Country: Germany
Year: 2000
Duration: 75'


It's 1980 in a small town in West Germany, summer vacation has just started. Tobias, a 12-years-old boy, a raving Beatles fan, is dreaming about having a band of his own together with his older brother Till. But Till just started dating his first girlfriend and therefore has other things on his mind. One fine day a mysterious man appears in town driving a white VW beetle, apparently English. Tobias is convinced that he has seen the licence plate on the car before. Going through his LPs he finds his suspicions confirmed: it is the beetle shown on the Abbey Road cover. His detective istincts aroused, he discovers a strange story which happened in 1966: Paul McCartney died under mysterious circumstances and was replaced with a double by his manager, Brian Epstein. All the elements seem to match and Tobias starts to investigate the case, believing he is confronted with Paul's killer.

Biography

film director

Hendrik Handloegten

Hendrik Hardloegten was born in Germany in 1968 but spent his childhood in Finland, Breazil, Switzerland and France. In 1985 he moved from Paris to East Berlin. IN 1989 he finished his studies at the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) in Berloin with is graduation film, Paul Is Dead.

FILMOGRAFIA

Paul Is Dead (2000).

Cast

& Credits

Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Hendrik Handloegten.
Director of photography: Florian Hoffmeister.
Editor: Monika Smith.
Music: Bertram Denzel, Bernd Jestram.
Art director: Yesim Zolon.
Cast and characters: Sebastian Schmidtke (Tobias), Martin Reinhold (Helmut), Vasko Scholz (Till), Myriam Abeillon (Tessa), Ian T. Dickinson (Billy Reash), Rainer Egger (Roger), Astrid Pochmann (madre di Tobias), Joachim Stern, Anette Felber, Hans-Joachim Heist, Lorenz Claussen, Max Riedel.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Stefan Arndt, Maria Köpf per X Filme Produktions GmbH, Bülowstr. 90, D-10783 Berlin, Germany, tel. +49-30-23083311, fax +49-30-23083322, e-mail X-FILME@X-FILME.de
Co-production: ZDF
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