The Red Spot

  • Yuki Inomata: Aki Onodera
  • Hans Kremer: John Weber
  • Orlando Klaus, Elijah Weber

The Red Spot is a German - Japanese Drama from 2008, which is counted to the auteur film. The film was directed by Marie Miyayama and produced by the Munich Film Workshop. The main roles Yuki Inomata, Hans Kremer and Orlando Klaus play.

Action

The young Japanese Aki Onodera is stirred by dreams that rise of long-lost memories of her early childhood days. Actually, they should focus so close to the end of their studies to the job search, but instead she goes to her parents' house and discovers in a closet an old package from a foreign country. An old photo apparatus in which a film still plugged in, and a yellowed envelope with a letter and a foreign map on which a red dot marks a spot that seems to be key to their dreams.

Aki overrides the concerns of her family and her boyfriend and she travels alone to Germany to look for this place. In the idyllic Ostallgaeu she enters looking for the right way, the local police station, where just the 18 -year-old motorcycle racer Elias Weber is heard. When Elias ' father John comes in to pick up his son, asks him the policeman to take the young Japanese woman, because their goal is very close to the house of the Weber family.

Father and son putting Aki off to the forest, from where there is nothing special except trees and fields, and go home. When Elias drives off after dinner with his sister to get his bike, they meet again at the young Japanese woman who is desperately looking for a place to stay for the night in the rain. Take it with you into the city - and when they find a hotel room there, too, Aki is unceremoniously taken in the guest room of the Weber family.

The next day, Elias Aki helps in finding the marked location on the map. There is a memorial stone in memory of Aki's biological family is to be located, is killed in an accident 18 years ago, as Aki Elias explained in awkward German. Elias evening provoked a heated argument with his father, who brings him a slap. Elias immediately exits the house, followed by his father, who had already repented of his deed. And otherwise shows that Aki's presence and the search of her past amplify without their intention tensions within the family - and ultimately lead to a far more secretive part of Weber's family history comes to light.

As Aki finally finds the desired location, sits down at this place once everyone involved in its own way terms with the past in order to begin a new life.

Background

The Red Spot is the closing film of Marie Miyayama, the first Japanese student at the University of Television and Film Munich. The shooting took place in August and September 2007 at the Eastern Allgäu and in October 2007 in Chiba, near Tokyo instead.

The production made ​​for comparatively little money as so-called low-budget film celebrated its world premiere at the World Film Festival in August 2008 in Montréal, Canada, where the film was nominated for the Golden Zenith; the German premiere took place on 23 October 2008 at the Hof International Film Festival, where he won the German Film. Other performances of the film was, inter alia, invited to the Cairo International Film Festival, the International Film Festival of India to Goa, the International Film Festival Innsbruck ( opening film ) and the International Film Festival Shanghai, in Germany to Asia Film Festival, Filmfest Biberach, the International Film Festival Braunschweig, the International Film Festival Passau invited ( as the opening film ) and the German Film Festival in Ludwigshafen, where he was nominated for the cinematography prize. In the Bavarian Film Award in January 2009 The Red Dot Award as best young production.

In German cinemas The Red Spot starts on June 4, 2009 at the rental company Movienet.

Reviews

Wolfgang Höbel wrote on October 27, 2008 in Spiegel Online: Landscape painting with people supplement: In the film days in the court of the state of the domestic narrative cinema was lamenting this year. Wrongly, because the two outstanding films " The Red Spot " and " The Architect " proved that the refusal of drama can be great art.

Anne Wotschke and Kalle Somnitz write on Programmkino.de: But that also raises serious issues can be moving in scene that showed this year in court a young graduate of the HFF Munich Marie Miyayama with her ​​debut THE RED DOT, who is also the Young German film completely won and rightly so.

Ulf Lepelmeier writes on Filmstarts.de: Once a year the members of the German film industry pilgrimage to the Frankish province and make their new works in the wet and cold town yard distributors, journalists and the interested audience. Of course, in the Hof Film Festival not missing the mandatory rates. The coveted " Young German Cinema " in 2008 went to the HFF - closing film of the Japanese Marie Miyayama that " The Red Spot " enthusiastic with their unfussy and stylish drama.

Christoph Groner writes in Focus on Film 45/2008: Narrow budget, clear vision: " The Red Spot " by Marie Miyayama has thrilled with aesthetic unity of the jury in court - wage was the prize.

Awards

2009: William Dieterle Film Prize of the city of Ludwigshafen

2009: Golden Heidi for the best feature film at the film actor the University of Television and Film Munich

2009: Audience Award at the 5th Festival of German Films in Ludwigshafen

2009: Special Mention of the Jury of the International Competition of the International Film Festival Innsbruck

2009: Bavarian Film Award 2008 for Martin Blanke Meyer (Category: VGF - coming producers price)

2008: German Film at the 42nd Hof Film Festival for Oliver Sachs ( image design ), Helmut Sinz (music) and Marie Miyayama (Editor)

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