Country: Germany, Portugal
Year: 2011
Duration: 126'
A father and his adolescent son go to Berlin to visit the boy’s mother, who is in a coma in a hospital. The father hasn’t seen her in years, the son has never met her before. They thus find themselves having to confront a murky past, an unknown city, the hostile environment of a hospital and the inhospitable apartment where the mother lived with a woman who is as charming as she is mysterious. Father and son go on a parallel journey, of self-discovery and of their own past. As the boys explores an unusual side of Berlin, the father waits for the mother to awaken from her coma. “In this film two people are confronted with a situation that is completely new for them. In a minimalistic setting (an apartment, a hospital) they are each forced to face intimate layers of themselves, past feelings, an unfamiliar body, their own body. In the course of the film, father and son embark on a parallel journey: the boy to his (past) connection to his mother’s body, the father to a past intimacy that he once had with the boy’s mother.”
Biography
film director
Hugo Vieira da Silva
Hugo Vieira da Silva (Oporto, Portugal, 1974), after studying law, graduated in 1999 from the Este School of Theatre and Cinema in Lisbon. His graduating film, Arte pública, won the 1998 Kodak Award for best Portuguese documentary of the year. His first feature-length film, Body Rice, received numerous awards, including a Special Mention at the 2006 Locarno Film Festival and best director at the 2007 BAFICI in Buenos Aires. His second feature film, Swans, was selected for L’Atelier in Cannes and was made with the contribution of TorinoFilmLab. He lives in Berlin and Vienna.
FILMOGRAFIA
Arte Pública (cm, doc., 1998) Grupo Puzzle (mm, doc., 2001,) Confesso (Albuquerque Mendes) (mm, doc., 2003), Body Rice (2006), Swans (2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Hugo Vieira da Silva
fotografia/cinematography
Reinhold Vorschneider
montaggio/film editing
Andrea Wagner
scenografia/production design
Thomas Molt
costumi/costume design
Gabriella Ausonio
suono/sound
Daniel Iribarren, Manuel Laval
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Kai Hillebrand (Manuel), Ralph Herforth (Tarso), Maria Schuster (Petra), Vasupol Siriviriyapoon (Kim), Eva Kryll (il dottore/Dr), Cornelius Schwalm (il guaritore/Healer), Christian Schwarz (Andreas), Anne Rathsfeld (l’infermiera/Nurse), Robert Lohr (il poliziotto/Policeman)
produttore/producer
Helge Albers
produzione/production
Flying Moon
coproduttore/coproducer
Francisco Villa-Lobos
coproduzione/coproduction
Contracosta Produções
vendita all’estero/world sales
The Match Factory
