28° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
TORINO 28

GLÜCKLICHE FÜGUNG

BLESSED EVENTS
by Isabelle Stever
Country: Germany
Year: 2010
Duration: 91'


blessed events

 

New Year’s Eve. Simone decides to go out alone. The next morning, she wakes up in a strange car, next to a strange man. Few weeks later, she discovers she’s pregnant. By coincidence, she runs into the stranger again and is surprised to find out that, contrary to her expectations, he’s actually happy about the pregnancy and wants to live with her. While he works in a hospital nursing to the dying with extraordinary tenderness, she renovates their little home. The larger Simone’s belly grows and the more extensively Hannes’ integrity warms the nest, the more oppressive their homemade prison appears.

 

“My goal was to consistently take on Simone’s perspective, so that her horror – which seems to come out of nowhere – becomes experienceable for the viewer. In order to underscore the constant possibility of change and dissolution, the settings in the film are often under construction, in renovation or intentionally dissonant. The wide, cinemascope framing, as well as the omissions and ellipses, create a space for the turbulance inside Simone.”

Biography

film director

Isabelle Stever

Isabelle Stever (Munich, Germany, 1963), after studying mathematics, graduated in directing at dffb, Berlin’s academy of film and television. She has made numerous shorts and has worked as assistant director, casting director and script supervisor. Her first feature film, Portrait of a Married Couple, received the First Steps Award in 2002; her second feature film, Gisela, was selected for the festivals of Munich, Locarno and Montreal, amongst others.

FILMOGRAFIA

filmografia essenziale/essential filmography

Requiem für etwas, das sehr klein ist (cm, 1997), A Touch of Heaven (cm, 1998), Beach Bikini Party (cm, 1999), Erste Ehe (Portrait of a Married Couple, 2002), Gisela (2005), Deutschland 09 - 13 kurze Filme zur Lage der Nation (ep. Eine demokratische Gesprächsrunde zu festgelegten Zeiten; Germany 09: 13 Short Films About the State of the Nation, cm, 2009), Glückliche Fügung (2010). 

Cast

& Credits

regia/director

Isabelle Stever

soggetto/script

dall’omonimo racconto di/from the short story of the same title by Anke Stelling

sceneggiatura/screenplay

Anke Stelling, Isabelle Stever

fotografia/cinematography

Bernhard Keller

montaggio/film editing

Bettina Böhler

scenografia/production design

Beatrice Schultz

costumi/costume design

Anette Guther

musica/music

Yoyo Röhm, Jupiter Moll, Louis Marioth

suono/sound

Frank Kruse, Bernd V. Bassewitz

interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters

Annika Kuhl (Simone), Stefan Rudolf (Hannes), Arno Frisch (Herbert), Maria Simon (Susa), Juan Carlos Lopez (Helmut), Hanns Zischler (il ginecologo/Gynecologist), Jana Thies (l’impiegata/Female Employee), Lawrence Davis (il bambino/Baby).

produttori/producers

Sigrid Hoerner, Anne Leppin

produzione/production

Moneypenny Filmproduktion

coproduzione/coproduction

Zdf - Das Kleine Fernsehspiel

vendita all’estero/world sales

Media Luna New Films

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