Until Nothing Remains

  • Silke ground Bender: Gine Reiners, born Clasen
  • Felix Clear: Frank Reiners
  • Nina Kunz village: Helen Berg
  • Kai Wiesinger: Dr. Gerd Ruppert
  • Suzanne of Borsody: Ursula Friedrich
  • Robert Atzorn: Ludwig Clasen
  • Sabine Postel: Katrin Clasen
  • Hubertus Hartmann: Klaus Kaiser
  • Victoria Trauttmansdorff: Judge
  • Ludwig Blochberger: Chris
  • Paula Schramm: Angela

Until Nothing Remains is a German TV movie from 2010, of a fictional - based loosely on various dropout reports - exercise history criticism of the New Religious Movement Scientology. The film is a teamWorx production in co-production with the Southwest Broadcasting, ARD Degeto and the Norddeutscher Rundfunk; he was supported by the Hamburg Film Fund Schleswig -Holstein ( FFHSH ). The producers are Nico Hofmann and Benjamin Benedict.

Formation

The film cost 2.5 million euros. He is the first project of a German television station that handles the controversial topic of Scientology to a fictional material. For fear of legal action by the Church of Scientology, the film under the pseudonym crime scene has been turned " The dead in the Sound ". After announcement of Scientology responded with a press conference and a private movie counterpart. The first took the repetition of the film on the day after the premiere of the program, since the film for reasons of protection of minors was not allowed to be broadcast in the morning.

SWR - TV movie boss Carl Berggruen said at the Berlin Film Premiere to have deliberately produced to the delicate subject of Scientology a feature film, since so more people could be achieved than with a documentary.

Action

The fictional film is loosely based on various dropout reports based on how a family comes into contact with Scientology and eventually her entire life is affected by it. As the protagonist Frank Reiners wants to leave the Church of Scientology, flares between him and his wife, who remains a member of Scientology, a dispute over the custody of their child. The film takes place as a flashback from the courtroom.

Reception

The first broadcast of the film on 31 March 2010 at 20.15 clock saw 8.69 million viewers (market share: 27.1%), twice as many as commonly used in other films in the First Wednesday. In the group of 14 - to 49 -year-olds 2.2 million viewers and 17.3 % market share could be achieved.

Scientology described the production as " absolute propaganda film ".

The radiated to the film after talk show " Tough but Fair " on the subject of Scientology also achieved a comparatively high rate: 7.47 million viewers made ​​for a market share of 28.3 %, this was the highest ever recorded reach the shipment. In it, the press spokesman for the organization took a position on the film. In the usual Webausstrahlung the talk show it was the editors for legal reasons no longer possible to offer documenting Einspieler to the practices of the organization. They were hidden by a reference to the legal.

Also in Germany the radio was on the day of broadcast of the film main topic. There were interviews with the filmmaker Niki Stein, as well as with the Berlin journalist Frank Nordhausen and the Hamburg Scientology expert Ursula Caberta.

In the Süddeutsche Zeitung on March 31 to film the article appeared operating thetans by Marc Felix Serrao.

On 29 February 2012, the film was sent again at 20:15 in the first program of the ARD.

Awards

  • 2010: Bavarian Television Award for Niki Stein for written and directed the film
  • 2011: Jupiter Award for Nina Kunz village in the category Best TV Actress
  • " Until Nothing Remains " excellent in Biarritz. Niki Stein receives the FIPA 2011 the screenplay prize for the SWR co-production.
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