A film from Berlin. 1999 to 2005. These are children that have just come of age. Vulnerable. Sven, Lena, Thomas, Stephan and Daniela. This is about their lives. The closeness is as intense as the loneliness. We see everything. There are no interviews. There are processes, images, texts, letters, theatre, requests, administrative acts, looks, oaths, pleas. And a letter to author of the film.
Thomas Heise
Thomas Heise, born in 1955 in East Berlin, is one of the most important documentary filmmakers of our time. Heise studied at the Potsdam-Babelsberg Film Academy in the GDR. Since 1983 he has worked as a freelance writer and stage director, and making radio-plays and documentary films. All until the collapse of Eastern Germany’s political system, all of his documentary works were banned. In 1990 he completed an MA course at the Berlin Art Academy. Since 2007, Heise has been teaching film and media art at Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe.
General sponsor
Im Gluck (Neger)
Germany
2006, 87', color, 35 mm
Directed by:
Thomas Heise
Cinematography:
Peter Badel, Jutta Tränkle, Anja Simon, Maxim Wolfram
Edited by:
Mike Gürgen
Music:
Bendrik Muhs
Produced by:
ma.ja.de. filmproduktion, MDR
