The motorway has been shut. Mobile fences dissect the landscape. Helicopters keep abreast of the situation above maize fields and freshly ploughed farmland. Rows of portable toilets line the edge of the forest. Police stand in front. Down on the red carpet, the minister president and her husband are being assisted with their rehearsal in front of a gangway which leads into nothingness, while the motorcade rehearses the VIPs’ journey through the closed-off city. Helicopters 1-6 are ready. What is happening? What are they waiting for?
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 14 min.
- Country, year
- Germany, 2012
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- German
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- N/A
Credits
- Director
- Thomas Heise
- Screenplay
- Thomas Heise
- Cinematography
- Peter Badel, Robert Nickolaus, Maxim Wolfram
- Music
- Konrad Bauer
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
- selected for Forum programme
- unknown - 1
Director
Thomas Heise
Thomas Heise was born in 1955 in what was then East Berlin. From 1978 to 1983, Heise studied at the Film and Television Academy in Babelsberg. Since 1983, he has been a freelance writer and director of theatre, radio plays, and documentary films. Since 2007, Heise has been a film professor at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe.
