GFQ 2-2007 - german films

Liebesleben
LOVELIFE
When Jara meets Arie, her father’s boyhood friend, she is
immediately drawn to his unflinching and assured pre -
sence. It is not long before she forsakes her well-meaning
husband for the powerful, mysterious older man, who
seems to represent something totally new and exciting in
her life. In short: will, strength and the key to her family’s
mysterious past. They fall into a heated affair that soon
drifts towards the destructive as Jara realizes the things in
Arie that attract and repel her with equal intensity at the
same time. The story does not only deal with getting her
feelings and love under control, in addition it describes the
way of finding her own personality in consideration of her
difficult family background.
The novel Lovelife is cerebral, seductive, provocative, and
profound and was 25 weeks in the European Top 10 list
of bestselling books. Lovelife has been declared a true
literary celebration … one of the most inspired novels ever
written in Israeli literature.
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Genre Drama, Literature Category Feature Film Cinema Year
of Production 2007 Director Maria Schrader Screenplay
Maria Schrader, Laila Stieler, based on a novel by Zeruya Shalev
Director of Photography Benedict Neuenfels Editor Antje
Zynga Music by Niki Reiser Production Design Christian M.
Goldbeck Producers Stefan Arndt, Marek Rozenbaum
Production Company X Filme Creative Pool/Berlin, in co-production
with Transfax Film/Tel Aviv Principal Cast Netta Garti,
Rade Sherbedgia, Tovah Feldshuh, Stephen Singer Casting Esther
Kling, Avy Kaufman Special Effects Pini Klavir Length 104 min,
2,846 m Format 35 mm, color, cs Original Version English
Dubbed Version German Sound Technology Dolby SRD
With backing from Filmstiftung NRW, Film foerderungs anstalt
(FFA), Medien board Berlin-Brandenburg, BKM, Israel Film Fund
German Distributor X Verleih/Berlin
Maria Schrader was born in 1965 in Hanover. In 1999, she was
named as one of the European Film Promotion’s “Shooting Stars”.
Primarily active as an actress, she has worked with some of
Germany’s most successful directors, in films including Aimée &
Jaguar (Max Faerbrboeck), Bin ich schoen? (Doris Doerrie), Emil und
die Detektive (Franziska Buch), Meschugge, Vaeter, and Stille Nacht
(Dani Levy), Rosenstrasse (Margarethe von Trotta), and Schneeland
(Hans W. Geissendoerfer). Together with director Dani Levy, she
also co-directed Meschugge and Stille Nacht.
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Cover of the novel “Liebesleben” (motif courtesy of Berlin Verlag)