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It was quite a surprise that the Kurdish-German director Ayse POLAT was awarded the GERMAN FILM AWARD for best director and best screenplay in 2024. But if you have seen her film IM TOTEN WINKEL, you know that these honors are not unjustified.
Everything takes place in the city of Kars in northeastern Turkey. The Turkish Nobel Prize winner for literature Orhan PAMUK has already set his novel SCHNEE there, at an altitude of 1768 meters above sea level. In Ayse POLAT's film, the somewhat naive director Simone (Katja BÜRKLE) from Germany has traveled to Kars with her cameraman Christian (Max HEMMERSDORFER) to film the old Kurdish woman Hatice (Tudan ÜRPER) during a very personal ritual. Simone is interested in imaginary monuments and recognizes this when Hatice prepares a certain soup every year in memory of her son who disappeared without a trace and distributes it to all the neighbors in her village. The young Kurdish woman Leyla (Aybi ERA) acts as a translator and also has her little English student Melek (Cagla YURGA) with her. Melek sees and feels more than the adults would give her credit for. What Simone does not suspect is that she and her small film crew are under constant observation. One evening there is a loud knock on Simone's hotel door...
A very mysterious story is told here from three different perspectives. Little by little it becomes clear how everything is connected and what role Melek's Turkish father Zafer (Ahmet VARLI) plays in it. The conflicts between Turks and Kurds have by no means come to a standstill in the past quarter century; in fact, they still have an impact. All of this is told in the form of an exciting political thriller. But be careful! A genuine ghost story, in the person of little Melek, sneaks into the bitter plot quite imperceptibly. The past is never dead, it is not even past. And: the sleep of reason produces monsters.
Admittedly, this is a rather complicated film, but it is very easy to understand through the chosen visual language. A bitter twist, however, is that the German woman, who is also the director, is unable to interpret the images correctly. The language spoken is German, English, Kurdish and Turkish. This film is well worth seeing, you should definitely get involved in this monstrous event!
Everything takes place in the city of Kars in northeastern Turkey. The Turkish Nobel Prize winner for literature Orhan PAMUK has already set his novel SCHNEE there, at an altitude of 1768 meters above sea level. In Ayse POLAT's film, the somewhat naive director Simone (Katja BÜRKLE) from Germany has traveled to Kars with her cameraman Christian (Max HEMMERSDORFER) to film the old Kurdish woman Hatice (Tudan ÜRPER) during a very personal ritual. Simone is interested in imaginary monuments and recognizes this when Hatice prepares a certain soup every year in memory of her son who disappeared without a trace and distributes it to all the neighbors in her village. The young Kurdish woman Leyla (Aybi ERA) acts as a translator and also has her little English student Melek (Cagla YURGA) with her. Melek sees and feels more than the adults would give her credit for. What Simone does not suspect is that she and her small film crew are under constant observation. One evening there is a loud knock on Simone's hotel door...
A very mysterious story is told here from three different perspectives. Little by little it becomes clear how everything is connected and what role Melek's Turkish father Zafer (Ahmet VARLI) plays in it. The conflicts between Turks and Kurds have by no means come to a standstill in the past quarter century; in fact, they still have an impact. All of this is told in the form of an exciting political thriller. But be careful! A genuine ghost story, in the person of little Melek, sneaks into the bitter plot quite imperceptibly. The past is never dead, it is not even past. And: the sleep of reason produces monsters.
Admittedly, this is a rather complicated film, but it is very easy to understand through the chosen visual language. A bitter twist, however, is that the German woman, who is also the director, is unable to interpret the images correctly. The language spoken is German, English, Kurdish and Turkish. This film is well worth seeing, you should definitely get involved in this monstrous event!
In the 1970s and 1980s, Johanna von KOCZIAN (1933 - 2024) was primarily perceived as a pop singer who sang with a touch of irony about how easy housework was ("The little bit of housework takes care of itself, says my husband!"). Two decades earlier, she was a busy film star in the then still flourishing West German film industry. In the film MENSCHEN IM NETZ, Johanna von KOCZIAN even played a role as amazing as the one played today by Cameron DIAZ, for example, in BACK IN ACTION by the global streaming provider NETFLIX.
Munich, late 1950s! Gitta Mertens (Johanna von Koczian) is very excited, her husband Klaus (Hansjörg FELMY) is finally arriving in the West German city. He has been incarcerated in the notorious Bautzen prison in the GDR since the workers' uprising on June 17, 1953. At the time, Germany was divided into two countries, East and West. In addition, the comrades from the GDR's state party, the SED, had also framed him for murder. Gitta works as a translator and now wants to cut back on her work at her company. But the company sees things very differently. After all, it is a spy ring infiltrated into Munich by the GDR, which wants to continue to profit from Gitta's services. It goes without saying that her husband, who has just been released from prison, soon becomes suspicious of Gitta's numerous night shifts. A monstrous murder soon takes place!
What an unusual espionage story is being presented here in the otherwise so staid cinema of the West German film industry! The GDR, an opponent of the system, carries out industrial espionage, blackmails decent citizens and does not shy away from murder and manslaughter. The film, which attracted more than 3 million visitors to the cinemas at the time, had almost been forgotten. But the resourceful ex-BERLINALE producer Carlo CHATRIAN, while still director of the LOCARNO Film Festival, initiated the retrospective LOVED AND REPRESSED: THE CINEMA OF THE YOUNG FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY FROM 1949 TO 1963 in 2016, in which PEOPLE ON THE NET was also programmed.
