FAST FORWARD 2024 / Projections:
14/12/2024 / 19h30 / Montenegrin Cinematheque / Podgorica
Andreas Dresen / Germany / 2024 / 105’
Director: Andreas Dresen
Screeplay: Laila Stieler
Producers: Christoph Friedel, Claudia Steffen
Co-producers: Andreas Dresen, Barbara Häbe, Andreas Leusink, Manuel Tanner, Cooky Ziesche
Editor: Jörg Hauschild
Cast: Liv Lisa Fries, Johannes Hegemann, Lisa Wagner, Alexander Scheer, Emma Bading
SYNOPSIS
In Berlin 1942, Hilde finds her place within an anti-Nazi resistance group as gradually as she falls in love with one of its members, Hans Coppi. With their lives being in constant danger, the two spend an unforgettable summer until they get caught by the Gestapo and Hilde Coppi is imprisoned, eight months pregnant.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andreas Dresen was born in 1968 in Gera. He grew up in Schwerin and started shooting his own amateur movies since the late ’70s. After receiving his university-entrance diploma, he worked as a sound engineer at the theater in Schwerin and completed a traineeship at the DEFA Studio for Feature Films where he also worked as an assistant director to his later mentor Günther Reisch. From 1986 until 1991 Dresen studied directing at the “Konrad Wolf” Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Since 1992, he has been working as a freelance author and director.
FESTIVALS AND AWARDS
- Berlin International Film Festival 2024
- São Paulo International Film Festival 2024
- Istanbul Film Festival 2024
- Ghent Film Festival 2024