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GFQ 2-2007 - german films

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Halbe Stunden<br />

HALF HOURS<br />

Melanie Straub lives aimlessly into the day, or more<br />

accurate ly: into a Saturday. She’s alone at home, surround -<br />

ed by the emptiness of her new life.<br />

Genre Fiction Category Short Year of Production <strong>2007</strong><br />

Director Nicolas Wackerbarth Screenplay Nicolas<br />

Wackerbarth Director of Photography Reinhold<br />

Vorschneider Editor Janina Herrhofer Music by Anton Webern-<br />

Passacaglia Production Design Eric Segoll Producers<br />

Hartmut Bitomsky, Jost Hering Executive Producers Oliver<br />

Fleischmann, Ursula Mueller Production Company Deutsche<br />

Film- und Fernsehakademie (dffb)/Berlin, in co-production with Jost<br />

Hering Filme/Berlin Principal Cast Cristin Koenig, Joanna<br />

Czerwìnska, Abel vom Acker Casting Ulrike Mueller Length 20<br />

min, 560 m Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version<br />

German Subtitled Version English Sound Technology<br />

Dolby SR Festival Screenings Cannes <strong>2007</strong> (Cinéfondation),<br />

Oberhausen <strong>2007</strong> (In Competition) With backing from<br />

Filmfoerderungsanstalt (FFA)<br />

World Sales (please contact)<br />

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin GmbH (dffb) · Jana Wolff<br />

Potsdamer Strasse 2 · 10785 Berlin/Germany<br />

phone +49-30-25 75 91 52 · fax +49-30-25 75 91 62<br />

email: wolff@dffb.de · www.dffb.de<br />

Nicolas Wackerbarth was born in 1973 in Munich and studied<br />

Acting at the Bavarian Theater Academy, followed by acting en -<br />

gagements at theaters in Frankfurt and Cologne. Since 2000, he has<br />

been studying at the German Academy of Film & Television Berlin<br />

(dffb) and is an editor of the film magazine Revolver. A selection of<br />

his <strong>films</strong> includes: Brat (short, 2000), Lovesick (short, 2003),<br />

Anfaenger! (TV, 2004), Westernstadt (documentary, 2005),<br />

and Half Hours (Halbe Stunden, short, <strong>2007</strong>).<br />

<strong>german</strong> <strong>films</strong> quarterly new <strong>german</strong> <strong>films</strong><br />

2 · <strong>2007</strong> 49<br />

Scene from “Half Hours” (photo © dffb/Jost Hering Filme)

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