Sommersturm

Deutschland 2003/2004 Spielfilm

Summary

Summer Storm

Tobi and Achim have been best friends for years. As cox and oarsman, they have helped their local team win several rowing cups in the past and are now anxiously awaiting the big summer regatta on a lake in the countryside. A local girls′ team is also competing in the regatta and Achim is looking forward to spending some time with his girlfriend Sandra at the lakeside summer camp. Tobi starts having second thoughts about this relationship when he realizes that his feelings for Achim run deeper than he′s willing to admit to himself. He feels confused, unsure of himself and increasingly left out. When Sandra′s girlfriend Anke shows interest in him, it only adds to his anxiety.

Then it turns out that a much-anticipated girls′ team from Berlin has been replaced by a team of athletic, cliché-bursting young gay men. Tobi and his teammates are suddenly forced to grapple with their prejudices, their fears, and, perhaps, their hidden longings. As the tension grows, Tobi, Achim and the others head towards a confrontation as fierce and, ultimately, liberating as the summer storm gathering over the lake…

In his second feature film, which won the Audience Award at the Munich Filmfest 2004, Marco Kreuzpaintner spotlights the emotional confusion of a group of young people at the threshold to adulthood.

Source: 55. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)

 

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Credits

All Credits

Script supervisor

Director of photography

Assistant camera

Steadycam operator

Costume design

Sound design

Sound assistant

Audio mixing

Special effects

Casting

Music

Dubbing

Unit production manager

Original distributor

Shoot

    • Bergisches land, Starnberger See
Duration:
2673 m, 98 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby SRD
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 12.08.2004, 99117, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): Juni 2004, München, Filmfest;
Kinostart (DE): 02.09.2004

Titles

  • Originaltitel (DE) Sommersturm
  • Abschnittstitel Summer Storm

Versions

Original

Duration:
2673 m, 98 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby SRD
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 12.08.2004, 99117, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): Juni 2004, München, Filmfest;
Kinostart (DE): 02.09.2004