at Cannes 2010 - German Film

New German Films
Screening:
Friday, 14 May, 15:30 h, Riviera 2
Wednesday, 19 May, 17:30 h, Riviera 2
Deep within a blue-black fir forest lies the se -
cluded murder farm. It was here that the entire
Danner family, including their children and the
new servant, were brutally murdered with a
pick axe. No one in the village heard or saw a
thing, and yet no one was surprised: old man
Danner was a tyrant and a miser who fell out
with everyone in the village; his deeply pious
wife spoke to no one; and they say old Danner
fathered the children of his daughter Barbara …
Two years later, when the 26-year-old nurse
Kathrin turns up in the village, the killer has still
not been found. She soon discovers that behind
the tightly woven web of lies and silence lays a
deep sense of guilt in the village and she realizes
that this case has much more to do with her
than she would have liked to admit …
Tannoed
THE MURDER FARM
Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production 2009 Director Bettina Oberli
Screenplay Petra Lueschow Director of Photography Stéphane Kuthy Editor Michael Schaerer
Music by Johan Soederqvist Production Design Christiane Krumwiede Producers Hejo Emons, Stefan
Schubert, Ralph Schwingel, Kristina Loebbert Co-Producers Martin Moszkowicz, Christoph Neracher
Production Company Wueste Film West/Cologne, in co-production with Constantin Film
Produktion/Munich, Hugofilm Productions/Zurich Principal Cast Julia Jentsch, Monica Bleibtreu, Volker
Bruch, Brigitte Hobmeier, Janina Stopper, Vitus Zeplichal, Lisa Kreuzer, Filip Peeters, Gundi Ellert, Nils Althaus
Length 97 min Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German Subtitled Version English
Sound Technology Dolby Digital SR Ex With backing from Filmstiftung NRW, German Federal Film
Fund (DFFF), BAK Schweiz, Zuercher Filmstiftung, Swiss Television, Idée Suisse
Bettina Oberli was born in 1972 in Interlaken/Switzerland. She studied Film & Video at the School of Art
and Design Zurich (HGKZ) from 1995 to 2000, graduating with a degree in Directing. She worked in New York
as a prop assistant with the actor and director Steve Buscemi on a music video for Lou Reed and with Hal
Hartley on his feature film Henry Fool. She also worked as an AD and assistant cinematographer on various
advertising films and was a casting assistant for Swiss television. In 2004, she received the International Lake
Constance Conference’s Subsidiary Award. After several award-winning short films, her first feature-length film
Im Nordwind (2004) celebrated its premiere in the same year at the San Sebastian Film Festival. The film
re ceived the Zurich Film Award, the NDR Director’s Award in Schwerin and was nominated for the Swiss Film
Award for Best Film. Her second feature film Late Bloomers (Die Herbstzeitlosen, 2006), about four
high-spirited, fun-loving retired women who bring chaos to a sleepy village, became the biggest box office suc -
cess of the year in Switzerland and was also a surprise number one audience favorite in Germany.
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