Presskit_COLOURS IN THE DARK - Unitel

ecause they belonged to my parent's generation: What values do they have, what do they pass on tous? This affects me directly."Anita" and "Fred" met when they were 17 during the final days of World War Two. In the 1960sthings improved, in Germany and in their lives. They were part of the "Wirtschaftswunder"generation, the economic boom after the war, and they moved to New York, and he was asuccessful businessman. They were lucky and enjoyed their life to the fullest. That's important inorder to understand the ending – their ending and also the ending in my film. When they both turned70, they said very clearly, "We have absolutely no desire to go to a retirement home, that's not forus. We always were fortunate enough to be able to decide for ourselves. We spent our livestogether and we cannot imagine that one of us will outlive the other." Then came the diagnosis ofprostate cancer. The confrontation with death starts on the level of thoughts, emotions,conversations. And that's how "Anita" and "Fred" dealt with their relationship, because they realizedthat from that point on their days were numbered.This process of growing old, this process of saying farewell, is in my opinion just as existential asbecoming an adult. I found a connection for myself, even if an ending is different than a beginning.These two were so different from the image of elderly people you usually see in films. They made meunderstand what youth is and what age means.If my film has a message, then it would be this: Live life with awareness!SOPHIE HELDMAN – DirectorSophie Heldman was born in Hamburg in 1973 to a Mexican mother and a German father. In 1976her family moved to Switzerland, where she grew up. In 1993 she moved to New York to work as alocations manager on independent feature films. In 1996 she returned to Europe to study directing atthe German Film and Television Academy (dffb) in Berlin. In addition she took classes in directingactors at the Tisch School of Arts, NYU. During her student years she worked on a number offeature films as first and second assistant director, working with directors including Sydney Pollack,Stina Werenfels, Xavier Koller and Daniel Schmid.Sophie Heldman’s student short film “ICKE” was nominated for Best Short Film at the Film FestivalMax-Ophüls-Preis and was shown at several other Festivals.Sophie Heldman lives in Berlin. COLOURS IN THE DARK is her first feature film.BRUNO GANZ is FredBruno Ganz was born in Zurich-Seebach. After finishing his acting school he took part in a few Swissfilms. In 1962 he worked at the Jungen Theater in Göttingen and later at the Theater amGoetheplatz in Bremen. Followed by theatre projects with Peter Zadek, Kurt Hübner and PeterStein. Very quickly Bruno Ganz was at the core of the ensembles at the Schaubühne am HalleschenUfer in Berlin – together with Edith Clever, Jutta Lampe, Michael König and Werner Rehm.In 1996 he was rewarded the Iffland-Ring, der highest reward for a theatre actor. And in 2006 he wasrewarded the Federal Cross of MeritThe audience also knows Bruno Ganz through his work for the cinema. He played in films like “THEMARQUISE OF O,” by Eric Rohmer, “THE AMERICAN FRIEND” and “WINGS OF DESIRE” byWim Wenders, “NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE” by Werner Herzog, “DIE FÄLSCHUNG” by Volker7For further information:Beta Cinema Press, Dorothee Stoewahse, Tel: + 49 89 67 34 69 15, press@betafilm.com, www.betacinema.comPictures and filmclips available on ftp.betafilm.com, username: ftppress01, password: betapress