October 20 - 24, 2010
German Currents
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New Films from Germany
Egyptian Theatre Aero Theatre The Landmark Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
GOETHE-INSTITUT
LOS ANGELES
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Dear F ri end s of Ge r m an Ci n e m a!
Once again, the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles along with our partners, German
Films, the American Cinematheque, Lufthansa, and Berlin & Beyond Film
Festival / San Francisco are proud to present the fourth German
Currents Showcase, featuring some of the best German films of
the past year.
This year we selected a wide array of documentaries and feature
films, from sweeping epics to intimate comedies. Our movies cover powerful emotional topics from immigration, aging and abuse,
to more light-hearted fare, such as VINCENT WANTS TO SEA, a
German box-office hit with young adults.
Furthermore, we are proud to present the first German 3D animated film, ANIMALS UNITED, inspired
by the famous book by Erich Kästner, plus the epic
historical drama POPE JOAN, based on the book by
Donna Cross.
After each screening, filmmakers, actors and producers involved in
the film will be on hand for a Q&A session.
We would like to thank our friends, partners and main sponsors
Lufthansa, ELMA and FRIENDS OF GOETHE, who made this showcase possible. We look forward to engaging audiences and panelists who make it all worthwhile.
Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
www.goethe.de/germancurrents
www.americancinemat heque.com
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Oc t o b e r 20 - 24, 2010
GERMAN CURRENTS / N e w F ilm s f r o m G ermany
4th Annual Festival of German Films in collaboration with German Films, the American
Cinematheque, Lufthansa and Berlin & Beyond Film Festival.
Locations
AERO THEATre
1328 Montana Ave / at 14th St.
Santa Monica, CA 90403
EGYPTIAN THEATre
6712 Hollywood Blvd
Hollywood, CA 90028
GOETHE-INSTITUT LOS ANGELES
5750 Wilshire Blvd Suite 100
Los Angeles, CA 90036
THE L ANDMARK
10850 Pico Blvd / at Westwood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90064
TICKETS
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Tickets to the screenings at the
Egyptian and Aero Theatres
can be purchased at:
www.fandango.com
Tickets are:
$11 / general,
$9 /seniors, students
Tickets to the screening at
The Landmark
$14 / box office (cash) only
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Tickets to the screening at the
Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
$5 / box office (cash) only
Films Dates Times
Wednesday 10/20
7:30 p.m.
Egyptian Theatre
Page 4
When we leave (Die Fremde) Opening Part y
Thursday 10/21
7:00 p.m.
THE L andmark Page 6
Animals United (Konferenz der Tiere), 3D
Thursday 10/21
7:30 p.m.
egyptian Theatre / Spielberg Page 8
Rock Hudson, Dark and Handsome Stranger
(Rock Hudson – Schöner fremder Mann)
Friday 10/22
7:30 p.m.
Aero Theatre Page 9
Pope Joan (Die PÄpstin)
Book signing with Donna Cross 6:00 p.m. @ Every Picture Tells a Story
Saturday 10/23
5:00 p.m.
Aero Theatre Page 10
Autumn Gold (Herbstgold)
Saturday 10/23
7:30 p.m.
Aero Theatre Page 12
The Robber (Der Räuber)
Saturday 10/23
9:30 p.m.
Aero Theatre Page 13
The Silence (Das letzte Schweigen)
Sunday 10/24
10:00 a.m. Goethe-Institut Los Angeles Page 14
Vicky the Viking (Wickie und die starken Männer)
Sunday 10/24
2:00 p.m.
Aero Theatre Page 15
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Surprise Film German Oscar Entry
Sunday 10/24
5:00 p.m.
