14° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Feature Film Competition 1996
Nacht der Gaukler
by Michael Steiner, Pascal Walder
Country: Switzerland
Year: 1996
Duration: 89'
Klaus Koska is being followed. By chance, he had witnessed the assassination of the Defense Minister, Horvath, and then found out that no one was willing to believe his story. So, he barricades himself up in his house. Suddenly, Koska finds an enormous trunk in his house. When two people show up his neighbor, Marlene, and Hermann Schmidt, the untimely dental patient who has come to return his lost wallet they cannot help but intensify Koska's feeling that someone is following him. Koska knows nothing of the plans that Justice Minister Lubitsch had made. Lubitsch had personally ordered Horvath's assassination.
Biography
film director
Michael Steiner
Michael Steiner (Hergiswill, Switzerland; 1969) graduated from secondary school at Pfäffikon and studied ethnology, art history, and film at Zurich University. He works as a journalist and photographer.
FILMOGRAFIA
Die schwebenden Häuser (Super8, 1991), Berserker (Super8, cm, 1991), Descartes Spiel (Super8, cm, 1993), Pigs (Super16, cm, 1996), Nacht der Gaukler (16mm, 1996).
Pascal Walder
Pascal Walder (East London, South Africa; 1972) graduated from secondary school at Wattwil, Switzerland, and studies architecture in Zurich.
FILMOGRAFIA
: Desillusion - ein Kammerspiel (Super8, cm, 1989), Die schwebenden Häuser (Super8, 1991), Nacht der Gaukler (16mm, 1996).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Michael Steiner, Pascal Walder.
Screenplay: Jürg Brändli.
Director of photography: Pascal Walder.
Scenografia e musica: Adrian Frutiger.
Editor: Maeve Farias, Michael Steiner, Jürg Brändli.
Sound: Christoph Menzi.
Cast and characters: Pascal Ulli (Klaus Koska), Ingrid Sattes (Marlene Merz), HansPeter Ulli (Leon Lubitsch), Thomas Martin (Viktor), Alexander Seibt (Hermann Schmidt), Ingold Wildenauer (Dr. Holba).
Produttore esecutivo: Michael Steiner.
Production company: Kontra Produktion, Birmensdorfer Str. 249, CH8055 Zürich, Switzerland, tel. +4114632423, fax +4114632423.
Foreign sales agent: Condor Films, Restelbergstrasse 107, CH8044 Zürich, Switzerland, tel. +4113619612, fax +4113619575.
Screenplay: Jürg Brändli.
Director of photography: Pascal Walder.
Scenografia e musica: Adrian Frutiger.
Editor: Maeve Farias, Michael Steiner, Jürg Brändli.
Sound: Christoph Menzi.
Cast and characters: Pascal Ulli (Klaus Koska), Ingrid Sattes (Marlene Merz), HansPeter Ulli (Leon Lubitsch), Thomas Martin (Viktor), Alexander Seibt (Hermann Schmidt), Ingold Wildenauer (Dr. Holba).
Produttore esecutivo: Michael Steiner.
Production company: Kontra Produktion, Birmensdorfer Str. 249, CH8055 Zürich, Switzerland, tel. +4114632423, fax +4114632423.
Foreign sales agent: Condor Films, Restelbergstrasse 107, CH8044 Zürich, Switzerland, tel. +4113619612, fax +4113619575.
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