Country: Germany
Year: 2000
Duration: 14'
Northern Germany, winter. It is Tobias' birthday and he is very disappointed by his mother's present: a wool cap. In the meantime, the skinhead Haske decides to leave his group but drives his car into the river. At a bus stop he meets Tobias, who gives him his cap. A car stops. It is Kyalja, who is going to the bank to withdraw some money she needs to pay for her husband's cancer therapy. Haske gives her the cap.
"This is the story of a wool cap, which is given away twice, which ends up changing the life of three people. Haske gets a new start, Kyalja gets some money and Tobias gets a slap" (Volker Elas).
Biography
film director
Volker Elas
Volker Elas was born in 1968. He began his career as a cinematographer in 1988 as production assistant. He has worked on over thirty television, movie and advertising productions. In 1995 he became a cameraman and debuted as a director the next year with Mythen und Magie. Der braune Faden is his third work.
FILMOGRAFIA
Mythen und Magie (cm, 1996), Sie waren nackt und mußten sterben (cm, 1998), Der braune Faden (2000).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Volker Elas.
Director of photography: Til Maier.
Art director: Angelika Mende.
Costume designer: Heike Schulz Fadembrecht.
Editor: Melanie Werwie.
Sound: Johannes Grehl.
Music: Mogwai.
Cast and characters: Max Schneider (Tobias), Oliver Bröcker (Haske), Labina Mitevska (Kyalja Tesch), Rainer Basedow (Determann).
Production company: Peter Stockhaus Filmproduktion GmbH, Friedensallee 7, D-22765 Hamburg, Germany, tel. +49-40-3910963, fax +49-40-39109650, e-mail info@peterstockhausfilm.de.
Foreign sales agent: Mdc Int. GmbH, Schillerstr. 7a, D-10625 Berlin, Germany, tel. +49-30-26497900, fax +49-30-26497910, e-mail info@mdc-int.de.
Director of photography: Til Maier.
Art director: Angelika Mende.
Costume designer: Heike Schulz Fadembrecht.
Editor: Melanie Werwie.
Sound: Johannes Grehl.
Music: Mogwai.
Cast and characters: Max Schneider (Tobias), Oliver Bröcker (Haske), Labina Mitevska (Kyalja Tesch), Rainer Basedow (Determann).
Production company: Peter Stockhaus Filmproduktion GmbH, Friedensallee 7, D-22765 Hamburg, Germany, tel. +49-40-3910963, fax +49-40-39109650, e-mail info@peterstockhausfilm.de.
Foreign sales agent: Mdc Int. GmbH, Schillerstr. 7a, D-10625 Berlin, Germany, tel. +49-30-26497900, fax +49-30-26497910, e-mail info@mdc-int.de.