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Source: Pandora, DIF
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Charlotte Roche
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Eden
Overweight, eccentric master chef Gregor runs a small private restaurant in a once fashionable health resort in the Black Forest, where he celebrates his brand of "cucina erotica" with an exclusive group of gourmets. At a café in town he meets the married waitress Eden, who has a little daughter, Leonie, with Down’s syndrome. For Leonie’s fifth birthday Gregor bakes a cake decorated with his homemade chocolates. The taste of the chocolates sends Leonie into rapture, and they have the same effect on Eden.
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Overwhelmed, she shows up unannounced at Gregor’s house one evening; in a veritable frenzy she devours everything in sight and runs off without a word. They soon overcome their diffidence and begin to meet regularly in Gregor’s kitchen, where Eden delves into Gregor’s sensuous world of savouriness. Their platonic gourmet meetings jolt both Eden and Gregor out of their humdrum lives, and Eden’s marriage blossoms as a result.
But nothing remains a secret for long in their town, and after Eden’s husband Xaver experiences the "cucina erotica" for himself, he is forced to take action or else lose his wife.
"The woman’s hair and clothes are a mess, her marriage tedious. The chef is fat and asexual, but a genius in the kitchen," says director Michael Hofmann. "One time she lets him hold her hand. Nothing else happens. But this seeming 'nothing' is enough to destroy the existence of everyone involved – and will even cost a life. 'Eden' is a film about the power of love."
Source: 56. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (catalogue)
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Deutschland / Schweiz
2005/2006, Spielfilm
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Director |
Michael Hofmann |
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Assistant director |
Florian Michel; Ruth Benner |
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Script |
Barbara Krieger; Frédéric Moriette |
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Screenplay |
Michael Hofmann |
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Director of photography |
Jutta Pohlmann |
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Lighting design |
André Pinkus |
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Production design |
Jörg Prinz (Szenenbild) |
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Title |
Stephan Haase |
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Costumes |
Carol Luchetta |
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Make-up |
Kathi Kullack; Jeanette Kellermann |
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Editing |
Bernhard Wießner; Isabel Meier |
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Sound design |
Ansgar Frerich; Florian Beck |
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Sound |
Ruedi Guyer |
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Mixing |
Florian Beck; Bruno Nellessen |
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Music |
Christoph M. Kaiser; Julian Maas |
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Cast |
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Josef Ostendorf |
Gregor Barbier |
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Charlotte Roche |
Eden Drebb |
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Devid Striesow |
Xaver Drebb |
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Max Rüdlinger |
Ludwig |
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Leonie Stepp |
Leonie Drebb |
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Manfred Zapatka |
Vater Drebb |
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Hildegard Kuhlenberg |
Mutter Drebb |
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Roeland Wiesnekker |
Frank |
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Pascal Ulli |
Toni |
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Wioletta Breskic |
Mutter Barbier |
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Uta Zech |
Edens Kollegin |
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Elfriede Irrall |
Nachbarin |
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Jean-Pierre Cornu |
Restaurantkritiker |
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Production company |
Gambit Film & Fernsehproduktion GmbH (Ludwigsburg) |
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in co-production with |
C-Films AG (Zürich); Südwestrundfunk (SWR) (Stuttgart); Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) (München); Cine + (Berlin); Schweizer Fernsehen für die deutsche und rätoromanische Schweiz (SF DRS) (Zürich); Teleclub AG (Zürich) |
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Producer |
Michael Jungfleisch; Robert Geisler |
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Co-Producer |
Peter Reichenbach; Andi Huber; Frank Evers; Christian Colmorgen |
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Producer |
Ulli Herrmann (SWR); Claudia Simionescu (BR); Lilian Räber (SF DRS) |
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Line producer |
Robert Geisler |
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Unit manager |
Solveig Jork |
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Production supervisor |
Katja Roesch |
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Funding |
MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg mbH (Stuttgart); Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) (Berlin); Bundesamt für Kultur des Eidgenössischen Department des Innern (EDI) (Bern) |
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Casting |
Sigrid Emmerich; Ruth Hirschfeld |
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Shoot |
09.2003-10.2004: Bad Herrenalb und Umgebung (Baden-Württemberg) |
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Original distributor |
Pandora Film GmbH & Co. Verleih KG (Aschaffenburg) |
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awarded with |
Publikumspreis: IFF Rotterdam 05.02.2006 |
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Length |
2838 m, 104 min |
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Format |
HD - überspielt auf 35mm, 1:1,85 |
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Picture/Sound |
Farbe, Dolby SRD |
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Rating |
FSK-Prüfung: 03.08.2006, Nr. 106995, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei |
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Screening |
Uraufführung (NL): 01.2006, Rotterdam, IFF; Kinostart (DE): 23.11.2006; TV-Erstsendung (DE FR): 06.01.2009, Arte; Erstaufführung (DE): 16.02.2006, Berlin, IFF - German Cinema |
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