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Marseille

Maren Eggert (photo © R. vorschneider)
Sophie, a young photographer, exchanges her apartment with a student from Marseille. It is February and Marseille seems harsh and closed in the bright sun. Sophie dives into the city, she is alone, she makes photographs. In an auto-repair garage, she asks a young mechanic, Pierre, if he can get her a car. Two days later they meet again and spend the evening in a bar, captivated by the lightness of not knowing anything about each other. Sophie is happy. When she returns to Berlin, she is immediately immersed again in her former life. Her love for Ivan, the husband of her best friend Hanna, remains undeclared and the relationship between Hanna and Ivan seems to dominate. Sophie remains on the outside, yearns to leave, and decides to travel to Marseille for a second time...
Angela Schanelec was born in 1962. She studied Acting at the College of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main from 1982-1984, and worked at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Berlin\'s Schaubuehne and the Schauspielhaus in Bochum from 1984-1991. She studied at the German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in Berlin from 1990-1995, graduating with My Sister\'s Good Fortune, winner of the German Critics\' Prize 1996. Her other films include: Schoene gelbe Farbe (1991), Weit entfernt (1991), Prag, Maerz 92 (1992), Ich bin den Sommer ueber in Berlin geblieben (1993), Places in Cities (Plaetze in Staedten, 1998) presented in Cannes\' Un Certain Regard in 1998, Passing Summer (Mein langsames Leben, 2001) presented at the Berlinale\'s Forum in 2001, Marseille (2004), Nachmittag (2007), and Orly (2010), which screened at the 2010 Berlinale Forum.
Genre Drama
Category Feature
Year of Production 2004
Director Angela Schanelec
Screenplay Angela Schanelec
Director of Photography Reinhold Vorschneider
Editor Bettina Boehler
Production Design Ulrika Andersson
Cast Maren Eggert, Marie-Lou Sellem, Devid Striesow, Alexis Loret, Louis Schanelec
Producers Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber
Production Company Schramm Film Koerner & Weber/Berlin, in co-production with ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel/Mainz, in cooperation with Neon Productions/Marseille
Length 95 min
Format 35 mm, color
Original Version German/French
Subtitled Versions English, French
Sound Technology Dolby SR
Festivals Cannes 2004 (Un Certain Regard), Munich 2004 (Made in Germany), Marseille 2004, Rotterdam 2005, Cine Independiente Buenos Aires 2005, Locarno 2009
With backing from German Federal Film Board, BKM
German Distributor Peripher Filmverleih/Berlin
World Sales
Schramm Film Koerner & Weber
Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber
Buelowstrasse 90
10783 Berlin/Germany
phone +49-30-2 61 51 40
fax +49-30-2 61 51 39
koerner@schrammfilm.de; weber@schrammfilm.de; pilling@schram
Category Feature
Year of Production 2004
Director Angela Schanelec
Screenplay Angela Schanelec
Director of Photography Reinhold Vorschneider
Editor Bettina Boehler
Production Design Ulrika Andersson
Cast Maren Eggert, Marie-Lou Sellem, Devid Striesow, Alexis Loret, Louis Schanelec
Producers Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber
Production Company Schramm Film Koerner & Weber/Berlin, in co-production with ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel/Mainz, in cooperation with Neon Productions/Marseille
Length 95 min
Format 35 mm, color
Original Version German/French
Subtitled Versions English, French
Sound Technology Dolby SR
Festivals Cannes 2004 (Un Certain Regard), Munich 2004 (Made in Germany), Marseille 2004, Rotterdam 2005, Cine Independiente Buenos Aires 2005, Locarno 2009
With backing from German Federal Film Board, BKM
German Distributor Peripher Filmverleih/Berlin
World Sales
Schramm Film Koerner & Weber
Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber
Buelowstrasse 90
10783 Berlin/Germany
phone +49-30-2 61 51 40
fax +49-30-2 61 51 39
koerner@schrammfilm.de; weber@schrammfilm.de; pilling@schram


