Section: POLSKIE HORYZONTY: The Female Gaze

MARIA AM WASSER

Maria-on-Water

Thomas Wendrich
Germany, 2006, 99 Min
Egoli Tossell Film AG

A Soviet tank is crossing the Elbe river with four infants from a children’s home as passengers. An accident occurs halfway across and there are no survivors. 22 years later, the organ-builder Marcus returns to his home village of Neusorge, where he has a restoration commission in the village church (“Mary by the Water”). But he also wants to make peace with his mother: as a child, he used the tank accident to get away from his loveless family. Back in the village, nobody recognizes him apart from the old clergyman. Even his mother, who’s still matron of the children’s home, can’t believe that her son has returned. His attempts to disclose his identity meet with snubs, incomprehension, and disinterest. Looking for familiar faces, Marcus gets to know Alena, the only outsider in the village. He falls in love with the young waitress and soon senses she has a secret. Shrugging off the inconsistencies all around him, the young man sets about reconstructing the old and now pipeless organ in the village church. Piece by piece, Marco works through the organ and his own life, too. And in the process makes a ghastly discovery that places his childhood flight in a very different light.

Filmformat
35mm | Farbe / colour
Drehbuch
Thomas Wendrich
Kamera
István Imreh
Ton
Jörg Theil
Schnitt
Philipp Stahl
Ausstattung
Marcus Göppner
Musik
Kai-Uwe Kohlschmidt
Darsteller
Alexander Beyer, Annika Blendl, Marie Gruber, Falk Rockstroh,
Hermann Beyer, Wladimir Tarasjanz, Louis El-Ghussein, Ede Hofmann
Klaus Manchen
Produzent
Judy Tossell, Jens Meurer
Produktion
Egoli Tossel Film GmbH
Co-Produktion
Zweite Medienfonds German Filmproductions GEP GmbH & CO Beteiligungs KG
Kontakt
Egoli Tossell Film AG
Torstr. 164
10115 Berlin
Germany
Tel: +49.30.24 65 650
Fax: +49. 30.24 65 65 24
contact@egolitossell.com
www.egolitossell.com
Thomas Wendrich

Thomas Wendrich - born 1971 in Dresden. Before breaking off his acting course begun in 1990 at the Film & Television Academy (HFF) Potsdam-Babelsberg, he had already played his first film parts, and later acted on the stage of the Berliner Ensemble. He enrolled at the Screenplay Academy of the German Film & Television Academy (dffb) in 1999, and works as an actor and screenwriter.

Movies
ZUR ZEIT VERSTORBEN (2004, short, Promotion Prize of the DEFA-Foundation, Cottbus 2005)

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