The film is also an interesting example from the West German film industry. During this time, the producers Hans ABICH and Rolf THIELE (GOLDEN GLOBE 1959 for THE GIRL ROSEMARIE with Nadja TILLER) increasingly moved the productions of their FILMAUFBAU GmbH away from the tranquil university town of Göttingen to the more sophisticated Munich, where PEOPLE ON THE NET was also filmed. Shortly before shooting for his film HELDEN with O. W. FISCHER and Liselotte PULVER, director Franz Peter WIRTH received an OSCAR nomination. In addition to Hansjörg FELMY (1931 - 2007), who was already an established film star, the internationally sought-after Hannes MESSEMER (1924 - 1991) and Ingeborg SCHÖNER (celebrating her 90th birthday on July 2, 2025!!!), who was already active in Italy, also played in the spy thriller. Olga von TOGNI, Hanns LOTHAR and Paul VERHOEVEN appeared as sinister GDR agents. The screenplay was written by Herbert REINECKER (DERRICK) based on a script by Will TREMPER.
Munich, late 1950s! Gitta Mertens (Johanna von Koczian) is very excited, her husband Klaus (Hansjörg FELMY) is finally arriving in the West German city. He has been incarcerated in the notorious Bautzen prison in the GDR since the workers' uprising on June 17, 1953. At the time, Germany was divided into two countries, East and West. In addition, the comrades from the GDR's state party, the SED, had also framed him for murder. Gitta works as a translator and now wants to cut back on her work at her company. But the company sees things very differently. After all, it is a spy ring infiltrated into Munich by the GDR, which wants to continue to profit from Gitta's services. It goes without saying that her husband, who has just been released from prison, soon becomes suspicious of Gitta's numerous night shifts. A monstrous murder soon takes place!
What an unusual espionage story is being presented here in the otherwise so staid cinema of the West German film industry! The GDR, an opponent of the system, carries out industrial espionage, blackmails decent citizens and does not shy away from murder and manslaughter. The film, which attracted more than 3 million visitors to the cinemas at the time, had almost been forgotten. But the resourceful ex-BERLINALE producer Carlo CHATRIAN, while still director of the LOCARNO Film Festival, initiated the retrospective LOVED AND REPRESSED: THE CINEMA OF THE YOUNG FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY FROM 1949 TO 1963 in 2016, in which PEOPLE ON THE NET was also programmed.
The film is also an interesting example from the West German film industry. During this time, the producers Hans ABICH and Rolf THIELE (GOLDEN GLOBE 1959 for THE GIRL ROSEMARIE with Nadja TILLER) increasingly moved the productions of their FILMAUFBAU GmbH away from the tranquil university town of Göttingen to the more sophisticated Munich, where PEOPLE ON THE NET was also filmed. Shortly before shooting for his film HELDEN with O. W. FISCHER and Liselotte PULVER, director Franz Peter WIRTH received an OSCAR nomination. In addition to Hansjörg FELMY (1931 - 2007), who was already an established film star, the internationally sought-after Hannes MESSEMER (1924 - 1991) and Ingeborg SCHÖNER (celebrating her 90th birthday on July 2, 2025!!!), who was already active in Italy, also played in the spy thriller. Olga von TOGNI, Hanns LOTHAR and Paul VERHOEVEN appeared as sinister GDR agents. The screenplay was written by Herbert REINECKER (DERRICK) based on a script by Will TREMPER.
In 1989, the American director Oliver STONE (two years after his OSCAR triumph with PLATOON) presented his then latest film TALK RADIO in competition at the BERLINALE. The film told the story of a radio presenter from Denver (the action was set in Dallas, however) who had actually been murdered a few years ago by a group called The Order. The case of Alan BERG (1934 - 1984) was hardly known in German-speaking countries until this film. Lead actor and screenwriter Eric BOGOSIAN was awarded the Silver Bear in Berlin.
The Australian director Justin KURZEL now tells the story of the group responsible for the gruesome murder in 1984 more than 35 years later. And he does this in an extremely exciting thriller that makes social developments that are now obvious visible almost at the moment they arise. His film was presented in competition at last year's Venice Film Festival.
Jude LAW plays an emaciated FBI agent who actually wants to get away from the crime-ridden stress of the East Coast metropolises in rural America (in the state of Washington) and has to because of his obvious alcohol problems. He doesn't take the repeated bank robberies in the entire Pacific Northeast of the USA all that seriously. It is only through a resourceful local policeman (Tye SHERIDAN) that he realizes how big the matter in the background could actually be. And indeed: Nicholas HOULT plays a charismatic young man who intends to achieve a lot more in an incredibly impressive way.
A magnificent film that takes your breath away! You should also consider watching TALK RADIO again on this occasion. Two films that complement each other perfectly, even though there are more than 35 years between their filming.
The Australian director Justin KURZEL now tells the story of the group responsible for the gruesome murder in 1984 more than 35 years later. And he does this in an extremely exciting thriller that makes social developments that are now obvious visible almost at the moment they arise. His film was presented in competition at last year's Venice Film Festival.
Jude LAW plays an emaciated FBI agent who actually wants to get away from the crime-ridden stress of the East Coast metropolises in rural America (in the state of Washington) and has to because of his obvious alcohol problems. He doesn't take the repeated bank robberies in the entire Pacific Northeast of the USA all that seriously. It is only through a resourceful local policeman (Tye SHERIDAN) that he realizes how big the matter in the background could actually be. And indeed: Nicholas HOULT plays a charismatic young man who intends to achieve a lot more in an incredibly impressive way.
A magnificent film that takes your breath away! You should also consider watching TALK RADIO again on this occasion. Two films that complement each other perfectly, even though there are more than 35 years between their filming.