The House

OT: Das Haus

Rick Ostermann // Germany, 2021
Fiction Feature // FF2021
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Story

Germany in the year 2029: a tense thriller portrays a distopia in which AI has taken over our lives. Star journalist Johann Hellström (Tobias Moretti) is banned from writing after a source turns out to be a fake informer. Hellström suspects sabotage by the increasingly authoritarian government. Together with his wife Lucia (Valery Tscheplanowa) he withdraws to their fully digitized weekend retreat. While political conditions in the country continue to destabilize, the smart home takes on a life of its own. When two dissidents seek refuge there, the situation gets out of hand.

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Director

RICK OSTERMANN (*1978) presented his first full-length film Wolfschildren in 2012. In 2018 he was awarded the main prize at the TV & Film Festival Baden-Baden for Fremder Feind.

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Info

Original title: Das Haus

Film type: Fiction Feature

Original language: German

Section: Große Freiheit//FF2021

Production country: Germany

Produced: 2021

Runtime: 90 min

Language and subtitles: OV

Director: Rick Ostermann

Screenplay: Patrick Brunken, Rick Ostermann, nach einer Kurzgeschichte von Dirk Kurbjuweit

Cast: Tobias Moretti, Valery Tscheplanowa, Lisa Vicari, Max von der Groeben, Hans-Jochen Wagner, Samir Fuchs, Daniel Krauss

Producer: Uwe Kolbe, Björn Vosgerau

DoP: Stefan Ciupek, Matthias Bolliger

Sound: Dominik Leube

Editor: Hans-Christoph Wermke

Music: Stefan Will

Production design: K.D. Gruber

Costume design: Sabine Keller

Casting: Nessie Nesslauer

Commissioning Editor: Sabine Holtgreve (NDR), Andreas Schreitmüller & Claudia Tronnier (Arte), Verena Veihl (RBB)

German Distributor: notsold Filmverleih

World Sales: The Playmaker Munich

Production Company: Wüste Medien GmbH

Co-Production: NDR; rbb

In Cooperation with: Arte

Film contact: Anja Padge, Wüste Medien GmbH: anja.padge@wuestefilm.de

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