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A Pure Place

Deutschland 2018/2019 Spielfilm

As toddlers, the siblings Paul and Irina were kidnapped and taken to a Greek island, where they grew up in the secluded surroundings of a sect. Leader of the spiritual community is the equally charismatic and inscrutable Fust. Life in the sect is based on a strictly hierarchical system: there are the habitats "above" and "below", and all people are divided into "good and bad", "dirty and pure". If someone is brought up for "cleansing" to the "above", it is done externally by a special soap produced in the cellar, and internally by worshipping the enlightened Guru Fust. Paul and Irina, now 12 and 15 years old, have developed a particularly close relationship in this bizarre environment. However, when Irina moves up in hierarchy and is brought into the upper world of the sect by Fust, Paul loses his most important reference person. He begins to rebel against the strict rules.

Credits

Director

  • Nikias Chryssos

Screenplay

  • Nikias Chryssos
  • Lars Henning Jung

Director of photography

  • Yoshi Heimrath

Editing

  • Stephan Bechinger
  • Carsten Eder

Music

  • John Gürtler
  • Jan Miserre

Cast

  • Greta Bohacek
    Irina
  • Claude Albert Heinrich
    Paul
  • Sam Louwyck
    Fust
  • Daniel Sträßer
    Siegfried
  • Daniel Fripan
    Albrich
  • Lena Lauzemis
    Maria
  • Wolfgang Czeczor
    Lehder
  • Mariella Aumann
    Ulca

Production company

  • Violet Pictures (München/Berlin)

Producer

  • Alexis von Wittgenstein

Alle Credits

Director

  • Nikias Chryssos

Screenplay

  • Nikias Chryssos
  • Lars Henning Jung

Director of photography

  • Yoshi Heimrath

Production design

  • Marcel Beranek

Make-up artist

  • Stefanie Heiss

Costume design

  • Anna Wübber

Editing

  • Stephan Bechinger
  • Carsten Eder

Sound

  • Marc Parisotto

Casting

  • Stefany Pohlmann
  • Anne Walcher

Music

  • John Gürtler
  • Jan Miserre

Cast

  • Greta Bohacek
    Irina
  • Claude Albert Heinrich
    Paul
  • Sam Louwyck
    Fust
  • Daniel Sträßer
    Siegfried
  • Daniel Fripan
    Albrich
  • Lena Lauzemis
    Maria
  • Wolfgang Czeczor
    Lehder
  • Mariella Aumann
    Ulca

Production company

  • Violet Pictures (München/Berlin)

in co-production with

  • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) (Mainz) (Das kleine Fernsehspiel)
  • View Master Films (Athen)

Producer

  • Alexis von Wittgenstein

Producer (TV)

  • Burkhard Althoff (ZDF)

Unit production manager

  • Rainer Jeskulke

Original distributor

  • Koch Films (Planegg/München)

Funding

  • Beauftragte/r der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien - Filmförderung (Berlin)
  • Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH (MBB) (Potsdam)
  • FilmFernsehFonds Bayern GmbH (FFFB) (München)
  • MFG Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden-Württemberg mbH (Stuttgart)

Shoot

    • November 2018 - 11.12.2018: Athen und Umgebung, Ägina
Duration:
91 min
Format:
DCP
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 19.12.2019, 196373, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 04.07.2021, München, Filmfest - Neues Deutsches Kino, Sugar Mountain;
Kinostart (DE): 25.11.2021

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) A Pure Place

Versions

Original

Duration:
91 min
Format:
DCP
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 19.12.2019, 196373, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 04.07.2021, München, Filmfest - Neues Deutsches Kino, Sugar Mountain;
Kinostart (DE): 25.11.2021

Awards

Preis der deutschen Filmkritik 2022
  • Preis der deutschen Filmkritik, Beste Musik
Filmfest München 2021
  • Förderpreis Neues Deutsches Kino, Beste Regie

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