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Wintersleepers (Winterschlaefer)
Four city-dwellers. A strange in-between state. Two couples between exhaustion and a desire to leave. Everything can happen in the shimmering expanses of snow. Love, sex and death. The land-scape's eeriness reflects the unpredicta-bility of the emotions. There is an accident. Little coincidences and fate at large are at work. Nothing will ever be the same again. A passionate film about landscapes and emotions.
Tom Tykwer was born in Wuppertal in 1965. His first feature Deadly Maria (Die toedliche Maria, 1993) was named Best Film by the German Film Critics' Association in 1994, and won the Eastman Promotional Award at Hof and the Bavarian Film Award for Best Newcomer Director. He was also co-author on Wolfgang Becker's 1997 Berlinale competition entry Life is All You Get (Das Leben ist eine Baustelle). In 1998, Tykwer was awarded a German Film Award in Silver in the category Best Feature Film for Wintersleepers (Winterschlaefer, 1997). His film Run Lola Run (Lola rennt, 1998) won two German Film Awards in Gold in 1999 for Best Director and Best Feature Film, and was submitted as the German entry for the 1999 OSCAR for Best Foreign Language Film. His other films include: Because (short, 1990), Epilog (short, 1991), The Princess and the Warrior (Der Krieger und die Kaiserin, 2000), Heaven (2001), True (short, 2003), and The International (2009).
Genre Drama
Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 1997
Director Tom Tykwer
Screenplay Françoise Pyszora, Tom Tykwer
Director of Photography Frank Griebe
Editor Katja Dringenberg
Music by Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, Tom Tykwer
Producer Stefan Arndt
Production Company X Filme Creative Pool/Berlin, in co-production with ARTE/Strasbourg, MDR/Leipzig, Palladio Film/Cologne, WDR/Cologne
Principal Cast Floriane Daniel, Heino Ferch, Ulrich Matthes, Marie-Lou Sellem
Length 134 min, 3,747 m
Format 35 mm, color
Original Version German
Subtitled Versions French
Sound Technology Dolby SR
Festival Screenings Gijón 1997, Locarno 1997, Thessaloniki 1997
Awards 2 German Film Awards 1998, VGF Award 1998, Best Art Direction & Best Director Gijón 1997, Guild Film Award in Silver 1998 from the Guild of German Arthouse Cinemas, Audience Award & FIPRESCI Award Thessaloniki 1997
With backing from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, BMI
German Distributor Prokino Plus Filmvertriebs/Munich
World Sales
Bavaria Film International / Dept. of Bavaria Media GmbH
Thorsten Ritter
Bavariafilmplatz 7
82031 Geiselgasteig/Germany
phone +49-89-64 99 26 86
fax +49-89-64 99 37 20
email: international@bavaria-film.de
http://www.bavaria-film-international.com
Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 1997
Director Tom Tykwer
Screenplay Françoise Pyszora, Tom Tykwer
Director of Photography Frank Griebe
Editor Katja Dringenberg
Music by Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek, Tom Tykwer
Producer Stefan Arndt
Production Company X Filme Creative Pool/Berlin, in co-production with ARTE/Strasbourg, MDR/Leipzig, Palladio Film/Cologne, WDR/Cologne
Principal Cast Floriane Daniel, Heino Ferch, Ulrich Matthes, Marie-Lou Sellem
Length 134 min, 3,747 m
Format 35 mm, color
Original Version German
Subtitled Versions French
Sound Technology Dolby SR
Festival Screenings Gijón 1997, Locarno 1997, Thessaloniki 1997
Awards 2 German Film Awards 1998, VGF Award 1998, Best Art Direction & Best Director Gijón 1997, Guild Film Award in Silver 1998 from the Guild of German Arthouse Cinemas, Audience Award & FIPRESCI Award Thessaloniki 1997
With backing from FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, BMI
German Distributor Prokino Plus Filmvertriebs/Munich
World Sales
Bavaria Film International / Dept. of Bavaria Media GmbH
Thorsten Ritter
Bavariafilmplatz 7
82031 Geiselgasteig/Germany
phone +49-89-64 99 26 86
fax +49-89-64 99 37 20
email: international@bavaria-film.de
http://www.bavaria-film-international.com