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Vamos a la Playa

Deutschland Kuba 2019-2022 Spielfilm

The tropical island Cuba is the main setting for Bettina Blümner's fourth feature film "Hello My Friend" after her previous films "Pool of Princesses", "Broken Glass Park" and "Parcours D'Amour". The road movie follows three friends Katharina, Judith and Benjamin as they travel to Cuba to search for Judith's brother Vanja, who has disappeared on the island during a research semester studying the legendary manatee. While Katharina seems to be more interested in picking up local men for sexual adventures, a tender love story develops between Benjamin and Judith. But then she attracts the amorous attentions of the salsa dance teacher Ignacio with unforeseen repercussions...

Source: German Films Service & Marketing GmbH

Credits

Director

  • Bettina Blümner

Screenplay

  • Bettina Blümner
  • Daniel Nocke

Director of photography

  • Janis Mazuch

Editing

  • Anna Mbyia Katshunga

Music

  • Paul Eisenach

Cast

  • Leonard Scheicher
    Benjamin
  • Victoria Schulz
    Katharina
  • Maya Unger
    Judith
  • Jakub Gierszał
    Wanja
  • Eugenio Torroella Ramos

Production company

  • achtung panda! (Berlin)

Producer

  • Jana Lotze
  • Jamila Wenske
  • Melanie Blocksdorf
  • Bettina Blümner

Alle Credits

Director

  • Bettina Blümner

Assistant director

  • Malte Grosche
  • Guillermo Ruótolo

Screenplay

  • Bettina Blümner
  • Daniel Nocke

Script editor

  • Julia Willmann

Director of photography

  • Janis Mazuch

Assistant camera

  • Gregor Steinweg
  • Benedikt Rüchel

Colour grading

  • Andreas Teichert
  • Holger Hummel

Lighting design

  • Laura Hansen

Costume design

  • Silke Faber

Editing

  • Anna Mbyia Katshunga

Sound design

  • Manuel Meichsner

Sound

  • René Nicklaus

Audio mixing

  • Valentin Finke

Casting

  • Ulrike Müller

Music

  • Paul Eisenach

Cast

  • Leonard Scheicher
    Benjamin
  • Victoria Schulz
    Katharina
  • Maya Unger
    Judith
  • Jakub Gierszał
    Wanja
  • Eugenio Torroella Ramos

Production company

  • achtung panda! (Berlin)

in co-production with

  • Marinca Filmes (Havanna)

in association with

  • Chaussee Soundvision GmbH (Lüneburg)
  • FARBkorrektiv (Lüneburg)

Producer

  • Jamila Wenske
  • Melanie Blocksdorf
  • Bettina Blümner
  • Jana Lotze

Co-Producer

  • Maria Carla del Rio Betancourt

Line producer

  • Marianela Jorge Donate

Associate producer

  • Ralph Kobernuss

Unit production manager

  • Ina Hon

Production assistant

  • Anke Weisenburger

Post-production

  • Tobias Müller (Supervisor)

Original distributor

  • JIP Film und Verleih (Frankfurt am Main)

Funding

  • Beauftragte/r der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien - Filmförderung (Berlin)
  • Film- und Medien Stiftung NRW (Düsseldorf)
  • Wim Wenders Stipendium (DE) (Entwicklung)

Shoot

    • 11.11.2019 - 20.12.2019: Kuba, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Duration:
94 min
Format:
DCP
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 13.02.2023, 239578, ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (CH): 25.09.2022, Zürich, Film Festival;
Erstaufführung (DE): 21.10.2022, Köln, Film Festival Cologne;
Kinostart (DE): 27.04.2023

Titles

Additional titles
  • Arbeitstitel (DE) Hello My Friend
  • Originaltitel (DE) Vamos a la Playa

Versions

Original

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

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 13.02.2023, 239578, ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (CH): 25.09.2022, Zürich, Film Festival;
Erstaufführung (DE): 21.10.2022, Köln, Film Festival Cologne;
Kinostart (DE): 27.04.2023

Awards

ARTE European Audience Award 2024
  • ARTE European Audience Award
Hessischer Film- und Kinopreis 2023
  • Hessischer Film- und Kinopreis, Spielfilm
achtung berlin 2023
  • new berlin film award, Bestes Schauspiel-Ensemble
Source-URL: https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/vamos-a-la-playa_33f2e47d493143adad6d2de2fd29b5ae