Titel Kino 2-2000 - German Films

Fernes Land Pa-Isch
FAR AWAY COUNTRY PA-ISCH
Sixteen-year-old Umberto is fed up with life. His mother Ilona frequently changes her lovers.
His father disappeared (it is said that he worked as a circus acrobat and had an accident). The
father of his younger half-sister, Bianca, went back to Africa. Umberto’s dream is to leave the
sad, small town in Saxony where they live. Ilona decides to move the family to Hamburg,
trying to find a better life. Umberto falls in love with Tschibo, a black girl living next door.
Umberto is irritated when he finds out that his mother and Tschibo work as prostitutes.
He tries to save Bianca and himself, to leave for Africa, for distant ”Pa-Isch“. After a turbulent
journey on a stolen motorbike, they arrive in Berlin where they meet ”Le Pain“ and his gang
who live in the ruins of an old factory. Umberto tries to earn money doing more or less legal
jobs. When he realises that his dream can’t come true he starts a large fire .
Nana Abrokwa, Jens Schumann
Genre Feature Director Rainer Simon Screenplay
Günther Saalmann, Rainer Simon Director of
Photography Sebastian Richter Editor Helga Gentz
Music by Friedrich Schenker, Gruppe Saraba, Klaus
Knapp Producer Dorothea Hildebrandt Production
Company Studio Babelsberg, Potsdam Principal
Cast Renate Krößner, Meret Becker, Jens Schumann,
Nana Abrokwa Length 93 min., 2.550 m. Format 35
mm, colour, 1:1,66 Original Version German
Subtitled Version English Sound Technology
Dolby Stereo With backing from BKM, Länder
Brandenburg, Sachsen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern,
Hamburger Filmbüro German Distributor Progress
Film-Verleih GmbH, Berlin
World Sales:
Progress Film-Verleih GmbH · Christel Jansen, Miriam Reisner
Burgstr. 27 · D-10178 Berlin
phone: +49-30-24 00 32 25 · fax: +49-30-24 00 32 22
www.progress-film.de · email: c.jansen@progress-film.de
Percy Adlon
Rainer Simon was born in Hainichen in 1941.
From 1961 - 1965 he studied at the ”Konrad Wolf“
Academy for Film & Television in Babelsberg. In 1964
he made his graduation film, Peterle und die
Weihnachtsgans Auguste. He then worked as
an assistant director under Ralf Kirsten and Konrad
Wolf, making his debut as a director of feature films
in 1969 with Wie heiratet man einen König.
His major films are: Männer ohne Bart (1971),
Sechse kommen durch die Welt (1972),
Till Eulenspiegel (1975), Zünd an, es kommt
die Feuerwehr (1979), Jadup und Boel
(1981/88), Die Frau und der Fremde (1985),
Die Besteigung des Chimborazo (1989),
Der Fall Ö. (1991) and Fernes Land Pa-Isch
(1994/2000).
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