2024
Zone
––––––––Vater, Erich
––––––––Vater, Erich
Kinofilm
Weltpremiere am International Film Festival Rotterdam
Director Christina Friedrich
Set Design Felix Lindner
Costumes Susanne Brendel, Katharina Grof, Lara Luisa Scherpinski, Susanne Uhl
Music Henry Uhl
Camera Katharina Mänz, Felix Müller, Katja Rivas Pinzón, Emma Lena Weber
Cut Jörg Volkmar
Production Madonnenwerk
Distribution Eksystent Filmverleih
Felix Müller
Kinofilm, Zone, Schauspieler, Internationales Filmfestival Rotterdam,
Nach dem Roman 'Keller' von Christine Friedrich
Zone ist ein Melodram über ein Mädchen mit paranormalen Fähigkeiten, das gegen ein System kämpft, das Menschen in einem abgeriegelten Gebiet berechnen und vollständig erfassen will. In einer der Chronologie entrissenen Zeit macht sich die Rebellin mit einem Bündel Hoffnung auf die Suche nach Gegenorten und einem Leben, das sich wie das eigene anfühlt. Räume und Zeiten stürzen ineinander. Ein Land wird erfahrbar durch die Schmerzen, die Trauer, das Begehren und die Sehnsüchte seiner Bewohner.
Weltpremiere in Rotterdam
There is no facile poetry in this abstraction, only the inner necessity of a work that is true to itself. A protean film of constant invention and surprise, Zone presents a bona-fide piece of personal cinema whose mysteries may elude the viewer, but whose hypnotic effects are hard to miss.
A delicate, episodic adventure, Zone blends the sweep of a novel, the lyricism of an intimate diary and the rich production values of a widescreen epic. Propelled by a variety of contrapuntal music and a stream-of-consciousness voiceover, the film charts the oneiric journey of a young woman who escapes an oppressive detainment facility to encounter a range of situations, people and emotional states, all waystations in her coming of age.
A Beast of a Film
Adapted by prolific German author Christina Friedrich from her 2021 novel Keller, Zone possesses the texture of a memoir and the outline of an allegory. The film doesn’t offer us characters and plot as much as an alluring tapestry of recurring objects, gestures, figures and events that, together, evoke an image of a bygone world and the filmmaker’s feelings towards it. The anti-naturalist, Brechtian narrative progresses elliptically, interweaving literary references, dreams and fantasies over starkly varying terrains.
There is no facile poetry in this abstraction, only the inner necessity of a work that is true to itself. A protean film of constant invention and surprise, Zone presents a bona-fide piece of personal cinema whose mysteries may elude the viewer, but whose hypnotic effects are hard to miss.
