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24/7 The Passion of Life

Scenes from " 24/7 The Passion of Life" (photo © wtp International)

24/7 The Passion of Life is about our fear of ourselves, about the fear of facing our passions in a society ridden with taboos and double-morals.

Eve, a hotelier’s daughter, and Magdalena, a sociologist who works as the dominatrix “Lady Maria” in an S & M studio, meet coincidentally through a motorcycle accident. Fascinated by the bizarre world of Lady Maria, Eve begins to search for her own identity and sexuality and goes on an odyssey through the hidden locations of lust - dominatrix studio, swinger club, striptease bar – and meets other people torn between their desires: Dominik, who wants to empathize with the life and suffering of Jesus, and Mike, who pretends to be Eve's travel guide of desire and falls madly in love with her.

A lyrical study of obsession and loneliness, about secret desires and public morale: 24 hours a day – 7 days a week.

Roland Reber has been working as a director and actor in theaters around the world since the 1970s. In 1981 he founded the Theatre Institute where he worked from 1981-1989 in Hamburg, Hattingen and Luenen. In 1989, he founded the Welt Theater Projekt (within the framework of the World Decade for Cultural Development of the United Nations and UNESCO) and worked as a director, writer and head of WTP in India, Moscow, Cairo, Mexico City and in the Caribbean. He also has been a cultural advisor to different countries and institutes and taught Acting and Directing in Moscow and the Caribbean. He received the Cultural Prize of Switzerland (1976) and the Caribbean award Season of Excellence (1991 & 1993) as a director and writer. For his direction of the feature THE ROOM (DAS ZIMMER, 2001) he received the Emerging Filmmaker Award 2001 in Hollywood and the President’s Award 2000 in Ajijic/Mexico, among others. His other films include: IHR HABT MEINE SEELE GEBOGEN WIE EINEN SCHÖNEN TÄNZER (1979), MANUEL (short, 1998), DER FERNSEHAUFTRITT (short, 1998), DER KOFFER (short, 1999), ZWANG (short, 2000), SIND MÄDCHEN WERWÖLFE? (short, 2002), PENTAMAGICA (2003), THE DARK SIDE OF OUR INNER SPACE (2003), 24/7 THE PASSION OF LIFE (2005), MY DREAM OR LONELINESS NEVER WALKS ALONE (MEIN TRAUM ODER DIE EINSAMKEIT IST NIE ALLEIN, 2007), ANGELS WITH DIRTY WINGS (ENGEL MIT SCHMUTZIGEN FLÜGELN, 2009), and THE TRUTH OF LIE (THE WAHRHEIT DER LÜGE, 2011).

Genre Erotic, Drama
Category Feature
Year of Production 2005
Director Roland Reber
Screenplay Roland Reber, Mira Gittner
Directors of Photography Mira Gittner, Roland Reber
Editor Mira Gittner
Music by Wolfgang Edelmayer
Cast Mira Gittner, Marina Anna Eich, Christoph Baumann, Michael Burkhardt, Reinhard Wendt
Producers Patricia Koch, Marina Anna Eich
Production Company wtp international/Geiselgasteig
Length 115 min
Original Version German
Subtitled Version English
Sound Technology Dolby SR
Festivals Sitges 2005, Hof 2005, Fantasporto 2006, Goa 2009 (Retrospective)
German Distributor wtp international/Geiselgasteig

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