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Kalter Frühling

Deutschland 2003/2004 TV-Spielfilm

Cold Spring

When a sexual dare goes very wrong, twenty-two-year-old Sylvia’s life changes in ways she never once imagined.

 

She suddenly finds herself estranged from her wealthy parents and friends, lost in a maze whose paths lead her to dissolution, poverty, illness and prostitution before she finally finds her way home, regaining her life. Melodramatic? Of course! “It’s the perfect narrative form for this story,” says writer Markus Busch. “You can do so much with it. Everything happens to one character: how she reacts, copes with the situations. At the same time, she isn’t isolated. She has parents, friends, lovers.”
Busch, who studied Fine Arts and then went on to film school in Cologne, “used to read loads of comics. I connected the pictures with words. I wrote because I was unemployed and writing takes up the least space!” And while he is the first to admit he is “not a young woman (!) ... it’s not a problem. I’ve written films where people have murdered and I have no experience in that, either. I simply imagine the characters as I know and see them. They have to be credible. What happens to them has to be possible.”
Directed by Dominik Graf, who also co-wrote (together with Busch) and directed the critically acclaimed 2002 Berlinale competition entry A Map of the Heart (Der Felsen, 2001), Kalter Fruehling is actually the fifth time the two have collaborated.
“I met him at film school,” says Busch, for whom Kalter Fruehling is his eighth film to go into production. “Two years later, I sent him some concepts and layouts. He chose the three he wanted to make and we went ahead!”
The teamwork obviously works well. But, says Busch, “it’s not that I write and he directs. We talk a lot about the material, how it should look. I know his films and, of course, he does it differently to how I would have done it, but I’ve never had a problem letting go of a script and certainly never with Dominik, because I’m curious to see what he will do with it.”
He is not the only one.

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH

Credits

Director

  • Dominik Graf

Screenplay

  • Markus Busch

Director of photography

  • Hanno Lentz

Editing

  • Christel Suckow

Music

  • Dieter Schleip

Cast

  • Jessica Schwarz
    Sylvia Berger
  • Angela Roy
    Sylvias Mutter
  • Friedrich von Thun
    Carl Berger
  • Mišel Matičević
    Rico Schmidt
  • Matthias Schweighöfer
    Ben Lüders
  • Tanja Gutmann
    Manuela Berger
  • Markus Boysen
    Hendrik
  • Marita Ragonese
    Hanna Siemers
  • Johanna Gastdorf
  • Hildegard Kuhlenberg

Production company

  • Colonia Media Filmproduktions GmbH (Köln)

Producer

  • Michael Hild

Alle Credits

Director

  • Dominik Graf

Assistant director

  • Hendrik Holler

Script supervisor

  • Heike Manzke

Screenplay

  • Markus Busch

Director of photography

  • Hanno Lentz

Lighting design

  • Klaus Peter Venn

Set design

  • Claus-Jürgen Pfeiffer
  • Alexander Gutschke (Assistenz)

Prop master

  • Marillo Ricken

Property master

  • Clarissa Gütthoff

Stand-by props

  • Ulrike Gojowczyk

Make-up artist

  • Dorle Neft
  • Frauke Horn

Costume design

  • Barbara Grupp

Costumes

  • Carolin Schneider
  • Stefanie Fürst

Editing

  • Christel Suckow

Sound editor

  • Kai Storck (Überwachung)

Sound

  • Wolfgang Schukrafft

Sound assistant

  • Hadon Install

Foley artist

  • Wilmont Schulze

Audio mixing

  • Stefan Korte

Casting

  • An Dorthe Braker

Music

  • Dieter Schleip

Cast

  • Jessica Schwarz
    Sylvia Berger
  • Angela Roy
    Sylvias Mutter
  • Friedrich von Thun
    Carl Berger
  • Mišel Matičević
    Rico Schmidt
  • Matthias Schweighöfer
    Ben Lüders
  • Tanja Gutmann
    Manuela Berger
  • Markus Boysen
    Hendrik
  • Marita Ragonese
    Hanna Siemers
  • Johanna Gastdorf
  • Hildegard Kuhlenberg
  • Michael Abendroth
  • Peter Lerchbaumer
  • Christine Rose
  • Annika Blendl
  • Martin Rentzsch
  • Andreas Schröders
  • Urs Villiger
  • Rolf Mautz
  • Georg Marin
  • Frank Dehner
  • Bruno Schmitz

Production company

  • Colonia Media Filmproduktions GmbH (Köln)

Commissioned by

  • Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) (Mainz)
  • Arte Deutschland TV GmbH (Baden-Baden) (in Zusammenarbeit)

Producer

  • Michael Hild

Producer (TV)

  • Caroline von Senden

Line producer

  • Frank Döhmann

Unit production manager

  • Rolf Schleitzer

Location manager

  • Konstantin von Carlowitz

Funding

  • Film- und Medien Stiftung NRW (Düsseldorf)

Shoot

    • From März 2003: Frechen und Umgebung [Frühjahr]
Duration:
89 min
Format:
16mm, 16:9
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DE FR): 12.03.2004, Arte

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Kalter Frühling

Versions

Original

Duration:
89 min
Format:
16mm, 16:9
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (DE FR): 12.03.2004, Arte

Awards

Fernsehfilm-Festival Baden-Baden 2004
  • Sonderpreis für hervorragende darstellerische Leistung
Deutscher Fernsehpreis 2004
  • Beste Regie
Deutscher Kamerapreis 2003
  • Bester Schnitt
Source-URL: https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/kalter-fruhling_ee07ac821ee8bc4ae03053d50b3715a6