Indien (Film)
- Josef Hader: Heinz Boesel
In the other roles
- Maria Hofstätter: Kirchner landlady
- Roger Murbach: Kirchberg host
- Karl Markovic: Kirchinger host
- Ursula Rojek: waitress
- Wolfgang Böck: Primary
- Ranjeet Singh: Newspaper seller
India is an Austrian film made in 1993.
The tragi-comic road movie made known abruptly in Austria and (South ) Germany 1993, the two comedians Josef Hader and Alfred villages. The film itself is based on her play of the same from the year 1991. For the film adaptation, the authors shortened about one- third of the text and moved several scenes. Played the play exclusively in restaurants and a hospital, there are several sequences in the film, playing in a car or a hotel room.
India has been released as a film number 7 in the edition " The Austrian film " on DVD and also the only film from Austria, which was included in the collection of the Cinémathèque the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
Action
The petty-bourgeois Heinz Boesel and ambitious, but worthy yuppie Kurt Fellner, who talks incessantly and wants to impress with his knowledge, check on behalf of the Tourist Office in the Lower Austrian provincial Inns on the observance of hygiene rules and commercial legal requirements.
Already at the beginning of the mission, the serious differences between the two characters are recognizable. Boesel drinking beer constantly, speaks only the bare minimum and makes a quiet, sedate impression, but occasionally breaks out his raw nature. Likewise, he sees about one or other misconduct, the hosts of time, as long as he is bribed accordance with wine and food. Fellner, however, reverses out his intellectual side and tried for all circumstances more or less to find the right explanations. Also he tortures Boesel constantly with questions from the game Trivial Pursuit.
One evening, escalating a dispute between the two. When bedtime Boesel appears the influence of alcohol, in Fellner's room and pours his heart out about his failed marriage as well as his son, who is not from him. As Fellner noticed the next day that his girlfriend is cheating on him, he begins to drink.
Suddenly, the two very different characters found on a plane and come closer together. On the rather gloomy rides through the province they discover their own weaknesses and peculiarities. Slowly, a close friendship developed between the two inspectors. Together, the innkeepers are tormented and en masse cashed rewards in terms of natural history for the eyes flattening. Fellner even manages to inspire Boesel for its Indian music and introduced him to the teachings of reincarnation.
Suddenly it comes during a stopover in the middle of nowhere to an incident: Fellner gets severe pain in the abdomen. The mission is aborted.
Fellner will be admitted to the hospital, but as the primary goes on vacation to the study, it remains unclear about his diagnosis - he interpreted that there may be nothing serious. Since Boesel and his family no longer has anything on his hat and Fellner seems dumped by his girlfriend and all others, Boesel is almost daily in the hospital to make Fellner society. A ward sister borrows Boesel to a white doctor's coat, so its stays not notice about the visit overtime. Random overheard Boesel when going to the toilet two doctors who already know that Fellner suffering from testicular cancer. Boesel is dismayed, but also maintains over Fellner seems that nothing had happened. Soon Fellner learns of the devastating diagnosis. Once more, it is possible Boesel, Fellner to smuggle out of the hospital, to a dinner with him. There it comes again to a feeling outbreak of Fellner, but eventually comes to terms with his fate. Boesel met Fellner yet all of his last wishes: he wants to play a simple tune on an organ, whereupon Boesel worried a keyboard. Listening to the desire again in the forest, the birds, pushes Boesel Fellner's bedside (which for reasons of space now on the floor of the hospital is ) in the park of the hospital. There Fellner dies in the arms of Boesel.
After Boesel adopted by his friend, he is on his way home. In the park of the hospital he meets on a park bench a newspaper salesman of Indian origin who has to listen to a tape recorder, the same music as Fellner. Boesel sits down beside him. When the Indians also peels the banana in the same way as Fellner, he thinks he sees in him the reincarnation of Fellner. Cheerful he begins his journey home.
Background
Just like the original cabaret piece of villages and strife, the film is divided into two sections. The first comic part is detached from the tragic part. Of course in the first part tragic scenes ( the hotel room scene, told in Mr. Boesel in tears about his failed marriage ), but here outweighs the comedy. Looking at the film in its entirety, is a boundary between comedy and tragedy instead of in a very special sharpness.
The line between comedy and tragedy is crossed exactly at the point when Mr. Fellner attempted to climb a pylon, but suddenly felt a sharp pain in the abdomen. From now on only is still the so-called gallows humor present.
Reviews
The film was evaluated by the Austrian press ambivalent. So wrote about the Vienna daily Kurier in a diction that corresponds to the tenor of the film: " A biting Gaudi two sympathetic Unsympathler. And a Riesenhetz about cancer. On the one kicked the bucket of the two. But maybe he is reborn as a vegetable. "Der Standard was enthusiastic to cloth, recognized dialogues, " in view of their castle boss Peymann put his veneration for the voice artist Gabriel Barylli shelved and instead instruct Hader / villages with a drama would have. " At the same time critics restricted but one, the film, include " the actual piece only little quality or a bit of clumsiness added. " The press saw the film as " astonishing mastery outstanding comedy that suddenly turns but in a much less compelling tragedy. "
Success in various film festivals and international film awards also made West German and Swiss media attention to the movie. The Süddeutsche Zeitung found that India is " the rare stroke of luck, in which, from a stage play with only two scenes a wonderful, surprising, entertaining and compelling film ." The Neue Zürcher Zeitung described India as " Funny, bawdy, touching, but also shockingly honest," the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung praised the " rare so happy metamorphosis " of theater, cabaret and film. The lexicon of international film recommended the film " Cinema Tip of the Catholic film criticism" and defined it as " comedy, which is characterized by gorgeous comic dialogue attacks, but also the change for the serious and melancholic melodrama with Fabulierfreude, biting wit, precise observation and especially a life-affirming hilarity masters. "
Awards
- Thomas Pluch Script price of the screenplay for Alfred Vienna Forum villages and Josef Hader, 1993
- Grand Prize of the Santa Barbara Film Festival in California, 1994, on the occasion of the U.S. premiere
- Max Ophüls Prize 1994 Price of the Saarland Prime Minister for director Paul Harather
- Audience Award