Bungalow

Panorama 40

Midsummer. On the way back to barracks following a manoeuvre, 19-year-old Paul stays behind unobserved at a motorway service station. When his company leaves, Paul sets off for his parents’ bungalow; his mother and father are away on holiday. He is surprised when his older brother Max and Max’s girlfriend, Lene, turn up. The trio’s carefree sojourn comes to an end when the army catches up with Paul. The brothers’ knee-jerk reaction is to revert to their old familiar roles. A sense of responsibility, the urge to rebel, and Lene, who oscillates between the two young men according to her mood, all serve to make them prisoners of this place which takes them back to their childhood, and to fill them with anger and desire.
Ulrich Köhler’s first film already explores the themes he has extensively revisited in subsequent works: disorientated people alienated from their own families, on the search for stability; and rebels prepared to risk everything to avoid getting stuck in the rut of conventional social expectations and connect instead with their true selves. An intensely laconic tale of existential turmoil.

by Ulrich Köhler
with Lennie Burmeister, Devid Striesow, Trine Dyrholm, Nicole Gläser, Jörg Malchow Germany 2002 German, Subtitles: English 85’ Colour, 35 mm

With

Lennie Burmeister (Paul)
Devid Striesow (Max)
Trine Dyrholm (Lene)
Nicole Gläser (Kerstin)
Jörg Malchow (Stefan)
Maria Hagewald (Dunja)
Frank Breitenreiter (Frank)
Steffen Münster (Teacher)
Michael Abendroth (Cigarette Man)
Frederic Neurath (Arne)
Helke Sander (Couple at the Railway Station)
Lou Castel (Couple at the Railway Station)
Walter Zimmermann (Innkeeper)
Dirk Jansen (Truck Driver)

Crew

Director	Ulrich Köhler
Screenplay	Ulrich Köhler, Henrike Goetz
Cinematography	Patrick Orth
Camera Assistant	Ute Freund, Carol Burandt von Kameke
Editing	Gergana Vogt
Sound	Johannes Grehl
Sound Editor	Thomas Knop
Sound Mixing	Pierre Brand
Art Director	Silke Fischer
Costumes	Birgit Kilian
Make-up	Antje Holzapfel
Assistant Director	Lars Henning
Production Manager	Sabina Doerr
Location Manager	Nicolas Reichelt
Producers	Peter Stockhaus, Tobias Büchner
Commissioning Editor	Christian Cloos
Co-production	ZDF, Mainz

Produced by

Peter Stockhaus Filmproduktion

Hamburg, Germany

www.peterstockhausfilm.de www.peterstockhausfilm.de

World sales

Peter Stockhaus Filmproduktion

Hamburg, Germany

www.peterstockhausfilm.de www.peterstockhausfilm.de

Ulrich Köhler

Born in Marburg, Germany in 1969, between 1989 and 1991 he studied art in Quimper in France, followed by philosophy in Hamburg and then visual communication at the University of Fine Arts Hamburg, where he received his degree in 1998. He also made his short films there. His feature films Bungalow (2002) and Montag kommen die Fenster (Windows on Monday, 2006) screened at numerous festivals and won prizes both in Germany and abroad. Schlafkrankheit (Sleeping Sickness) premiered in the 2011 Competition where it won the Silver Bear for Best Director. His film In My Room screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival.

Filmography

2002 Bungalow; Panorama 2006 Montag kommen die Fenster; Forum 2011 Schlafkrankheit; Competition 2018 In My Room

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2019

Dates

Feb 10 17:00

International

Ticket code 100334

Date lies in the past

Feb 11 19:15

Kino Arsenal 2

Ticket code 110622