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There are difficult issues and the tragic protagonists, the the 34th Film Festival have shaped Max Ophüls Prize this year. Whether it's a young gunman in the movie "In the majority" went, or a Guantanamo detainee in the movie "Five years of life" - the debate on uncomfortable topics was on the 34th Saarbruecken Film Festival Max Ophüls Prize noticeable as rare. For this purpose it is fitting that this year's film award at Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel went. The two directors have taken up the issue with its strips of different realities.

"The glory of the day" - this is the film for which the Italian born director Tizza Covi and their Austrian colleague, Rainer Frimmel, with the Max Ophüls Film Awards were awarded in 2013, the city of Saarbrücken. Worth the price of 18,000 euros. The movie is about the life of actor Philip Hochmair, who plays himself.

His life is filled with rehearsals and performances, everyday worries have become foreign to him. Suddenly, he is confronted with the fate of his asylum neighbors and realizes that life is not confined to the stage. "The script was perhaps just 20 pages," recalls director Rainer Frimmel. The dialogues of the strip, which is a mixture of documentary and fiction film, the actors have developed spontaneously, as reported Frimmel. So it was an experiment that could have failed.
The Austrian defending champion Markus Schleinzer, who was this year the jury said that it was in "The glory of the day" a very brave film by the trust the filmmakers to their characters and their stories.

Also impressive is the film "Five years of life", in which Stefan Schaller has directed. The film, which was awarded both the Youth Jury Prize and the International Film Award, based on the history of German-Turk Murat Kurnaz, who was arrested while visiting a madrassa in Pakistan, and the U.S. Army handed over. From the perspective of the jury shows the nightmarish film, set in the notorious prison camp at Guantánamo, how physical and psychological torture on prisoners effect. In addition, the strip also shows what pressure all operators face in this system, for example, the American interrogation expert.

The prize of 3,000 Euro prize for the best male actor went to Max Mauff, who plays in the film "In the majority" (Carsten Ludwig) the role of a young gunman. During a nearly two-hour abduction experiences of endangered motorists the truth about his passenger. Namely the number of students has put to death in a killing spree. "It was difficult to play these young gunman, who was shockingly normal," said the 25 year old actor.

As the artistic director of the festival, Philip Brauer says, is about as many as 2012 spectators viewed the nearly 60 films in Saarbrücken, ie more than 40,000 spectators, in the week of 21 to 27 January came. Nevertheless Bräuer expresses cautious when it comes to judge whether films are suitable to raise political and social awareness. "There were certainly more films in this year's competition program that is relevant politically," he says thoughtfully.

This is also a good sign, "but ultimately it is an illusion to believe that a film can make a difference politically." At most movies could contribute to the change, the festival director's safe. However Bräuer has other worries. As he says, the festival has to Max Ophüls Prize - it is one of the most important festivals for promoting young German film - survive for ten years with a budget of about one million euros, which is sized just right. "So we hope to quite a bit more money in the future," says the artistic director. After all, forgive, be in addition to the main prize twelve other awards, including the Film Award of the Saarland Prime Minister.