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Great Freedom

OT: Große Freiheit

Sebastian Meise | Germany, Austria 2021

Feature | 100 min | FF2021

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Synopse

Love in the age of Paragraph 175: In post-war Germany, a man keeps being sent to jail for his homosexuality and meets a man serving a life sentence. An intense film about desire and freedom. Hans (Franz Rogowski) is gay, which is still a crime in post-war Germany. The notorious §175 is still in force and destroys all Hans’ hopes for a life in freedom. In prison he, the multiple recidivist, meets Viktor (Georg Friedrich), a convicted murderer. Over the decades, the men’s initial disgust for each other develops into a intense connection full of respect and empathy.


Regie

SEBASTIAN MEISE is an Austrian director and screenwriter. His acclaimed debut feature film Stilllife premiered at San Sebastian Film Festival and won several awards. His documentary film Outing was presented at the Hot Docs Festival in Toronto. His latest feature film Great Freedom with Franz Rogowski and Georg Friedrich in the leading roles had its world premiere in the Official Selection Un Certain Regard of the Cannes Film Festival 2021 where it won the Jury Prize. The film was also awarded with the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film and for Best Actor Georg Friedrich, as well as with the CICAE Arthouse Award. Sebastian Meise co-founded the Vienna based production company FreibeuterFilm.

Info

Original Title: Große Freiheit

International Title: Great Freedom

Category: Feature

Section: Große Freiheit

Version & Subtitles: German OV with English subtitles

Director: Sebastian Meise

Screenplay: Sebastian Meise, Thomas Reider

Cast/Protagonists: Franz Rogowski, Georg Friedrich, Anton von Lucke, Thomas Prenn

Production country: Germany, Austria

Year of Production: 2021

Length: 100 min

Producer: Benny Drechsel, Sabine Moser, Oliver Neumann

Production company: FreibeuterFilm, Rohfilm Productions GmbH


Cinematography: Crystel Fournier

Sound: Jörg Theil, Atanas Tcholakov, Manuel Meichsner

Editor: Joana Scrinzi

Music: Nils Pretter Molvaer, Peter Brötzmann

Costume Design: Tanja Hausner, Andrea Hölzl

Casting: Eva Roth, Benjamin Roth

World Sales: The Match Factory GmbH

Distributor: Hans-Christian Boese, Piffl Medien GmbH