Country: Germany
Year: 2000
Duration: 100'


Mannheim, Germany. A group of illegal aliens, struggle to survive or hit the jackpot. Branko from Croatia and Merab from Georgia are two hapless hitmen assigned to kill a businessman for reasons unknown. Absurd coincidences prevent them from carrying out their mission and so they join forces with Carlos, a gigantic refugee from Haiti, and his girlfriend Lan, a tiny vietnamise prostitute. But again the unsuspecting victim eludes them and instead a thoroughly unexpected murder takes place.

"I love the characters in my film. They are people who have lost contact to themselves but who try to mantain their dignity. For me, dignity is one of the most important human qualities, because it makes us hope" (Dito Tsintsadze).

Biography

film director

Dito Tsintsadze

Dito Tsintsadze was born in 1957 in Tifils, Georgia. From 1975 to 1981 he attended the Tifils Theater and Film Institute. He made is first short film in 1986 and then began working for private film production company Schvidkasta. Zghvardze was awarded the Silver Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival and the Golden Eagle at the International Black Sea Nations Film Festival in 1993.

FILMOGRAFIA

White Night (cm, 1986), Home (1991), Zghvardze (On the Borderline, 1993), Guests (cm, 1993), Lost Killers (2000).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Dito Tsintsadze.
Director of photography: Benedict Neuenfels.
Art director: Thilo Mengler.
Costume designer: Bettina Marx.
Editor: Stephan Krumbiegel.
Music: Dito Tsintsadze & Mirian, Ubo Schöbel, Adrian Sherwood, Skip McDonald.
Cast and characters: Nicole Seelig (Lan), Misel Maticevic (Branco), Lasha Bakradze (Marab), Elie James Blezes (Carlos), Franca Kastein Ferreira Alves (Maria), Franz Koller (Franz), Michael Holz (Flory).
Production company: Peter Rommel Filmproduktion, Fidicinistrasse 40, 10965 Berlino, Germania, tel. +49-30-6937078, fax +49-30-6929575, e-mail p.rommel@t.online.de
Foreign sales agent: World Sales Christa Saredi, Stafferlstrasse 8, 8045 Zurigo, Svizzera, tel. +41-1-2011151, fax +41-1-2011152,
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