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Deutschland 2011/2012 Dokumentarfilm

In 1992, two men were shot in a field near the German-Polish border. The circumstances which led to the death of Grigore Velcu and Eudache Calderar have not been clarified even today. According to official reports, they were victims of a hunting accident, a tragic mix-up over wild boar. The hunters were never convicted, as the protracted trial failed to pursue many of the most decisive questions and eventually ended in an acquittal.

Nearly 20 years later, Philip Scheffner carries out the painstaking investigation that never took place back then. He seeks out the dead men’s relatives in Romania and records the statements they were unable to give until now. As with the other witnesses and different experts he returns to question, he gives them the opportunity to listen to their own statements and reassess them as necessary – unlike standard practice, which elevates statements to fact the very moment they are made. In this way, Scheffner performs a cinematic revision of the case and the medium simultaneously. His diligent handling of material and reports creates a web of landscapes, recollections, case files and German political sentiment all of an increasingly oppressive complexity.

Source: 62. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)

Credits

Director

  • Philip Scheffner

Screenplay

  • Merle Kröger (Konzept)
  • Philip Scheffner (Konzept)

Director of photography

  • Bernd Meiners

Editing

  • Philip Scheffner

Production company

  • pong – Kröger & Scheffner GbR (Berlin)

Producer

  • Merle Kröger

Alle Credits

Director

  • Philip Scheffner

Screenplay

  • Merle Kröger (Konzept)
  • Philip Scheffner (Konzept)

Director of photography

  • Bernd Meiners

Editing

  • Philip Scheffner

Sound design

  • Volker Zeigermann
  • Simon Bastian

Sound

  • Volker Zeigermann
  • Pascal Capitolin

Audio mixing

  • Pierre Brand

Production company

  • pong – Kröger & Scheffner GbR (Berlin)

in co-production with

  • Blinker Filmproduktion GmbH (Köln)
  • Worklights Media Production (Werkleitz)
  • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) (Mainz)

in association with

  • Arte Deutschland TV GmbH (Baden-Baden)

Producer

  • Merle Kröger

Co-Producer

  • Peter Zorn
  • Marcie K. Jost
  • Meike Martens

Producer (TV)

  • Doris Hepp

Unit production manager

  • Marcie K. Jost

Original distributor

  • Real Fiction Filmverleih (Köln)

Funding

  • Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH (MBB) (Potsdam)
  • Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbH (MDM) (Leipzig)
  • Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein GmbH (FFHSH) (Hamburg)
  • Film- und Medien Stiftung NRW (Düsseldorf)
  • Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF) (Berlin)
  • Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) (Berlin)
  • DEFA-Stiftung (Berlin)
Duration:
3009 m, 110 min
Format:
35mm, 16:9
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Stereo
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 16.02.2012, 131810, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 12.02.2012, Berlin, IFF - Forum;
Kinostart (DE): 13.09.2012

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Revision

Versions

Original

Duration:
3009 m, 110 min
Format:
35mm, 16:9
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Stereo
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 16.02.2012, 131810, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 12.02.2012, Berlin, IFF - Forum;
Kinostart (DE): 13.09.2012

Awards

Filmplus 2013 2013
  • Bild-Kunst Schnitt Preis, Dokumentarfilm
Filmfest München 2012
  • Fritz-Gerlich-Preis
goEast – Festival des mittel- und osteuropäischen Films 2012
  • Dokumentarfilmpreis
FBW 2012
  • Prädikat: wertvoll
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