Weisse Lilien

Weisse Lilien

Österreich / Deutschland / Luxemburg / Ungarn 2007, Spielfilm

Synopsis

Silent Resident

A vision of the city of the future. A venturous development project has turned into an enigmatic authoritarian society. But there are always some lone fighters who threaten the closedness of the conceptual world. Terrorists or resistance fighters against a conspiracy of the powerful. The Lilies are going to reveal the truth. Never before have blocks of flats been so threatening and been so engrossed by fear, control, and inscrutable secrets as the white, radiant buildings of "New Town", a self-sufficient "living machine" in the suburbs of time and space in the not too distant future. A "Brave New World", where people disappear and social protests are as mysterious as security forces that are offered as a service but are enigmatic repressive measures in reality. With the help of a motherly friend and colleague, Hannah leaves her violent boyfriend and moves to a higher, socially better off floor of her apartment building. But there, her life is soon thrown off track.

Why do her new neighbours observe her and why do the internal security forces spy on her? Why did the woman who had lived in the flat before Hannah kill herself? Hannah has visions – or are those visions actually real? It seems as if everybody, even her lover, a detective, are conspiring against her. Hannah′s only hope is her friendship with Anna, a sort of "reversed" Hannah, who rebels against the omnipresent control and surveillance in New Town. When their identities seem to fuse and the boundaries between the manipilators and the manipulated become more and more fuzzy, a paranoia sets in that turns into an explosive collision of reality, dream, and violence...

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Credits

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Director:Christian Frosch
Assistant director:Irene Iversen
Screenplay:Christian Frosch
Director of photography:Busso von Müller
Assistant camera:Matthias Kapinos, Jörg Güntner
Optical effects:Marcus Frakes
Lighting design:Dominik Berg
Key grip:Robert Wedemeyer
Set design:Giovanni Scribano (Szenenbild)
Property master:Hubert Klausner
Stand-by props:Elisabeth Kisela
Costume design:Alfred Mayerhofer
Editing:Michael Palm
Sound design:Sebastian Schmidt, Michael Palm
Sound:Jörg Theil
Sound assistant:Michael Moran
Foley artist:Holger Lehmann (Aufnahmen)
Audio mixing:Olaf Mehl
Stunt co-ordinator:Gerd Grzesczak
Music:Matthias Ockert
  
Cast: 
Brigitte HobmeierHannah Schreiber
Johanna WokalekAnna
Martin WuttkeHauks
Xaver HutterBranco
Erni MangoldFrau Danneberg
Gabriel BarylliErik Lasalle
Walfriede SchmittPaula
Susi StachBärli Frauchen
Peter FitzLudwig von Auerbach
Günther KaufmannMark
Mirjam Ploteny
Ursula Ofner
Nina Fog
Roland Jäger
Markus Hering
  
Voice:Christian Rode (Neustadtstimme)
Production company:Amour Fou Filmproduktion GmbH (Wien), Mediopolis Film- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH (Berlin), Minotaurus Filmproduktion (Luxemburg), Eurofilm Stúdio Budapest Kft. (Budapest)
Producer:Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Alexander Ris, Jörg Rothe, Bady Minck, Péter Miskolczi
Co-Producer:Matthias Mücke
Unit production manager:Igor Orovac, Björn Eggert
Location manager:Zepp Berensmeier
Production coordinator:Sonja Kirch
Shoot:09.08.2006-19.09.2006: Wien
Original distributor:Neue Visionen Filmverleih GmbH (Berlin)
Funding:Österreichisches Filminstitut (ÖFI), Wien, Filmfonds Wien (Wien), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH (MBBB) (Potsdam), Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbH (MDM) (Leipzig), Filmfund (Luxembourg), Magyar Mózgokép Körzalaptváni (MMK) (Budapest)
Length:96 min
Format:35mm, 1:2,35
Picture/Sound:Farbe, Dolby Digital
Screening:Uraufführung (CA): 06.09.2007, Toronto, IFF;
Erstaufführung (DE): 05.06.2008, Ludwigshafen, Festival des deutschen Films;
Kinostart (DE): 11.09.2008

Titles

Originaltitel (AT DE LU HU) Weisse Lilien
Arbeitstitel (AT DE LU HU) Yoon
Weiterer Titel (AT DE LU HU) Silent Resident

Versions

Original

Length:96 min
Format:35mm, 1:2,35
Picture/Sound:Farbe, Dolby Digital
Screening:Uraufführung (CA): 06.09.2007, Toronto, IFF;
Erstaufführung (DE): 05.06.2008, Ludwigshafen, Festival des deutschen Films;
Kinostart (DE): 11.09.2008
 

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