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October 20 - 24, 2010

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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

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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

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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 ® 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)

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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 )

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Germany, 2009, 35mm, 123 min., German/Turkish with English subtitles In person: Director FEO AL ADAG

Feo Aladag

Feo Aladag

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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

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AN IMA L S UN I TE D ( K ON F ERENZ D ER TIERE) 3 D

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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. 6

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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. 8

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)

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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). 9

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 )

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Germany, 2010, 35mm, 94 min., German with English subtitles In person: Director JAN TENHAVEN

Jan Tenhaven

Jan Tenhaven

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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

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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

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vicky The Vikin g ( W I CK IE UND D IE S TARKEN MÄNNER )

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Germany, 2009, 35mm, 85 min., German with English subtitles

Michael Herbig

Michael Herbig

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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. 14

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Sunday, October 24, 2:00 p.m., Aero Theatre

Su rprise Film g e rma n Oscar ® E nt r y F o r “ B e st F o r e i g n L a n g u ag e Fi lm ”

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Sunday, October 24, 5:00 p.m., Aero Theatre L.A. Premiere

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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)

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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

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VINCENT WANTS T O SEA ( VIN CENT W ILL M EER )

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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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