It's Lara's 60th birthday, and she has every reason to celebrate this evening: her son Viktor will be giving the most important piano concert of his career. Lara was, after all, the one who had mapped out and driven his musical career. Yet Viktor has been unreachable for weeks and nothing indicates that Lara will be welcome at his debut performance. Without further ado, she buys all unsold tickets and hands them out to everyone she meets. The more Lara strives to make the evening successful, however, the more events get out of control.

Direction: Jan-Ole Gerster

Script: Blaz Kutin

Production: Marcos Kantis

Co-Production: Martin Lehwald

Cinematography: Frank Griebe

Editing: Isabel Meier

Production Design: K.D. Gruber

Costume Design: Anette Guther

Make-Up: Sonia Salazar-Delgado, Markus Scharping

Sound: Magnus Pflüger

Original Score: Arash Safaian

Cast: Corinna Harfouch, Rainer Bock, Tom Schilling

Original Title: LARA

Original Language: German

Film Production Country: Germany

Website: https://www.betacinema.com/138/pid/254/Lara.htm

Biography of the Director/s
Jan-Ole Gerster is a Berlin-based writer and director. After working for several years for German film production companies he began to study Screenwriting and Directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. His debut film OH BOY, which premiered at the Karlovy Vary IFF in 2012, became a domestic box-office success, was released in cinemas in over 20 countries and won numerous national and international awards, including the Audience and Jury Awards at the Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers and the Tallinn Black Nights IFF, six German Film Awards and the European Discovery 2013 – Prix FIPRESCI at the European Film Awards. He is currently working on a screen adaptation of Christian Kracht's bestselling novel 'Imperium'.

Filmography of the Director/s
2019 LARA
2012 OH BOY

Awards Won
Special Jury Prize, Best Actress - Karlovy Vary International Filmfestival
FIPRESCI Award, German Cinema New Talent Award (best directing) - Filmfest München

Production Company:
Schiwago Film GmbH
Marcos Kantis
Großbeerenstraße 64
Berlin, 10963, Germany
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +40 305500055

World Sales:
Beta Cinema GmbH
Thorsten Ritter
Gruenwalder Weg 28 d
Munich, 82041 Oberhaching, Germany
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Phone: +49 89673469829
Website: https://www.betacinema.com/

Press:
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