Aero Theatre Page 16
The Woman with the 5 Elephants (Die Frau mit den 5 Elefanten)
Sunday 10/24
7:30 p.m. Aero Theatre Page 17
Vincent wants to Sea (Vincent will Meer)
C o v er : W h e n w e l e av e ( D i e F r e md e )
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West Co ast Premiere
Wednesday, October 20, 7:30 p.m., Egyptian Theatre
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WH EN WE L EAVE ( D IE F RE MD E )
Sc reenpl ay
Germany, 2009, 35mm, 123 min., German/Turkish with English subtitles
In person: Director FEO AL ADAG
Feo Aladag
Feo Aladag
Cinemat og raphy
WHEN WE LEAVE examines one woman’s struggle for personal freedom. It is a riveting and heartbreaking story of a woman trapped in an abusive relationship, who must
not only free herself from that marriage, but also the cultural prejudices and judgments
that would keep her there. Feo Aladag built the nuances of her film over a six year period. She rehearsed her actors for seven months. She immersed herself in every detail
of a culture that is revealed to us in remarkable detail. The result is a film that balances complex social issues with honest human yearnings. Through the brutality, WHEN
WE LEAVE is also a story of tenderness, the struggle for compassion, the inexorable
pull of family and the need to love and be loved. (Tribeca Film Festival Narrative Jury)
All ticket holders are invited to a reception following the
opening film at the Egyptian Theatre.
Judith Kaufmann
C as t
Sibel Kekilli
Derya Alabora
Blanca Apilanez Fernandez
Tamer Yigit
Florian Lukas
Serhad Can
Pr oduction
Independent Artists
Filmproduktion/Berlin
World S ales
CINEPOOL A Division of
TELEPOOL GmbH
[email protected]
Feo Aladag was born in 1972 in Vienna. She began her career as an actress, completing her
training in London and Vienna from 1990-1995. While studying acting she completed a Master in
Psychology and Journalism, continuing on to receive her PhD in 2000. She acted in numerous acclaimed film and television productions while attending various master classes and directing seminars at the European Film Academy as well as the German Film and Television Academy. During
this time she also maintained a successful career as a scriptwriter and commercial film director. In
2005, Feo Aladag founded the production company Independent Artists, responsible for her debut
as the producer, director and writer of When We Leave (Die Fremde, 2009).
© Brigitte Dummer / 60. Internatinonale Filmfestspiele Berlin 2010
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Thursday, October 21, 7:00 p.m., The Landmark/Pico U.S. Premiere
Direct ors
AN IMA L S UN I TE D ( K ON F ERENZ D ER TIERE) 3 D
Sc reenpl ay
Germany, 2010, 90 min., German with English subtitles
In person: Directors REINHARD KLOOSS and HOLGER TAPPE
Thomas SchÄffer and Jochen Coldewey (nordmedia)
The animals in the African savannah are worried, as the long-awaited water is no longer flowing. Brave little Billy, a meerkat, and the peace-loving lion Socrates take off in
search of the water. They encounter the Gallic rooster Charles, who single-handedly
led a polar bear, a kangaroo, a Tasmanian devil, and two Galapagos turtles to Africa
in hope for a better life in the Okavango Delta. The animal delegation has to discover
that humans built dams and are wasting water frivolously.
Meanwhile politicians get together at pompous conferences to discuss the protection
of the environment without rendering any results.
Reason enough for the animals to call their own conference. Elephant Angie calls on
everything that can run, fly, trample or crawl to defend themselves, in what becomes
the kick-off to a turbulent offensive full of beastly tricks.
Reinhard Klooss, Holger Tappe
Oliver Huzly, Reinhard Klooss
c as t
Thomas Fritsch
Bastian Pastewka
Christoph Maria Herbst
Oliver Kalkofe
Ralf Schmitz
Pr oduction
Constantin Film Produktion
Ambient Entertainment
White Horse Pictures
World S ales
Timeless Films
[email protected]
Reinhard Klooss studied Comparative Literature in Marburg and London before he started
working as a freelance writer for radio, print and television media. He entered the film industry
in 1986. He has participated as a producer, author and director on over 20 German and international movies, including Go Trabi Go (1991), Comedian Harmonists1997), Asterix and
Obelix vs. Caesar (1999), and Buffalo Soldiers (2002). He was part of the General Management of Bavaria Film, Studio Babelsberg, and Odeon Film before he joined Constantin Film in
2006. After Impy’s Island (2006) and Impy’s Wonderland (2008), Animals United is
his third CGE animation movie as writer, producer and diretor.
