Between the times (film)
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Between the times |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
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| Director | Hansjörg Thurn |
| script |
Sarah Schnier , Carl-Christian Demke |
| production | Ivo-Alexander Beck |
| music | Fabian Römer |
| camera | Peter Krause |
| cut | Ollie Lanvermann |
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Between the Times is a German feature film from 2014 . The film appeared in the series Heart cinema of the ZDF and was on the occasion of the 25th anniversary wall opening on November 9 aired for the first time, 2014.
action
The seventeen-year-old West Berlin student Annette Schuster fell in love with the Potsdam student and pastor's son Michael Rosch on a school trip to the GDR in 1986 . Rosch hides in her school bus to escape from the GDR, but is discovered by her. She is afraid of possible consequences and sends him off the bus at a rest stop. The MfS had observed the escape attempt, threatened Michael with a prison sentence and instead recruited him as an unofficial employee . Later he was promoted to IM in Special Operations , allowed to study medicine and spied on medical students, doctor colleagues and the renowned radiation researcher Professor Dagmar Evert.
Twenty-eight years later, Annette Schuster is working as a team leader on the reconstruction of 16,000 sacks with torn Stasi files . Her friend, Johannes Güttler, also works as a historian in the team. She has a grown-up son from her love affair in Potsdam who doesn't know his birth father.
One day Annette discovers torn observation photos of her then lover, shortly afterwards his IM file with a handwritten declaration of commitment. She admits complicity in his later Stasi career, tries to talk to him and is about to fall in love again. That brings them into a conflict of conscience. After all, she has been in a committed relationship for years. Your confidante and work colleague Dr. Jörn Rabe lets her in on her past; but he has his special problems with the Stasi and their machinations. His friend, a critic of the GDR regime, died some time ago of cancer as a result of deliberate exposure to strontium 90 by the MFS. Rabe is also seriously ill and Annette causes him to have Michael of all people examine him. But even he can only award him a 50:50 chance to defeat the disease.
When Michael learns from Annette the real reasons why she has contacted him after so many years, he is deeply upset. He actually wants to send her away, but then he can't manage it and they spend the night together. After they are fully aware of the drama of their past and they realize that they are both guilty, Micheal's then senior officer appears. He tries to spread suspicion that Annette would only seek his closeness for career reasons. At the moment the machine that is supposed to digitally assemble the Stasi files is stalling, which would give them a little time to act. But Michael doesn't want to hear about it. Nevertheless, he argues with Annette, who is gradually realizing the extent to which Michael's work as an IM has probably assumed. It was specifically targeted at Professor Evert. In their argument, Michael learns of the existence of his son and now fled to the front. He visits Johannes Güttler and brings him documents that prove that the radiation expert Evert had not researched how much ionizing radiation dose a person can survive without harm, but on the contrary, from when the dose is fatal. The goal was the disease and the question of which element is most effective. Still, a debt remains, even with him.
The consequences of Michael's statement against Professor Evert remain open. Annette arranges a meeting between her son and his father. She recognizes for herself that man cannot live between times: one has to face life with all its mistakes.
background
The scriptwriters were inspired by an authentic case. As in the film, the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Systems and Design Technology in Berlin is working on the so-called Stasi snippet project . The film was not shot in the institute, but in a skyscraper on Potsdamer Platz . The real head of the Stasi-Schnipsel project is called Bertram Nickolay and was a close friend of the GDR critic Jürgen Fuchs, who died under mysterious circumstances . Accompanying the love story, a separate ZDF history series was produced, in which findings from the snippet project are presented.
Reviews
Tilmann P. Gangloff from tittelbach.tv said: Between the ages “lives primarily from the impressive complexity of this story.” “The dramaturgy of the story works in a similar way to the work on the scraps of paper: Hansjörg Thurn's film gives these details and a few more explosive fragments only gradually price. The book and direction use a flashback dramaturgy that illustrates the memories and insights of the present with the pale images of the past. One of the few weaknesses of the film is the usual underestimation of the audience. "
At Spiegel-online Christian Buß said: "'Between the times' is based on a more complex concept of guilt." "The genre topos of unconditional love is [...] used to create an equally unconditional space in which lies and betrayal are openly negotiated - and in which in this way the story of perseverance and participation is told in a much more differentiated manner than in conventional ones. "
Barbara Möller at Welt was very critical: “In the federal republican politics one or the other may be naive, but you are not so stupid as to put a cuckoo in your own nest around the Chancellery. Coincidentally, Michael Rosch once primarily took care of this Dagmar Evert as OibE, which is why he can now - purified by love - conjure up incriminating papers. What a hair-raising volte. "
The critics of the TV magazine TV Spielfilm gave only a medium rating (thumbs straight) and said: “25 years of the fall of the Berlin Wall on all channels, the ZDF“ Herzkino ”romance is also about civics. The dialogues are accordingly stiff and pathos-laden, and the top cast (including Katharina Thalbach) is condemned to many unbelievable actions. It's a shame, with a little more courage and a less thick assignment, the story would have had what it takes to be a good political thriller. "
Web links
- Between times in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Between the times at herzkino.zdf.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Between the Times . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2014 (PDF; test number: 148 248 V).
- ↑ ZDF is shooting the GDR drama "Between the Times" in Berlin, derwesten.de, 2013
- ^ ZDF-History: Between the Times - The Documentation
- ^ Tilmann P. Gangloff : von Kessel, Sadler, Mittermeier. Contemporary and socio-politically relevant film review at tittelbach.tv, accessed on November 10, 2018.
- ↑ Christian Buß: Love, walled in at spiegel.de , accessed on November 10, 2018.
- ↑ Barbara Möller: When the command officer is sneaking around in the garden at welt.de , accessed on November 10, 2018.
- ↑ Short review by TV Spielfilm , accessed on November 10, 2018.