Dreiviertelmond
- Elmar Wepper: Hartmut Mackowiak
- Mercan Türkoğlu: Hayat
- Ivan Anderson: Gülen
- Özay Fencing: Nezahat
- Katja Rupe: Christa Mackowiak
- Marie Leuenberger: Verena Mackowiak
- Bernd Regenauer: Karl -Heinz
- Stefan Kügel: Bertl
- Christian Lerch: doctor
Three-quarter moon is a German film directed by Christian Zübert from the year 2011. Tragicomedy with Elmar Wepper in the lead role was launched on 13 October 2011 at the Majestic movie rentals. The film is based on a common idea Züberts and his wife Ipek Zübert.
Action
While her mother traveling professional, to the six-year Hayat stay with her Turkish grandmother in Nuremberg. As Hayat's grandma has suddenly hospitalized, Hayat rises again at the rather xenophobic set, grumpy taxi driver Hartmut Mackowiak into the taxi, she knows as a single in Germany, since he previously she and her mother after arriving from Turkey from the airport to the apartment of her grandmother had driven. Mackowiak brings the sleeping Hayat home and leaves her in the abandoned apartment on the sofa. The next day Mackowiak looks bad conscience still after her and drives her to visit with her grandmother to the hospital, which has fallen into a coma. Mackowiak, who was two months before leaving after 35 years of marriage, his wife Christa, recognizes that Hayat is without care and takes her to reluctantly after his daughter refuses to provide a couple of days for the girl. Mackowiak learns of the relationship his wife and spying after her, accompanied by Hayat, with whom he befriends slowly. Hayat traveling again with her mother back to Turkey. At the end of the film Mackowiak traveling to Istanbul and he learns that Hayat translated "life" means.
Background
Scene of the action is Nuremberg. The film had on September 30, 2011 at the Hamburg Film Festival premiere. The official theatrical release was followed on October 13. Until the end of 2012 Dreiviertelmond reached about 384,000 admissions in Germany. TV premiere was on 18 October 2013 Arte.
Reviews
January Gorner film starts designated Dreiviertelmond as " wonderfully sincere film about an unusual encounter and the clash of two cultures. " Production avoid the danger " of falling into clichés and platitudes ," but will " with all due skill of the director and script writer only through his protagonist finally into something special. "
World Online wrote: ". If you want to accuse this very fine, very understated film of a, then actually that he, but is just a tad predictable at all warmth of heart, which he exudes " The online edition compared the film with Andreas Dresen's episode film night Shapes (1999) and praised the illustration of the two main characters: "As Hartmut shows [ Wepper ] now once again that he has been overlooked unfairly. Very accurate, he knows the balance between Grantlertum and empathy to keep without revealing his character ever. On the other hand, the small Mercan Türkoğlu from Berlin in her early film debut a real inspiration. A child that you just have to love "
The filmdienst criticized that the film " emotional intensity and radiance " missing. "Too much is played to often pronounced what you long needed no more words." Three-quarter moon is more suited for television than the big screen. However, he tells a " touching story " with " many cute scenes " and " has a big heart for his lost characters ."
Awards
Christian Zübert received the Bavarian Film Award 2011 for the screenplay of three-quarter moon. 2012 was followed by a nomination for the German Film Award in the category Best program feature film and a Bambi in the category " Talent" for Hayat Actress Mercan Türkoğlu. Zübert also won the German director's prize Metropolis in the category of Best Director movie.