KONTENER
31st European Film Awards
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30m
Container" (Original Titel: Kontener) – Maryna and Tava are working shifts on a milk farm in Eastern Germany. In the village, they are known as 'the two Poles'. They themselves ignore each other existence. When the farm manager goes on a business trip Tava does not show up at work and seems to have disappeared. The next night a disturbing encounter takes place. Maryna wakes up in her container realizing that she is not alone: Tava is lying next to her, fast asleep, firmly clinging to her. But during night shift Maryna withholds the news of her compatriot having returned. When she returns to her container Tava has disappeared again. Her tracks are losing themselves at some drinking session in the surrounding countryside.
Direction: Sebastian Lang
Script: Sebastian Lang, Hanna Rode, Martin Herold
Production: Johannes Schubert
Cinematography: Caspar Hees
Editing: Martin Herold
Production Design: Melina Schuler
Costume Design: Hanna Rode
Sound: Julius Rülke
Original Score: Ivan Andrianov
Cast: Joanna Drozda, Anka Graczyk
Original Title: KONTENER
Original Languages: Polish, German
Film Production Country: Germany
Statement of the Director/s
"Container" (Original Titel: Kontener) – Maryna and Tava are working shifts on a milk farm in Eastern Germany. In the village, they are known as 'the two Poles'. They themselves ignore each other existence. When the farm manager goes on a business trip Tava does not show up at work and seems to have disappeared. The next night a disturbing encounter takes place. Maryna wakes up in her container realizing that she is not alone: Tava is lying next to her, fast asleep, firmly clinging to her. But during night shift Maryna withholds the news of her compatriot having returned. When she returns to her container Tava has disappeared again. Her tracks are losing themselves at some drinking session in the surrounding countryside.
Biography of the Director/s
Born in Schweinfurt, Germany in 1985, he studied theatre direction at the Academy of Performing Arts Baden-Wuerttemberg under Luk Perceval. He then founded the Shane Drinion collective and staged his productions at theatres including the Staatstheater Karlsruhe and in Berlin the Maxim-Gorki-Theater, Theaterdiscounter and Sophiensæle. He lectures at the Academy of Performing Arts Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg and at Zurich University of the Arts. Since 2014 he has been studying film directing at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. Kontener is his first medium-length feature film.
Filmography of the Director/s
KONTENER
World Sales:
Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Cristina Marx
Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
Potsdam, 14482, Germany
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +49 331 6202564
Website: https://filmuniversitaet.de/
Press:
Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF
Cristina Marx
Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
Potsdam, 14482, Germany
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: +49 331 6202564
Website: https://www.filmuniversitaet.de/
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