GFQ 2-2007 - german films
GFQ 2-2007 - german films
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 />
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Scene from “Half Hours” (photo © dffb/Jost Hering Filme)