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ROOTS OF LIFE (QUELLEN DES LEBENS, DIE)
photo © X Filme Creative Pool
Germany 1949: Veteran soldier Erich feels like a stranger after his return to his homeland, which in the meantime has become a new Federal Republic. Through Erich and his children’s and grandchildren’s generations, we experience the milestones in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany: his wife has a lover, in order to promote the “economic miracle” a garden gnome factory is built, his son becomes a poet, but it’s his son’s wife who is far more talented, and his grandson, strengthened by the Group 47 and free love, is surprisingly capable of finding the only one, true love and becomes a cheerful and good person in a country of narcissists, petty bourgeoisie, and former Nazis. And even Erich is moved, despite his frustration, to acts of greatness.
Oskar Roehler was born in 1959 in Starnberg, the son of husband and wife authors, Gisela Elsner and Klaus Roehler. He started his career as a screenwriter of various cinema films and directed his first feature GENTLEMAN in 1995. His film NO PLACE TO GO (DIE UNBERÜHRBARE, 2000), a very personal and sensitively told portrait of his mother, was Roehler's breakthrough. The film was awarded the German Film Award in Gold, among other awards, and Hannelore Elsner received the German Film Award for Best Actress for her role in the film. His other award-winning films include: ANGST (DER ALTE AFFE ANGST) which was in the competition at the Berlinale in 2003, AGNES AND HIS BROTHERS (AGNES UND SEINE BRÜDER) which screened in Venice, his film adaptation of Michel Houellebecq's novel of the same name ATOMISED (ELEMENTARTEILCHEN, 2006), LULU & JIMI (2008), JUD SÜSS - FILM OHNE GEWISSEN (2010), and ROOTS OF LIFE (DIE QUELLEN DES LEBENS, 2012).
Genre Drama
Category Feature
Year of Production 2012
Director Oskar Roehler
Screenplay Oskar Roehler
Director of Photography Carl-Friedrich Koschnick
Cast Jürgen Vogel, Moritz Bleibtreu, Meret Becker, Lavinia Wilson, Kostja Ullmann
Producer Stefan Arndt
Co-Producer Michael Süss
Production Company X Filme Creative Pool/Berlin, in co-production with Süss Film/Starnberg, WDR/Cologne, BR/Munich, NDR/Hamburg, ARD Degeto/Frankfurt
Length 178 min
Format 35 mm, DCP, color, 1:1.85
Original Version German
Subtitled Version English
With backing from Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, German Federal Film Fund, German Federal Film Board, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, in cooperation with RBB
German Distributor X Verleih/Berlin
World Sales
The Match Factory GmbH
Michael Weber
Balthasarstr. 79-81
50670 Cologne/Germany
phone +49-2 21-5 39 70 90
fax +49-2 21-5 39 70 910
info@matchfactory.de
http://www.the-match-factory.com
Category Feature
Year of Production 2012
Director Oskar Roehler
Screenplay Oskar Roehler
Director of Photography Carl-Friedrich Koschnick
Cast Jürgen Vogel, Moritz Bleibtreu, Meret Becker, Lavinia Wilson, Kostja Ullmann
Producer Stefan Arndt
Co-Producer Michael Süss
Production Company X Filme Creative Pool/Berlin, in co-production with Süss Film/Starnberg, WDR/Cologne, BR/Munich, NDR/Hamburg, ARD Degeto/Frankfurt
Length 178 min
Format 35 mm, DCP, color, 1:1.85
Original Version German
Subtitled Version English
With backing from Film- und Medienstiftung NRW, German Federal Film Fund, German Federal Film Board, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, in cooperation with RBB
German Distributor X Verleih/Berlin
World Sales
The Match Factory GmbH
Michael Weber
Balthasarstr. 79-81
50670 Cologne/Germany
phone +49-2 21-5 39 70 90
fax +49-2 21-5 39 70 910
info@matchfactory.de
http://www.the-match-factory.com
