Quarterly 2 · 2008 - German Films

Gestern in Eden
THE OTHER DAY IN EDEN
To take care of his father’s estate, Ulrich Meinert has to go
to a trailer park where his father used to live. And sudden -
ly he finds himself in a nudist colony in eastern Germany
which stirs up mixed feelings. Although he felt a lot of
resentment towards his father, days go by without him
taking care of any unsettled business. Instead, he starts to
get involved with Anja, his father’s girlfriend, takes on one
of his father’s old friends and settles into his father’s trailer.
Against his own wishes, he starts to fill the void his father
left behind …
Genre Drama Category Short Year of Production 2008
Director Jan Speckenbach Screenplay Jan Speckenbach,
Melanie Rohde Director of Photography Jenny Lou Ziegel
Editor Wiebke Gundler Music by Daniel Freundlieb
Production Design Ralf Swinley, Petra Schlie Production
Company Deutsche Film- & Fernsehakademie (dffb)/Berlin, in
co-production with Hochschule fuer Film & Fernsehen ‘Konrad
Wolf ’/Potsdam-Babelsberg Principal Cast Bernhard Schuetz,
Sylvia Schwarz, Heiner Stadelmann Length 30 min, 855 m
Format Super 16 mm Blow-up 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original
Version German Subtitled Version English Sound
Technology Dolby SR Festival Screenings Cannes 2008
(Cinéfondation)
World Sales (please contact)
Deutsche Film- & Fernsehakademie Berlin GmbH (dffb) · Jana Wolff
Potsdamer Strasse 2 · 10785 Berlin/Germany
phone +49-30-25 75 91 52 · fax +49-30-25 75 91 62
email: wolff@dffb.de · www.dffb.de
Jan Speckenbach was born in 1970 and studied Art History,
Philosophy and Media Arts in Munich, Karlsruhe and Paris. Since
1999, he has been working as a freelance video artist, particularly
for the theater. In 2005, he took up post-graduate studies in Film
Directing at the German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in Berlin.
His other films include: A Few Minutes Jean Rouch (documentary,
1995), DCX (2001), Zeitspuren oder die Ver -
messung eines Theaters (documentary, 2003), Badezimmer
oder die Geschichte von B.B. (2004), and La
Chambre penchée (2005).
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Scene from “The Other Day in Eden” (photo © dffb)