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director Franziska St?nkel
screenplay Franziska St?nkel
country Germany
year 2005
duration 92 minutes
media 35mm
color Color
language OmeU
producer Frank Kaminski, Ulrich Stiehm
production "Kaminski.Stiehm.Film GmbH Gormannstr. 14 10119 Berlin tel.:+49 30-30878460 fax: +49 30-30878466 info@kaminskistiehmfilm.de Jumping Horse Film GbR Spannhagenstr. 28 30655 Hannover Fon: +49 511 3908 0274"
cast
"Peter Lohmeyer
Ulrich Matthes
Justus von Dohn?nyi
Matthias Brandt
Susanne Wolff
u.a."
cinematography Carsten Thiele
sound Kai L?de
editor Budelmann, Sarah Clara Weber
music Ingo Ludwig Frenzel
Sebastian F?rber is a successful architect with a foible for poetry but he is constantly under pressure. His daughter Himalaya only knows him crouched in the dark behind his laptop and drawing board maniacally cracking nuts while he draws up utopian buildings which no one is going to pay for anymore. Despite suffering from the teensiest bit of a heart attack F?rber relentlessly starts a new project: a top-secret high-security futuristic townscape on the island of Vineta, which cannot be found on any map. In a remote villa F?rber and a team of experts are to finish the project under the leadership of mysterious Dr. Leonhard. In the middle of his hectic schedule F?rber realises that his office is monitored by strange videocameras and he starts to question his loyalties and his daughter as well. Franziska St?nkel?s debut is a moving and frightening chamber piece carried by a splendid cast and a truly claustrophobic atmosphere.
biography
Franziska St?nkel finished her studies as a scriptwriter and director under Prof. Uwe Schrader at the University of Applied Sciences Hannover. She was given various scholarships, among other things a two-year vgf production scholarship for young filmmakers in the Bavarian film metropolis Munich, a promotional film scholarship of Niedersachsen and a one-year script scholarshop under Wojciech Marczewski. She futhermore was chosen to participate in the international programme for futher education ?Talents 2003? lectured by Mogens Rukov and in the ?Berlinale Talent Campus 2003?. Franziska St?nkel's short films are shown at international fim festivals in 19 countries and have repeatedly received awards such as the ?Premio Nuovo Talent Award? in New York. Within the framework of the ?Next Generation 2001? her short ?W?nsch Dir Was? is presented at the international film festival in Cannes. VINETA is the director and scriptwriter's first full-lenght film for the cinema.
filmography
"2005/ 2006 ?Vineta?, Kinospielfilm, Regie und Drehbuch
2004 ?It?s a small world and things like this?, Kurzspielfilm, Regie und Drehbuch
2001 ?W?nsch dir was?, Kurzspielfilm, Regie und Drehbuch
1999 ?Bonbon?, Kurzspielfilm, Regie und Drehbuch"
