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Das System - alles verstehen heißt alles verzeihen

Deutschland 2010/2011 Spielfilm

The System

Mike is 20-years-old, attractive, intelligent and a loner. Only with his best friend Dustin does he share his thoughts, and an apartment in a pre-fab housing development in Rostock. On the rooftop, they smoke joints and sort out stolen goods. Mike doesn′t really think any further than the next day. But everything changes when he gets caught during a break-in by Konrad Böhm. The charismatic businessman introduces Mike to a parallel world of international lobbyists and former GDR secret agents who have managed to carry over their network into reunited Germany.

They use their old contacts for economic advantages. Mike′s initial mistrust turns into curiosity and then admiration. Böhm is the first person to actually set clear
boundaries for Mike and tells him something about his deceased father. He fills that painful, empty space in Mike′s soul which developed because of Mike′s mother′s insistent silence. Her attempts to protect Mike from Böhm and the past, however, have the opposite effect.

When Mike realizes that his father′s death 20 years ago was not in fact a tragic accident, it′s almost too late. Does understanding everything mean to forgive everything?

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

 

Credits

Director

  • Marc Bauder

Screenplay

  • Dörte Franke
  • Khyana El Bitar

Director of photography

  • Daniela Knapp

Editing

  • Gergana Voigt

Music

  • Paul Lemp

Cast

  • Jacob Matschenz
    Mike Hiller
  • Bernhard Schütz
    Konrad Böhm
  • Jenny Schily
    Elke Hiller
  • Heinz Hoenig
    Herbert Tieschky
  • Florian Renner
    Dustin
  • Jürgen Holtz
    Zschernigk
  • Franziska Wulf
    Janine
  • Mario Pokatzky
    Bodo
  • Michael Abendroth
    Frings
  • Rosa Enskat
    Rita

Production company

  • Frisbeefilms GmbH & Co. KG (Berlin)

Producer

  • Manuel Bickenbach
  • Alexander Bickenbach

Alle Credits

Director

  • Marc Bauder

Screenplay

  • Dörte Franke
  • Khyana El Bitar

Director of photography

  • Daniela Knapp

Still photography

  • Margit Wild

Lighting design

  • Florian Kronenberger

Gaffer

  • Urs Zimmermann

Set design

  • Petra Albert (Szenenbild)

Stand-by props

  • Benjamin Seumel

Make-up artist

  • Jana Schulze

Costume design

  • Andrea Schein

Editing

  • Gergana Voigt

Sound design

  • Lars Ginzel

Sound

  • Marc Meusinger

Sound assistant

  • Lutz Lassek

Audio mixing

  • Lars Ginzel

Casting

  • Suse Marquardt

Music

  • Paul Lemp

Cast

  • Jacob Matschenz
    Mike Hiller
  • Bernhard Schütz
    Konrad Böhm
  • Jenny Schily
    Elke Hiller
  • Heinz Hoenig
    Herbert Tieschky
  • Florian Renner
    Dustin
  • Jürgen Holtz
    Zschernigk
  • Franziska Wulf
    Janine
  • Mario Pokatzky
    Bodo
  • Michael Abendroth
    Frings
  • Rosa Enskat
    Rita
  • Wolfram Koch

Production company

  • Frisbeefilms GmbH & Co. KG (Berlin)

in co-production with

  • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) (Mainz) (Das kleine Fernsehspiel)

in association with

  • Bauderfilm (Berlin)
  • The Post Republic (Berlin)

Producer

  • Manuel Bickenbach
  • Alexander Bickenbach

Co-Producer

  • Marc Bauder

Producer (TV)

  • Burkhard Althoff (ZDF)

Line producer

  • Valeska Bochow

Unit production manager

  • Günter Fenner

Original distributor

  • Filmlichter (Köln)

Funding

  • Beauftragte/r der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien - Filmförderung (Berlin)
  • Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF) (Berlin)
  • Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH (MBB) (Potsdam)
  • Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbH (MDM) (Leipzig)

Shoot

    • 19.03.2010 - 10.05.2010: Rostock, Warnemünde, Halle und Umgebung, Leipzig, Berlin
Duration:
2517 m, 92 min
Format:
35mm
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 07.04.2011, 126889, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 20.01.2011, Saarbrücken, Max-Ophüls-Preis - Wettbewerb;
Kinostart (DE): 12.01.2012

Titles

Additional titles
  • Weiterer Titel (DE) Das System
  • Originaltitel (DE) Das System - alles verstehen heißt alles verzeihen
  • Weiterer Titel (ENG) The System

Versions

Original

Duration:
2517 m, 92 min
Format:
35mm
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 07.04.2011, 126889, ab 12 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 20.01.2011, Saarbrücken, Max-Ophüls-Preis - Wettbewerb;
Kinostart (DE): 12.01.2012

Awards

filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2011
  • Der CineStar

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