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Pentamagica

Christiane and Sandra write a book about the “world of magic”. At an esoteric summer workshop, they meet three other women and decide to work together on the project, with each woman delving into a special area: shamanism, witchcraft, ritual magic, sexual magic, and geomancy. They all try to influence their live through magical rituals. “I want to know what keeps the world together,” Christiane the shaman says. Taking psychoactive plants she tries to find the answer in other dimensions or in conversations with her best friend, the mini-pig Hildeswin. Sandra, the witch, is searching for the man of her life, but her Tarot cards always say “no” to the men she meets. A crazy comedy about five young women searching for the meaning of their life. A satire which spares no aspect of the “magical sciences”. But the world of magic has its own set of laws...

Roland Reber has been working as a director and actor in theaters around the world since the 1970s. In 1981 he founded the Theatre Institute where he worked from 1981 - 1989 in Hamburg, Hattingen and Luenen. In 1989, he founded the Welt Theater Projekt (within the framework of the World Decade for Cultural Development of the United Nations and UNESCO) and worked as a director, writer and head of WTP in India, Moscow, Cairo, Mexico City and in the Caribbean. He also has been a cultural advisor to different countries and institutes and taught Acting and Directing in Moscow and the Caribbean. He received the Cultural Prize of Switzerland (1976) and the Caribbean award Season of Excellence(1991 & 1993) as a director and writer. For his direction of the feature The Room (Das Zimmer, 2001) he received the Emerging Filmmaker Award 2001 in Hollywood and the President’s Award 2000 in Ajijic/Mexico, among others. His other films include: Ihr habt meine Seele gebogen wie einen schoenen Taenzer (1979), Manuel (short, 1998), Der Fernsehauftritt (short, 1998), Der Koffer (short, 1999), Zwang (short, 2000), Sind Maedchen Werwoelfe? (short, 2002), Pentamagica (2003), The Dark Side of Our Inner Space (2003), 24/7 The Passion of Life (2005), My Dream or Loneliness Never Walks Alone (Mein Traum oder Die Einsamkeit ist nie allein, 2007), and Angels with Dirty Wings (Engel mit schmutzigen Fluegeln, 2009).
 

Genre Comedy
Category Feature Film Cinema
Year of Production 2002
Director Roland Reber
Screenplay Roland Reber
Directors of Photography Mira Gittner, Roland Reber
Editor Mira Gittner
Music by Wolfgang Edelmayer
Production Design Mira Gittner
Producers Marina Anna Eich, Mira Gittner, Ute Meisenheimer
Production Company wtp international/Geiselgasteig
Principal Cast Marina Anna Eich, Mira Gittner, Patricia Koch, Ute Meisenheimer, Claire Plaut
Casting wtp international/Geiselgasteig
Special Effects Mira Gittner
Length 103 min, 2,599 m
Format 1:1.33
Blow-up 35 mm, Color
Original Version German
Subtitled Versions English
Sound Technology Dolby SR
Festival Screenings Cairo 2003, Kolkata 2003, Panorama of Film Thessaloniki 2003, Comedy Filmfestival Instanbul 2003, Dhaka 2004, Goa 2009 (Retrospective)
Awards Best Editing Thessaloniki 2003

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