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Almost Heaven

Deutschland 2004/2005 Spielfilm

According to her doctors, country singer Helen only has a short time left to live. But before her seemingly inevitable demise, she wants to fulfil a life′s dream: To give a concert at the legendary Bluebird Café in Nashville.
When she is actually invited to perform in Nashville, Helen accidentally boards the wrong plane, and instead of travelling to the US, she winds up in Kingston, Jamaica. There, she makes the acquaintance of con artist Rosie, who agrees to take Helen to the airport in Montego Bay, where the flights to North America depart. But their trip takes some unexpected turns– therefore prolonging Helen′s stay in Jamaica.

 

Credits

Director

  • Ed Herzog

Screenplay

  • Paul Herzberg
  • Ed Herzog

Director of photography

  • Sebastian Edschmid

Editing

  • Uta Schmidt

Music

  • Charlie Gillett

Cast

  • Heike Makatsch
    Helen Schuster
  • Wotan Wilke Möhring
    Carlo Schuster
  • Nikki Amuka-Bird
    Rosie
  • Michael Gwisdek
    Deutscher Botschafter
  • Carl Bradshaw
    Leach
  • Winston Bell
    Autovermieter
  • Dorothy Cunningham
    Herlette
  • Carl Davis
    Pablo
  • Terence Harold
    Farenheit
  • Nicholas Hemming
    Spoonhead

Production company

  • Egoli Tossell Film AG (Berlin)

Producer

  • Judy Tossell

Alle Credits

Director

  • Ed Herzog

Assistant director

  • Anne Drees
  • Rebecca Packer

Script supervisor

  • Claudia Brede

Screenplay

  • Paul Herzberg
  • Ed Herzog

Director of photography

  • Sebastian Edschmid

Assistant camera

  • Andrea Theis

Clapper loader

  • Daniel Weber

Still photography

  • Tom Trambow

Lighting design

  • Marc Lubosch
  • Earl Brown
  • Marco Martena

Key grip

  • Thorsten Querner

Production design

  • Stefan Schönberg

Set design

  • Sabine Richter
  • Eric Fischell (Art Director)

Make-up artist

  • Cecile S. Burrowes
  • Man LeHue
  • Susanne Woerle-Jiritano

Costume design

  • Beate Scheel
  • Julia Koep (Assistenz)

Editing

  • Uta Schmidt

Assistant editor

  • Antje Ulrich

Foley editor

  • Hans Schumann

Sound design

  • Kai Schoormann

Sound

  • Bernd Hackmann

Sound assistant

  • Frank Regente
  • Sylvain Remy

Casting

  • Iris Baumüller-Michel
  • Leo Davis
  • Anja Dihrberg-Siebler
  • Cecile S. Burrowes (Jamaika)

Music

  • Charlie Gillett

Cast

  • Heike Makatsch
    Helen Schuster
  • Wotan Wilke Möhring
    Carlo Schuster
  • Nikki Amuka-Bird
    Rosie
  • Michael Gwisdek
    Deutscher Botschafter
  • Carl Bradshaw
    Leach
  • Winston Bell
    Autovermieter
  • Dorothy Cunningham
    Herlette
  • Carl Davis
    Pablo
  • Terence Harold
    Farenheit
  • Nicholas Hemming
    Spoonhead
  • Charles Hyatt
    Arzt
  • Michael London
    Schwarzer Priester
  • Audrey Reid
    Audrey
  • Oliver Samuels
    Hotelmanager
  • Ivan Shvedoff
    Strike
  • Bernhard Marsch
    Sicherheitsfreak

Voice

  • Regina Lemnitz
    Herlette

Production company

  • Egoli Tossell Film AG (Berlin)

in co-production with

  • German Film Productions (GFP) GmbH & Co. (Berlin)
  • Babelsberg Film GmbH (Potsdam-Babelsberg)
  • Studio Babelsberg GmbH (Potsdam-Babelsberg)
  • Bavaria Filmproduktion GmbH (München-Geiselgasteig)
  • Deutsche Columbia Pictures Filmproduktion GmbH (Berlin)

Producer

  • Judy Tossell

Co-Producer

  • Udo Happel

Line producer

  • Marc Wächter
  • Natalie Thompson

Associate producer

  • Katalin Gödrös

Unit production manager

  • Markus Brinkmann

Location manager

  • Julian Freixa
  • Peter Packer
  • Douglas Reid (Assistenz)

Post-production

  • Hans Schumann

Original distributor

  • Timebandits Films GmbH (Potsdam)

Funding

  • Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg GmbH (MBB) (Potsdam)
  • Film- und Medien Stiftung NRW (Düsseldorf)
  • Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA) (Berlin)
Duration:
2786 m, 102 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 12.05.2005, 102432, ab 6 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Kinostart (DE): 25.08.2005

Titles

Additional titles
  • Originaltitel (DE) Almost Heaven
  • Arbeitstitel Lively Up Yourself

Versions

Original

Duration:
2786 m, 102 min
Format:
35mm, 1:1,85
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Ton
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 12.05.2005, 102432, ab 6 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Kinostart (DE): 25.08.2005

Source-URL: https://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/almost-heaven_fcc7a2d0f0e41f9fe03053d50b373f54