DET ENDELIGE LAND

Et manifest av cinematisk kreativitet, sterk og spennende. 
Indiekino.de

En brilliant debutfilm, en visuell fest for øyet og gåtefull science-fiction. 
OC Movies

Brilliant skrevet, utmerket skuespill og fabelaktig filmet.
Horror DNA

synopsis

To lovløse på flukt snubler over et gammelt og forlatt romskip. I siste minutt klarer de å unnslippe sine forfølgere og reiser ut i verdensrommet med det gamle skipet på jakt etter et nytt hjem. På reisen beveger mennene seg i to ulike retninger. Mens Adam søker i skipets gåtefulle fortid, blir Novak mer og mer dratt inn i en hypnotisk forbannelse... 

Regissør

Marcel Barion født 1985 i Siegen, Tyskland, begynte med film allerede som skolebarn, mest inspirert av internasjonal sjangerfilm. Etter å ha laget mange kortfilmer mens han fortsatt gikk på skolen, produserte han etterhvert en no-budget fantasy spillefilm mens han studerte litteratur, kultur, media og kunsthistorie på universitetet. Etter å ha fullført masterstudiet, jobbet han som universitetslærer i kulturstudier med fokus på bilder og film. DET ENDELIGE LAND er hans første film rettet mot et større publikum.

SYNOPSIS

Two men flee from a desolate planet in a small old spaceship and embark on a quest for a new home. On their search for a better place, the two are drawn increasingly in fundamentally different directions. While Adem wants to find out where the ship actually comes from and what happened to the old crew, Novak is drawn more and more into the spell of a hypnotic power...

director

Marcel Barion, born 1985 in Siegen, Germany, began filmmaking as a schoolkid, mostly inspired by international genre cinema. After having made many short films during schooldays (and yet graduating) he produced a no budget but full length fantasy film called "Aloryon" and studied literature, culture, media and art history. Since his master's degree he has been working as a university lecturer in cultural studies with focus on pictures and film. "Das letzte Land" is his first film aimed for a public audience.

directors note

I begynnelsen handlet alt om å lage en mørk og vakker science-fiction verden omkring et lite og slitent romskip uten CGI og uten penger. Jeg skrev manuset mens skipet ble bygget som resulterte i at arkitekturen og historien fløt i hverandre. Utformingen av karakterene ble veldig påvirket av skipets arkitektur og selve produksjonsprosessen. Til slutt var vi glade for å se at vi hadde laget en film om to menn, flukt, søken, frihet og hjem, bare ved å skape deres verden fra vårt veldige personlige ståsted. 

directors note

In the beginning our project was all about making a dark and beautiful sci-fi-world around a small and gritty spaceship without any CGI - and without any money. I wrote the script, not before, but while the ship was being constructed. As a result architecture and story flowed into each other and the characters were deeply influenced by the making of the scenery itself and thus by the conditions of the production process. In the end we were glad to realize that we had made a film about two guys dealing with escape, search, freedom and home, just by designing their world from our very own point of view.

Influences from „2001“ through „En attendant Godot“ to „DAS BOOT“ and the „Odyssey“ (including the sirens) add up to an original story with an existential touch, in which everything fits: a manifesto of cinematic creativity, powerful and thrilling.
Indiekino.de

Celebrated at several festivals, this science fiction film is a chamber play that is carried by its claustrophobic mood, its intensity, its dense field of tension on melancholy and manic obsession. An impressive film that shows that science fiction with little possibilities but great vision is also possible in Germany.
Programmkino.de

The German film The Final Land stands as one of the best of the festival’s six-year run thus far. [...] It stayed with me for days afterward, charting our collective dreams to the stars...and for Other Worlds Austin, a capstone for its sixth year.
Medium

The German filmmaker Marcel Barion, in his first film, crafts an outstanding story, full of wonder and paranoia. Taking place primarily within the confines of a tiny old spaceship, conflicts erupt as two disparate men struggle to find a new home. The Final Land is a brilliant atmospheric film that incorporates the best of elements of science fiction, both hard and soft. Barion achieves magnificent, mindblowing vistas from outside the ship using only traditional effects. With nary a dull moment and an ideal science fiction ending, The Final Land comes highly recommended!
The Geek Curmudgeon

Föllmer and Pesl are both superb in this two-hander, which naturally relies heavily on the actors to carry the weight of the film. Föllmer portrays Adem with a sort of reserved, optimistic melancholy, while Pesl invests his brusque alpha male with a manic obsessiveness. Writer/director/cinematographer/editor Marcel Barion — who also did the breathtaking visual effects, which include gorgeous shots of outer space — creates a tense, claustrophobic setting within the spaceship, aided greatly by Massimo Muller’s masterful set design. [...] Barion and Oliver Kranz’s sound design is superlative, with each swipe of something dusty or dingy giving off sounds that practically make you feel the decay and squalor. The Final Land, a bold feast for the senses, is a mesmerizing journey that pits the wills and minds of two men against each other, themselves, and enigmatic outside forces.
Diabolique Magazine

The Final Land is a gritty, energized sci-fi mystery, piercing with intrigue and claustrophobic atmosphere. It’s a film that rewards paying attention, as the more you look, the more you find. The film’s immersive atmosphere sucks you into the ship’s story. I’ll certainly be rewatching this film to see what more I can find.
TheKnockturnal

Beautifully lit and shot, the intensity of these strangers’ shared predicament feels up close and palpable.
Starburst Magazine

If you get the chance, you have to see this film. It is a dark, subtle and remarkably well made deep space film, something that is far too rare these days.
Mark Cole, Rivets on the Poster

Both Pesl and Follmer perform the roles admirably. Pesl shines when he’s going off the rails, whilst Follmer is the frustrated escapee, struggling to bring Pesl around to the reality. [...] A brilliant debut, a visual feast for the eye and a head-scratching sci-fi which, at times, is just what you want.
OC Movies

Suggesting that Barion could go anywhere next.
Sight & Sound (British Film Insitute)

An Odysseus style pull to its conclusion and a desire to look closer at our protagonists, their experiences and motivations and while that doesn‘t sound like a thrilling adventure it is a brilliantly scripted, excellently performed and stunningly filmed one.
Horror DNA

A suspenseful, transcendental film mélange that proves you don‘t have to look to Hollywood for clever sci-fi stories.
Kino-Zeit.de

Atmospherically dense, kind of a „Das Boot“ in space.
Der Tagesspiegel