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Wege in die Nacht

Deutschland 1998/1999 Spielfilm

Paths In The Night

55-year-old Walter is unemployed. Once vested with a certain power and function, he is now less and less able to see any meaning to his existence or to adapt to the present. His last support is the belief in a better world: he wants to stand up for "good", if necessary, by violent means. And so he roves at night with two youths in the conviction that he is needed by society to maintain law and order. But society doesn′t need him. As this knowledge matures within him, so he becomes an increasing danger to himself and his surroundings. His wife, the only person who loves him, will betray him in order to save herself. However, he is now past helping. Paths In The Night: A big-city film which tells in an equally powerful and poetic manner of a forlorn love and a psyche running amuck.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

 

Credits

Director

  • Andreas Kleinert

Screenplay

  • Johann Bergk

Director of photography

  • Jürgen Jürges

Editing

  • Gisela Zick

Music

  • Andreas Hoge
  • Steven Garling
  • Fabian Schmidt

Cast

  • Hilmar Thate
    Walter
  • Cornelia Schmaus
    Sylvia
  • Henriette Heinze
    Gina
  • Dirk Borchardt
    René
  • Ingeborg Westphal
    Kellnerin
  • Daniela Hoffmann
    Sylvias Kollegin
  • Alexander Höchst
    1. Autoknacker
  • Roman Leitner
    2. Autoknacker
  • Thomas Wendrich
    1. Schläger
  • Mišel Matičević
    2. Schläger

Production company

  • Ö-Filmproduktion Löprich & Schlösser GmbH (Berlin)

Producer

  • Frank Löprich
  • Katrin Schlösser

Alle Credits

Director

  • Andreas Kleinert

Assistant director

  • Claudia Beewen

Script supervisor

  • Sigrun Schnarrenberger

Screenplay

  • Johann Bergk

Director of photography

  • Jürgen Jürges

Assistant camera

  • Kai Rostásy

Clapper loader

  • Stefan Oliver

Steadycam operator

  • Sebastian Meuschel

Still photography

  • Robert Paris

Lighting design

  • Wolfgang Hirschke

Set design

  • Gabriele Wolff

Prop master

  • Dorothea Schiefeling

Construction manager

  • Peter Wilhelm

Title

  • Thomas Wilk

Make-up artist

  • Iris Kettner
  • Bernd Heinemann

Costume design

  • Ulrike Stelzig

Costumes

  • Heidi Gutting

Editing

  • Gisela Zick

Assistant editor

  • Ingeborg Marszalek

Negative cutter

  • Barbara Gummert

Sound

  • Siegfried Busza

Sound assistant

  • Martin Funke

Audio mixing

  • Holger Rogge

Stunts

  • Wolfgang Lindner

Music

  • Andreas Hoge
  • Steven Garling
  • Fabian Schmidt

Cast

  • Hilmar Thate
    Walter
  • Cornelia Schmaus
    Sylvia
  • Henriette Heinze
    Gina
  • Dirk Borchardt
    René
  • Ingeborg Westphal
    Kellnerin
  • Daniela Hoffmann
    Sylvias Kollegin
  • Alexander Höchst
    1. Autoknacker
  • Roman Leitner
    2. Autoknacker
  • Thomas Wendrich
    1. Schläger
  • Mišel Matičević
    2. Schläger
  • Holger Patzwald
    3. Schläger
  • Jörg Panknin
    Wachmann
  • Sina Fiedler
  • Christoph Engel
  • Eckhard Bilz
  • Romeo Riemer
  • Marian Wolf
  • Sigrid Richter
  • Caroline Scholz
  • Adina Vetter
  • Roland Schäfer

Production company

  • Ö-Filmproduktion Löprich & Schlösser GmbH (Berlin)

in co-production with

  • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) (Mainz)

in association with

  • Studio Babelsberg Independents (Potsdam-Babelsberg)

Producer

  • Frank Löprich
  • Katrin Schlösser

Co-Producer

  • Arthur Hofer

Producer (TV)

  • Hans Kutnewsky

Unit production manager

  • Frank Schmuck
  • Michaela Klein

Location manager

  • Fred Kuhaupt
  • Markus Habicht

Original distributor

  • Basis-Film Verleih GmbH (Berlin)

Original video distributor

  • absolut MEDIEN GmbH (Berlin)

Funding

  • Filmboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH (Potsdam)
  • Kulturelle Filmförderung Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Schwerin)
  • Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung GmbH (MDM) (Leipzig)

Shoot

    • 08.09.1998 - 17.10.1998: Berlin
Duration:
2635 m, 96 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
s/w, Dolby SR
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 21.09.2000, 84754, ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (FR): 13.05.1999, Cannes, IFF - Quinzaine des réalisateurs;
Aufführung (DE): 01.07.1999, München, Filmfest;
Kinostart (DE): 25.11.1999;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 13.11.2000, ZDF

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Wege in die Nacht

Versions

Original

Duration:
2635 m, 96 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
s/w, Dolby SR
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 21.09.2000, 84754, ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (FR): 13.05.1999, Cannes, IFF - Quinzaine des réalisateurs;
Aufführung (DE): 01.07.1999, München, Filmfest;
Kinostart (DE): 25.11.1999;
TV-Erstsendung (DE): 13.11.2000, ZDF

Awards

Deutscher Filmpreis 2000
  • Lola, Beste Kamera
  • Lola, Beste Nebendarstellerin
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