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My Dream or Loneliness Never Walks Alone (Mein Traum oder Die Einsamkeit ist nie allein)
Scene from "My Dream or Loneliness Never Walks Alone" (photo courtesy of wtp)
My Dream or Loneliness Never Walks Alone is a phantasmagoric excursion into the depths of the soul. It is a revue-like confrontation with the forces of the conscious and subconscious.
A man flees from the constant reoccurances of his life; from the expectations, from the responsibility forced upon him by a 'normal life'. On a disused industrial estate he meets Godot, a woman who collects rubbish, lives in an old caravan and spends her time on a 'paradise island' – a rubber boat with inflatable palm tree – drifting along the city's sewers, searching for signs of human existence.
Together with Godot, the man tries to get to the bottom of human existence and that between the sexes, looking for himself and the goal to his planless flight. In memories, the man reviews his own life. In his visions he meets the main characters of his life: the wife whom he has left, his girlfriend, his mother, his father, his grandfather, and a friend.
His confused thoughts offer the material for a media spectacle that excludes not a single genre of the contemporary media landscape, with intellectual discourses and fantastic images, crazy and grotesque scenes that twist fairytales and satirize the political past. In impressively real and amazingly surreal images full of comedy, the man zaps through his thoughts like through a television program.
A man flees from the constant reoccurances of his life; from the expectations, from the responsibility forced upon him by a 'normal life'. On a disused industrial estate he meets Godot, a woman who collects rubbish, lives in an old caravan and spends her time on a 'paradise island' – a rubber boat with inflatable palm tree – drifting along the city's sewers, searching for signs of human existence.
Together with Godot, the man tries to get to the bottom of human existence and that between the sexes, looking for himself and the goal to his planless flight. In memories, the man reviews his own life. In his visions he meets the main characters of his life: the wife whom he has left, his girlfriend, his mother, his father, his grandfather, and a friend.
His confused thoughts offer the material for a media spectacle that excludes not a single genre of the contemporary media landscape, with intellectual discourses and fantastic images, crazy and grotesque scenes that twist fairytales and satirize the political past. In impressively real and amazingly surreal images full of comedy, the man zaps through his thoughts like through a television program.
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 Tragicomedy
Category Feature
Year of Production 2007
Director Roland Reber
Screenplay Roland Reber
Directors of Photography Juergen Kendzior, Mira Gittner, Bene Zirnbauer
Editor Mira Gittner
Music by Wolfram Kunkel
Cast Barbara Schmidt, Wolfram Kunkel, Mira Gittner, Wolfgang Seidenberg, Marina Anna Eich, Sabrina Brencher, Antonio Exacoustos, Andreas Heinzel, Sven Thiemann, Torsten Muenchow
Producers Patricia Koch, Marina Anna Eich, Roland Reber
Production Company wtp international/Geiselgasteig
Length 100 min
Original Version German
Subtitled Version English
Sound Technology Dolby SR
Festivals Fantasporto 2008, Sitges 2008 (In Competition: Nuevas Visiones), Montreal New Cinema 2008, Ourense 2008, Goa 2008, Pune 2009, Goa 2009 (Retrospective)
German Distributor wtp international/Geiselgasteig
World Sales
wtp international GmbH
Bayerisches Filmzentrum
Bavariafilmplatz 7
82031 Geiselgasteig/Germany
phone +49-89-64 98 11 12
fax +49-89-64 98 13 12
wtpfilm@wtpfilm.com
http://www.wtpfilm.com
Category Feature
Year of Production 2007
Director Roland Reber
Screenplay Roland Reber
Directors of Photography Juergen Kendzior, Mira Gittner, Bene Zirnbauer
Editor Mira Gittner
Music by Wolfram Kunkel
Cast Barbara Schmidt, Wolfram Kunkel, Mira Gittner, Wolfgang Seidenberg, Marina Anna Eich, Sabrina Brencher, Antonio Exacoustos, Andreas Heinzel, Sven Thiemann, Torsten Muenchow
Producers Patricia Koch, Marina Anna Eich, Roland Reber
Production Company wtp international/Geiselgasteig
Length 100 min
Original Version German
Subtitled Version English
Sound Technology Dolby SR
Festivals Fantasporto 2008, Sitges 2008 (In Competition: Nuevas Visiones), Montreal New Cinema 2008, Ourense 2008, Goa 2008, Pune 2009, Goa 2009 (Retrospective)
German Distributor wtp international/Geiselgasteig
World Sales
wtp international GmbH
Bayerisches Filmzentrum
Bavariafilmplatz 7
82031 Geiselgasteig/Germany
phone +49-89-64 98 11 12
fax +49-89-64 98 13 12
wtpfilm@wtpfilm.com
http://www.wtpfilm.com
