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Der Nachtmahr
Germany 2015
produced by Akiz, Amir Hamz, Simon Rühlemann, Christian Springer, Daniel Baur (executive), Oliver Simon (executive) for OOO-Films, Bon Voyage Films
directed by Akiz
starring Carolyn Genzkow, Sina Tkotsch, Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht, Arnd Klawitter, Julika Jenkins, Lynn Femme, Kim Gordon, Alexander Scheer, Lucia Luciano, Aram Arami, Michael Epp, Moritz Leu, Uwe Preuss, Joe Rilla, Til Schindler, Arnel Taci
written by Akiz, music by Christoph Blaser, Steffen Kahles, Akiz, creature design by Akiz, visual effects by Sven Rabe, Sarah Neuner
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Tina (Carolyn Genzkow) is pretty much the typical teenage girl -
working hard to get through school, but partying even harder, taking drugs
that are not always safe on raves playing way too loud music, longing for
a guy (Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht) who hardly knows she exists - and
eventually passing out due to her lifestyle which gives her some crazy
near-death experience ... and after that, nothing is like it seems
anymore, as she constantly thinks she hears weird noises in her house,
eventually finds an ugly creature going through her fridge ... but of
course, nobody believes her, least of all her parents (Arnd Klawitter,
Julika Jenkins), who when she won't stop speaking about the creature get
her to a psychiatrist and get her medicated ... and yet, none of this
makes the creature go away, so eventually, once she knows the creature is
harmless, Tina just makes friends with it and keeps it as her pet - and
then her parents find the pet, have it taken away by the authorities who
drag it off to a science lab while Tina is kept heavily sedated. But by
now Tina has developed a telepathic link to the creature and feels what it
feels ... and shaking off the effects of the sedatives she's under, she
has just one goal - to get her creature, whatever it might be, back ... Der
Nachtmahr is most certaianly a most unusual film, telling a bizarre
story, attacking the senses with stroboscope effects and loud music, never
giving much of a heed about "good taste" and the like - so it's
somewhat bizarre that the film shows striking similarities to the very
middle-of-the-road for-the-whole-family movie ET - even if it would
be that film's "on speed"-version without all the kitsch. But
that probably explains why Der Nachtmahr works in the first place,
because despite all the weirdness (and there's a lot of it) it tells a
proper story, a story that might be wild and confusing at times, but it's
there all the same, and it's carried by a very impressive central
performance by Carolyn Genzkow and a directorial effort that
light-footedly finds its way between underground-iconic imagery, attack of
the senses but also subtlety if needed. Definitely worth a look!
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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