoe Geretschläger |
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Zerschlag mein Herz (English title: Crush My Heart) is an Austrian feature film from 2018 by Alexandra Makarová. The premiere took place in March 2018 on the Diagonale and the Austrian theatrical release on October 5, 2018.
Smash my heart is Alexandra Makarová's debut film.
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The film tells the story of a group of Slovak Roma living in Vienna who earn their living by begging. The 17-year-old Roma Pepe, whose father has died, lives with his despotic uncle Robert Horváth, known as "Rocky", in a dilapidated house on the outskirts of Vienna. Patron Rocky tyrannized his own clan, including his girlfriend Terezka he on the line sends. To earn money for his family, Pepe goes begging with others every day.
One day 16-year-old Marcela appears and joins the group. She comes from their home village in Eastern Slovakia and is supposed to work off her father's debts under Rocky. Pepe is supposed to take care of her and begins to roam the city with her. Pepe and Marcela begin to fall in love with each other. Together, their life as an outsider is easier to bear and so the two of them dream of a more just and better future. However, the despotic Rocky has also cast an eye on Marcela and tries to drive her into a forced marriage. An arranged marriage with Rocky aims to free her family from debt. A race against time begins for Pepe and Marcela.
Production and Background
Pre-production and script work began in spring 2015. Actor Simon Schwarz , who worked here for the first time as a producer, went on dozens of research trips and casting trips to Eastern Slovakia, including Zámutov , Jánovce (Poprad) and Richnava , together with director Alexandra Makarová and cameraman Georg Weiss . The production designer Momo Ehegartner and assistant director Ari Yehudit Richter later came on these trips to collect material and impressions for the look of the film.
In May 2016, Simon Schwarz brought Konstantin Seitz on board as a partner.
The shooting took place in August 2016 in Vienna , Lower Austria and Eastern Slovakia. The film was produced by Alternative Productions . For Alexandra Makarová this was her directorial debut in a feature film. The film is shot in Romani and Slovak. The main roles were cast with amateur actors, some of whom came from the slums of eastern Slovakia.
Momo Ehegartner was responsible for the costume design and production design, and Johannes Winkler for the original score.
The film was released on DVD in 2019 as part of the Edition Österreichischer Film von Hoanzl and the Standard .
reception
"By choosing such a classic, passionate love story and placing it in an unexpected context, Makarová shows the viewer that wherever our preconceived notions and prejudices are, there are just as many stories and fates waiting to be told." Ray (magazine)
"With her feature film debut" Zerschlag mein Herz ", extensively researched in Slovak Roma villages, the Slovak director Alexandra Makarová tells a" Romeo and Juliet "story based on real events. The immersion in a parallel society characterized by poverty, violence and lack of prospects is the life-hungry gaze of the Towards young lovers: Everything shines in a colorful light when Marcela and Pepe roam the Viennese night. The charm of the game of two very young acting debutants - Simona Kováčová was only 15 years old, the 17-year-old Roman Pokuta was hired by the director from the largest slum in Eastern Slovakia - and delicate experimental tricks such as play of colors, slow motion and individual images lifted out of the plot are reminiscent of Franco Zeffirelli's (1968) and Baz Luhrmann's (1996) famous adaptations of the tragedy. In the end, "Zerschlag mein Herz" is completely Shakespeare and its own powerful work , crowned with a heartbreak end beautiful song by the Russian Roma ensemble Loyko. " The moth
The Standard found that the film combined its Romeo and Juliet tale with a poetic realism that you hardly ever see in domestic cinema. “Makarová wisely refrains from depicting explicit violence and thus reserves the option of an empathic look. Dipped in strong, bright colors, this story of an impossible love had something fairytale-like and at the same time surreal about it - like a dream that you know in your sleep that it cannot be true. "
Andrey Arnold wrote in the daily newspaper Die Presse that the way the film tells its story stands out from the crowd of Austrian dramas. Instead of dreary gray, rich colors shone from the canvas, “instead of cool, analytical distance it sets great feelings.” The exaggerated style with slow-motion, dream sequences and expressive color dramaturgy helps to prevent some bumpy plot turns “from being scrutinized too much under the magnifying glass for credibility. We already know that in reality everything is worse. All the more remarkable how Zerschlag my heart wrests some poetry from this reality. "
"Beggars can't be choosers is the message at the heart of Alexandra Makarová's directorial debut, an ill-fated Roma love story set in Vienna" Cineuropa
Awards
- Biber for the best script
- Award in the category Best Producer ( Simon Schwarz , Konstantin Seitz )
Web links
- Official website
- Smash my heart in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Smash my heart with crew united
Individual evidence
- ↑ Age rating for Zerschlag mein Herz . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b Diagonale 2018: Smash my heart . Retrieved September 29, 2018.
- ↑ a b film.at: Zerschlag mein Herz A 2018 . Retrieved September 29, 2018.
- ↑ a b WOMAN: When love becomes work . Edition 20/2018.
- ↑ Smash my heart with crew united . Retrieved September 29, 2018.
- ↑ a b Kurier: Simon Schwarz: "You don't make it easy for newcomers" . Article from January 10, 2017, accessed on September 29, 2018.
- ↑ Smash my heart. In: ray film magazine . October 3, 2018, accessed on April 15, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Sabine Zeithammer: Smash my heart. Retrieved April 15, 2019 .
- ↑ derStandard.at: Diagonale-Finale: The inevitable encounter with ourselves . Article dated March 18, 2018, accessed September 29, 2018.
- ↑ [1] diepresse.com : "Smash my heart": A Rome and his Julia . Article dated October 9, 2018, accessed October 11, 2018.
- ↑ Review: Crush My Heart ed = Cineuropa. Retrieved April 15, 2019 .
- ↑ These are the winners of the 40th Biberach Film Festival . Article dated November 4, 2018, accessed November 5, 2018.
- ^ Kurier: The nominations of the ROMY Academy 2019 . Article dated March 26, 2019, accessed March 26, 2019.
- ^ Kurier: Academy ROMY: The prices for the stars behind the stars . Article dated April 11, 2019, accessed April 12, 2019.