Freezing in the east.

A tricky triangle, a diabolical plan, an impasse tragedy: In the film "Jerichow" Christian Petzold shows the devastating impact of economic prospects on human relations. An icy thriller, also failed on the east building.
  In the Bible, Jericho is described as a green oasis. The prosperous town on the west bank of the Jordan was regarded as the last pilgrims and secure Raststation before the arduous journey to Jerusalem.
In Germany you will find the cards 2000-souls-Jerichow nest somewhere in the east of the country. The infinite expanse of the flat landscape promises not freedom but desolation, the god-forsaken place nourishing no refuge, but sheer economic necessity at a time and a region where there are hardly any subcontracting, only snacks, DIY and discount stores.
It is of course no coincidence that the director Christian Petzold, which deals with much-movies such as "internal security" or "Yella" the reputation of a sensitive analyst of the dark side of the Berlin Republic has produced his new film "Jerichow" called. Unlike the biblical Jericho meet in this oppressive triangle but not weary pilgrims each other, which was still a tangible goal in mind, but the former Sinn seekers to their faith and their hope for a better life have long since abandoned. They are now internally and externally solidified, before a life without prospects.
One of these failed existences Thomas (Benno Fürmann), a former soldier currently in Afghanistan, the dishonorable from the army was dismissed. Now he is in a dilapidated Jerichow, from his deceased mother inherited a modest cottage build existence. After humiliating visit will take place at the employment office he Knochenjob as helpers in the cucumber harvest. His hermit life seems to turn for the better when he was a coincidence the Turkish entrepreneurs Ali (Hilmi Sözer) know, in the eastern province of a small but profitable food restaurant chain has set up stalls and him a job as a driver offers.
How often in Petzold's films, many scenes in the car, for the director for this game like typical compression chamber provides day-to-day supply, and Ali Thomas, the fast-food stands and collect their tenants if necessary by violence. During the long trips to the two men in the protected area of the passenger compartment slowly closer. The otherwise extremely mistrustful Ali seems to wortkargen Thomas, the Benno Führmann with compressed lips, empty gaze and the physical presence of a traumatized warrior plays, to trust.
VIDEOS ON FILM Photo: Piffl Media Video: Piffl MedienJerichowTrailer and film extracts ausschnitt film: "I need someone" Film clip: "The best yesterday," Film clip: "On the beach" His strange and brittle blond wife Laura (Nina Hoss) dares He is not the meter on the way: If they do not reachable by cell phone, Ali pursued them for miles by car to control where it goes and with whom she has to do. When he was in the office of a beverage distributor, then he flippt and they verdrischt brutal.
Thomas tried first from this Ehezankereien stream, but he feels the wortkargen Laura drawn more and more. Nina Hoss plays they are not considered essential beauty, but as a woman drawn from the fate that their enormous debt to her wealthy husband chains. "One can not love if you have no money, they will later say about Thomas - a keyset for" Jerichow, "which is hardly a scene in which money plays no role.
Escape from the sadness
The tragedy takes its course, as both Ali to a picnic on the Baltic Sea beach and take snaps from a whim, asking each other to dance, so "how to make in Germany." Under his watch approaching and the two wooden inhibited each other to later, after they go to bed drunk Ali, has put ausgehungerte like animals in the hallway on each attack.
Jerichow (GERMANY 2008) Director: Christian PetzoldDrehbuch: Christian PetzoldDarsteller: Benno Fürmann, Hilmi Sözer, Nina HossProduktion: Schramm FilmVerleih: PifflLaufzeit: 92 minutes Start: 8 January 2009offizielle website "Jerichow" is based - the fateful triangle relationship until later in the murder conspiracy against the pair banned husband - loose to succeed James M. Cain film "When the Postman rings twice" by 1981, but his relationship Petzold drama at key points modernized .
Precise, perfectly straightforward and dramaturgically austariert is "Jerichow" primarily a dark relationship thriller. But Petzold said the current social background, so the failure of the east building, the dark side of a globalized capitalism and its devastating impact on the lives and loves of the people always. His mastery is mainly in the unobtrusiveness, with these major political assets with the specific emotions of his characters linked.
When Ali at the Baltic Sea beach drunk and forget himself to a beautiful and melancholy song of the Turkish diva Sezen Aksu singing or dancing in his luxury jeep hit Turkish loud sounds, he flees for seconds of the drab East German reality. Without ever Folkloristic ins, or even exotic abzurutschen, draws him Petzold, himself a Turk is married, so the role of the "Other". The alien, who is in a cold and capital-driven world in his own way trying to assert, without losing it.
KINO-PLANERDPAIhr Cinema: What is where and when - the blogs ONLINE planners for the whole of Germany ... Unlike Thomas and Laura, all the frustrations and humiliations in the hineingefressen and are emotionless and passive to a wealthy breadwinner have hanged acts Ali from his feelings, for better or for worse. Whether he celebrates, is working to propose or the love of his wife buys, he does it consistently and try to imagine the desire to preserve in the heart.
It is one of the many elements of the film, the "Jerichow" so great and near the Greek tragedy back, that he finally must recognize its failure. In this existential moment Ali responded, as is usual, he is with the utmost consequence.