Directed by:
Andreas GoldsteinScreenplay:
Andreas GoldsteinComposer:
Lars VogesCast:
Florian Teichtmeister, Anne Kanis, Lena Lauzemis, Christin Alexandrow, Susanne Bredehöft, Markus Lerch, Milian Zerzawy, Bernhard SchützVOD (1)
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In the dominant historical narrative of Germany, the GDR was a backward and desolate country to live in whereas the fall of the Berlin Wall was a liberation. In recent years this narrative has been questioned more and more, especially due to existing social gaps between the Eastern and Western part of Germany. Without really representing “political“ cinema, the adaptation of Ingo Schulze’s eponymous novel Adam & Evelyn, almost unnoticeably, makes a subtle statement against the historical breakthrough the end of the GDR is supposed to have marked. In calm images reminiscent of Christian Petzold the film observes the love story of a tailor and a waitress against the background of the lifting of the Iron Curtain. In the images we can see a personal life whereas the sound puts it into dialogue with political change. Lethargic or inspiring contentment feels like an act of resistance: Is it our duty to move with change? Is it even important? Why does, what is supposed to be a prison, look like paradise? The film asks important questions about what it means to be free. Those questions are not answered. Instead they are allowed to live in the different dreams and expectations of Evelyn and Adam. (Viennale)
(more)Cast
Florian Teichtmeister
Austria
Best movies:
Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank (2016)
Vienna Blood (2019) (series)
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Anne Kanis
East Germany
Best movies:
A Woman in Berlin (2008)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Lena Lauzemis
Best movies:
Sun Alley (1999)
A Heavy Heart (2015)
If Not Us, Who? (2011)
Christin Alexandrow
Best movies:
Tatort (1970) (series)
Inga Lindström (2004) (series)
Susanne Bredehöft
West Germany
Best movies:
The Princess and the Warrior (2000)
Terror 2000 - Intensivstation Deutschland (1992)
Lara (2019)
Markus Lerch
Best movies:
Beat (2018) (series)
The Stranger in Me (2008)
If Not Us, Who? (2011)
Bernhard Schütz
West Germany
Best movies:
The Billion Dollar Code (2021) (series)
Stopped on Track (2011)
Sense8 (2015) (series)