Mercy (2012 film)
- Jürgen Vogel: Niels
- Birgit Minichmayr: Maria
- Henry rod: Markus
- Ane Dahl Torp: Linda
- Maria Bock: Wenche
- Stig Henrik Hoff: Björn
- Irish Reppen: Sofie
- Richard André Knutsen: Mikkel
- Catherine Bush: Stine
- Bjørn Sundquist: Mads
- David Hjelle Pettersen: Petter
Grace is a German film directed by Matthias Glasner from 2012 with Jürgen Vogel and Birgit Minichmayr in the lead roles. The premiere took place at the 62nd International Film Festival in Berlin on 16 February 2012. The German theatrical release was on 18 October 2012.
Action
Also steer their marriage back in quiet waters, draw engineer Niels and nurse Maria with her son Mark in the northern Norwegian town of Hammerfest. The integration is designed Locally different: Niels is very stressed from his job in a gas handling system, but cares little about the fellow next to him - after nine months he has mastered a few words norwegian. With co-worker Linda, with whom he can converse in English, he has an affair. Maria, however, goes into their work in a hospice on, singing in the church choir and has a friendly relationship with her colleagues. Markus falls integration at his school, although he may well norwegian, yet difficult.
When Mary goes to a double-layer in January home, she noticed - distracted by an aurora - a dull blow to her car. She stops, looks in the rearview mirror, can not see anything in the dark. Under the conviction that he had just hit a dog, she continues; when she is home, she asks Niels, look up again at the accident site. Niels goes all the way down, increases the suspected crash site with flashlight, but can not find anything. Only a few days later Mary learns from the newspaper that she has approached Mette, a 16 - year-old girl: Mette is still crawled after the accident off the road, crashed into a snow hole and froze to death.
Mary and Niels choose to conceal what has happened, because there has been no witnesses to the accident, Markus they tell nothing. The city takes in the accident large portion and it falls Mary and Niels hard to see the parents of the girl in the eye. Through their dealings with this incredible secret, Mary and Niels fall again into each other.
Markus gaining the reputation of a classmate when he, along with spits him another boy in the backpack. Inwardly, he feels met when he learns that this student has changed classes because of this event. After a few weeks, he sums up the courage to confess to him what he did to apologize. He is rejected by him.
As Niels has to behave differently Linda lately, he tells her on a helicopter tour of Mary's hit and run. Linda uses this to focus. When she some evenings later confesses her love to him, her replies Niels that the relationship with Linda had never been more than a fling for him and he has been back in love with Maria. Angry scratched Linda Niels ' car and threatened him later by phone. Niels confesses Mary the affair, she forgives him. Linda apologized later Niels before she leaves town and job to drive back to Oslo.
One day keeps Niels on at the accident site and look at the left there flowers and cards. Coincidentally, Mette's mother comes to the scene and would like to thank Niels for this gesture. Niels and Maria decide to Mette to drive parents to tell them everything. These are surprised by the confession, the question of what should be done now, remains unanswered. The film ends a few months later during the midsummer festival: The inhabitants of the city - among them Niels, Mary and Mark and Mette's parents - welcome the polar summer, all seem at peace with himself.
Production
The of the Berlin Film production company Black and White Film Produktion GmbH, Knudsen & Streuber media Manufaktur GmbH and ophir film and television production GmbH and the Norwegian Neofilm in coproduction with ZDF and Arte produced film was from 18 January to 11 March 2011 on location in Hammerfest ( Norway) and rotated in Hamburg. For the interior shots were six days in the studio 9/10 of Studio Hamburg GmbH.
The film was promoted filminstitutt grace of the film promotion Hamburg Schleswig- Holstein, the Media Board Berlin- Brandenburg, the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media, the German Federal Film Fund and the Norsk.
Reviews
" An irritating drama that embeds the central theme of guilt and the desire for forgiveness in a daring, sometimes striking narrative and the moral dilemma dissolves rather unsatisfactory. Nevertheless, the sovereign and multi-layered film played convinced by haunting, surreal images lit up the snow-covered landscape. "
" Matthias Glasner has filmed with Birgit Minichmayr and Jürgen Vogel a soul landscape of ice and snow. Rarely has a film was clearer in his glad tidings. [ ... ] Grace is a superbly played psychodrama, and you can Glasner recognition have placed for as much clarity in the belief in its positive utopia that forgiveness even under the unlikely circumstances is possible. "
"After the writer of the award winning Scandinavian writer Kim Fupz Aakeson Matthias Glasner has realized with two exceptional actors an immensely dense drama that organically fits into the magnificent landscape. Schroff repellent, almost unreal in the cold polar night, open and harmonious to Midsummer Night, is the landscape that is captured by the camera in the quiet, poetic images, the third main character. The premiered in the Berlinale Competition 2012 film succeeds in this way a more in-depth exploration of the more abstract issues of guilt and grace, with less religious than the humanistic dimension is the focus. "
Awards
- Predicate particularly valuable the German Film and Media Review (FBW )
- Filmfest Hamburg 2012: Screenplay Award to Kim Fupz Aakeson
- Bavarian Film Award 2012 for the image design to Jakub Bejnarowicz
- Nominated for the German Film Award 2013 in three categories ( Actress - Birgit Minichmayr, camera / image composition, sound design ).