SATTE FARBEN VOR SCHWARZ
A FILM BY SOPHIE HELDMANN
SATTE FARBEN VOR SCHWARZ
FICTION · 2010 GERMANY 87 MIN
SYNOPSIS The love story of an elderly couple. Having arrived at the end of their lives, the two 74-year-old protagonists take the liberty of making their own decisions concerning life and death. They stage their demise exactly as they staged their lives. After fifty years spent together, they don’t go because they have to, but because they want to.
CREDITS WORLD PREMIERE: September 2010
ORIGINAL VERSION: German
PRODUCTION: Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion AG, Unafilm GmbH, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, WDR - Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, ARTE
PRODUCER: Titus Kreyenberg, Karin Koch
DIRECTED BY: Sophie Heldman
WRITTEN BY: Sophie Heldman, Felix zu Knyphausen
MUSIC COMPOSED BY: Balz Bachmann
AWARDS
(a selection)
- Khanty-Mansiysk, Filmfestival Spirit of Fire, Prize of The Russian Film Critic's Guild 2011 (Winner)
FESTIVALS
(a selection)
- 19th Osaka European Film Festival
22.11.2012 - 26.11.2012 - 10th World Film Festival Bangkok
16.11.2012 - 25.11.2012 - Baden-Baden, Fernsehfilm-Festival Baden-Baden
14.11.2011 - 18.11.2011 - 17th Kolkata Film Festival
10.11.2011 - 17.11.2011 - Haifa, Haifa International Film Festival
13.10.2011 - 22.10.2011 - Locarno, 64° Festival del film Locarno
03.08.2011 - 13.08.2011 - Minneapolis/St. Paul, 29th Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival
14.04.2011 - 05.05.2011 - 25. Bozner Filmtage
13.04.2011 - 17.04.2011 - Pinamar, 7° Encuentro Cinematografico Argentino Europea Pantalla Pinamar
05.03.2011 - 12.03.2011 - Khanty-Mansiysk, 9th International Debut Film Festival "Spirit of Fire" Khanty-Mansi
19.02.2011 - 25.02.2011
- Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage
20.01.2011 - 27.01.2011 - Palm Springs, 22nd Palm Springs International Film Festival
06.01.2011 - 17.01.2011 - Braunschweig, 24. Internationales Filmfest Braunschweig
09.11.2010 - 14.11.2010 - Hof, 44. Internationale Hofer Filmtage
26.10.2010 - 31.10.2010 - San Sebastian, 58. Festival internacional de Cine San Sebastian
17.09.2010 - 25.09.2010