''Gespenster'' is a 2005 German film directed by
Christian Petzold. Petzold also cowrote the screenplay with
Harun Farocki
Harun Farocki (9 January 1944 – 30 July 2014) was a German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film.
Early life and education
Farocki was born as Harun El Usman FaroqhiMargalit Fox (3 August 2014)''New York Times''. in Neutitschein, which is n ...
. The film was presented at the 2005
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival (), usually called the Berlinale (), is an annual film festival held in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festival has been held every February since 1978 and is one of Europ ...
, where it was officially entered into competition.
Plot
The film portrays a day, a night and the following day in the life of a teenage orphan, Nina, who lives in a group home. Nina is shy, introverted and lives only in the past, which she tries to fabricate in her diary. She meets Toni, a young woman living on the street who is her exact opposite: she concerns herself only with surviving the present moment.
They meet Françoise, who has recently been released from a mental hospital in Berlin and now wanders the city aimlessly. Unable to give up the hope of finding her daughter, Marie, who was abducted many years ago, she is also arrested by the past. Françoise believes she recognizes Nina as her daughter. Her husband, Pierre, tries patiently to convince her to return with him to France.
When Nina is abandoned by Toni after a party she goes looking for the place where she had encountered Françoise. She hopes that she finally might have found a real mother. Although Françoise is there, at the film's end Nina is left bitterly disappointed.
Cast
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Julia Hummer - Nina:
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Sabine Timoteo
Sabine Timoteo (born 25 March 1975) is a Swiss actress from the Lorraine district of Solothurn. She has appeared in more than thirty films since 2000.
Early life
Timoteo grew up dividing time between the United States and Lausanne, Switzerland ...
- Toni
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Marianne Basler
Marianne Basler (born 9 March 1964) is a French actress. She has appeared in more than eighty films since 1980.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1964 births
Living people
French film actresses
Actresses from Bru ...
- Françoise
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Aurélien Recoing
Aurélien Recoing (born 5 May 1958) is a French actor and stage director.
Personal life
Aurélien Recoing is the son of (puppeteer), and the brother of (director and translator), Blaise Recoing (actor and musician), and David Recoing (pianist ...
- Pierre
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Benno Fürmann - Oliver
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Anna Schudt - Kai
* - Heimleiterin
* - Mathias
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Victoria Trauttmansdorff - Mathias' Mutter
Awards
*2005:
Findling Award
The Findling Award or short Findling () was a German film award donated by the umbrella organization of cultural cinemas and film clubs Verband für Filmkommunikation. It was founded in 1982 in GDR and was awarded on several film festivals. Far m ...
*2006: German Film Critics Association Award - Best Feature
External links
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Offizieller Internetauftritt des Films*
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Berlinale-Archiv
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ttp://www.taz.de/pt/2005/02/15/a0230.1/text Interview mit Christian Petzold: „Mit geschlossenen Augen hören“ taz Taz or TAZ may refer to:
Geography
*Taz (river), a river in western Siberia, Russia
*Taz Estuary, the estuary of the river Taz in Russia
People
* Taz people, an ethnic group in Russia
** Taz language, a form of Northeastern Mandarin spoken by ...
, 15. Februar 2005
Interview mit Christian Petzold auf filmtext.com: „Mädchen im Schwebezustand“Jens Hinrichsen auf film-dienst: „Im Zwischenreich. Christian Petzolds Gespenster-Trilogie: Passagen in Schattenzonen deutscher Realität“Gespenster in Setsuled's Journal, 2012
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