Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

July 4 - 12, 2008

Dr. Alemán
Dr. Alemán

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Colour, 35 mm
Germany, 2008, 106 min
WP – World premiere
Section: Official Selection - Competition
http://www.dr-aleman.com
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Film screenings:
514 - 8.7., 17:00, Grand Hall
6E2 - 9.7., 13:00, Espace Dorleans Cinema

Director: Tom Schreiber
Screenplay: Oliver Keidel, Tom Schreiber
Dir. of Photography: Olaf Hirschberg
Music: Josef Suchy
Designer: Juan Carlos Acevedo
Editor: Andreas Wodraschke
Producer: Harry Flöter, Jörg Siepmann, Arne Ludwig
Production: 2Pilots Filmproduction
Sales: Telepool

Cast

August Diehl, Marleyda Soto, Victor Villegas, Andrés Parra, Hernán Méndez, David Steven Bravo

Synopsis

Marc, a young German doctor, arrives in the Colombian metropolis of Cali on an exchange visit and starts work in a local hospital. The operating theatre looks like a war zone: most of his patients have stab or gunshot wounds, the result of street scuffles. The young man from a traditional family of doctors disregards the word of warning from his superiors and sets off into the deprived neighbourhood of Siloé looking for a bit of excitement: he befriends the kids from the local gang and falls in love with a stall-holder called Wanda. His new life of drugs and dangerous encounters taints his reputation as a “German doctor”, and distances him from his colleagues at the hospital and his host family. He ultimately gets mixed up with one of the local gangsters, the ruthless killer El Juez, and realises that his mission to treat everyone, no matter who they are, acquires completely new dimensions in this kind of world. The young idealist comes into total conflict with his native environment and with everything he had believed in until now… This dramatic tale of a foreigner in a different country who gets some tough experience passing through the unjust “school of real life”, is the second feature film by Tom Schreiber.

About the director

Tom Schreiber (b. 1969, Freising, Germany) began as a camera assistant. He studied film at the Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne and the Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV in Cuba. He gained experience as assistant director in Spain and Germany. He began making a name for himself with his short features (e.g. Viene del cielo, 1997; Vita reducta, 1999) and, in 2003, debuted with the feature-length film Fools (Narren) which was produced by “Road Movies”, Wim Wenders production company, and it was featured at the Berlin IFF. He is currently working on the feature-length documentary Vaterland with Francisco Hervé, and also the screenplay for the feature film The Pool.

Film Guests

August Diehl, Luz Dary Mina Gómez, Olaf Hirschberg, Arne Ludwig, Paul Müller, Peter Reinhardt, Tom Schreiber, Jörg Siepmann, Marleyda Soto, Tom Trambow

Contacts

2Pilots Filmproduction
Eigelstein 78, 50668 Cologne
Germany
Tel: +49 221 913 0153
Fax: +49 221 913 0155
E-mail: 2pilots@2pilots.de
www: www.2pilots.de

Telepool
Sonnenstrasse 21, D-80331 München
Germany
Tel: +49 89 558 76 275
Fax: +49 89 558 76 188
E-mail: telepool@telepool.de
www: www.telepool.de

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