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I WAS AT HOME, BUT
ICH WAR ZUHAUSE, ABER
Fiction | 2019 | 105'
World Premiere at 69th Berlinale Competition 2019
Crew
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Written and directed by Angela Schanelec
Cinematography Ivan Marković
Editing Angela Schanelec
Sound Design Rainer Gerlach
Sound Andreas Mücke-Niesytka
Production Design Reinhild Blaschke
Costumes Birgitt Kilian
Make-up Monika Münnich
Assistant Director Stefan Nickel
Casting Ulrike Müller
Producer Angela Schanelec
Executive Producer Jana Cisar
Co-producers Vladimir Vidic, Natasa Damnjanovic
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Cast
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Maren Eggert (Astrid)
Jakob Lassalle (Phillip)
Clara Möller (Flo)
Franz Rogowski (Lars)
Lilith Stangenberg (Claudia)
Alan Williams (Mr. Meissner)
Jirka Zett (Astrid's Boyfriend)
Dane Komljen (Young Director)
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Countries:
Germany, Serbia
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Supported by:
Film Center Serbia
Produced by
Nachmittagfilm Angela Schanelec
Berlin, Germany
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World sales
Deutsche Kinemathek
Berlin, Germany
+49 30 30090331
Angela Schanelec
Born in the south of Germany in 1962, she studied acting in Frankfurt am Main followed by engagements at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg and the Schaubühne in Berlin. From 1990 to 1995 she studied directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. She is professor of narrative film at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg. Nachmittag (Afternoon) screened in the 2007 Berlinale Forum; her films have also screened at Cannes and Locarno.
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Filmography
1993 Ich bin den Sommer über in Berlin geblieben (I Stayed in Berlin All Summer) 1995 Das Glück meiner kleinen Schwester (My Sister's Good Fortune) 1998 Plätze in Städten (Places in Cities) 2001 Mein langsames Leben (Passing Summer) 2004 Marseille 2007 Nachmittag (Afternoon) 2009 Deutschland 09/Erster Tag; Short Film 2010 Orly 2014 The Bridges of Sarajevo/Princip Text; Short Film 2016 Der traumhafte Weg (The Dreamed Path) 2019 Ich war zuhause, aber (I Was at Home, But)
SYNOPSIS
A 13-year-old boy disappeared without trace for a week. The film begins with his reappearance in the school yard, dirty and changed. What he was looking for - an extreme closeness to nature or death, triggered by the recent loss of his father - his mother and teachers can only guess. The boy’s behaviour invalidates, what they have taken for granted until now.
