Quarterly 2 · 2008 - German Films

Novemberkind
NOVEMBER CHILD
Malchow, GDR, 1980. 20-year-old Anne is hiding Juri, a
deserter of the Red Army. The two fall in love with each
other. But their love is threatened: there is an arrest
warrant and possibly a death sentence waiting for Juri. The
two leave the country and flee to the West, leaving Anne’s
six-month-old daughter Inga behind.
Inga grows up with her grandparents, thinking that her
mother died during a swimming accident. 25 years later
she meets the literature professor Robert, who sends her
on the trail of her past. He met Inga’s mother Anne during
one of his seminars.
At first Inga is resistant, but then she asks for Robert’s help.
Together they take off on a journey through Germany, in
search of Inga’s mother Anne …
Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of
Production 2008 Director Christian Schwochow Screen -
play Christian Schwochow, Heide Schwochow Director of
Photog raphy Frank Lamm Editor Christoph Wermke Music
by Daniel Sus Production Design Natascha Tagwerk
Producers Jochen Laube, Matthias Adler Production
Company Sommerhaus Filmproduktion/Ludwigsburg, in co-production
with SWR/Baden-Baden, Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttem -
World Sales (please contact)
Sommerhaus Filmproduktion · Jochen Laube
Alleenstrasse 2 · 71638 Ludwigsburg/Germany
phone +49-71 41-2 99 18 60 · fax +49-71 41-9 74 39 58
email: jochen.laube@gmx.de · www.novemberkind.net
berg/Ludwigsburg, Cine+ Suedwest/Ludwigsburg, Filmemacher
Produktion/Berlin Principal Cast Anna Maria Muehe, Ulrich
Matthes, Juliane Koehler, Thorsten Merten, Hermann Beyer,
Christine Schorn, Steffi Kuehnert, Christina Drechsler, Adrian Topol
Length 94 min Format HD/Super 16 mm Blow-up 35 mm,
color, cs Original Version German Subtitled Version
English Sound Technology Dolby SR Festival Screenings
Ophuels Festival Saarbruecken 2008 (In Competition) Awards
Audience Award Saarbruecken 2008 With backing from MFG
Baden-Wuerttemberg, Filmfoerderung Mecklenburg Vorpommern
German Distri butor Schwarz-Weiss Filmverleih/Cologne
Christian Schwochow was born in 1978 in Bergen on the
island of Ruegen. As a child, he was involved in numerous radio
plays and was the young publisher and editor-in-chief of the youth
magazine SHOT!. After finishing school he worked as an author,
speaker and reporter for various television and radio broadcasters,
followed by studies from 2002-2008 in Film Directing at the Baden-
Wuerttemberg Film Academy. His films include: Suelze (short,
2000), Schneewittchen ist tot (short, 2001), Strassen -
schlacht (short, 2002), Soapstar (documentary, 2003), Der
grosse Franz (short, 2004), Tantalus (short, 2005), Marta
und der fliegende Grossvater (2006), Jaeger verlorener
Schaetze (documentary series, 2007), and November Child
(Novemberkind, 2008).
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Scene from “November Child” (photo © Frank Lamm/Sommerhaus Filmproduktion)