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Ninth Day, The (Neunte Tag, Der)
Scene from "The Ninth Day" (photo © Progress Film Verleih)
In February 1942, Abbé Henri Kremer, a priest from Luxembourg, is released from the Dachau concentration camp and sent home. Kremer soon realizes the Nazis are displeased with his bishop for refusing to cooperate with the German occupation forces, and that tehy want to use Kremer to provide public support for Hitler's policy regarding the Church. All it entails is his making a "small" compromise. Untersturmfuehrer Gephardt of the Gestapo, himself under pressure from the high command, gives Kremer nine days...or return to the living hell he has just escaped from...
Volker Schlöndorff was born in Wiesbaden in 1939. He made his debut as a film director in 1965 with YOUNG TÖRLESS. A selection of his films includes: BAAL (1970), THE SUDDEN WEALTH OF THE POOR PEOPLE OF KOMBACH (1971), THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM (1975, co-directed with Margarethe von Trotta), FANGSCHUSS (1976), GERMANY IN AUTUMN (1976, together with Stefan Aust, Alexander Kluge, et al), CIRCLE OF DECEIT (1981), SWANN IN LOVE (1983), DEATH OF A SALESMAN (1985), A GATHERING OF OLD MEN (1987), THE HANDMAID'S TALE (1990), VOYAGER (1990), THE OGRE (1996), PALMETTO (1998), THE LEGENDS OF RITA (1999), EIN PRODUZENT HAT SEELE ODER ER HAT KEINE (documentary, 2001), TEN MINUTES OLDER: THE CELLO (2002), THE NINTH DAY (2004), STRIKE (2006), and ULZHAN (2007). In 1979, his film THE TIN DRUM was the first film by a German director to be awarded a Golden Palm in Cannes. A year later, it was the first German film to be awarded an Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film.
Genre Drama
Category Feature
Year of Production 2004
Director Volker Schlöndorff
Screenplay Andreas Pflueger, Eberhard Goerner
Director of Photography Tomas Erhart
Editor Peter R. Adam
Music by Alfred Schnittke
Production Design Ari Hantke
Cast Hilmar Thate, Bibiana Beglau, August Diehl, Ulrich Matthes
Producer Juergen Haase
Production Company Provobis/Munich, in co-production with Videopress/Luxembourg, ARTE/Strasbourg, BR/Munich
Length 97 min
Format 35 mm, color
Original Version German
Subtitled Versions English, French
Sound Technology Dolby Digital
Festivals Locarno 2004 (Piazza), Toronto 2004, Pusan 2004, Seville 2004, Berlin 2005 (German Cinema), Mar del Plata 2005 (In Competition), Tribeca 2005, Shanghai 2005, Moscow 2005, Ljubljana 2005, Tallinn Black Nights 2005, Goa 2007, Camerimage Lodz 2009
Awards Bernhard Wicki Award 2004, German Film Award for Best Production Design
With backing from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Film Fund Luxembourg
German Distributor PROGRESS Film-Verleih/Berlin
World Sales
Global Screen GmbH
Sonnenstr. 21
80331 Munich/Germany
phone +49-89-24 41 29 55 00
fax +49-89-24 41 29 55 20
info@globalscreen.de
http://www.globalscreen.de
Category Feature
Year of Production 2004
Director Volker Schlöndorff
Screenplay Andreas Pflueger, Eberhard Goerner
Director of Photography Tomas Erhart
Editor Peter R. Adam
Music by Alfred Schnittke
Production Design Ari Hantke
Cast Hilmar Thate, Bibiana Beglau, August Diehl, Ulrich Matthes
Producer Juergen Haase
Production Company Provobis/Munich, in co-production with Videopress/Luxembourg, ARTE/Strasbourg, BR/Munich
Length 97 min
Format 35 mm, color
Original Version German
Subtitled Versions English, French
Sound Technology Dolby Digital
Festivals Locarno 2004 (Piazza), Toronto 2004, Pusan 2004, Seville 2004, Berlin 2005 (German Cinema), Mar del Plata 2005 (In Competition), Tribeca 2005, Shanghai 2005, Moscow 2005, Ljubljana 2005, Tallinn Black Nights 2005, Goa 2007, Camerimage Lodz 2009
Awards Bernhard Wicki Award 2004, German Film Award for Best Production Design
With backing from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Film Fund Luxembourg
German Distributor PROGRESS Film-Verleih/Berlin
World Sales
Global Screen GmbH
Sonnenstr. 21
80331 Munich/Germany
phone +49-89-24 41 29 55 00
fax +49-89-24 41 29 55 20
info@globalscreen.de
http://www.globalscreen.de
