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On an overcast summer’s day, Merle arrives at her lover Romuald’s villa, jacket and luggage in hand, to find the doors are locked. He had invited her to visit him in the south of France but seems to have headed off somewhere. She thus has to come to some arrangement with his uncooperative children, help celebrate Emma’s 13th birthday and put up with Felix’s impudence, the 16-year-old son who sees her presence as a provocation.
It doesn’t take long for the host’s absence to become barely noticeable. The plot centres on Merle, on her attempts to fit in, to take on this unexpected role as naturally as possible. In a particularly striking scene, she gets into an argument with the local baker, who refuses to give her a cake ordered for Emma’s birthday. Merle loses the battle of wills. When Romuald finally calls, she decides to side with his children rather than her distant lover, and quietly enjoys her breakthrough. With great empathy and subtlety, Nicolas Wackerbarth’s Halbschatten creates a portrait of a person ill at ease with being the centre of attention, in the glaring sunlight.

https://nitro.download/view/638F46792B44C9A/Nicolas_Wackerbarth_-_(2013)_Everyday_Objects.mkv

Language(s):German, French, English
Subtitles:English

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UNTEN MITTE KINN (the title can be literally translated as ‘Bottom Middle Chin’) is about a group of drama school students shortly before their graduation. They struggle with their teacher Borchardt – played by actor and stage director Fritz Schediwy (1943–2011) – and so they hire actress Corinna Trampe (Ursula Werner) to help them finish their stage production of Maxim Gorki’s Nachtasyl (The Lower Depths / На дне, literally: ‘At the bottom’).

german synopsis:

Wenige Tage vor dem obligatorischen Intendantenvorsprechen der Abteilung Schauspiel macht sich Unruhe in der Abschlussklasse breit: Die jungen Schauspieler fühlen sich unvorbereitet, mit Gerüchten und Intrigen konfrontiert und laufen Gefahr, wegen ihrer Eitelkeiten und ihres eigenen Ehrgeizes den Halt zu verlieren. Nicolas Wackerbarth zeigt in seiner gänzlich improvisierten Komödie, wie sich die Abhängigkeitsverhältnisse und Machtstrukturen innerhalb eines Kulturbetriebs psychisch auswirken können. Der Film legt dar, dass Schauspielschulen ihren eigenen Gesetzen folgen und wie die jeweiligen Schüler mit dem individuellen und äußeren Druck umgehen.

http://nitroflare.com/view/6355FE92C3DC061/UNTEN_MITTE_KINN_Nicolas_Wackerbarth_2011.avi

https://tezfiles.com/file/ded769e4a78f5/UNTEN_MITTE_KINN_Nicolas_Wackerbarth_2011.mp4

Language:German
Subtitles:none

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