Story
In her adaption of the eponymous novel by Milán Füst, Ildikó Enyedi tells a fateful love story in the 1920s. In a Hamburg café, the hard-nosed Dutch sea captain Jakob Störr makes a bet with a friend that he will marry the first woman who walks in. The wager, made in the exuberance of intoxication, becomes a turning point in Störr’s life when Lizzy (Léa Seydoux) enters the café. The pair marry and move to Paris, but whenever Störr has to go to sea for months at a time, he is consumed with jealousy. And so he desperately tries to bind Lizzy to him.
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Kindly supported by SLAVA DROZDOV
Director
ILDIKÓ ENYEDI (*1955) studied film direction in Budapest and Montpellier. Her debut film My 20th Century won the prize for Best Newcomer at Cannes in 1989. In 2017 she won the Golden Bear for On Body and Soul.Trailer
Info
A feleségem története
Fiction Feature
English, Flemish, German
Kaleidoskop//FF2021
Hungary, Germany, Italy, France
2021
169 min
OV with German subtitles
Ildikó Enyedi
Ildikó Enyedi
Léa Seydoux, Gijs Naber, Louis Garrel, Luna Wedler, Josef Hader, Sergio Rubini, Jasmine Trinca, Ulrich Matthes, Udo Samel
Monika Mécs, Erno Mésterhazy, András Muhi (Inforg - M&M Film), Jonas Dornbach, Janine Jackowski, Maren Ade (Komplizen Film), Flaminio Zadra, Pilar Saavedra Perrotta, Alberto Fanni (Palosanto Films), Stéphane Parthenay, Francis Boespflug, Robin Boespflug-Vonier (Pyramide Productions)
Marcell Rév
Stefano Campus
Károly Szalai
Ádám Balázs
Imola Láng
Andrea Flesch
Irma Ascher, Nina Haun, Lilia Trapani Hartmann
Alamode Filmdistribution
Films Boutique
Inforg - M&M Film; Komplizen Film; Palosanto Films; Pyramide Productions
Pyramide Productions
RaiCinema, Arte, WDR
Tobias Lehmann, Alamode Filmdistribution: lehmann@alamodefilm.de
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