Holger Tappe studied at the Berlin Academy of Photography and the Hanover Academy of New
Media Design. He then worked as a photo designer and cameraman for music videos, advertisements, cyber games, large projections and trade fairs. In 1999, he founded Ambient Entertainment,
specializing in 3D animation, CGI film production and digital post-production. His film Back to
Gaya (2004) was the first completely digitally produced German animation film. After Impy’s Island (2006) and Impy’s Wonderland (2008), Animals United is the third CGI animation
film that he and Reinhard Klooss have made together.
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Thursday, October 21, 7:30 p.m., Egyptian Theatre/ Spielberg
R O C K H U DSO N –
D ARK AN D H AN D SO ME STRANGER
(ROCK HUDSON – SCHÖNER FREMDER MANN)
Germany, 2010, DigiBeta, 95 min.,
English and German with English subtitles
In person: Director ANDRÉ SCHÄFER
Rock Hudson was the symbol of true-blue, 1950s beefcake
masculinity, whether appearing as a Thoreau-reading gardener in Douglas Sirk’s ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, or
as a fishing expert in Howard Hawks’ MAN’S FAVORITE
SPORT. Yet Hudson’s personal battle in the 1980s with
AIDS, revealing his previously concealed homosexuality
and making him the first high-profile victim of the disease,
flipped his established image upside down. Documentarians André Schäfer and Andrew Davies delve into the seeming contradictions surrounding Rock Hudson, creating a fascinating portrait of an individual who was at once very iconic
and very human.
WES T CO AS T Premiere
Direct or
André Schäfer, Andrew Davies
Screenpl ay
Andrew Davies, André Schäfer
Pr oduction
Florianfilm GmbH / Cologne
Arte Deutschland TV GmbH / Baden-Baden
World S ales
Florianfilm
[email protected]
André Schäfer was born in 1966 and studied history and journalism in Munich. He contributed to various newspapers and
magazines as a freelance journalist, and had been making features for public broadcasters as well as the private channel, sternTV. He became a partner of the Cologne-based company, Florianfilm GmbH, in 2001.
Andrew Davies was born in 1951 and studied liberal arts in
the UK and worked in theater in the UK and in Germany. He
has worked as a translator and lecturer, and has made documentaries and TV features on art, music, literature and film for various public broadcasters.
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Friday, October 22, 7:30 p.m., Aero Theatre
West Co ast Premiere
Direct or
Sönke Wortmann
POP E J O AN ( D IE PÄ P S T IN)
Sc reenpl ay
In person: Novelist DONNA WOOLFOLK CROSS
Heinrich Hadding,
Sönke Wortmann
Germany/United Kingdom/Italy/Spain, 2009, 35mm, 148 min., English
Johanna (Johanna Wokalek) grows up in ninth-century Europe in Ingelheim am Rhein.
The daughter of the dogmatic and doctrinaire village priest, she teaches herself to read
and write in secret. When her extraordinary talent is discovered, she is allowed to attend the cathedral school in Dorstadt, where she falls in love with the knight Gerold.
Following a bloody attack by Normans, Johanna disguises herself as a man and enters
the monastery at Fulda. She learns the art of healing and is ordained. Her reputation
as a healer takes her to Rome and she becomes the personal physician and confident
of Pope Sergius (John Goodman). When the pope dies, she ascends the throne despite
a brewing conspiracy. But the undiscovered “popess” has a dangerous weak point: she
is pregnant by Gerold, her secret lover.
Based on the novel by Donna Woolfolk Cross.
Book Signing with DONNA CROSS
6:00 pm @ Every Picture Tells A Story (1311 Montana Ave, Santa Monica)
Cinemat og raphy
Erwin Lanzensberger
C as t
Johanna Wokalek
David Wenham
John Goodman
Pr oduction
Constantin Film Produktion
UFA Film & TV Produktion/Potsdam
Medusa Film/Rome
Ikiru Films/Barcelona
ARD/Frankfurt
World S ales
Summit Entertainment Group
[email protected]
Join celebrated American author Donna Woolfolk Cross for a book
signing at EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY, right across from the
AERO THEATRE . The novel POPE JOAN became an international
bestseller soon after its publication in 1996. It sold more than five
million copies in book and audio book format alone.
Sönke Wortmann was born in Marl in 1959. He attended Munich’s Academy for Television &
Film (HFF/M) and the London’s Royal College of Art. His graduation film, Drei D (1988), received the Eastman Promotional Award at the Hof Film Days and was nominated for a Student
OSCAR© in 1990.
