Realização:
Juraj HerzCâmara:
Alexander ŠurkalaMúsica:
Elia CmiralElenco:
Mark Waschke, Karel Roden, Ben Becker, Hannah Herzsprung, Radek Holub, Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht, Zuzana Kronerová, Jan Hrušínský, Franziska Weisz (mais)Sinopses(1)
A war drama takes place in a small village in the Sudetenland between 1938 and 1945. A time that made victims murderers and murderers victims for a change. Staying apart and keeping a cool head was the hardest thing to do. (texto oficial do distribuidor)
Críticas (8)
O conhecimento dos personagens e da atmosfera da época no primeiro terço, promete um excelente drama com parâmetros da Europa Ocidental e ambições do Óscar. No entanto, este potencial de alguma forma diminui e desaparece à medida que o filme avança. A elaboração da lista deveria ser a cena chave do filme, que deveria fazer saltar o resto da duração a um memorável inferno dramático. Foi bem-sucedido a meio caminho. Mas ainda muito decente - os atores, os fatos, os cenários, a fotografia, todos de alto nível. Por muito tempo considerava 4 estrelas.
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Any film that steps on the toes of the Nazis on the one hand and the Czech Communists on the other has my sympathy, because it remains impartial and factual, as it should be.
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To tell you the truth, Habermann's Mill was a very pleasant surprise. The craftsmanship is very professional, Roden is charismatic and the emotions are fairly strong. Unfortunately, it has a couple of the typical problems of modern Czech cinema, like some toe-curling dialogues and the terrible post-synchronisation… but the overall impression left by Herz’s film is very positive.
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Certainly the most significant and quite possibly one of Herz's most successful works since his creative heyday (ending with Morgiana). But at the same time, the film, which, compared to last year's Protector, looks terribly old-fashioned with its radical propensity for pathos and television with its conservative processing. It is good, however, that it opens up the painful and still sensitive subject of German expulsion and crimes against often innocent members of another nationality. What is worse is that in its vision of the world, the film remains at times awkward, clenched and pathetic, albeit with an inverted sign (the characters of Czech pigs are basically equivalent to typical film SS soldiers). Habermann's Mill is very good wherever it focuses on the civilian theme (Habermann as a man who wants to stand "outside" ideologies, which is his fatal mistake) and does not embark on the upright waves of tragedy. When it comes to it (Habermann's wife's interview with the Sturmbahnführer, the execution of Czechs, the final scenes of lynching), the film has the old familiar piece of unnaturalness and bony script equations. The dubious choice of language can also be blamed – why on earth are two Germans talking to each other in Czech post-synchronization and with a terrible attempt at a hard German accent? There are a number of unpleasant excesses, but on the other hand Herz can always compensate them with more successful moments, when I felt that this film had something to say, but he never finishes it. His greatest advantage remains quality craftsmanship, sensitive direction, stylish music and, above all, the charismatic Březina performed by Karel Roden, a character who makes Habermann's Mill surprisingly decent here and there. [55.5% :o)]
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In the last ten years, World War II has been reflected in the story of the RAF airmen in Dark Blue World, in the fate of the Hanula of Zelary, it was there in Bonds of Blood and was featured in I Served the King of England, Tobruk, and Protector. Now, Herz's Habermann's Mill deals specifically with the question of the 1945 expulsion of the Germans, toward which the narrative arc from 1937 onwards follows a direct line of the changing behavior of a multi-ethnic community in extreme times. Herz does an amazing job in every possible respect and presents a film that has been a necessity for Czech cinema for many years. The preponderance of German actors is one of the many strengths on which the basic impact of the horror of the events at Habermann's Mill was built. In particular, Mark Waschke in the lead role embodies the compact, complex character excellently, lending a hand across the decades to, for example, Schlapcke's Boris Rösner of the Albrechtice smelters. The same goes for the riveting performance by Hannah Herzsprung and several others. With the Czechs, it is somewhat difficult to avoid the established pigeonholes, especially with Roden and Hrušínský; however, there was a certain breakthrough when it came to Kaiser and Dulava. It is definitely worth mentioning that Veronika Gajerová, whose performance ideally meets the requirements of the template given to her, as she was given a film role instead of television for the first time since 1989. It would probably now be possible to consider whether Herz is, after all, subconsciously presenting a defense of the German side against the Czech side, but in this case, such an idea would be blasphemous. The story flows and adapts to the time, which is cut off in fairly large chunks of time to allow for the point to be focused on. And at the same time, it is possible to find time for visual references to Coach to Vienna... Looking at it from multiple angles, the only real downside to the film is that the marketing focused exclusively on Karel Roden, who is only a prominent supporting player in the plot, thus stealing space from the main stars of the drama.
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A very good film, not only by Czech standards. Great actors, Herz's direction supported by excellent cinematography and Cmiral's haunting music, and an interesting story, which is unfortunately quite easy to predict. Habermann's Mill could easily have been a bit longer to give more space to some of the characters (yes, I mean for example Kaiser and Stránský).
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It’s good that we are making films that deal with the darkest period of this country’s modern history, and we can be even more pleased that they are as good as Habermann's Mill – excellent filmmaking with superb actors and a perfectly flowing story. In my opinion, as someone who can only imagine the horrors of the Second World War through documentaries, the atmosphere of that dark era is flawless and, overall, the slightly more "intimate" Czech production is the cornerstone of its success. The film's only, but fatal weakness is that it fails to psychologically grip and dramatically escalate its key moments, so that the otherwise honest production momentarily shifts from the mode of cold-blooded, Oscar-hungry demonstration of (in)humanity to a rawer visual one... Nevertheless, well deserved 4*.
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People are swine, and essentially, it doesn't matter what nationalities they are. The film captures a dark period in human history and also a dark period in Czech history. Yes, during the war, the Germans were monsters, but after the war, others also became monsters. Yes, war may be to blame, but perhaps it's also human nature and the tendency to define justice as an eye for an eye when no one is watching. The finale of the film is epically cruel.
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