Archive of films Cobain / Cobain

Netherlands / Belgium / Germany
2017, 94 min

Section: Another View
Year: 2018

Bas Keizer excels as Cobain, a boy from a children’s home who works for the charismatic pimp Wickmayer. He takes care of the latter’s “merchandise” and, in his dealings with the prostitutes, he paradoxically finally finds his place in the world. Until the reappearance of his mother, who also used to walk the streets.


Synopsis

“Who gets named after a guy who shot himself?” the film’s main character asks his new, adoptive family. But 15-year-old Cobain doesn’t even last a day with his substitute parents and runs off back to the streets where his mother Mia lives, a drug addict and now heavily pregnant. He finds work with her former pimp and decides to start looking after her, although Mia doesn’t want anything or anyone. But the new job requires a man, not a boy. Cobain will have to cast aside the last remnants of childhood naivety and find his footing in a criminal environment where there is no room for emotions. Or is there? This tale about the pressure to grow up too fast gave charismatic Bas Keizer his first acting opportunity.

Nikola Paggio

About the director

Nanouk Leopold

Nanouk Leopold (b. 1968, Rotterdam, Netherlands). Selected filmography: Guernsey (2005), Wolfsbergen (2007), Brownian Movement (2010), It’s All So Quiet (2013), Cobain (2017)

Contacts

Beta Cinema GmbH
Grünwalder Weg 28d, 820 41, Oberhaching/Munich
Germany
Tel: +49 896 734 698 828
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.betacinema.com

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About the film

Color, DCP

Section: Another View
   
Director: Nanouk Leopold
Screenplay: Stienette Bosklopper 
Dir. of Photography: Frank van den Eeden
Music: Harry de Wit
Editor: Katharina Wartena
Art Director: Elsje de Bruijn
Producer: Stienette Bosklopper, Lisette Kelder
Production: Circe Films
Coproduction: A Private View, Coin Film, VPRO Television, The Film Kitchen
Cast: Bas Keizer, Naomi Velissariou, Wim Opbrouck, Dana Marineci, Cosmina Stratan
Sales: Beta Cinema GmbH

Guests

Nanouk Leopold

Cosima Finkbeiner

Sales Agent


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