KARGER
KARGER
First the divorce then Karger, a steel maker and man of few words, loses his job. What should he do in the emptiness that now surrounds him? He misses his wife and child, no longer has an object for the love he has to give. What should he do with his time, which was once so tightly structured? Begin a new relationship, which fails. Attend the obligatory job centre courses, without any future prospects. Built like a tree, the protagonist soon starts to resemble a leaf in the wind. His, and our, drama becomes inescapably perceptible via the documentary-like gestures and expressions of the outstanding amateur film cast.
35mm | Farbe / colour
Elke Hauck
Partick Orth
Frank Bubenzer
Beatrice Schulz
Freygang
Jens Klemig, Marion Kuhnt, Nele Boberach, Anja Dietrich, Leopold Hering, Bernd Tesch, Lutz Beck, Ferenc Tanko, Frank Finke, Jürgen Krella
MDR
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Elke Hauck - born 1967 in Riesa, GDR. Apprenticeship in bookbinding, evening courses at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, studied German and art education in Leipzig and Versailles, France. Later graduated in stage direction from the dffb, Berlin, which she attended from 1994-2002. KARGER is her debut feature film.
DIE INSEL (1995, short)
ZWEI TAGE DREI NÄCHTE (1996, short)
MARIA (1999, short)
FLÜGGE (2001, doc)
GESTERN IST NIRGENDWO (2009)
DER PREIS (2011)