Synopse
A gentle drift through various levels of time and story-telling: In Helena Wittmann's new film the sea plays a major role. Ida (Angeliki Papoulia) lives with her five-person crew on a sailing ship. When she encounters the Foreign Legion in Marseille, she is confronted by a closed, masculine world and decides to follow its tracks across the Mediterranean. Via Corsica, where the Legion's largest regiment is based, her quest takes her to the Algerian city of Sidi-Bel-Abbes, which served as the Legion's headquarters until Algerian independence in 1962. On the journey, borders and facts blur, whilst life at sea calls for a particular kind of mutual understanding.
Regie
HELENA WITTMANN (*1982) graduated in 2014 from the HfbK art school in Hamburg. Her debut feature Drift was shown at numerous festivals worldwide, including at FILMFEST HAMBURG in 2017, and won several awards.
Info
Original Title: Human Flowers of Flesh
International Title: Human Flowers of Flesh
Category: Feature
Section: Große Freiheit
Version & Subtitles: Portuguese, English, Berber, French OV with German subtitles
Director: Helena Wittmann
Cast/Protagonists: Angeliki Papoulia, Vladimir Vulevic, Mauro Soares, Denis Lavant, Gustavo de Mattos Jahn, Ferhat Mouhali, Steffen Danek, Nina Villanova, Ingo Marten
Production country: Germany, France
Year of Production: 2022
Length: 106 min
Producer: Julia Cöllen, Karsten Krause, Frank Scheuffele
Production company: Fünferfilm
co-production company: Christophe Bouffil
World Sales: Shellac
Distributor: Grandfilm Gmbh
