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Sparrows (Spatzen)

A man meets a woman in a bar. They walk through the night without any reason. At dawn they separate again. A long take.

Jan Speckenbach was born in 1970 and studied Art History, Philosophy and Media Arts in Munich, Karlsruhe and Paris. Since 1999, he has been working as a freelance video artist. In 2005, he took up postgraduate studies in Film Directing at the German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in Berlin. His films include: A FEW MINUTES JEAN ROUCH (documentary, 1995), DCX (2001), ZEITSPUREN ODER DIE VERMESSUNG EINES THEATERS (documentary, 2003), BADEZIMMER ODER DIE GESCHICHTE VON B.B. (2004), LA CHAMBRE PENCHÉE (2005), THE OTHER DAY IN EDEN (GESTERN IN EDEN, 2008), SPARROWS (SPATZEN, 2009), and REPORTED MISSING (DIE VERMISSTEN, 2012).

Genre Music, Drama, Experimental
Category Short
Year of Production 2009
Director Jan Speckenbach
Screenplay Jan Speckenbach
Director of Photography Armin Dierolf
Music by Daniel Freundlieb
Production Design Emanuel Schleiermacher, Brigitte Schloegel, Ann Heine
Animation Dirk Schulz
Cast Camilla Kallfass, David Arnsperger, Michael Golab, Ninja Stangenberg, Filipina Henoch, Johannes Kuehn, Juliane Dreyer
Producers Sol Bondy, Hartmut Bitomsky
Production Company Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
Length 12 min
Original Version German
Subtitled Version English
Sound Technology Dolby Digital
Festivals Molodist Kiev 2009, Camerimage Lodz 2009, Huesca 2010
Awards Premio Danzante Huesca 2010

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German Film and Television Academy (DFFB)
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10785 Berlin/Germany
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fax +49-30-25 75 91 62
j.schymik@dffb.de; l.tinette@dffb.de
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