Country: Germany
Year: 2012
Duration: 86'
Twenty-five-year-old Lara will soon receive her degree in architecture and doesn’t really know what she wants to do with her life. To escape her doubts and worries, she spends her nights clubbing with her friend Nora, but she soon tires of this distraction, too. Everything changes when she discovers she is pregnant after having sex with a stranger she met in a disco. Overcoming her initial confusion and hesitation, Lara throws herself into an adventure that will give some meaning to her life. But her growing enthusiasm is brusquely checked. The only solution is to pretend nothing happened, as she searches for a feeling of personal realization that is too important to her.
Biography
film director
Pola Beck
Pola Beck (Berlin, Germany, 1982) was born and raised in a family of avid cinema and theater goers; right from the start she was interested in art, photography and images in motion. From 2005 to 2011, she studied at the HFF Konrad Wolf institute, also trying her hand at portrait photography. She debuted in film in 2004 with the short Five to Six, which was followed by Inside You (2008), presented at the 2008 Berlinale; the documentary Teheran Kitchen (2009); and The Circle in Which She Travels (2010), which was co-produced with ARTE. Breaking Horizons is her first feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Five to Six (cm, 2004), In Deiner Haut (Inside You, cm, 2008), Teheran Kitchen (cm, doc., 2009), Der Kreis In Dem Sie Reist (The Circle in Which She Travels, cm, 2010), Am Himmel der Tag (Breaking Horizons, 2012).
Declaration
film director
"It is a story that revolves around the Zeitgeist of today’s young adults. Many people of this generation – myself included – are faced with an almost endless variety of possibilities. Yet we are rarely satisfied with what we have."
Cast
& Credits
regia/director Pola Beck
sceneggiatura/screenplay Burkhardt Wunderlich
fotografia/cinematography Juan Sarmiento G.
montaggio/film editing David J. Rauschning
scenografia/production design Babett Klimmeck
costumi/costume design Nadja Lienig, Mareike Bay
musica/music Ninca Leece
suono/sound Johannes Hampel
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Aylin Tezel (Lara), Henrike von Kuick (Nora), Tómas Lemarquis (Elvar), Godehard Giese (Martin), Marion Mitterhammer (Claudia), Lutz Blochberger (Paul)
produttori/producers Iris Sommerlatte, Ali Saghri
produzione/production ALINFilmproduktion
coproduzione/coproduction Osiris Media GmbH, HFF Konrad Wolf, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
vendita all’estero/world sales ALINFilmproduktion
sceneggiatura/screenplay Burkhardt Wunderlich
fotografia/cinematography Juan Sarmiento G.
montaggio/film editing David J. Rauschning
scenografia/production design Babett Klimmeck
costumi/costume design Nadja Lienig, Mareike Bay
musica/music Ninca Leece
suono/sound Johannes Hampel
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Aylin Tezel (Lara), Henrike von Kuick (Nora), Tómas Lemarquis (Elvar), Godehard Giese (Martin), Marion Mitterhammer (Claudia), Lutz Blochberger (Paul)
produttori/producers Iris Sommerlatte, Ali Saghri
produzione/production ALINFilmproduktion
coproduzione/coproduction Osiris Media GmbH, HFF Konrad Wolf, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
vendita all’estero/world sales ALINFilmproduktion
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