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Half Hours (Halbe Stunden)
Scene from "Half Hours" (photo © dffb/Jost Hering Filme)
Melanie Straub lives aimlessly into the day, or more accurately: into a Saturday. She's alone at home, surrounded by the emptiness of her new life.
Nicolas Wackerbarth was born in 1973 in Munich and studied Acting at the Bavarian Theater Academy, followed by acting engagements at theaters in Frankfurt and Cologne. Since 2000, he has been studying at the German Academy of Film & Television Berlin (dffb) and is an editor of the film magazine Revolver. A selection of his films includes: Brat (short, 2000), Lovesick (short, 2003), Anfaenger! (TV, 2004), Westernstadt (documentary, 2005), and Half Hours (Halbe Stunden, short, 2007).
Category Short
Year of Production 2007
Director Nicolas Wackerbarth
Screenplay Nicolas Wackerbarth
Director of Photography Reinhold Vorschneider
Editor Janina Herrhofer
Music by Anton Webern-Passacaglia
Production Design Eric Segoll
Cast Cristin Koenig, Joanna Czerwìnska, Abel vom Acker
Producers Jost Hering, Hartmut Bitomsky
Production Company Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB), in co-production with Jost Hering Filme/Berlin
Length 20 min
Format 35 mm, color
Original Version German
Subtitled Version English
Sound Technology Dolby SR
Festivals Cannes 2007 (Cinéfondation), Oberhausen 2007 (In Competition)
With backing from German Federal Film Board
World Sales
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin GmbH (DFFB)
Juli Schymik, Laure Tinette
German Film and Television Academy (DFFB)
Potsdamer Str. 2
10785 Berlin/Germany
phone +49-30-25 75 91 52
fax +49-30-25 75 91 62
j.schymik@dffb.de; l.tinette@dffb.de
http://www.dffb.de/
Year of Production 2007
Director Nicolas Wackerbarth
Screenplay Nicolas Wackerbarth
Director of Photography Reinhold Vorschneider
Editor Janina Herrhofer
Music by Anton Webern-Passacaglia
Production Design Eric Segoll
Cast Cristin Koenig, Joanna Czerwìnska, Abel vom Acker
Producers Jost Hering, Hartmut Bitomsky
Production Company Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB), in co-production with Jost Hering Filme/Berlin
Length 20 min
Format 35 mm, color
Original Version German
Subtitled Version English
Sound Technology Dolby SR
Festivals Cannes 2007 (Cinéfondation), Oberhausen 2007 (In Competition)
With backing from German Federal Film Board
World Sales
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin GmbH (DFFB)
Juli Schymik, Laure Tinette
German Film and Television Academy (DFFB)
Potsdamer Str. 2
10785 Berlin/Germany
phone +49-30-25 75 91 52
fax +49-30-25 75 91 62
j.schymik@dffb.de; l.tinette@dffb.de
http://www.dffb.de/
