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Room, The (Zimmer, Das)
Scene from "The Room" (photo courtesy of wtp international)
Sophie and Christoph are looking after a house with a locked room - where everything (...or nothing) can be concealed from others. They project their hidden thoughts and memories into this locked room. "All houses have a forbidden room" says Christoph, Sophie's answer, "just like our souls." Between dream and reality, they develop a labyrinth of emotions. The heart of the story is not the mysterious incidents in the house, but rather the hidden feelings of the occupants.
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 Psycho Thriller
Category Feature
Year of Production 2000
Director Roland Reber
Screenplay Roland Reber
Directors of Photography Roland Reber, Mira Gittner
Editor Mira Gittner
Music by Wolfgang Edelmayer
Cast Mira Gittner, Marcus Gruessner
Producers Petra Knieper, Ute Meisenheimer
Production Company wtp international/Geiselgasteig
Length 91 min
Original Version German
Subtitled Version English
Festivals Ajijic/Mexico 2000, International Festival de Cine Mexico 2000, International Film Festival Sitges Spain 2000, Millenium Film Festival of Fine Arts Hungary 2000, Angel Citi International Film Festival Hollywood/Chicago 2001, International Film Festival of Uruguay Montevideo 2001, International Film Festival of Kerala India 2001, Director's View Stamford/New York 2001, Melbourne Underground Film Festival 2001, Ankara 2001, Tvplusfilms England 2001, AFF Picciano/Italy 2001, IndieKino Seoul 2001, Portobello London 2001, Malaga 2001, Goa 2009 (Retrospective)
Awards President's Award Ajijic Mexico 2000, Bavarian Film Center Producer of the Year 2000, Emerging Filmmaker Award Hollywood 2001, Best Actress Melbourne 2001, Jury's Selection for Foreign Film Chicago 2001, Best Film of Panorama Thessaloniki Panorama of Independant Filmmmakers 2001, Kolkata 2003
World Sales
Kinowelt International GmbH
Karl-Tauchnitz-Strasse 10
04107 Leipzig/Germany
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fax +49-3 41-35 59 64 19
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http://www.kinowelt-international.de
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Category Feature
Year of Production 2000
Director Roland Reber
Screenplay Roland Reber
Directors of Photography Roland Reber, Mira Gittner
Editor Mira Gittner
Music by Wolfgang Edelmayer
Cast Mira Gittner, Marcus Gruessner
Producers Petra Knieper, Ute Meisenheimer
Production Company wtp international/Geiselgasteig
Length 91 min
Original Version German
Subtitled Version English
Festivals Ajijic/Mexico 2000, International Festival de Cine Mexico 2000, International Film Festival Sitges Spain 2000, Millenium Film Festival of Fine Arts Hungary 2000, Angel Citi International Film Festival Hollywood/Chicago 2001, International Film Festival of Uruguay Montevideo 2001, International Film Festival of Kerala India 2001, Director's View Stamford/New York 2001, Melbourne Underground Film Festival 2001, Ankara 2001, Tvplusfilms England 2001, AFF Picciano/Italy 2001, IndieKino Seoul 2001, Portobello London 2001, Malaga 2001, Goa 2009 (Retrospective)
Awards President's Award Ajijic Mexico 2000, Bavarian Film Center Producer of the Year 2000, Emerging Filmmaker Award Hollywood 2001, Best Actress Melbourne 2001, Jury's Selection for Foreign Film Chicago 2001, Best Film of Panorama Thessaloniki Panorama of Independant Filmmmakers 2001, Kolkata 2003
World Sales
Kinowelt International GmbH
Karl-Tauchnitz-Strasse 10
04107 Leipzig/Germany
phone +49-3 41-35 59 60
fax +49-3 41-35 59 64 19
filmverlag@kinowelt.de
http://www.kinowelt-international.de
Trailer
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