DISTANT LIGHTS
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The award-winning drama tells a number of interwoven stories from the borderland between Frankfurt on the Oder and Słubice. A Polish cabdriver desperately tries to raise enough money for his daughter’s communion-dress; an unlucky mattress- salesman wants to save his store from bankruptcy; a Ukrainian family of refugees is being defrauded by a gang of people-smugglers; a young German architect finds out that his Polish ex-girlfriend works as a call girl. A film about existential needs and the search for a little bit of happiness.
Lichter / Lichter
DEU 2002 / 100 min
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid
- Screenplay: Hans-Christian Schmid,Michael Gutmann
- Cinematographer: Bogumil Godfrejow
- Editor: Bernd Schlegel,Hansjörg Weissbrich
- Cast: August Diehl,Herbert Knaup,Julia Krynke,Henry Hübchen,Maria Simon,Janek Rieke
- Producer: Jakob Claussen,Thomas Wöbke
- Production Company: Claussen + Wöbke Filmproduktion - München
- Co-Production Company: ZDF/Das große Fernsehspiel - Mainz und Arte - Zürich
- Rights Holder: Prokino - München
The award-winning drama tells a number of interwoven stories from the borderland between Frankfurt on the Oder and Słubice. A Polish cabdriver desperately tries to raise enough money for his daughter’s communion-dress; an unlucky mattress- salesman wants to save his store from bankruptcy; a Ukrainian family of refugees is being defrauded by a gang of people-smugglers; a young German architect finds out that his Polish ex-girlfriend works as a call girl. A film about existential needs and the search for a little bit of happiness.
- Screenplay: Hans-Christian Schmid,Michael Gutmann
- Cinematographer: Bogumil Godfrejow
- Editor: Bernd Schlegel,Hansjörg Weissbrich
- Cast: August Diehl,Herbert Knaup,Julia Krynke,Henry Hübchen,Maria Simon,Janek Rieke
- Producer: Jakob Claussen,Thomas Wöbke
- Production Company: Claussen + Wöbke Filmproduktion - München
- Co-Production Company: ZDF/Das große Fernsehspiel - Mainz und Arte - Zürich
- Rights Holder: Prokino - München