Neubau
Director：Johannes M. Schmit
Screenwriter：Tucké Royale
Cast：Tucké Royale, Monika Zimmering, Jalda Rebling, Minh Duc Pham
Producer：Fabian Altenried
Cinematographer：Smina Bluth
Running Time：81min
Region：Germany
Year：2019
Language：German
Production Company：Schuldenberg Films
SYNOPSIS
In the Brandenburg province, Markus is torn between his love for his grandmothers in need of care – one of them suffering from dementia – and his longing for urban self- determination in Berlin. Most of the time, left alone with his worries, he daydreams of a crowd of dazzling demons which act as harbingers of an urban elective family. When Vietnamese technician Duc enters his life, things become more complicated, as Markus has to decide if he should stay or go…
Director Biography
Johannes Maria Schmit works as a freelance director for German and Swedish theatres and is part of the performance duo White on White. The naturalistic drama Neubau is his feature film debut.
Director's Statement
This film is the attempt of translation without generalization, seeking to visualize the world of a very special character without involving a conflicting norm as a means of comparison. We tried to work around the genre of a coming of age drama, showing peoplefrom the countryside in concrete relations and in their everyday life. Inspired by the timelessness of the landscape within the film, turning points are not dramatized in an edgy way but carried gently from hill to hill.
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