The New called Fyodor. Inconspicuous type, anxious boy. Expresses itself always long on the wall. If hard times undergone in school, says Dr. Wolf to the other.
And to Fyodor: “I envy you your Georgian roots, I’ve always wanted to be part of a different culture.” Psychiatergewäsch. Runs off to Fyodor. The says dryly: “But since you are the only one.”
Fyodor (Moritz Leu) is part of the rest of the festival. With Lara (Jella Haase), Alex (Paula Beer) and Timo (Jannis Niewöhner) it is firmly seated in the Jugenpsychiatrie. It’s Christmas, but these four are unwanted at home. Because they are educable, violent or suicidal. Angry. Obdurate. Screwed up.
But not out of reach, it believes Wolf (Clemens Schick) firmly. He also believes in his group therapy. Recall that Lara, Alex and Fedja despite their own problems Timo can appease somehow that boils over faster than you can watch. For this group, the last chance before leaving him disappear in the closed …
“4 Kings” Theresa has called von Eltz her feature film debut , With whom she has just won the first prize at the Rome Film Festival in the series “Alice nella città”. You forgive the award “for the great efficiency and the sensitiveness of this first work, for the overwhelming and thoughtful acting, for photography with its cool color that is still capable of radiating heat, and for the wonderful balance of music and silence” reasoned the jury for its decision.
And rightly so. For what this director could be capable of one or the other Berlinale had – goers seen in 2007 when von Eltz its poignant short film “Gecko” imagined. Thereafter, however, she turned first time commercials.
That Theresa learned of Eltz in Ken Loach, one sees
Theresa von Eltz was in Berlin and Oxford history and political science studied before but decided to use the film. With her first short film “Hannah & amp; Amelie” was adopted for studying directing at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield English. That Ken Loach was one of their teachers, can be seen in her films. They are marked by the same realism and supported by the same empathy for the social losers.
In Loach things rarely went out well, when you get out of Elzt scared about the sad hero. And a fury on those who have so trimmed. Lara’s parents, for example. Stop by to wish a merry Christmas. In short, equivalent to the guests.
can not hide their disgust, as the daughter begs: “Can not you take me?” Since she’s gone, the beautiful facade. The mother cries out: “Say, you tickst not right?”
Holy is nothing here. The family certainly not. And four Kings are one too many. Even if they do not know what they are supposed to be good. Adolescence dramas knows the cinema many, but this is extraordinary. It legitimizes the so often maligned Small teleplay of ZDF, received a co-production, in this case with C-Films and Tatami film.
The script has evolved from Elzt together with Esther von Bernstorff (“The Stranger in Me”), cameraman was Kristian Leschner (“To your life”) , was filmed in the fall of 2014 in Hamburg. The actor guidance is sensational. The actors are believed everything. Haase (“The Warrior”), Beer (“The Dark Valley”), Niewöhner (“East Wind”) and Leu (“The Nightmare”) – all 20-25 – show easily that they are among the best of her generation.
“that everything is good times, for a day”
The story gets under your skin. One forgets rather quickly, that what we see is fiction. Suffers with. With Fyodor, who has apparently been plugged more with its 16, 17, as a human being can endure. With Alex, who wishes that “everything is good times, for a day”.
With Timo, who has almost come entirely lost to the world. Even with this Doctor Wolf, who looks like a leftover from the seventies, with his belief that everything can be good if it just all want to correct. “4 Kings” has nothing to do with the usual candy cane sweet christmas cinema. “4 Kings” is Holiday Hardcore.
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