Directed by:
Maximilian ErlenweinScreenplay:
Maximilian ErlenweinCinematography:
Ngo The ChauComposer:
Jakob IljaCast:
Fabian Hinrichs, Jürgen Vogel, Nora von Waldstätten, Thorsten Merten, Fahri Yardim, Jeroen Willems, Eleonore Weisgerber, Jule Böwe, Jonas Hien, Henning Peker (more)Plots(1)
Frederik Feinermann is an up-and-coming young bank employee who lives an uneventful, orderly life. But when a bank customer, whom Frederik has denied a loan due to the bank crisis, shoots himself in front of Frederik, he snaps. Together with ex-con Vince Holland he begins to live out a new, darker side of himself that he has suppressed for years. The initial rush of excitement he gets out of crossing social boundaries soon develops into an addiction to violence and crime. Frederick desperately tries to win back Nadine, the love of his youth. He clings to the idea that with her he will find a way out of the vicious circle. But he has already gone too far.
After a number of prize-winning short films Maximilian Erlenwein has directed his first feature film, GRAVITY, for which he was awarded the coveted German young director's award "First Steps". From the motivation of the jury: "GRAVITY is a weighty work: great cinema, entertaining but with depth. A closely-knit story with brilliant dialogue; characters that allow the actors to engage at a high level; perfectly cast and directed; excellent camerawork; vigorous editing; and topping it all, a congenial music score."
(Berlinale)
Cast
Fabian Hinrichs
West Germany
Best movies:
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)
Unterm Radar (2015) (TV movie)
Reformation (2017) (series)
Jürgen Vogel
West Germany
Best movies:
The Wave (2008)
Life Is All You Get (1997)
Die Kirschenkönigin (2004) (series)
Nora von Waldstätten
Austria
Best movies:
Das Adlon. Eine Familiensaga (2013) (series)
Carlos (2010) (TV movie)
Free Country (2019)
Thorsten Merten
East Germany
Best movies:
Curveball (2020)
Vom Atmen unter Wasser (2008) (TV movie)
The Elementary Particles (2006)
Fahri Yardim
West Germany
Best movies:
Head Full of Honey (2014)
Mogadishu Welcome (2008) (TV movie)
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)
Jeroen Willems
Netherlands
Best movies:
Simon (2004)
The Gift Horse (2009)
Stricken (2009)
Eleonore Weisgerber
Germany
Best movies:
I Will Not Be Silent (2017) (TV movie)
Hut in the Woods (2011)
Das Mädchen mit dem indischen Smaragd (2013) (TV movie)
Jule Böwe
East Germany
Best movies:
The Silence (2010)
Russendisko (2012)
The Ordinaries (2022)
Jonas Hien
West Germany
Henning Peker
East Germany
Best movies:
Downfall (2004)
Do Fish Do It? (2002)
Wie Feuer und Flamme (2001)
Aurel Manthei
West Germany
Best movies:
Rivals Forever - The Sneaker Battle (2015) (TV movie)
About a Girl (2014)
Harter Brocken - Der Waffendeal (2021) (TV movie)
Christine Zart
West Germany
Best movies:
The Beloved Sisters (2014)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Olaf Burmeister
East Germany
Best movies:
Free Rainer (2007)
Summer in Berlin (2005)
Die Frau vom Checkpoint Charlie (2007) (TV movie)
Isabel Hindersin
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)
Judith Engel
East Germany
Best movies:
Generation War (2013) (series)
The Silent Revolution (2018)
Mogadishu Welcome (2008) (TV movie)
Waléra Kanischtscheff
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Visitor (2007)
As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2001)
Fateless (2005)
Natalia Bobyleva
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Final Journey (2017)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Simon Werner
East Germany
Best movies:
Another Mother's Son (2017)
Don't. Get. Out! (2018)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Detlef Heintze
Germany
Best movies:
I Was Nineteen (1968)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Rainer Koschorz
East Germany
Best movies:
Glück auf brasilianisch (2011) (TV movie)