The film is based on the eponymous 1960 novel by author Peter Weiss. In this autobiographical text, the author describes the years of his childhood and youth in Germany in the 20s and 30s as well as the flight of his half-Jewish family from persecution by the Nazis. This odyssey also portrays the young first-person narrator’s struggle for his artistic existence, as he was striving to establish himself as a painter and writer. In a free, sensual essay between fiction and document, realistic description and stylised invention, the film attempts to kindle today’s flame based on the past’s, and to create a new and vibrant third work from it. (Locarno Festival)
Astrid Ofner
Writer, Director
Hans Hurch
Writer
Sven Dolinsky
Peter Weiss (narrator)
Peter Nestler
Voice of the father
Peter Nestler
Father (voice)
Selma Bindewald
Coline Cisar
Nora Conradi
Sven Horst
Paula63%
Finsterworld63%
Imperial Dreams65%
Eleanor the Great69%
My Neighbor Adolf65%
Gundermann72%
Im Winter ein Jahr63%
Deutschstunde66%
Woman in Gold72%
Zeit der Kannibalen68%
The Girl in the Book58%
Skin64%
Tigertail67%
Mindwalk69%
Babylon69%
In einem Land, das es nicht mehr gibt62%
Nothing Personal65%
Return64%
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds73%
Lady Driver63%
