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In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts

Deutschland 2016/2017 Spielfilm

In Times of Fading Light

East Berlin in the early autumn of 1989. Wilhelm Powileit is grinning and bearing his 90th birthday with stoic indifference. There’s not much the old man hasn’t seen. A staunch communist for the past 75 years, he fled from Nazi Germany and lived in exile in Mexico. Meanwhile his stepson Kurt was arrested in Moscow as an alleged counter-revolutionary. After his return to East Germany, Wilhelm had only limited possibilities of a party career in the SED due to being an ‘émigré from the West’. But today the Young Pioneers are serenading him and he is being decorated with medals.

Whilst Wilhelm vehemently denies that his ideal of a better world was nothing but a fantasy and that the high hopes of yesteryear have been smothered by bureaucracy and fear, the younger generation is leaving the country. And cracks have appeared in his own family that are also beyond repair ... Screenwriter Wolfgang Kohlhaase, who last took part in the Berlinale Competition with "Als wir träumten" ("As we were dreaming") turns Eugen Ruge’s best-selling novel into a study of lost dreams. A cinematic portrait of society which uses the story of a disintegrating family to retrace the course of the twentieth century.

Quelle: 67. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Katalog)

 

Credits

Director

  • Matti Geschonneck

Screenplay

  • Wolfgang Kohlhaase

Director of photography

  • Hannes Hubach

Editing

  • Dirk Grau

Cast

  • Bruno Ganz
    Willhelm Powileit
  • Hildegard Schmahl
    Charlotte Powileit
  • Sylvester Groth
    Kurt Umnitzer
  • Evgenia Dodina
    Irina Umnitzer
  • Natalia Belitski
    Melitta
  • Alexander Fehling
    Sascha Umnitzer
  • Gabriela Maria Schmeide
    Lisbeth
  • Stephan Grossmann
    Harry Zenk
  • Sophie Pfennigstorf
    Nolle
  • Angela Winkler
    Stine Spier

Production company

  • Moovie - the art of entertainment GmbH (Berlin)

Producer

  • Oliver Berben
  • Sarah Kirkegaard
  • Dieter Salzmann

Alle Credits

Director

  • Matti Geschonneck

Assistant director

  • Tim Wustrack

Screenplay

  • Wolfgang Kohlhaase

based on

  • Eugen Ruge (Roman)

Director of photography

  • Hannes Hubach

Production design

  • Bernd Lepel

Make-up artist

  • Grit Kosse
  • Uta Spikermann

Costume design

  • Sabine Greunig

Editing

  • Dirk Grau

Sound design

  • Linus Nickl

Sound

  • Rainer Plabst

Casting

  • Simone Bär

Music consultant

  • Pia Hoffmann (Music Supervisor)
  • Christoph Becker (Music Supervisor)

Cast

  • Bruno Ganz
    Willhelm Powileit
  • Hildegard Schmahl
    Charlotte Powileit
  • Sylvester Groth
    Kurt Umnitzer
  • Evgenia Dodina
    Irina Umnitzer
  • Natalia Belitski
    Melitta
  • Alexander Fehling
    Sascha Umnitzer
  • Gabriela Maria Schmeide
    Lisbeth
  • Stephan Grossmann
    Harry Zenk
  • Sophie Pfennigstorf
    Nolle
  • Angela Winkler
    Stine Spier
  • Nina Antonova
    Kurts Schwiegermutter Nadeshda Iwanowna
  • Thorsten Merten
    Tabbert
  • Alexander Hörbe
    Mählich
  • Friderikke-Maria Hörbe
    Anita Mählich
  • Sarina Radomski
    Pionierleiterin
  • Stefan Haschke
    Schlinger
  • Nadja Engel
    Frau Sondermann
  • Axel Wandtke
    Bunke
  • Rike Eckermann
    Nachbarin
  • Jean Denis Römer
    Lieferant
  • Pit Bukowski
    Arbeiter
  • Inka Friedrich

Production company

  • Moovie - the art of entertainment GmbH (Berlin)

in co-production with

  • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) (Mainz)

Producer

  • Oliver Berben
  • Sarah Kirkegaard
  • Dieter Salzmann

Co-Producer

  • Reinhold Elschot

Producer (TV)

  • Stefanie von Heywolff (ZDF)

Unit production manager

  • Ute Schnelting

Original distributor

  • X Verleih AG (Berlin)

Funding

  • Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH (MBB) (Potsdam)
  • Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF) (Berlin)
  • Beauftragte/r der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien - Filmförderung (Berlin)
  • FilmFernsehFonds Bayern GmbH (FFFB) (München)

Shoot

    • 27.09.2016 - 04.11.2016: Berlin und Umgebung
Duration:
101 min
Format:
DCP, 1:2,39
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 18.04.2017, 167446, ohne Altersbeschränkung / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 16.02.2017, Berlin, IFF - Berlinale Special;
Kinostart (DE): 01.06.2017

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) In Zeiten des abnehmenden Lichts

Versions

Original

Duration:
101 min
Format:
DCP, 1:2,39
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 18.04.2017, 167446, ohne Altersbeschränkung / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 16.02.2017, Berlin, IFF - Berlinale Special;
Kinostart (DE): 01.06.2017

Source-URL: https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/in-zeiten-des-abnehmenden-lichts_