Country: Austria, Germany
Year: 2001
Duration: 65'
A love story. Nicole is fourteen years old and feels that something important is about to happen in her life. When she meets Christopher, she realizes that her premonition was true. Christopher is the most handsome and courted young man in the neighborhood. The fact that Nicole's mother works nights is an opportunity that can't be missed: their house becomes the stage upon which Christopher and Nicole play the parts of husband and wife. They try to imitate the adults, but it isn't quite so simple.
"Sometimes I observe these young couples - they live their first love with total openness and seem completely at ease when they pretend to be husband and wife. The image of their love is pure and unique, they are a living example" (Valeska Grisebach).
Biography
film director
Valeska Grisebach
Valeska Grisebach was born in 1968 in Bremen, Germany. She moved to Austria, where she is enrolled at Vienna's Filmakademie. After filming a few short documentaries, she directed her first full-length fiction film with the support of the Filmakademie and the "Konrad Wolf" High School for Film and Television, located in Potsdam/Babelsberg. Be My Star won the FIPRESCI prize at the 2001 Toronto Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Sprechen und Nichtsprechen (doc., cm, 1996), In der Wüste Gobi (doc., cm, 1997), Berlino (doc., cm, 1999), Mein Stern (2001).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Valeska Grisebach.
Director of photography: Bernhard Keller.
Editor: Anja Salomonowitz.
Cast and characters: Nicole Gläser (Nicole), Christopher Schöps (Christopher), Monique Gläser, Jeanine Gläser, Sebastian Rinka, Christina Sandke.
Production company: Valeska Grisebach per Filmakademie Wien, Metternichgasse 12, A-1030 Wien, Austria, tel. +43-1-7135212, fax +43-1-71155199.
Co-production: Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen «Konrad Wolf», Potsdam/Babelsberg, Germany.
Foreign sales agent: Austrian Film Commission, Stiftgasse 6, A-1070 Wien, Austria, tel. +43-1-5263323, fax +43-1-5266801, e-mail office@afc.at.
Director of photography: Bernhard Keller.
Editor: Anja Salomonowitz.
Cast and characters: Nicole Gläser (Nicole), Christopher Schöps (Christopher), Monique Gläser, Jeanine Gläser, Sebastian Rinka, Christina Sandke.
Production company: Valeska Grisebach per Filmakademie Wien, Metternichgasse 12, A-1030 Wien, Austria, tel. +43-1-7135212, fax +43-1-71155199.
Co-production: Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen «Konrad Wolf», Potsdam/Babelsberg, Germany.
Foreign sales agent: Austrian Film Commission, Stiftgasse 6, A-1070 Wien, Austria, tel. +43-1-5263323, fax +43-1-5266801, e-mail office@afc.at.