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Schlaf

Deutschland 2019/2020 Spielfilm

Sleep

Once upon a time, there was a house in the woods where something terrible happened …

Marlene is plagued by a recurring nightmare set in a hotel in the forest. When she discovers a newspaper advertisement for precisely this hotel, Marlene decides to face her fear. Against her daughter Mona’s advice, she drives to this idyllically situated place, only to find her fears confirmed. Shocked by the realisation that her dreams are apparently connected to three suicides, she falls into a stupor, an extreme mental and motor paralysis. Mona wants to find out what happened. During her investigation, she meets the friendly hotel owner Otto and his oddly dismissive wife Lore. Do the couple have something to hide? During her first night at the hotel, Mona is also shaken by a nightmare in which an unknown woman appears before her. This dream is the key to a dark secret that has something to do with the hotel and her own family history. For Mona, a roller-coaster ride into the abyss begins, in a film which plays with fairy-tale elements and blurs the boundaries between dream and reality.

Source: 70. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)

Credits

Director

  • Michael Venus

Screenplay

  • Thomas Friedrich

Director of photography

  • Marius von Felbert
  • Julia Lohmann (Zusatz)

Editing

  • Silke Olthoff

Music

  • Sebastian Damerius
  • Johannes Lehniger

Cast

  • Gro Swantje Kohlhof
    Mona
  • Sandra Hüller
    Marlene
  • August Schmölzer
    Otto
  • Marion Kracht
    Lore
  • Max Hubacher
    Christoph
  • Martina Schöne-Radunski
    Franzi
  • Katharina Behrens
    Bille
  • Agata Buzek
    Trude
  • Andreas Anke
    Wolfram
  • Benjamin Heinrich
    Otto (jung)

Production company

  • Junafilm UG (Hamburg)

Producer

  • Verena Gräfe-Höft

Alle Credits

Director

  • Michael Venus

Assistant director

  • Gesine Blanke

Script supervisor

  • Gerrit Magnus Beduhn

Co-Autor

  • Michael Venus

Screenplay

  • Thomas Friedrich

Director of photography

  • Marius von Felbert
  • Julia Lohmann (Zusatz)

Colour grading

  • Andreas Hellmanzik

Visual effects

  • Janine Pusch
  • Stephan Otterpohl
  • Tom Sporer
  • Fabian Strube
  • Dominic Werner

Still photography

  • Anke Neugebauer

Lighting design

  • Adriano Grilli

Key grip

  • Christopher Saß

Production design

  • Lena Mundt

Property master

  • Max Schmigalla

Stand-by props

  • Franziska Schillig

Make-up artist

  • Tatjana Kraus (Chefmaskenbildnerin)
  • Katharina Hepp

Costume design

  • Petra Kilian

Editing

  • Silke Olthoff

Sound design

  • Stephan Konken
  • Anders Wasserfall

Sound

  • Tim Stephan
  • Kevin Strauß

Foley artist

  • Anders Wasserfall

Audio mixing

  • Stephan Konken

Casting

  • Marion Haack

Music

  • Sebastian Damerius
  • Johannes Lehniger

Cast

  • Gro Swantje Kohlhof
    Mona
  • Sandra Hüller
    Marlene
  • August Schmölzer
    Otto
  • Marion Kracht
    Lore
  • Max Hubacher
    Christoph
  • Martina Schöne-Radunski
    Franzi
  • Katharina Behrens
    Bille
  • Agata Buzek
    Trude
  • Andreas Anke
    Wolfram
  • Benjamin Heinrich
    Otto (jung)
  • Josefin Schäferhoff
    Lore (jung)
  • Samuel Weiss
    Dr. Herreo
  • Yun Huang
    Alex
  • Stefan Böth
    Uwe Fahle
  • Frank Leo Schröder
    Max Häckel
  • Pablo Grant
    Kommilitone
  • Bianca Riebow
    Krankenschwester

Production company

  • Junafilm UG (Hamburg)

in co-production with

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

Producer

  • Verena Gräfe-Höft

Producer (TV)

  • Christian Cloos (ZDF - Das kleine Fernsehspiel)

Unit production manager

  • Kivik Kuvik

Location manager

  • Ingo Stroot

Production manager

  • Udo Röttger

Original distributor

  • Salzgeber & Co. Medien GmbH (Berlin)

Funding

  • Beauftragte/r der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien - Filmförderung (Berlin)
  • Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF) (Berlin)
  • Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein GmbH (FFHSH) (Hamburg)
  • nordmedia – Film- und Mediengesellschaft Niedersachsen/Bremen mbH (Hannover/Bremen)

Shoot

    • 08.04.2019 - 07.05.2019: Harz, Hamburg
Duration:
101 min
Format:
DCP 2K, 1:2,39 (CinemaScope)
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 30.03.2020, 198639, ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 25.02.2020, Berlin, IFF - Perspektive Deutsches Kino;
Kinostart (DE): 29.10.2020;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 07.02.2022, ZDF

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Schlaf
  • Weiterer Titel (ENG) Sleep

Versions

Original

Duration:
101 min
Format:
DCP 2K, 1:2,39 (CinemaScope)
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 30.03.2020, 198639, ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 25.02.2020, Berlin, IFF - Perspektive Deutsches Kino;
Kinostart (DE): 29.10.2020;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 07.02.2022, ZDF

Awards

Grimme-Preis 2023
  • Preis der Studierendenjury, Fiktion
Source-URL: https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/schlaf_68eff05072464d7da80dcadcd6157b5e