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Adam

Generation 14plus 2018
© Big Key Film / Joanna Piechotta
‘I’m just a normal guy who wants a normal life. At this moment that’s not an option.’

Windows thrown wide open, the music of Adam’s mother reverberates across the Berlin courtyard. The heavy bass makes him feel connected to her. Other than that, the worlds of the hearing-impaired young man and his techno producer mum seldom overlap. She’s ill, hospitalised with irreversible brain damage due to alcohol abuse, according to the doctors. Adam is left to fend for himself. He manages to forge connections in the outside world, falls in love and sets out in search of his father. With each step he is dogged by his mother’s wish to be put out of her misery should she become unable to care for herself. Adam copes with all this in his very own, laconic way and director Maria Solrun gives him a voice and plenty of space to grow.
by Maria Solrun
with Magnus Mariuson, Eszter Tompa, Floriane Daniel, Julia Kratz, Hans Brückner, Gabo Hoog, Matthias Renner Germany / Iceland / Mexico / USA 2018 German, English 72’ Colour

With

  • Magnus Mariuson (Adam)
  • Eszter Tompa (Vanessa)
  • Floriane Daniel (Mother)
  • Julia Kratz (Miss Kurz)
  • Hans Brückner (Manager)
  • Gabo Hoog (Father)
  • Matthias Renner (Friend)

Crew

Written and Directed by Maria Solrun
Cinematography Joanna Piechotta
Editing Magda Lammert, Valérie Anex
Music Haraldur Thrastarson, MAGNEA
Sound Design Gabriel Becak
Sound Can Oral
Assistant Director Gabo Hoog
Executive Producers Andrea Toca, Daniela Leyva Becerra Acosta
Producers Maria Solrun, Magnus Mariuson, Daniela Leyva Becerra Acosta, Andrea Toca, Jim Stark

World sales

Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía

Produced by

Big Key Film

DELBA

http://produccionesdelba.com http://produccionesdelba.com

Starksales

Photos

Maria Solrun

Born in Reykjavik, Iceland in 1965, she graduated from the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). She directed the film made from her graduation script and premiered the resulting feature Jargo at the 2004 Berlinale. She has worked as a screenwriter for several film production companies including Sony Pictures, Studio Hamburg and Boje Buck Productions. Since 2006 she has also been working as a film and television fiction consultant for the Icelandic Film Centre.

Filmography

1993 Oh Bodo; short film 1995 Two Little Girls and a War; short film 2004 Jargo; Generation 2018 Adam

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2018