His comedy Alone Among Women (Allein unter Frauen, 1991) won the Hypo-Award
at the Munich Filmfest in 1991. His many other films include: Little Sharks (Kleine Haie,
1992), Mr. Bluesman (1993), Maybe, Maybe Not (Der bewegte Mann, 1994), and the
international success The miracle of Bern (Das Wunder von Bern) (2003).
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Saturday, October 23, 5:00 p.m., Aero Theatre U.S. Premiere
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AUTUMN G O L D ( HER B S T G O L D )
Sc reenpl ay
Germany, 2010, 35mm, 94 min., German with English subtitles
In person: Director JAN TENHAVEN
Jan Tenhaven
Jan Tenhaven
Cinemat og raphy
Autumn Gold tells the life-affirming stories of five senior athletes who all have one
goal: to take part in the track and field section of the World Masters Championships
2009 in Finland. The biggest challenge they face is their age: all five athletes are between 82 and 100 years old.
“These five individuals are in a defiant race against time and throw a very ‘YES-tolife’ light on growing old in various countries. How do these senior citizens deal
with everyday life? What roles do love and sexuality play? What does society think
of them? Why is sport so important to them? How do they deal with the onset of
frailty? Herbstgold is a film about life, about losers and winners, of setbacks and triumphs. and maybe about death. Who will mount the podium at the end? Who will
make a dignified withdrawal? Who will fight bitterly to the end – in the contest of
life?” (Director Jan Tenhaven)
Markus Winterbauer
Martin Langner
C as t
Gabre Gabric
Herbert Liedke
Ilse Pleuger
Alfred Proksch
Jirí Soukup
Pr oduction
Gebrüder Beetz
Filmproduktion/Berlin
Navigator Film/Vienna
World S ales
Films Transit
[email protected]
Jan Tenhaven is a freelance writer and director for German public television and a lecturer at the
Electronic Media School in Potsdam-Babelsberg.
He started his journalistic career as a reporter and free-lance writer for the daily newspaper WAZ
and the weekly paper DIE ZEIT, as well as on the editorial staff of various German broadcasters.
From 1998 to 2001, Tenhaven was a television correspondent and bureau chief of APM Media in
London and a director for London International Television (LITV).
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Saturday, October 23, 7:30 p.m. , Aero Theatre
West Co ast Premiere
T H E R O BBER ( D ER R Ä U B ER )
Germany/Austria, 2009/2010, 35mm, 98 min., German with English subtitles
In person: Director BENJAMIN HEISENBERG
Johann Rettenberger is a successful marathon runner and a serial bank robber.
Soberly and precisely he measures his heart rate, strain, stamina and efficiency –
both during training runs and bank raids, from which, concealed beneath a ludicrous mask and armed with a pump gun, he takes flight from the police. He lives,
undiscovered, with his girlfriend Erika in Vienna. However, his addiction to the
passion, the kick, the exercise and the symmetry of the perfect robbery propels
him to take ever greater risks.
Based on the eponymous novel by Martin Prinz which dealt with a series of real
crimes committed in Austria.
Direct or
Benjamin Heisenberg
Sc reenpl ay
Benjamin Heisenberg
Cinemat og raphy
Reinhold Vorschneider
C as t
Andreas Lust
Franziska Weisz
Florian Wotruba
Johann Bednar
Pr oduction
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Filmproduktion GmbH (Wien)
Peter Heilrath Filmproduktion
e.K. (München)
World S ales
Films Distribution
[email protected]
Benjamin Heisenberg was born in Tübingen in 1974. He studied sculpture at Munich’s Akademie der bildenden Künste and directing at Munich’s Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen. In
1998, he – together with Christoph Hochhäusler and Sebastian Kutzli – established the movie
magazine ”Revolver”.
At the same time, Heisenberg exhibited video installations in Munich galleries and museums.
In 1999, he received the Leonard and Ida Wolf Memorial Prize, as well as a municipal prize
for plastic arts of the city of Munich. He cowrote the script to Milchwald (This Very Moment, 2002/2003) with Christoph Hochhäusler who directed the film.
