Bungalow (Film)
- Lennie Burmeister: Paul
- Striesow: Max
- Trine Dyrholm: Lene
- Nicole glasses: Kerstin
- Jörg Malchow Stefan
- Maria Hagewald: Dunja
- Frank width tabs: Frank
- Steffen Münster: Teacher
Bungalow is a German feature film from the year 2002.
Action
Paul is 19 years old and a recruit in the army. He and his comrades are on the back of a German army trucks on the way back from a maneuver in the barracks. After a pause, Paul does not rise again, and remains on the motorway service station. The young deserter making his way in his nearby hometown Hessian. There he finds refuge in the bungalow of his parents, who happen to be on vacation in Italy.
Paul first meets his girlfriend Kerstin. But makes up with him because he has not written to her for six weeks. His older brother, Max shows up, he sees problems on his little brother to come and tries to convince him to call the parents in Italy. Vain. Even when Max takes the repair of the roof of the bungalow in attack, he can not persuade Paul to participate. When the military police come to Paul to bring back the troops, they do not hit him. Max drives then his brother to the station, but Paul does not go into the train and instead returns back to the bungalow.
There he meets Lena, the Danish girlfriend of his brother. Paul begins to flirt with her, she kisses him even, but then disappears. Paul goes back to Kerstin, by car from Kerstin's mother make the two a spin. On this trip there will be a wildlife accident. The run over deer caused a little damage to the car. Paul and Kerstin return to the bungalow and hide the car in the garage. Kerstin remains the night with Paul. The next morning, however, she pushes him back and will then exit it again.
Paul now goes around the country with Lene. In return, they notice that once again the military police are waiting for Paul. Paul and Lena looking then a small pension. There they sleep together. In the morning Lene Max calls, so he picks her up, then calls Paul the Military Police to the pension. The final sequence of the film leaves open whether Paul can be arrested by them or uproots again.
Background
The film was made as production for the ZDF series The little teleplay. The shooting took place in the area of Marburg, Glad Bach and Bad Endbach in June / July 2001. Bungalow premiered at the 2002 Berlinale in the Panorama section.
Reviews
"That in its external action rather minimalist, but in detail exactly sophisticated portrait of a young man; it expands towards the subtle and attentive state description of a young generation whose aimlessness leads to a strange listlessness, but can also turn into aggression. "
"With reduced, almost barren images showed a screenwriter and director Ulrich Köhler 2002 Panorama of the Berlinale an amazingly sensitive and empathetic film debut: The Portrait of a young people in search of their own identity and love looks with simple means, without music, effects and explanations the great mystery of being loved - wollens and of growing up in the unused young faces and precise game of his outstanding performer. "
" [ ... ] Occasional annoyance as individual lengths should not obscure the fact that bungalow is better than many German films of the last time [ ... ]. Tastefully filmed records Köhler an intense portrait of disgust and indifference, a world in which nothing happens. And precisely this is us Bungalow probably closer than we want it like to admit. "
Awards
The film won the 2002 Hessian Film Award and the MFG Baden-Baden -Star, he has also been shown at numerous festivals and won.