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Finsterworld
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Wikipedia article
'Finsterworld' is a 2013 German motion picture drama directed by Frauke Finsterwalder and co-written by Finsterwalder and Christian Kracht, starring Margit Carstensen, Sandra Hller, Corinna Harfouch, Christoph Bach, Carla Juri, and Jakub Giersza.
Plot
'Finsterworld' is an ensemble piece with twelve main characters who are gradually shown to interconnect with each other. These include a pedicurist, three generations of the Sandberg family, and a documentarist and her policeman boyfriend, who is secretly a furry.
Production and release
The film was shot in various locations in Bavaria and Tanzania. Its world premiere was at the 2013 Montral World Film Festival. It opened in German cinemas in October 2013, in Austria in January 2014 and in Swiss cinemas in March 2014
Soundtrack
The film features an original score by composer Michaela Melin, singer of the German new wave band FSK, and is bookended by the song "The Wind" by Cat Stevens.
Critical response
'The Hollywood Reporter' praised its "sophisticated screenplay", "beautiful camerawork" and "very solid line-up of actors". 'Die Welt' called it a "masterpiece", while Letterboxd writes "Somewhere between a sylvan paradise lost and a realpolitik nightmare come true lies Finsterworld's Germany. Its fantastical inhabitants feel so familiar, it's uncanny. They're neighbors, fathers and boys you went to school with. It hits too close to home. Perhaps we should bury that movie deep in the forest where nobody will ever find it. Or perhaps we should allow its haunting veracity to breathe."
Awards
It won the Bronze Zenith at the 2013 Montral World Film Festival, as well as the 2013 TV-Spielfilm-Award at Germanys Cologne Conference. At the 2013 Zurich Film Festival, it won the Critics' Choice award, and prize for the best German-language feature film. The film was nominated for best fiction debut at Camerimage festival in Poland. It has also garnered nominations for best feature film debut at Munichs 2013 Filmfest Mnchen and three nominations for the 2013 Preis der deutschen Filmkritik, winning best German screenplay, as well as five nominations for the Deutscher Filmpreis, with Sandra Hller winning best supporting actress. In 2014, it won best female directed film at Edinburgh International Film Festival, as well as a nomination for the Fipresci Prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival.
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