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Saturday, October 23, 9:30 p.m., Aero Theatre U.S. Premiere
THE S I L ENCE ( D A S L E T Z T E S CH W EIG EN )
Germany, 2009/2010, 35mm, 122 min., German with English subtitles
In person: Director BARAN BO ODAR
Direct or
Baran Bo Odar
Screenpl ay
Baran Bo Odar
Cinemat ography
When a child‘s bicycle is discovered in a wheat field - in the exact location of a heinous crime committed 23 years earlier - and when it is later discovered that local girl
Sinikka is mysteriously missing, a town is thrown into a haze of anxious uncertainty.
At once a tense police procedural and a subtle yet devastating portrayal of a family‘s
struggle to come to terms with the unthinkable, director Baran bo Odar‘s assured drama examines the ripple-effect of violence on a community.
Nikolaus Summerer
Anthony Dodd Mantle
C as t
Sebastian Blomberg
Wotan Wilke Möhring
Katrin Saß
Burghart Klaußner
Karoline Wiesnekker
Roeland Wiesnekker
Ulrich Thomsen
Charly Hübner
Pr oduction
cine plus Leipzig GmbH/Leipzig
Lüthje & Schneider Filmproduktion / Munich
World S ales
Bavaria Film International
[email protected]
Baran Bo Odar studied at the Munich Academy of Film and Television and participated in the
2003 Berlinale Talent Campus. He also completed the Masterclass of Commercial and Image
Films. In addition to numerous video clips and commercials, his other films include: 216 (short,
1998), UND WIR SUCHEN NACH DEM GLÜCK (documentary short, 2002), MR. SMITH &
MRS. KOWACEK (short, 2002), KILL YOUR STEREO (short, 2003) SQUEAK (QUIETSCH, short,
2005), and UNDER THE SUN (UNTER DER SONNE, 2006)
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West Co ast Premiere
Sunday, October 24, 10:00 a.m., Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
Direct or
vicky The Vikin g ( W I CK IE UND D IE S TARKEN MÄNNER )
Sc reenpl ay
Germany, 2009, 35mm, 85 min., German with English subtitles
Michael Herbig
Michael Herbig
Cinemat og raphy
The live action film is based on the famous animation film series of the same title:
The little redheaded Viking boy Vicky lives with his partents Ylva and Halvar in the
Viking village of Flake. Unlike other Vikings who by nature are strong, fearless and
rather loud, Vicky is sensitive and reserved, to the displeasure of the head of the Viking tribe, his father. However Vicky is smart and often comes up with downright
brilliant ideas. So, when Flake is raided by mysterious warriors who abduct all the
children, Vicky escapes and the the adult Vikings find out, that sometimes brains are
worth more than brawn.
Gerhard Schirlo
C as t
Jonas Hämmerle
Waldemar Kobus
Nic Romm
Christian Koch
Olaf Krätke
Pr oduction
Constantin Film GmbH/Munich
herbX film GmbH/Munich
Rat Pack Filmproduktion GmbH
/Munich
World S ales
Metropolis Sales
[email protected]
Michael Herbig, born in Munich in1968, was trained as a photographer. In 1992 he created the
comedy character of “Bully” for radio, which ran through1996. At the same time Herbig played in
800 episodes of the radio series Die Bayerncops. He directed, produced, wrote and played in
the TV series Bullyparade (1997-2002) and Bully & Rick (2004).
His feature film debut Der Schuh des Manitu (Manitou’s shoe, 2001), recipient of numerous awards, was the greatest box office hit in post-war Germany. (T)Raumschiff Surprise
(Dreamship Surprise) attracted more viewers than any other German film in 2004. He followed
it up with Lissi und der wilde Kaiser (Lissi and the Wild Emperor) a satire based on
the famous Sissi films starring Romy Schneider.
Wickie und die starken Männer (Vicky the Viking) is -once again- an adaptation of a
pop culture classic.
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Sunday, October 24, 2:00 p.m., Aero Theatre
Su rprise Film
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F o r “ B e st F o r e i g n
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Sunday, October 24, 5:00 p.m., Aero Theatre L.A. Premiere
Direct or
THE W OMAN W I T H TH E 5 E L E PH ANTS
(D IE F R A U M I T D EN 5 E L E FA N T EN)
C oncept
Germany/Switzerland, 35mm, 97 min, German with English subtitles
In person:
Director Vadim Jendreyko
Swetlana Geier is considered the greatest translator of Russian literature into German.
