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Milchwald
THIS VERY MOMENT
Sylvia picks up her step-children Lea and Constantine
on their way home from school. She drives with them
to nearby Poland to go shopping – as she will claim
later. As so often, mounting tension and quarreling
ensue in the car. Sylvia suddenly stops the car in the
middle of a country road, angrily ordering the children
to get out. Furious, she continues driving, returning
only some time later to the spot where she left the
children behind. But Lea and Constantine seem to
have disappeared into thin air. After a brief search,
Sylvia, following a sudden inclination, returns home.
When she sees Joseph, the children’s father, however,
she mentions nothing of their disappearance. In the
darkness of their cold marriage, Sylvia finds no words
to speak of what she has done. She is afraid of losing
Joseph’s love if she tells him the truth. The following
days are marked by a sort of speechlessness; Joseph is
in anguish about his children and begins to search for
them.
Meanwhile in Poland, Lea and Constantine meet a
man by the name of Cuba who promises to help
them. But Cuba soon proves himself to be very unreliable.
Only after he sees the reward being offered for
the children on TV is he determined to do everything
to bring them home. He gets in touch with the father
who immediately sets out with Sylvia for Poland. In
the meantime, given the recent rash of adverse circumstances,
the children have long lost their trust in
everyone...
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Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of
Production 2003 Director Christoph Hochhaeusler
Screenplay Benjamin Heissenberg, Christoph Hochhaeusler,
Denijal Hasanovic Director of Photography Ali
Goezkaya Editor Gisela Zick Music by Benedikt Schiefer
Production Design Maximilian Lange Producers
Clarens Grollmann, Mario Stefan Production Company
Fieber Film, Munich, in co-production with Filmcontract,
Warsaw, Cine Image, Munich, Schmidtz Katze Film, Halle,
Colonia Media Filmproduktion, Cologne Principal Cast
Judith Engel, Horst-Guenter Marx, Sophie Conrad, Leonard
Bruckmann Casting Uwe Buenker, C.A.T. Florian Neubauer
Length 87 min, 2,381 m Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.66
Original Version German Subtitled Versions English,
French Sound Technology Dolby SR International
Festival Screenings Berlin 2003 (Forum), Montreal 2003
(in competition), Vancouver 2003, Chicago 2003 With
backing from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Mitteldeutsche
Medienfoerderung German Distributor Basis-Film Verleih
GmbH, Berlin
Christoph Hochhaeusler was born in Munich in 1972.
After his community service (in lieu of a stint in the army), he
studied Architecture in Berlin from 1993-1995. He has also
worked as a tour guide, illustrator, and story board artist. He
then enrolled at the Academy of Television & Film (HFF/M) in
Munich from 1996-2002. He is also the founder and co-publisher
of the film magazine Revolver. His films include: First
Aid (Erste Hilfe, 1995), Night Shadows (Nachtschatten,
1996), Fever (Fieber, 1999), Flirt (2000),
Pulse (Puls, 2001), and This Very Moment
(Milchwald, 2003).
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Scene from ”This Very Moment“ (photo © fieber.film)