German Films

Orly
End of winter. Two hours at the Paris Orly Airport. A
young woman on the way home to her husband falls for
a stranger. A mother and her nearly grown son are travel -
ing to the funeral of her ex-husband, the boy’s father. A
young couple on their first big trip abroad lose touch with
each other. A woman finally dares to read her husband’s
break-up letter in the soothing anonymity of public space.
All wait for their planes. Completely absorbed in following
their immediate fates, they move through the impeccably
structured and functional building, unaware of a looming
threat outside that will result in the airport’s imminent
evac uation.
Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Pro -
duction 2010 Director Angela Schanelec Screenplay Angela
Schanelec Director of Photography Reinhold Vorschneider
Editor Mathilde Bonnefoy Producers Gian-Piero Ringel, Angela
Schanelec Co-Producers Céline Maugis, Christophe Delsaux
Production Companies Ringel Filmproduktion/Berlin, Nach -
mittag Film/Berlin, in co-production with La Vie Est Belle Films/
Paris Principal Cast Natacha Régnier, Bruno Todeschini, Mireille
Perrier, Emile Berling, Jirka Zett, Lina Phyllis Falkner, Maren Eggert,
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Josse de Pauw Length 84 min Format 35 mm, color, cs
Original Version French Subtitled Version English Sound
Technology Dolby SRD 5.1 Festival Screenings Berlin 2010,
Indie Lisboa 2010, Los Angeles 2010, Pusan 2010 With backing
from German Federal Film Board (FFA), BKM, Medienboard
Berlin-Brandenburg, CNC, Cinécinéma
Angela Schanelec was born in 1962. She studied Acting at the
College of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main from
1982-1984, and worked at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Berlin’s
Schaubuehne and the Schauspielhaus in Bochum from 1984-1991.
She studied at the German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in
Berlin from 1990-1995, graduating with My Sister’s Good
Fortune, winner of the German Critics’ Prize 1996. Her other
films include: Schoene gelbe Farbe (1991), Weit entfernt
(1991), Prag, Maerz 92 (1992), Ich bin den Sommer
ueber in Berlin geblieben (1993), Places in Cities
(Plaetze in Staedten, 1998) presented in Cannes’ Un Certain
Regard in 1998, Passing Summer (Mein langsames Leben,
2001) presented at the Berlinale’s Forum in 2001, Marseille
(2004), Nachmittag (2007), and Orly (2010), which screened at
the 2010 Berlinale Forum.
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Scene from “Orly”
(photo courtesy of Films Boutique)