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PARADISO - SIEBEN TAGE MIT SIEBEN FRAUEN
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Germany
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 102 min.
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PARADISO - SEVEN DAYS WITH SEVEN WOMEN / PARADISO - SEPT JOURS AVEC SEPT FEMMES
Adam Bergschmidt is in the prime of life. He is turning sixty and he lives in paradise in the lake district of Mecklenburg-Pomerania. This is where Adam grows his vegetables, talks to the trees and waters his flowers with lake water. He relishes the morning air and the grass under his bare feet. Here he finds the peace to write his symphonies. Adam decides to celebrate his 60th birthday with his nearest and dearest: his seven great loves, the seven most important women in his life. These naturally include his young wife Eva, but also Berenice and the actress Lulu, to whom he was also once married. Then there's Lilith and Marion, a student of literature, and Jacqueline and Lucia, an opera singer. He has shared love, sex and friendship with all of these women and he still somehow feels close to them. As for the women, they look upon Adam's life with Eva and their two children wistfully, not without some nostalgia and even a little envy. He's living in paradise, one of them tells him. What did he do to deserve it? They -- and some of their relatives -- spend a week together in paradise, conversing, attending the premiere of a new musical composition, planting trees, and altogether reflecting on what they shared of the past and what they might expect from the future. On this earth, after all, paradise is not eternal.
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Script: Rudolf Thome, Peter Lund.
Phot.: Reinhold Vorschneider.
Ed.: Karin Nowarra.
Mus.: Wolfgang B�hmer.
Cast: Hanns Zischler, Cora Frost, Adriana Altaras, Sabine Bach, Khyana El Bitar, Irm Hermann, Isabel Hindersin, Amelie zur M�hlen, Guntram Brattia, Valeska Hanel, Nicolai Thome, Joya Thome, Marquard Bohm.
Prod.: Rudolf Thome, Moana-Film, Fidicinstrasse 14 d, 10965 Berlin (Allemagne), t�l.: (49-30) 69 50 90 71, fax: (49-30) 69 50 90 72, e-mail: [email protected].
Sales: Cine-International, Leopoldstrasse 18, 80802 Munich (Allemagne), t�l.: (49-89) 39 10 25, fax: (49-89) 33 10 89, e-mail: [email protected].
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Rudolf Thome
Born in Wallau, Germany in 1939, Rudolf Thome studied German, philosophy and history at schools in Munich and Bonn before beginning his career as a film critic in 1962. He made his directorial debut two years later, and following several shorts he directed his first feature, DETECTIVE, in 1968. His subsequent features include: RED SUN (1969), SUPERGIRL (1970), FREMDE STADT (1972), MADE IN GERMANY AND USA (1974), JOURNAL (1975), DESCRIPTION OF AN ISLAND (1978), BERLIN CHAMISSOPLATZ (1980), SYSTEM OHNE SHATTEN (1983), TAROT (1985), THE MICROSCOPE (1987), THE PHILOSOPHER (1988), SEVEN WOMEN (1991), LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT (1991),THE SECRET (1994), JUST MARRIED (1997) and TIGER-STRIPE WOMAN WAITS FOR TARZAN (1997). |
