Reise nach Jerusalem
The Chairs Game
The Chairs Game is a game in which you need luck: You need to be in the right place at the right time – otherwise you won't get a chair. Alice, 39, single and unemployed can no longer win at this silly game. The unemployment office keeps sending her to job application trainings. Yet, Alice knows they won't lead her to stop waiting in line. Hence, one morning she decides to interrupt one of them. Her unemployment benefits are then reduced, and money gets tight. Her parents and friends have no idea of the kind of chaos in which Alice finds herself since she is a proficient liar. Her persistent search to be socially accepted cannot prevent her from getting lonelier and lonelier. She keeps herself stubbornly afloat with gas vouchers, which she gets for participating in market research, and tries to once again take control of her tattered life.
Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH
Credits
Director
Screenplay
Director of photography
Editing
Music
Cast
- Alice
- Luca
- Mutter
- Vater
- Frau Krantz
- Produkttesterin
- Sophie
- Paul
- Erika
- Andreas Bauchlage
Production company
Producer
Alle Credits
Director
Screenplay
Director of photography
2nd Camera unit
Production design
Make-up artist
Costume design
Editing
Sound
Audio mixing
Casting
Music
Cast
- Alice
- Luca
- Mutter
- Vater
- Frau Krantz
- Produkttesterin
- Sophie
- Paul
- Erika
- Andreas Bauchlage
- Ingrid
- Sandra
- Klaus
Production company
in co-production with
in association with
Producer
Unit production manager
Original distributor
Shoot
- 23.12.2016 - 26.01.2017
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 15.11.2018, 183383, ab 6 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Uraufführung (DE): 24.01.2018, Saarbrücken, Max Ophüls Preis;
Kinostart (DE): 15.11.2018
Titles
- Originaltitel (DE) Reise nach Jerusalem
- Weiterer Titel The Chairs Game
Versions
Original
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 15.11.2018, 183383, ab 6 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Uraufführung (DE): 24.01.2018, Saarbrücken, Max Ophüls Preis;
Kinostart (DE): 15.11.2018
Awards
- Ex Berliner Special Prize
- new berlin film award, Beste Schauspielerin
- Lobende Erwähnung, Drehbuch
- Hauptpreis, Bester Spielfilm
- Prädikat: wertvoll