Country: Germany
Year: 1999
Duration: 98'


Walter is 55 years old and unemployed. He was once a man of success, but now he can barely give a sense of meaning to his life. Despite everything, he still believes in a better world and human rights, and doesn't hesitate to use force when necessary. Walter is an insomniac and passes his nights going around the city with two youths trying to enforce law and order. But society doesn't need their help.

Biography

film director

Andreas Kleinert

Andreas Kleinert was born in Berlin, and once he completed his studies he immediaely began working in cinema at the DEFA studios in Potsdam-Babelsberg. In 1989 he graduated from the Konrad Wolf School of Cinema of the German Democratic Republic with a thesis on Andrej Tarkovskij. From 1990 to the present he has directed numerous full-length films. At the moment he is working on his new movie, Ich möchte Zeugnis ablegen bis zum Letzten.

FILMOGRAFIA

Leb' wohl, Joseph (1990), Verlorene Landschaft (1993), Niemandsland (doc., 1995), Neben der Zeit (1996), Im Namen der Unschuld (1998), Wege in die Nacht (1999).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Andreas Kleinert.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Johann Bergk.
Director of photography: Jürgen Jürges.
Costume designer: Ulrike Stelzig.
Art director: Gabriele Wolff.
Sound: Siegried Busza.
Music: Andreas Hoge, Steven Garling.
Editor: Gisela Zick.
Cast and characters: Hilmar Thate (Walter), Cornelia Schmaus (Sylvia), Henriette Heinze (Gina), Dirk Borchardt (Rene), Ingeborg Westphal (la cameriera), Daniela Hoffmann (la collega di Sylvia).
Produttori: Frank Löprich, Katrin Schlösser.
Production company: 8 Film, Lychenerstr. 82, 10437 Berlin, Germany, tel. +49-30-4467266, fax +49-30-44672626.
Foreign sales agent: Bavaria Film International, Bavariafilmplatz 8, D-82031 Geiselgasteig, Germany, tel. +49-89-64992686, fax +49-89-64993720, e-mail michael.weber@bavaria-film.de.
Italian distribution: Mikado Film, via Vittor Pisani, 12, 20124 Milano, Italia, tel. +39-02-67070665, fax +39-02-66711488, e-mail mikado@tin.it.
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