She has just concluded her lifework for Zurich’s Ammann publishing house – completing new translations of Dostoyevsky’s five great novels – known as “the five elephants”. Her work is characterized by a great and sensual feeling for language and
an uncompromising respect for the writers she translates. Her life has been overshadowed by Europe’s varied history.
Together with the film director Vadim Jendreyko, the 85-year-old woman is making
her first trip from her home of choice, Germany, back to the places of her childhood
in the Ukraine. This award-winning film interweaves the story of Swetlana Geier’s life
with her literary work and traces the secret of this inexhaustibly hard-working woman. It tells of great suffering, silent helpers and unhoped-for chances – and a love of
language that outshines all else.
Vadim Jendreyko
Vadim Jendreyko
Cinemat og raphy
Niels Bolbrinker, Stephane Kuthy
Pr oduction C ompany
Mira Films GmbH,
Filmtank GmbH/Hamburg
U.S. Dis tribut or
Cinema Guild
[email protected]
Vadim Jendreyko was born in 1965 in Germany and grew up in Switzerland.
He attended the Basel School of Applied Arts and the Düsseldorf Art Academy. He worked as assistant director, camera assistant, editing assistant in film and theater productions and lighting designer. Jendreyko is the founder and initiator of of the Kailash Project, a self-managed audiovisual
institution for the Tibetan Exile Community in India.
In 2002, Vadim Jendreyko and Hercli Bundi founded the filmproduction company Mira Film GmbH,
where he also works as producer and co-producer of international documentary films. He lives in
Basel/Switzerland.
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Sunday, October 24, 7:30 p.m., Aero Theatre L.A. Premiere
Direct or
VINCENT WANTS T O SEA ( VIN CENT W ILL M EER )
Sc reenpl ay
Germany, 2009, 35mm, 95 min., German with English subtitles
In person:
Screenwriter/Actor FLORIAN DAVID FITZ
In this acerbically funny and brilliantly uncomfortable comedy, Vincent (Florian David
Fitz, who also wrote the script) makes the great escape of struggling 20-somethings
- he breaks out of rehab. A sufferer of Tourette syndrome, Vincent is joined in his escape by Marie, who is anorexic, and Alex, who has obsessive compulsive disorder.
The trio make for a rather unlikely band of outsiders, at once infected with an uncommonly rebellious spirit and on the brink of grave despair. They head south (destination: Italy), where Vincent hopes to fulfill his mother’s last wish.
Ralf Huettner
Florian David Fitz
Cinemat og raphy
Andreas Berger
C as t
Florian David Fitz
Heino Ferch
Karoline Herfurth
Johannes Allmayer
Katharina Müller-Elmau
Karin Thaler
Pr oduction
Olga Film/Munich
World S ales
Beta Cinema / Dept. of Beta Film
GmbH
[email protected]
Ralf Huettner was born in 1954 and graduated from the University of Television & Film in Mu-
nich. His feature debut Das Mädchen mit den Feuerzeugen (1987) was a major success,
winning prizes at home and abroad. His other films include: Babylon (1990), Der Papagei (TV,
1992), Texas - Doc Snyder hÄlt die Welt in Atem (1993), Voll Normaaal (1994), Der
kalte Finger (1995), Die Musterknaben (1997), Die Musterknaben 2 (1998), Mondscheintarif (2001), Die Musterknaben 3 (2002), Reine Formsache (2005), Dr. Psycho (TV, 2007), Der Assistent (TV, 2007), Die Jagd nach dem Schatz der Nibelungen (TV, 2007), Putzfrauen Undercover (TV, 2008), and Vincent Wants to Sea (Vincent will meer, 2009).
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A product of Lufthansa.
With MySkyStatus™, in-the-air doesn’t
mean out-of-touch.
Fly from 17 U.S. gateways to more than 400 worldwide destinations
and never leave your friends behind. Post departure and arrival info
and set in-flight updates from your smartphone at MySkyStatus.com
and alerts will be sent via Facebook and Twitter.
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