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FILM · 2017 · GERMANY

Aus dem Nichts

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  1. #001

    The film is divided into three chapters, "The Family", "Justice" and "The Sea", and cinematographer Rainer Klausmann, shooting with the ARRI Alexa, created a slightly different look for each. The first chapter was shot mostly outdoors with a handheld ARRI Alexa in 'Super-16' mode to achieve a rougher look. The second chapter, which contains many of the courtroom scenes, used ARRI's new and extremely sharp anamorphic lenses and was filmed in a static style. In the third and final chapter, set in Greece, Klausmann preferred old vintage lenses to achieve a softer look. The brief 'home video' segments shown in each chapter were shot with ordinary smartphones.

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  2. #002

    This is German actress Diane Kruger's second work in her native language. The first was Inglourious Basterds (2009).

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  3. #003

    In 2018, it was Germany's official submission in the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category at the 90th Academy Awards.

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  4. #004

    In the film, Golden Dawn member Nikolaos Makris (Yannis Economides) runs a small hotel called Hotel Old Dream. This is probably a reference to the real-life Hotel New Dream in central Athens, which belongs to Eleni Zaroulia, the wife of Golden Dawn leader Nikolaos Michaloliakos.

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  5. #005

    The final chapter, "The Sea", was shot at Schinias Beach in the Athens Marathon area of Greece.

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  6. #006

    Diane Kruger met with the families of terror attack victims to research her character.

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  7. #007

    The idea for the story came to Fatih Akın in the early 1990s.

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  8. #008

    After Inglourious Basterds (2009), the film was the second major role in which lead actress Diane Kruger, who moved to the United States in her youth, acted in German.

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  9. #009

    Epilogue: "Between 2002 and 2007 in Germany, the 'National Socialist Underground' shot nine people of immigrant origin and one female police officer and carried out numerous bombings. The sole reason behind their attacks was the non-German origins of their victims."

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