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Der Mann der ueber Autos sprang
THE MAN WHO JUMPED CARS
The enigmatic Julian sets off in a black suit with an old
rucksack on a pilgrimage by foot across Germany in an
attempt to prevent his best friend’s father from dying of a
heart attack. This unusual quest awakens in the people
who meet him – above all Ju, a frustrated doctor, and
Ruth, a young housewife – the desire to escape their
every day lives. They accompany him on his odyssey without
knowing he has escaped from a mental hospital and
that his last attempt to defy the laws of nature ended in
tragedy.
Genre Road Movie Category Feature Film Cinema Year of
Production 2010 Director Nick Baker-Monteys Screenplay
Nick Baker-Monteys Director of Photography Eeva Fleig
Editor Dagmar Lichius Music by Fabian Roemer Production
Design K.D. Gruber Producers Andreas Born, Gloria Burkert,
Andreas Bareiss Co-Producers Fred Breinersdorfer, Luigi Falorni
Executive Producer Sigi Kamml Commissioning Editors
Brigitte Dithard, Andreas Schreitmueller Production Com -
World Sales (please contact)
ophir film GmbH Film- und Fernsehproduktion
Husemannstrasse 7 · 10435 Berlin/Germany
phone +49-30-39 80 29 20 · fax +49-30-39 80 28 25
email: autospringer@ophirfilm.com · www.ophirfilm.com
panies ophir film/Berlin, BurkertBareiss Development/Berlin &
Munich Principal Cast Robert Stadlober, Jessica Schwarz, Martin
Feifel, Anna Schudt, Mark Waschke, Robert Schupp, Irene Rindje,
Justus Carrière, Simon Licht Casting Tina Boeckenhauer Length
105 min Format Digital, color, cs Original Version German
Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby With
backing from MFG Baden-Wuerttemberg, Medienboard Berlin-
Brandenburg, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), German Federal
Film Board (FFA), FilmFern sehFonds Bayern
Nick Baker-Monteys was born in Berlin in 1964. He gained a
Bachelor of Arts at the University of Stirling in Scotland. He worked
as a journalist for different London newspapers before moving to
Berlin in 1990 shortly after the Wall came down. Since then he has
worked in Germany as a writer, director and script consultant on
films for cinema and television. He has also been a guest lecturer
and tutor at the German Film and Television Academy (dffb) in
Berlin. The Man Who Jumped Cars, which he wrote and
directed, is his debut feature.
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Scene from “The Man Who Jumped Cars” (photo © Volker Roloff)