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DIE UNBER�HRBARE
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Germany
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 100 min.
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NO PLACE TO GO / L'INSAISISSABLE
Based on the life of the director's mother, writer Gisela Elsner, who committed suicide in 1992 at the age of 56, this is a chronicle of the last 2� years in the life of Hanna Flanders, who was one of the brightest literary stars of the '60s but never managed to live up to the promise of her early success. In the '60s and '70s Hanna was a leading writer of the German hippie movement, the so-called 68ers, and a darling of Munich's chic literary scene. Daughter of an upper middle class family whose cheques she was happy to cash even when she was criticizing their bourgeois society, Hanna's star faded along with the movement she championed. Now, as her writing falters, she descends deeper into a private, self-pitying world of pills and alcohol. A longtime admirer of East Germany and communism, she is appalled to see the celebrations surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall. She travels to Berlin from her home in Munich to seek out friendship and work but all she gets is rebuffs, some less polite than others. An editor friend lends her an apartment in a seedy Eastern Berlin project but, shocked by the easterners' dismissal of their former society and their new enthusiasm for Western-style consumerism, she returns to Munich thoroughly crushed by the apparent collapse of her political and social paradise. This is not what she wrote for, this is not what she lived for...
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Script: Oskar R�hler.
Phot.: Hagen Bogdanski.
Ed.: Isabel Meier.
Mus.: Martin Todsharow.
Cast: Hannelore Elsner, Vadim Glowna, Jasmin Tabatabai, Michael Gwisdek, Tonio Arango, Lars Rudolph, Nina Petri, Helga G�hring, Charles Regnier, Catherine Flemming.
Prod.: K�te Ehrmann, Ulrich Caspar, Distant Dreams Filmproduktion, Gustav-M�ller-Platz 7, 10829 Berlin (Allemagne), t�l.: (49-30) 7870 5457, fax: (49-30) 7870 5458, e-mail: [email protected].
Sales: Bavaria Film International, Bavariafilmplatz 8, 82031 Geiselgasteig (Allemagne), t�l.: (49-89) 6499 3179, fax: (49-89) 6499 3720.
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Oskar R�hler
Born in 1959, Oskar R�hler is the son of writers Gisela Eisner and Klaus R�hler. Raised in London, Rome and Nuremberg, he has lived in Berlin since 1980 where he has worked as a screenwriter, playwright and journalist. He authored a short novel, Das Abschnapp-universum, in 1984, and made his directorial debut in 1994 with She LA. His filmography includes: GENTLEMAN (1996), SILVESTER COUNTDOWN (1997), LATIN LOVER (1998) and GREEDY (1998). |
