VEIEL, A.: Kick (Der) (Film, 2005)
Der Kick
Wrage, Susanne-Marie
Lerch, Markus
Author: Veiel, Andres
Author: Schmidt, Gesine
Television Director: Veiel, Andres
Actor:
Lerch, Markus
Actress:
Wrage, Susanne-Marie
Year of Production: 2005
Playing Time: 01:36:19
Catalogue Number: THE10103
UPC: 4280000101037
The Potzlow Case. During the trial, the perpetrators were reduced to cold, untouchable monsters; right-wing extremists without remorse, without reflection. The whole village was under the general suspicion of covering the crime. The second look at the case makes it clear that the general stereotypes do not help.
Perhaps it is the combination of cruelty and looking away in the face of the almost unbelievable events in Potzlow that Veiel and his co- author, the dramaturge Gesine Schmidt, did not rest. But perhaps this is also an attempt to answer the increasingly obvious failure of the media to adequately describe and problematize reality and deal responsibly with crime, with perpetrators such as victims and their milieus.
In the media, (almost) everything can be presented and widely negotiated. But the total information society tends to distort the realistic view of reality rather than illuminate it. The staged, but deliberately low-impact reconstruction of the deed, its circumstances, and the assessment of events from various angles represents an exciting counter-proposal to the media mockery of reality.
