Country: Germany, Romania, Hungary, Sweden
Year: 2016
Duration: 111'
Arad, Romania, 1968. In the Romanian-German Reinholtz family, everybody has their own problems: the father, who is almost completely blind, is depressed and has already tried to take his life; eighteen-year-old Emil plays at being a rebel and composes “inconvenient” songs on his guitar. After the mother’s death, it’s all on the shoulders of the eldest son Mihai who, at the end of his tether, decides to take his father to the German Democratic Republic to undergo an operation which will give him back his sight and, perhaps, his serenity. With this objective, the three set off: but their encounter with the Prague Spring will change their plans. [rm]
Biography
film director
Anca Miruna Lăzărescu
Anca Miruna Lăzărescu (Timisoara, Romania) emigrated with her family to Germany in 1990. She studied at the German Academy for Film and Television in Munich and directed several documentary and short films. Her graduation film, Silent River had its premiere in the international competition of the Berlinale Shorts 2011, and was invited to over three hundred international festivals since then, winning more then eigthy awards. It was also nominated for Best European Short 2011 by the European Film Academy. Her documentary film One Day Today Will Be Once (2009) won at the Syracuse Film Festival and was invited to different international festivals, including Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Nyon and Warsaw. She is member of the Romanian and European Film Academy.
FILMOGRAFIA
Bucuresti-Berlin (cm, 2004), Salma Beneath Two Skies (cm, doc., 2005), The Secret Of Deva (mm, doc., 2003-2007), One Day Today Will Be Once (cm, doc., 2009), Apele Tac (Silent River, cm, 2011), Die Reise Mit Vater (That Trip We Took with Dad, 2016).
Declaration
film director
“Like the Russian tanks that ran over Prague in 1968, the characters in the film are run over by a random incident with the power to change the course of their entire lives. Even though this is a historical plot, the main theme is very contemporary. That Trip we Took with Dad asks a simple question: how free are we really to choose freedom?”
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Anca Miruna Lăzărescu
fotografia/cinematography
Christian Stangassinger
montaggio/film editing
Dan Olteanu, Hansjörg Weissbrich
scenografia/production design
Petra Albert
costumi/costume design
Györgyi Szakács, Juli Szlávik
musica/music
Ferenc Darvas
suono/sound
Tamas Devenyi
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Alex Mărgineanu (Mihai), Răvan Enciu (Emil), Ovidiu Schumacher (William), Susanne Bormann (Ulli), Manuel Klein (Hans-Uwe), Marcela Nistor (Neli)
produttori/producers
David Lindner Leporda, Verona Maier
coproduttori/coproducers
Cătălin Mitulescu, Andrea Taschler, Daniel Mitulescu, Nándor Lovas, Fredrik Zander, Jessica Ask
coproduzione/coproduction
Strada Film, Mirage Film Studio, Bayerischer Rundfunk, ARTE, Film Väst, Chimney, BER Film & TV
contatti/contacts
Filmallee
David Lindner
david@filmallee.com
Anca Miruna Lăzărescu
fotografia/cinematography
Christian Stangassinger
montaggio/film editing
Dan Olteanu, Hansjörg Weissbrich
scenografia/production design
Petra Albert
costumi/costume design
Györgyi Szakács, Juli Szlávik
musica/music
Ferenc Darvas
suono/sound
Tamas Devenyi
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Alex Mărgineanu (Mihai), Răvan Enciu (Emil), Ovidiu Schumacher (William), Susanne Bormann (Ulli), Manuel Klein (Hans-Uwe), Marcela Nistor (Neli)
produttori/producers
David Lindner Leporda, Verona Maier
coproduttori/coproducers
Cătălin Mitulescu, Andrea Taschler, Daniel Mitulescu, Nándor Lovas, Fredrik Zander, Jessica Ask
coproduzione/coproduction
Strada Film, Mirage Film Studio, Bayerischer Rundfunk, ARTE, Film Väst, Chimney, BER Film & TV
contatti/contacts
Filmallee
David Lindner
david@filmallee.com
