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Eismayer
Austria 2022
produced by Arash T. Riahi, Sabine Gruber for Golden Girls Filmproduktion, Loco Films
directed by David Wagner
starring Gerhard Liebmann, Luka Dimic, Julia Koschitz, Anton Noori, Christopher Schärf, Karl Fischer, Lion Tatzber, Lukas Johne, Mona Kospach, Matthias Hack, Harry Lampl, Matthias Böhm, Thomas Momcinovic, Joshua Jagersberger, Paul Winkler, Thomas Otrok, Adriano Bonamore, Alexander Srtschin, Stan Steinbichler, Lloyd Lynch, Norbert Prammer, Rina Juniku, Roswitha Soukup, Johann Bednar
written by David Wagner, music by Lylit
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Sergeant Eismayer (Gerhard Liebmann) is known and feared as one of the
toughest training officers of the Austrian Armed Forces, working after the
long outdated principle that in order to build up a man it is necessary to
break him down, and he tries to do that via screaming and harsh
punishment. He's pretty much an old school macho who lives for the army,
much to the dismay of his wife (Julia Koschitz) and their son (Lion
Tatzber). And then he finds out that one of his best recruits, Falak (Luka
Dimic), is openly gay, and his world is tipped somewhat out of balance.
You see, on one hand homosexuality is an absolute no-no for him, on the
other he has had homo-erotic feelings himself from time to time. And
weirdly enough he feels drawn to Falak. His wife can't help but notice the
change in Eismayer, and when he finally comes out to her as gay, she
breaks up with him. Shortly after that, he finds out he has cancer, and
during his treatment it's of all people Falak who helps him through and
never gives up on him. But it's still difficult to almost impossible for
Eismayer to accept his new feelings and the new world order resulting from
them ... A very engaging and touching film as it breaks up its
at first black-and-white world into many shades of grey, pretty much
mirroring the inner turmoil of its title character. And the film is really
about more than someone accepting his own homosexuality but about
(self-)acceptance as such, and about ideological shifts (for the better)
that are sometimes hard to catch up with, all told in a slow-burn story
brought to life by a very solid cast and often very impressive imagery,
making this a movie well worth a watch.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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