Titel Kino 2/2002 - german films

Annas Sommer
Anna Kastelano is packing up the home that had belonged to her family on a Greek island and is
considering putting it up for sale. However, in these familiar surroundings, she is revisited by
memories of her own past and that of her Sephardic-Jewish family. Anna has not yet got over the
death of her husband Max. She spends the summer on the island, which has become her second
home, trying to come to terms with her solitude.
For the first time, she opens the old family chest. Memories and ghosts rise up, with whom she
cooks, dances and picks figs. She finds old telegrams relating to the fate of her grandmother Anna.
She also discovers the diary of another Anna, her father's first love.
But the present also makes itself felt. Anna meets Nikola and the feelings she experiences intermingle
with her mourning and the moving discoveries about her family. Anna is searching for a path
through the labyrinth of her history and ultimately decides to assume her place in it. Life goes on.
Scene from "Anna's Summer" (photo © Integral Film)
Genre Drama, Family Category Feature Film Cinema Year of Production
2001 Director Jeanine Meerapfel Screenplay Jeanine Meerapfel
Director of Photography Andreas Sinanos Editor Bernd Euscher
Music by Flores Floridis Production Design Alexander Scherer
Producer Dagmar Jacobsen Production Company Integral Film, Berlin,
in co-production with Malena Films, Berlin, FS Production, Athens, El Iman,
Madrid, in cooperation with WDR, Cologne, ARTE, Strasbourg, ERT, Athens,
Canal+ España, Madrid Principal Cast Angela Molina, Herbert Knaup,
Dimitris Katalifos, Rosana Pastor Length 107 min, 3,080 m Format 35 mm,
color, 1:1.85 Original Version German/English/Greek/Spanish Subtitled
Versions English, German, Spanish Sound Technology Dolby SR
International Festival Screenings Montreal 2001, Chicago 2001,
Washington Jewish Film Festival 2001, Thessaloniki 2001, Hof 2001, Luenen
2001, Berlin 2002 (German Cinema), Mar del Plata 2002 (in competition)
With backing from Filmstiftung NRW, BKM, Filmboard Berlin-
Brandenburg, Greek Film Center, Ministerio de Educación (Spain), Eurimages
German Distributor Basis-Film Verleih, Berlin
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Kino 2/2002
ANNA'S SUMMER
Jeanine Meerapfel was born in 1943 in Buenos
Aires/Argentina. Born to parents who fled Germany
during the Nazi regime, she has consistently engaged
themes involving identity, politics and emigration into her
films. Her first feature, Malou (1981), won the FIPRESCI
Award at Cannes and the Gold Hugo at Chicago. She has
directed numerous features and documentaries, several of
which, including La Amiga (1989) and Amigomío
(1995), have received awards in Spain, Cuba and
Germany. She has lived in Germany since 1964, where she
became a professor at the Academy of Media Arts
Cologne (KHM) in 1990. Her films include: the collective
social drama Zwickel auf Bizyckel (1968), In the
Country of My Parents (1981), Melek Leaves
(1985), Days to Remember (1987), Desembarcos
– When Memory Speaks (1989), La Amiga, and
Anna´s Summer (2001), among others.
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