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Germany 1999 / 35 mm / Color / 104 min. | |||
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The Pope is visiting Berlin but for several of the city's inhabitants the night of his stay brings not so much spiritual comfort as mishap and calamity. When homeless Hanna finds 100 Deutschmarks, she and her boyfriend Victor decide to splurge and spend it on a night in a hotel. But this seemingly modest desire ends up taking them on a wild-goose chase across the teeming city and their search for a room turns into a severe test of their relationship. Farmer Jochen comes to town looking for female companionship and meets the streetwise teenage prostitute Patty. Jochen isn't looking for quick sex so Patty offers to spend the whole night with him -- at a price. Jochen's romantic sensibility and his clumsy attempts at affection clash with Patty's sharp sense of business. Bitterly disappointed, Jochen reacts violently when he discovers the real reason for Patty is so keen for his money. Peschke is an aging yuppie wannabe who hides his failed career with a cell phone and feigned industry. Waiting for a female business partner at the airport, he mistakenly accuses a young Angolan boy of having stolen his wallet. To make up for his mistake, Peschke offers to drive the boy to his relatives in town. In the process Peschke loses his car and nearly his mind along with it, but the experience does demonstrate that for all his pretensions Peschke has a caring heart. |
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| Script: Andreas Dresen. Phot.: Andreas H�fer. Ed.: Monika Schindler. Mus.: Cathrin Pfeifer, Rainer Rohloff. Cast: Meriam Abbas, Dominique Horwitz, Oliver B�ssler, Susanne Bormann, Michael Gwisdek, Ricardo Valentim, Ade Sapara, Imogen Kogge. Prod.: Peter Rommel,Peter Rommel Productions, Fidicinstrasse 40, 10965 Berlin (Allemagne), t�l.: (49) 30-693 70 78, fax: (49) 30-692 95 75. Sales: Bavaria Film International, Bavariafilmplatz 8, 82031 Geiselgasteig (Allemagne), t�l.: (089) 64 99 26 86, fax: (089) 64 99 37 20, e-mail: [email protected]. | |||
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Andreas Dresen Born in Gera, Germany in 1963, Andreas Dresen worked as a sound engineer for the Schwerin Theatre in 1984-85 and apprenticed at the DEFA Studio in 1985-86. He studied directing at the Konrad Wolf College of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg from 1986 to 1991 and he studied under G�nter Reisch at the Berlin Art Academy. He began his professional career as a screenwriter and director in 1992. Among his directing credits are: Der kleine Clown (1985), Schritte des Anderen (1987), Di Narren sterben nicht aus (1991), Krauses Kneipe (1993), Das andere Leben des herrn Kreins (1994), and Mein unbekannter Ehemann (1994). NIGHT MOVES is his first feature. |