Kontener
Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2017
DEU 2017
by: Sebastian Lang
Anka Graczyk
Kontener
Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2017
DEU 2017
by: Sebastian Lang
Kontener
Perspektive Deutsches Kino 2017
DEU 2017
by: Sebastian Lang
Feb 15, 2017Sebastian Lang
The director at "Made in Germany – Reden über Film" in the Audi Berlinale Lounge.
Perspektive Deutsches Kino – Kontener
Feb 16, 2017Joanna Drozda, Anka Graczyk
The main actresses of the film.
Perspektive Deutsches Kino – Kontener
Feb 16, 2017Sebastian Lang, Katrin Kreppel
The director and the production manager.
Perspektive Deutsches Kino – Kontener
Feb 16, 2017Film team
Perspektive Deutsches Kino – Kontener
Two women work shifts at a dairy in Brandenburg. At work and in the village Tava and Maryna are known merely as ‘the two Polish women’. They ignore each other. One day when the manager is away, one of the women, Tava, can't be found. At night in her living container Maryna has a disturbing encounter. She wakes up and realises that Tava is lying in bed next to her, clasping her in a strange way. During the next shift Maryna doesn't say a word about her countrywoman’s reappearance. A little later, Tava disappears completely after a drinking session somewhere nearby. There’s something distinctly eerie about this film. The story is narrated by Maryna's voice-over which shares with us what she knows – or rather, what she manages to piece together. Because isn’t every story merely the attempt to make sense of a series of disparate fragments of reality? And don’t we all just pretend to know what we’re talking about when we talk about others? This is precisely the blank space around which director Sebastian Lang draws his narrative circle with the certainty of a sleepwalker.
by
Sebastian Lang
Germany 2017
Polish
30’ · Colour
Joanna Drozda (Maryna)Anka Graczyk (Tava)
Born in Schweinfurt, Germany in 1985, he studied theatre direction at the Academy of Performing Arts Baden-Wuerttemberg under Luk Perceval. He then founded the Shane Drinion collective and staged his productions at theatres including the Staatstheater Karlsruhe and in Berlin the Maxim-Gorki-Theater, Theaterdiscounter and Sophiensæle. He lectures at the Academy of Performing Arts Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg and at Zurich University of the Arts. Since 2014 he has been studying film directing at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. Kontener is his first medium-length feature film.
Filmography2017 Kontener; medium-length film
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2017
Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolfwww.filmuniversitaet.de
Filmuniversität Babelsberg Konrad Wolfwww.filmuniversitaet.de