GERMANY
2013 / WORLD PREMIERE
30’ – IN RUSSIAN AND GERMAN
Synopsis
Berlin. Grisha, a Russian-German boy, fools around with a toygun. The longer he plays, the further he is thrust into an altered reality. The boundaries between the present and the past start to blur. Images from a bygone Berlin appear; streets and buildings still carry the memories of war. Suddenly, he is caught in a nightmare of another lifetime.
director: Daria Belova
screenplay: Daria Belova
cinematography: Max Preiss
editing: Stefanie Kosik
sound: Niklas Kammertöns
production design: Julia Laube - Dana Dumann - Sandra Ernst
music: Chatschatur Kanajan
cast:
Alexander Josef Shtol
Maria Zharkova|
Julia Gorr
Iljá Pletner
Roman Sdobnyakov
Andrej Vanichev
production
GERMAN FILM AND TELEVISION ACADEMY BERLIN - DFFB
Martin Danisch / Markus Kaatsch
Tel. +49 30 25759 0
info@dffb.de
contact Cannes
GERMAN FILM AND TELEVISION ACADEMY BERLIN - DFFB
Laure Tinette
Tel. +49 30 25759 152
l.tinette@dffb.de
press
LIMELIGHT PR
Petra Schwuchow / Sabine Schwerda
Tel. +49 30 2639698 - 0
info@limelight-pr.de
COME AND PLAY
Film schools churn out filmmakers whose skill and maturity really surprises. It is the case with Daria Belova, young Russian student in Berlin. Berlin is in fact, one of the characters of Komm und spiel, in which the filmmaker aims to portray the genius that lies within the city's walls and the echoes of its long memory. In the black and white film, she follows the steps of a child carried by his own imagination, as a sort of conduit for the city's sad secrets to come out – in a similar vein to Ivan's Childhood and Germany Year Zero. As if the child was « playing » at war, and through the surrealist images of the film, like an emblem of humanity's shameless but timeless descent into war.
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by Fabien Gaffez |
