GFQ 1-2006 - German Cinema

Gisela
A triangle love story. It’s Midsummer. Somewhere in a
suburb lives Gisela, a young married woman. Georg and
Paul, two old friends with anarchist behavior, enjoy their
slack lives. Getting the local girls in the sack is never much
of a problem for them. Gisela, however, is not so easy to
get, and never was: “Back then I would have done her, but
now she’s just fat, old and ugly. Besides, she’s still not letting
anybody have it,” says Georg. But Paul becomes
Gisela’s lover. Georg is dead set against it, and gives free
reign to his destructive energies.
Three people project their desires onto each other. Even
though the chances for their fulfillments do not look wellsituated,
the development seems to offer solutions for
everybody.
Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of
Production 2005 Director Isabelle Stever Screenplay Anke
Stelling, Isabelle Stever Director of Photography James
Carman Editor Christian Kraemer Music by YoYo Roehm,
Jochen Arbeit Producer Gerd Haag Production Company
Tag/Traum Filmproduktion/Cologne, in co-production with
WDR/Cologne Principal Cast Anne Weinknecht, Carlo Ljubek,
Stefan Rudolf, Anna Loos Casting Bernhard Karl Length 87 min,
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2,628 m Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version
German Subtitled Version English Sound Technology
Dolby SR Festival Screenings Locarno 2005, Montreal New
2005, London 2005, Goteborg 2006, Berlin 2006 (German Cinema)
With backing from Filmstiftung NRW
Isabelle Stever was born in 1963 in Munich. After studying
Mathematics, she enrolled in the Direction program at the German
Academy of Film & Television (dffb) in Berlin and worked as an assistant
director, script editor and casting director. Her films include:
the shorts Requiem for Something Which is Very Small
(Requiem fuer etwas, das sehr klein ist, 1997), A Touch
of Heaven (1998), Beach Bikini Party (1999), her awardwinning
graduation feature Portrait of a Married Couple
(Erste Ehe, 2002), and Gisela (2005).
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Anne Weinknecht in “Gisela” (photo © TAG/TRAUM, Sibylle Anneck)