Jargo

Deutschland 2003/2004 Spielfilm

Summary

Icelandic-born Maria Solrun Sigurdardottir is making her feature directorial debut with the melodrama "Jargo". "It is about love and treachery," says Sigurdardottir, who sees herself in the tradition of the magic realism of Icelandic literature and cinema and observes that "comedy in tragedy is something I take for granted. It isn′t anything that I have picked up from other directors. It′s my view of life."

"Jargo" centers on a young German "outsider" of the same name who has grown up in Saudi Arabia and comes to Berlin with his mother after his father′s suicide. Here he gets to know the petty criminal Kamil, a young Turkish boy who has grown up in Germany, and is constantly hounded by the ghost of his father reminding him of his promise "to become a man" before he turns sixteen.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

 

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Credits

All Credits

Director

Assistant director

Script supervisor

Screenplay

Director of photography

Assistant camera

Still photography

Lighting design

Key grip

Property master

Stand-by props

Make-up artist

Costume design

Editing

Sound design

Audio mixing

in association with

Co-Producer

Producer (TV)

Unit production manager

Location manager

Original distributor

Shoot

    • 01.05.2003 - 30.06.2003: Berlin
Duration:
90 min
Format:
16mm - Blow-Up 35mm, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 08.02.2004, Berlin, IFF - Kinderfilmfest

Titles

  • Originaltitel (DE) Jargo

Versions

Digitalisierte Fassung

Duration:
90 min
Format:
DCP, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Stereo

Original

Duration:
90 min
Format:
16mm - Blow-Up 35mm, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 08.02.2004, Berlin, IFF - Kinderfilmfest