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Sweet Disaster

Deutschland 2020/2021 Spielfilm

When Frida returns from Finland from a visit to her parents, she meets frustrated pilot Felix at the airport, who has just been dumped by his girlfriend. At a bar she tries to cheer him up, they share Finnish rye bread and champagne, spend a magical day together and become a couple. Everything seems perfect, but when Frida unexpectedly gets pregnant, Felix breaks up with her and goes back to his ex. Although serious health problems from her late pregnancy actually force her to rest, Frida tries to win Felix back with absurd, encroaching and, what's more, completely ineffectual actions.

Credits

Director

  • Laura Lehmus

Screenplay

  • Ruth Toma

Director of photography

  • Anne Bolick

Editing

  • Andreas Menn

Music

  • Boris Goltz

Cast

  • Friederike Kempter
    Frida Pepponen
  • Florian Lukas
    Felix Kreuzer
  • Lena Urzendowsky
    Yolanda Mersmann
  • Mareile Blendl
    Anna Mersman
  • Diana Ebert
    Natalie Schmidt
  • Friederike Frerichs
    Margit
  • Berit Künnecke
    Daniela
  • Lasse Myhr
    Jack Johnson
  • Veronika Nowag-Jones
    Elsa
  • Jennifer Haas
    Nicki

Production company

  • Zeitgeist Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. KG (Berlin)

Producer

  • Margarita Amineva
  • Markus Kaatsch
  • Nina Poschinski
  • Michael Grudsky

Alle Credits

Director

  • Laura Lehmus

Assistant director

  • Kim Doyen

Script supervisor

  • Julia Berewinkel

Screenplay

  • Ruth Toma

based on

  • Ruth Toma

Story

  • Laura Lehmus

Director of photography

  • Anne Bolick

Assistant camera

  • Thomas Handtke
  • Volker Roloff

Steadycam operator

  • Marco Müller

Colour grading

  • Dirk Meier

Visual effects

  • Tui Lohf
  • Yannik Heß
  • Jonas Ahlrichs
  • Robin Odasso
  • Tobias Preuss

Still photography

  • Oliver Feist

Lighting design

  • Timon Dangel

Production design

  • Mona Otterbach
  • Maria Nickol
  • Anika Klatt (Assistenz)

Property master

  • Marta Magdalena Jeszke

Stand-by props

  • Kristina Schmidt

Make-up artist

  • Anne-Marie Walther

Costume design

  • Sabrina Krämer
  • Helene Werner (Assistenz)

Editing

  • Andreas Menn

Assistant editor

  • David Vogel

Sound design

  • André Zimmermann

Sound

  • Claudio Demel

Audio mixing

  • Luigi Rensinghoff
  • Malte Zurbonsen

Stunt co-ordinator

  • Oliver Juhrs

Casting

  • Susanne Ritter

Music

  • Boris Goltz

Cast

  • Friederike Kempter
    Frida Pepponen
  • Florian Lukas
    Felix Kreuzer
  • Lena Urzendowsky
    Yolanda Mersmann
  • Mareile Blendl
    Anna Mersman
  • Diana Ebert
    Natalie Schmidt
  • Friederike Frerichs
    Margit
  • Berit Künnecke
    Daniela
  • Lasse Myhr
    Jack Johnson
  • Veronika Nowag-Jones
    Elsa
  • Jennifer Haas
    Nicki
  • David Vormweg
    Jannick
  • Katharina Behrens
    Dora Werkshage
  • Oliver Jamrath
    Jonny Werkshage
  • Elisabeth Clarke-Hasters
    Lore
  • Milo Eisenblätter
    Marvin
  • Chun Mei Tan
    Berta
  • Dominik Lindhorst-Apfelthaler
    Hotelangestellter Hugo Goltz
  • Hadi Khanjanpour
    Hebammer
  • Gina Haller
    Gynäkologin Anke Ries
  • Denise Owono
    Frau Akkus
  • Sebi Jaeger
    Co-Pilot
  • David Hasselhoff
    David Hasselhoff

Production company

  • Zeitgeist Filmproduktion GmbH & Co. KG (Berlin)

in co-production with

  • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) (Mainz) (Das kleine Fernsehspiel)
  • Field Recordings Filmproduktion (Köln)
  • Fantomfilm GmbH (Berlin)

in association with

  • Arte Deutschland TV GmbH (Baden-Baden)

Producer

  • Markus Kaatsch
  • Nina Poschinski
  • Michael Grudsky
  • Margarita Amineva

Co-Producer

  • Laura Lehmus
  • Christian Becker
  • Oliver Schwabe
  • Eva Habermann

Producer (TV)

  • Doris Hepp (ZDF/Arte)
  • Daniela Muck (Arte)
  • Christian Cloos (ZDF - Das kleine Fernsehspiel)

Unit production manager

  • Thorsten Peil

Location manager

  • Moritz Großerhode

Original distributor

  • MFA+ Filmdistribution e.K. (Regensburg)

Funding

  • Beauftragte/r der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien - Filmförderung (Berlin)
  • Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF) (Berlin)
  • Film- und Medien Stiftung NRW (Düsseldorf)
  • Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) (Berlin)

Shoot

    • 16.09.2020 - 21.10.2020: Berlin, Brandenburg, Sachsen, Los Angeles
Duration:
93 min
Format:
DCP 2k, 1:2,39 (CinemaScope)
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 09.12.2021, 210706, ohne Altersbeschränkung / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 03.11.2021, London, Raindance Film Festival;
Erstaufführung (DE): 21.01.2022, Saarbrücken, Max Ophüls Preis;
Kinostart (DE): 11.08.2022

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Sweet Disaster

Versions

Original

Duration:
93 min
Format:
DCP 2k, 1:2,39 (CinemaScope)
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 09.12.2021, 210706, ohne Altersbeschränkung / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (DE): 03.11.2021, London, Raindance Film Festival;
Erstaufführung (DE): 21.01.2022, Saarbrücken, Max Ophüls Preis;
Kinostart (DE): 11.08.2022

Source-URL: https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/sweet-disaster_f32a5e610d764e359b1c0cd8b6b631a1