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Fabian

BR Deutschland 1979/1980 Spielfilm

Fabian works in a small advertising agency and specializes in promoting cigarettes. Money and career are of little concern to him. He spends his nights with his best friend in the cafés, clubs and bars of Berlin. He is lucky with women although he seldom has a penny in his pocket.

 

Fabian falls in love with a girl who knows exactly what she wants. He loses his job. She makes a career in film and leaves him. His friend commits suicide. After a while Fabian leaves Berlin. In his home town he tries to save a boy who has fallen from a bridge while playing. He throws himself into the water and is drowned.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

Credits

Director

  • Wolf Gremm

Screenplay

  • Wolf Gremm
  • Hans Borgelt

Director of photography

  • Jürgen Wagner

Editing

  • Siegrun Jäger

Music

  • Charles Kalman

Cast

  • Hans Peter Hallwachs
    Fabian
  • Hermann Lause
    Labude
  • Sylvia Janisch
    Cornelia
  • Mijanou van Baarzel
    Frau Moll
  • Brigitte Mira
    Frau Hohlfeld
  • Ivan Desny
    Justizrat Labude
  • Charles Regnier
    Erfinder
  • Ruth Niehaus
    Ruth Reiter
  • Carola Regnier
    Frau Kulp
  • Roswitha Lippert
    Frau Selow

Production company

  • Ziegler Film GmbH & Co. KG (Berlin + Köln)

Producer

  • Regina Ziegler

Alle Credits

Director

  • Wolf Gremm

Assistant director

  • Michael Juncker
  • Irmi Kelpinski

Screenplay

  • Wolf Gremm
  • Hans Borgelt

based on

  • Erich Kästner (Roman)

Script editor

  • Annette Regnier

Director of photography

  • Jürgen Wagner

Assistant camera

  • Hermann Fahr

Still photography

  • Leo Weisse

Lighting design

  • Günther Kraft
  • Bodo Peper
  • Werner Söffky
  • Ferdinand Znajewski

Production design

  • Jan Schlubach

Set design

  • Rainer Schaper

Prop master

  • Holger Scholz
  • Lilo Wratzlawek

Construction manager

  • Will Kley
  • Robin Harlow

Make-up artist

  • Barbara Naujok
  • Andrea Marx

Costume design

  • Siegbert Kammerer
  • Renate Zimmermann (Assistenz)

Editing

  • Siegrun Jäger

Assistant editor

  • Evelyn Schmidt

Sound

  • Gunther Kortwich

Sound assistant

  • Wolf-Dietrich Peters

Audio mixing

  • Hans-Dieter Schwarz

Music

  • Charles Kalman

Cast

  • Hans Peter Hallwachs
    Fabian
  • Hermann Lause
    Labude
  • Sylvia Janisch
    Cornelia
  • Mijanou van Baarzel
    Frau Moll
  • Brigitte Mira
    Frau Hohlfeld
  • Ivan Desny
    Justizrat Labude
  • Charles Regnier
    Erfinder
  • Ruth Niehaus
    Ruth Reiter
  • Carola Regnier
    Frau Kulp
  • Roswitha Lippert
    Frau Selow
  • Helma Seitz
    Fabians Mutter
  • Edgar Wenzel
    Dr. Moll
  • Herbert Leiser
    Herr Wenzkat
  • Cristel Braak
    Vera
  • Gunter Berger
    Herr Münzer
  • Günter Lamprecht
    Herr Müller
  • Rainer Hunold
    Herr Weckerlein
  • Hans Wyprächtiger
    Geheimrat
  • Eberhard von Nordhausen
    Fischer
  • Erich Will
    Herr Breitkopf
  • Yanaika Lempers
    Bordellmutter
  • Franz Boehm
    Wilhelmy
  • Werner Lustig
    Kommunist
  • Hans-Jürgen Schatz
    Nazi
  • Andreas Mannkopff
    Gastwirt
  • Dieter Kursawe
    Kellner
  • Helen Hedy
    Frau Sommer
  • Manfred Günther
    Kriminalkommissar Donath
  • Bernd Riedel
    Junger Plakatkleber
  • Ana Fallscheer
    Trikotengel
  • Julie Felix
    Sängerin

Production company

  • Ziegler Film GmbH & Co. KG (Berlin + Köln)

Producer

  • Regina Ziegler

Line producer

  • Michael Boehme

Unit production manager

  • Horst Burkhard

Location manager

  • Günther Stocklöv
  • Michael Kersten

Original distributor

  • United Artists Corporation GmbH (Frankfurt am Main)

Funding

  • Berliner Filmförderung (Berlin)
  • Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) (Berlin)

Shoot

    • 05.06.1979 - 21.08.1979: Berlin/West, Obernkirchen, Stadthagen
Duration:
3128 m, 114 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,66
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 18.12.1979, 51197, ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei;
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 31.03.1980, 51197 [2. FSK-Prüfung]

Screening:

TV-Erstsendung (DE): 09.02.1988, ZDF

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Fabian

Versions

Original

Duration:
3128 m, 114 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,66
Video/Audio:
Eastmancolor, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 18.12.1979, 51197, ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei;
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 31.03.1980, 51197 [2. FSK-Prüfung]

Screening:

TV-Erstsendung (DE): 09.02.1988, ZDF

Awards

Deutscher Filmpreis 1980
  • Filmband in Gold, Beste Ausstattung
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