Fata Morgana (2007 film)
- Matthias Schweighofer: Daniel
- Marie Zielcke: Laura
- Jean -Hugues Anglade: The stranger
Fata Morgana is a German film from 2007 by Simon Large. The film stars Matthias Schweighofer, Marie Jean -Hugues Anglade and Zielcke. It is about a young couple who is lost in the desert and forced to follow an opaque strangers.
Action
Law student Daniel and his girlfriend Laura to go on holiday in Morocco. You rent a Land Rover Defender for a day trip into the desert. At a gas station they meet a shady stranger who offers to show them the desert. They refuse to put their drive away and decide spontaneously to deviate from the slopes. After making love on a dune her car to not start anymore, and they try to get back to walking the runway.
Out of nowhere, the taciturn stranger shows up on his motorcycle and bring their vehicle back on track. They follow him to notice, however, that he does not bring back different than promised to the piste. Stresses also develop between Daniel and Laura. When Daniel moves away after an argument from the vehicle, Laura offers the stranger. When Daniel feels after his return, what has happened, it makes the bike of the stranger unroadworthy and continues with Laura it.
As the warring pair reached a deserted city, Laura runs away. Daniel tries to find them in the narrow streets, but instead encounters the stranger whom they had left without means of transportation. Daniel attacks him with his knife, but is disarmed immediately. At the moment when the man picks up the knife, Laura encounters added and knocks him down with a boulder. You leave the stranger and go back to their vehicle, which is at some distance from the city. Laura suspects that she killed the man. However, before they drive the stranger comes up to her and breaks directly in front of them together. Ultimately, the couple decides to take the seriously injured in their vehicle. Due to the impending consequences for Laura, who has attacked the stranger, Daniel decides to leave him in the desert and to hand over to fate. He drives with Laura alone back to the city in which they started their journey. When they arrive, both plagued by a guilty conscience and they come back to the point where they are left strangers. However, this has disappeared. You only discover putative camel tracks, which lead back to the desert.
Criticism
" Psychological drama thriller and horror elements, the scene " knows " not to use dramatic desert and visually makes the lostness of his people can not be experienced. The desert is primarily used as an opulent backdrop of an implausible game whose participants never lose traction. "
Awards
- 2007: German Film for Simon Gross