Pina (movie)

Wim Wenders has addressed the theme of music and dance before, for example, in his 1999 film Buena Vista Club. Wim Wenders was deeply impressed when in 1985 he first saw the play “Café Müller” during performances by the Wuppertal dance theater in Venice.

The meeting of the two artists grew into a long friendship and eventually the idea of ​​creating a joint film. However, this idea could not come true for a long time due to limited technical capabilities: Wenders felt that he had not yet found a way to translate Pina Bausch's unique art, movements, gestures, speech and music into the film.

The decisive moment for Wim Wenders came when the Irish rock band U2 presented their 3D concert “U2-3D” in Cannes . Wenders dawned: “With the 3D format, our project will be possible! Only in this way, including the spatial dimension, I dare to transfer the Pina Dance Theater in the appropriate form to the screen. " Wenders began to systematically study the new generation of 3D digital cameras and in 2008, together with Pina, began a discussion on the realization of their joint dream. Together with Wim Wenders, Bausch selected productions of "Café Müller", "Le Sacre du printemps", "Vollmond" and "Kontakthof" and included them in the repertoire of the troupe of the season 2009/2010. ^[2]

Wenders began making the film during the life of Bausch, but in 2009 she died. The director wanted to stop working on the film, but when he saw that the dancers continued to perform and even began to rehearse Pina's parts, he resumed filming:

Thus, the film turned into a memorial; his motto was the phrase of Pina Bausch: " Dance, dance, otherwise we are lost ."

The film was shot in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany), in the cities of Wuppertal , Solingen , Essen . The Wuppertal suspension road appears repeatedly in the frame.

The film used documentary shots with the participation of Pina Bausch, interviews with dancers of the Wuppertal troupe of modern dance, fragments of performances with her choreography:

• Café Müller with music by Henry Purcell
• Holy spring (Le Sacre du printemps) with music by Igor Stravinsky
• Contact Zones (Kontakthof)
• Full Moon (Vollmond)

The film features German, French, Spanish, Croatian, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and Korean.

The trailer for the film sounds Aria from the album "Maria T" Balanescu Quartet . ^[3]

In the film, dancers of the Wuppertal troupe of modern dance and other dancers are busy. Pina Bausch herself also appears in the film.

“Pina” is not so much a movie or even a performance as a collection of living pictures, united in an antique admiring attitude to the human body. Dance in a glass cube, electric train, grave, desert, in an abandoned factory, finally, a dance with a hippopotamus - almost two hours of dance numbers, interrupted by documentary inserts, in which the dancers tell what place Bausch occupied in their lives, as if their mother had lost . Pina taught them not only calmness and patience, but also how to express all facets of human grief with plastic methods. Now that she is gone, the only thing students can do is perform the last dance for her, the most sincere and saddest.

- Anna Sotnikova, Afisha.ru ^[4]

• The film was presented at the Berlin Film Festival in an out-of-competition program.
• In June, the film was shown in the out-of-competition program of the 33rd Moscow Film Festival . ^[five]
• In September 2011, the film was shown at the San Sebastian Film Festival (Spain). ^[6]
• He received the Deutscher Filmpreis Award for Best Documentary of 2011, and was also nominated for Best Director. ^[7]
• Nominated for British Independent Film Awards for Best Foreign Film. ^[8] Also received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Non-English Film.
• Nominated for a prize from the Chicago Film Critics Association ^[9] , as well as a prize from the US Screenwriters Guild for the best screenplay for a documentary.
• The film “Pina” was nominated by Germany for the Academy Award in the category “Best Foreign Language Film” ^[10] . As a result, the film was nominated for this award in the category "Best Documentary".
• Prize at the European Film Awards ("Felix") in the category "Best Documentary". ^{[11] [12]}

A film version lasting 106 minutes was presented at the Berlin Film Festival. In the cinemas there was a 100-minute version.

Versions of the film on DVD and Blu-Ray appeared on October 6, 2011 (according to CP-Digital , according to other sources September 30, 2011). The standard Blu-ray version lasts 99 minutes, the deluxe edition 103 minutes.

Blu-ray presents 3D and 2D versions. On DVD - only a 2D version of the film.

• “ Cave of Forgotten Dreams ” - released almost simultaneously a 3D documentary directed by Werner Herzog
• “ Talk to Her ” - a film by Pedro Almodovar , in the first frames of which Pina Bausch dances “Café Müller”

• Official Movie Website (German)
• Russian movie promotion site
• Pina at Box Office Mojo
• “I was very afraid to disappoint Bausch” Wim Wenders Interview Time Out Moscow No. 29/25 - July 31, 2011.