In Fatih Akin's Golden Globe clearer "Out of Nowhere", Diane Kruger desperates after a terrorist attack. What makes the film so special.
The drama "Out of Nowhere" (2017) was surprisingly not nominated for the Oscar for Best International Film, and the Hamburg director Fatih Akin (47, "Against the Wall") and his leading actress Diane Kruger (44, " Inglourious Basterds ") for it. Today, Monday (September 28th, 10:30 pm, ZDF), the film will be broadcast on free TV for the first time.
That's what the revenge drama is about
Hamburg. Katja (Diane Kruger) marries the Turkish-born Kurd Nuri Sekerci (Numan Acar) while he is still serving the remainder of his prison sentence for drug possession. When he was released from prison, he opened a tax, travel and translation agency in downtown Hamburg. A short time later their son Rocco (Rafael Santana) is born.
One morning in October, Katja brings the now six-year-old Rocco to her husband's office. She wants to borrow his car and meet a friend. While she is still near Nuri's office, she notices a blonde woman who leaves a new bike on the side of the road unlocked. A short time later there is an explosion. Katja loses everything that was important to her in life – husband and child are dead, a number of other people were seriously injured. Katja falls into a deep depression.
The police investigation leads to André (Ulrich Friedrich Brandhoff) and Edda Möller (Hanna Hilsdorf), a young couple with connections to the right-wing scene. It comes to trial. Katja appears as a joint plaintiff and is represented by her lawyer Danilo Fava (Denis Moschitto). Although the forensics department found components of the bomb in a garage belonging to Andrés father (Ulrich Tukur) and who testifies against the son, Möller's lawyer, Haberbeck (Johannes Krisch), succeeds in sowing doubts about the neo-Nazi couple's guilt. The Möllers are acquitted with the note "in case of doubt for the accused".
Katja is desperate. She follows the couple to Greece, where they live in a camper on a beach …
Feature film inspired by the murders of the NSU
The attack in the film is similar to the real nail bomb attack by the neo-Nazi terrorist organization NSU on June 9, 2004 in Keupstrasse in Cologne. The director came to Munich several times to do research for his film to attend the proceedings against the right-wing extremist and only survivor of the NSU trio, Beate Zschäpe (45). "The scandal was not that German neo-Nazis had killed ten people. The real scandal was that the perpetrators had to be Turks or Kurds, that some mafia was behind it," Akin is quoted by the broadcaster as saying.
However, he was not interested in the murderer's perspective for his film. He was concerned with the bereaved bereaved. "There is the state judiciary and there is an individual sense of justice. And sometimes the two clash. The film is also about this clash," said Akin in a ZDF interview on the inner conflict of his protagonist in the film.
The Golden Globe clearer
The list of awards that the film and its makers have been showered with is long. "Out of Nowhere" won the German and Bavarian Film Awards as well as many international festivals. At the Golden Globe Awards 2018, the strip prevailed in the category of best foreign language film against "The Long Way of Hope" (2017) by Angeline Jolie (45). Leading actress Diane Kruger received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival 2017 for best actress.