Story
After the eponymous best-seller by Alina Herbing: with an unflinching camera and an almost documentary feel, this film puts an end to the myth of romantic country life. Midsummer in a village in Mecklenburg. Five houses, a bus stop, cows and fields. 24-year old Christin (Saskia Rosendahl) lives with her boyfriend Jan (Rick Okon) on her father’s dairy farm. There is no longer any trace of the spirit of optimism of the years after the Wall came down, still less in their relationship. In the blazing heart of the summer, time seems to stand still and all Christin wants to do is escape. But when wind turbine engineer Klaus (Godehard Giese) from Hamburg turns up, the young woman senses hope that the world may begin to turn again.
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Director
SABRINA SARABI (*1982) studied film direction and screenplay writing at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne and won acclaim for her graduation film Weiße Nacht (2012). For her role in No One’s with the Calves, Saskia Rosendahl won Best Actress at Locarno.Info
Niemand ist bei den Kälbern
Fiction Feature
German
Große Freiheit//FF2021
Germany
2021
116 min
OV with English subtitles
Sabrina Sarabi
Sabrina Sarabi, basierend auf einem Roman von / based on a novel by Alina Herbing
Saskia Rosendahl, Rik Okon, Godehard Giese, Enno Trebs, Peter Moltzen, Anne Weinknecht und als Gast Elisa Schlott
Jakob D. Weydemann, Jonas Weydemann, Yvonne Wellie, Milena Klemke
Max Preiss
Jonathan Schorr
Heike Parplies
John Gürtler
Susanna Haneder
Ulé Barcelos
Karen Wendland
Andrea Hanke (WDR), Birgit Kämper (Arte)
Filmwelt Verleihagentur GmbH
Weydemann Bros.
WDR; Arte
Marc Klocker, Filmwelt Verleihagentur GmbH: m.klocker@fwem.de
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