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Summer '04 (Sommer '04)

At 40, Miriam radiates serene beauty and tranquility, a confidence and self-assurance as vast as the sea close to her summer home. There are no taboos in the life she shares with her partner André and their 15-year-old son Nils; there is understanding. And if Nils invites his 12-year-old girlfriend Livia to spend the holidays with them, fine. But when the brazenly sensual Livia begins flirting with an older man, Bill, Miriam feels it is her responsibility to stop the questionable relationship. But as she does so, it is she herself who falls for the shy and charmingly insecure Bill. Miriam forges ahead, seducing him, seeing him secretly. But it is Livia that Bill loves, not Miriam. And suddenly the endless horizons of her life vanish in a fog of jealousy and rejection that leads to a tragic mistake with fatal consequences...

Starring Martina Gedeck (Mostly Martha, Elementary Particles) and directed by two-time Grimme Award winner Stefan Krohmer (They've Got Knut) comes a powerful drama about the limits of guilt and love, a confrontation with one's personal moral conceptions.

Stefan Krohmer was born in 1971 in Balingen. He studied Theater, Film and Television in Erlangen, followed by studies in Directing at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg. His films include: Blackfast (1992), Chubab (1994), K.O. (documentary, 1995), Macht man eigentlich anders (TV, 1998), his graduation film Barracuda Dancing (1999), End of the Season (Ende der Saison, 2001), Familienkreise (TV, 2003), They've Got Knut (Sie haben Knut, 2003), and Summer '04 (Sommer '04 an der Schlei, 2006).
 

Genre Drama
Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 2006
Director Stefan Krohmer
Screenplay Daniel Nocke
Director of Photography Patrick Orth
Editor Gisela Zick
Production Design Silke Fischer
Producer Katrin Schloesser
Production Company Oe Film/Berlin, in co-production with SWR/Baden-Baden, BR/Munich, WDR/Cologne, ARTE/Strasbourg
Principal Cast Martina Gedeck, Robert Seeliger, Peter Davor, Svea Lohde, Lucas Kotaranin
Casting Nina Haun
Length 97 min, 2,700 m
Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85
Original Version German
Subtitled Versions English
Sound Technology Dolby, DTS
Festival Screenings Cannes 2006 (Directors' Fortnight), Edinburgh 2006, Toronto 2006, Copenhagen 2006, Warsaw 2006, Hamptons 2006, Seville 2006, Athens 2006, Melbourne 2006, Haifa 2006, Sao Paulo 2006, Vienna 2006, Palm Springs 2007, Berlin 2007 (German Cinema), Sofia 2007, Istanbul 2007, BAFICI Buenos Aires 2007, Seattle 2007, Karlovy Vary 2007, Molodist Kiev 2007
With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), BKM, FilmFoerderung Hamburg, MEDIA, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg
German Distributor Alamode Film/Munich

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