Country: Germany
Year: 200
Duration: 90'


Sabine is a normal school girl, aged sixteen. Because she is in permanent trouble with her mother's boyfriend, they decide that is better if she lives with her dad for a while, he lives in one of the suburban East Berlin towns. Sabine feels like a stranger in a complete new area. The first person she meets is Eddie, a boy of the same age, in the same class as her. Eddie is about to leave the school, without knowing what to do. His best friend is Micha, that is eighteen, unemplyed and already premanently in trouble with the police. One day Micha, Eddie and Stefan, a schoolmate of Eddie, get into a vicious fight with a boy from another area and before they know what it's happening, Eddie finds himself with a knife in his hand, stabbing the boy to death. Coincidentally, Sabine, going home from school, walks into the bleeding corpse, all she sees is Micha, running away, holding the bloody knife in his hand. The tragedy begins…

"Alaska.de isn't a crime story. It doesn't intend to display the brutalization of suburban youth, but gives a sensitive profile of german kids in modern urban life" (Esther Gronenbon)

Biography

film director

Esther Gronenbon

Esther Gronenborn, who learnt her trade at the Academy for Television & Film in Munich (HFF), has two specialities: documentaries and shorts. Among the latter can be counted the many music videos she has directed for such artists as Schweisser, Spektacoolär, La Bouche, Touché and Alisha. Her documentaries include Die Strasse zum Glück about China's special economic zones, and I Wonder in Pornoland. The latter was screened, among others, at the Max Ophüls Festival in Saarbrücken and the Munich Documentary Filmfest.

FILMOGRAFIA

Hundstage (cm, 1985), How to Use a Car (cm, 1986), Tief Unten (cm, 1987), Sie Schämen sich ihrer Tränen nicht (doc. 1990), I Wonder in Pornoland (doc., 1991), Morgengrauen (cm, 1992), EPG 55, oder der Tag an dem der Fernseher kaputt ging (cm, 1995), Die Strasse zum Glück (doc., 1997), Alaska.de (2000).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Esther Gronenborn.
Director of photography: Jan Feshe.
Editor: Christian Lonk.
Music: Moser, Meyer, Döring.
Cast and characters: Jana Pallaske (Sabine), Frank Droese (Eddie).
Production company: Eberhard Junkersdorf, Dietmar Güntsche per Bioskop Film GmbH, Rosenheimer strasse 143d, 81671 Monaco, Germania, tel. e fax: +49-084-4090920, e-mail: bioskope@t-online.de
Co-production: Short Productions / Studio Babelsberg Indipendents / ORB / Kinowelt Filmproduktion
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