Archive of films Comrades in Dreams / Comrades in Dreams
Germany
2006, 100 min
Section:
Forum of Independents - Competition
Year: 2007
Han Jong Sil from North Korea, Penny Tefertiller from Wyoming, USA, Lassane from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, Anup from India: four projectionists from around the world, for whom cinema means life – in a documentary film by German director Uli Gaulke.
Synopsis
A documentary portrait of several people for whom the cinema is their life. Han Jong Sil is from North Korea. She enjoys life and hopes to improve other people’s lives through her films. Penny Tefertiller from Wyoming in the USA has also devoted her life to the community by providing the young and the lonely with a place where they can meet others. The hale and hearty, self-confident Lassane from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso, one of the world’s poorest countries, is trying his best to show films in a run-down open air cinema. Anup from India has a tent which bursts at the seams when he screens popular local films. His habit of blessing the rolls of film at the temple and his knack for choosing the best titles have made him the uncrowned king of the region’s travelling cinema. These people’s search for a little bit of happiness reminds us that the best stories are not found on the big screen alone.
About the director
Uli Gaulke (b. 1968, Schwerin) studied physics, IT and drama at universities in Berlin from 1989 to 1995, subsequently taking up studies at the HFF in Potsdam-Babelsberg. From 1992 to 1999 he also worked as a film projectionist at various Berlin cinemas and film clubs. He directed several shorts and three feature-length documentaries: Havanna, mi amor (2000; German Film Award in 2001), Marry Me (Heirate mich, co-directed with Jeannette Eggert, Forum of Independents 2003) and Comrades in Dreams (Leinwandfieber).
Contacts
Flying Moon Filmproduktion GmbH
Seestraße 96, 13353, Berlin
Germany
Tel: +49 30 322 971 80
Fax: +49 30 322 971 811
E-mail: [email protected]
www: www.flyingmoon.com
About the film
Color, 35 mm
Section: | Forum of Independents - Competition |
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Director: | Uli Gaulke |
Screenplay: | Uli Gaulke, Jeannette Eggert |
Dir. of Photography: | Axel Schneppat |
Music: | Mark Orton |
Editor: | Andrew Bird |
Producer: | Helge Albers |
Production: | Flying Moon Filmproduktion |
Contact: | Flying Moon Filmproduktion GmbH |
www: | www.comrades-in-dreams.com |
Guests
Uli Gaulke
Film Director