![]() ![]() ![]() The drama, featuring “the most handsome lovers of the Berlinale,” responds to contemporary debates on sexual orientation, homophobia, and family values. “The German answer to Brokeback Mountain” įreier Fall explores the difficulty of existing outside of heteronormative and socially prescribed life plans in present-day Germany. In the process of trying to make sense of both old and new feelings for Bettina, his new-born son, and Kay, Marc, overwhelmed by a sense of despair and inescapability, ends up hurting everyone involved. ![]() Torn between his responsibilities to his family, including his parents who just financed their son’s semidetached house close to their own residence, and his building desire for Kay, who ultimately confesses his love for his training partner and asks him to come out, Marc struggles with redefining his wants and previously unquestioned identity. He becomes entangled in a web of lies: his pregnant girlfriend Bettina Bischoff ( Katharina Schüttler) grows increasingly suspicious of her partner’s constant absences and secretive behaviour that is out of character for him. When Kay asks to be transferred to Marc’s unit permanently, Marc’s life gradually comes apart at the seams when the soon-to-be father begins an increasingly intimate, loving relationship with his co-worker. Their growing mutual attraction – playing out in hidden smiles and glances, joint smoking sessions, roughhousing in the pool, and regular jogging outings – climaxes in a first intense sex scene during one of their regular runs through the unpopulated German forest. Marc, who is struggling to keep up with the academy’s vigorous running exercises, is immediately intrigued by his roommate’s rebellious, confident attitude. Marc meets Kay during a training course on riot control. Watch the trailer to the film (in German): ![]() As long as I have trust I’m willing to do anything and open myself up.On February 8, 2013, Stephan Lacant’s first feature film Freier Fall ( Free Fall) premiered at the 63 rd in the category “ Perspektive Deutsches Kino.” The much praised film tells the story of police officer Marc Borgmann ( Hanno Koffler) whose seemingly perfect world gradually implodes when he begins an affair with his colleague, Kay Engel (). I don’t have the technique, I haven’t been to drama school, it’s always about a situation that you work out together (with your director). For me the most important thing was the confidence I felt in that situation. And of course it was good to have someone who trusts me. It was important to me to do this person justice without betraying him, to understand how he feels so that the audience wouldn’t be afraid of him but rather understand him. I also wanted to completely avoid any cliches. While running I was asking myself questions to which I had to answer, like why I was making this film, so as to be able to answer the questions journalist and the audience would ask about this film. The most significant part of my preparation was running every morning, like meditation. I quickly realized that I didn’t want to go down that path. “At the beginning we watched some interviews, testimonies of people whose faces were blurred, people who were talking about their everyday life. ![]()
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