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The Irrational Remains
a film by Thorsten Trimpop
Synopsis
Everything changes when Suse’s boyfriend Matthias attempts to escape from the GDR with her best friend Susanne. It is 1987; they have just turned 20. Their lives are just beginning and then they are brutally interrupted. The escape fails: Matthias and Susanne are arrested. Suse is left alone.
Sixteen years go by before the three of them are ready to see each other again. They return to the scenes of the past. The film shows how Matthias and Susanne once again walk along through the forest on the border between the former GDR and the Czech Republic. It shows Susanne standing in her former jail cell, how the three gradually bring back the past into their very different present lives and still how painful the memory is even after twenty years. It shows how love and friendship were turned into deep mistrust. “What do you say at a time like this?“, Matthias asks his ex-girlfriend when they see each other again. They have become strangers except for the remains of the past that still bond them together.
Technical Details
documentary, 86 min., 35mm, colour, Dolby SR, 1:1,85, 25fps
© 2003 credofilm in Co-Production with the ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel and the HFF “Konrad Wolf“ Potsdam-Babelsberg
Distribution: Basis-Film Verleih Berlin, www.basisfilm.de
World Sales: n.n.
Crew
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| Director |
Thorsten Trimpop |
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| Photography |
Hanno Moritz Kunow |
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| Editor |
Sarah J. Levin |
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| Sound |
Sebastian Kleinloh |
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| Sound Design |
Florian Beck, Hörwerk |
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| Mixing |
Holger Lehmann |
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| Executive Producer |
Nadine Möllers |
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| Executive Producer Postproduction |
Jenny Walendy |
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| Executive Producer HFF |
Holger Lochau |
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| Editor ZDF |
Christian Cloos |
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| Producers |
Susann Schimk
Jörg Trentmann
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