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Angst (alte Affe Angst, Der)

A modern love story - as unusual as life itself.

Angst is the story of a sensitive film director, Robert, and his beautiful girlfriend Marie, a doctor in a children's clinic. Their different attitudes toward life lead the two to constant fights and conflicts.

When Robert finds out that his father is terminally ill, he feels guilty for not having taken more care of him. Marie tries to help, but when his father dies, Robert falls into a downward spiral of despair. He looks for solace in his work and in one-night stands with prostitutes. When Marie finds out that Robert has betrayed her, she leaves him. However, her love for Robert and her realization that to love someone also means one must be able to forgive, offer hope for a new beginning between the two.

Oskar Roehler was born in 1959 in Starnberg, the son of husband and wife authors, Gisela Elsner and Klaus Roehler. He started his career as a screenwriter of various cinema films and directed his first feature Gentleman in 1995. His film No Place to Go (Die Unberuehrbare, 2000), a very personal and sensitively told portrait of his mother, was Roehler's breakthrough. The film was awarded the German Film Award in Gold, among other awards, and Hannelore Elsner received the German Film Award for Best Actress for her role in the film. His other award-winning films include: Angst (Der alte Affe Angst) which was in the competition at the Berlinale in 2003, Agnes and His Brothers (Agnes und seine Brueder) which screened in Venice, his film adaptation of Michel Houellebecqs' novel of the same name Elementary Particles (Elementarteilchen) which screened in competition at the Berlinale in 2006, and Lulu & Jimi (2008).
 

Genre Drama
Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 2003
Director Oskar Roehler
Screenplay Oskar Roehler
Director of Photography Hagen Bogdanski
Editor Uli Schoen
Music by Martin Todsharow
Production Design Birgit Kniep-Gentis
Producers Bernd Burgemeister, Dietmar Guentsche, Eberhard Junkersdorf
Production Company Neue Bioskop Film/Munich, in co-production with TV60 Film/Munich, in cooperation with BR/Munich
Principal Cast Marie Baeumer, Ralf Bauer, Catherine Flemming, Vadim Glowna, André Hennicke, Herbert Knaup
Casting Simone Baer
Length 95 min, 2,599 m
Format 35 mm, color, cs
Original Version German
Subtitled Versions English
Sound Technology Dolby SR
Festival Screenings Berlin 2003 (in competition), Montreal 2003 (Cinema of Europe), Rio 2003, Warsaw 2003, Sao Paulo 2003
Awards Bavarian Film Award 2003 for Best Actress
With backing from German Federal Film Board (FFA), FilmFernsehFonds Bayern

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