East of the West - Competition 2005 / Krišana / Latvia, Germany 2005
Night. A bridge. A man - and a strange woman. Her eyes meet his - and he passes her by. The unknown woman, whose suicide Matiss failed to prevent, becomes his obsession. He launches into an investigation to find out everything he can about her life.
Riga, Latvia. During a late night walk, archivist Matiss Zelcs meets an unknown young woman on a bridge. In a fateful moment their eyes meet – and he passes her by. Later, the man realizes that the woman wanted to end her life by jumping into the depths below.... He calls the police but they don’t discover anything, so Matiss decides to find out who she was by himself. The unknown woman, Alina, becomes his obsession: one lead is an elegant purse left at a nearby bar, another is the drafts of a letter desperately blaming someone named Alexei. Matiss finds out that Alina left everything for her lover, everything she’d ever had in her life, including her husband and son. But this is just the beginning of a journey that the hero must undergo to find out the truth about himself. The cruelty of love, the barbs of unfulfilled desire, guilt, passion and redemption – these are the motifs which tumble together in director Fred Kelemen’s black-andwhite cinematic vision
90 min / Black & white, 35 mm
Director Fred Kelemen
/ Screenplay Fred Kelemen
/ Dir. of Photography Fred Kelemen
/ Editor Fred Kelemen, Franka Pohl, Klaus Charbonnier
/ Producer Fred Kelemen
/ Production Kino Kombat Filmproduction
/ Cast Egons Dombrovskis, Nikolaj Korobov, Vigo Roga, Aija Dzērve
/ Contact Kino Kombat Filmproduction
www: www.fredkelemen.com,www.kino-kombat.com
Fred Kelemen (b. 1964, West Berlin) studied music, painting, philosophy, religion and theatre science before moving on to Berlin’s German Film and Television Academy (dffb). He worked as an assistant director at various theatres and later directed productions (e.g. an adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 at the Schauspielhaus in Hanover) before moving on to camerawork. He also teaches. Filmography: Kalyi — Age of Darkness (Kalyi — Zeit der Finsternis, 1991-93), Fate (Verhängnis, 1994; FIPRESCI Prize at the Toronto IFF, Golden Precolumbian Circle for Best Director at the Bogotá IFF, Main Prize at the Max Ophüls Festival), Frost (1997; FIPRESCI Prize at Rotterdam), Nightfall (Abendland, 1999; Grand Prix Asturias for Best Feature and the Audience Award at the Gijón IFF, FIPRESCI Prize at the festival in Thessalonica), Krišana (Fallen, 2005; FIPRESCI Prize, Best Cinematography and a Special Jury Prize for Best Director at Lecca’s EFF).
Kino Kombat Filmproduction
Hufelandstr. 30, D-10407, Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 30 425 0530
Fax: +49 30 425 0530
E-mail: [email protected]
Fred Kelemen
Film Director / Producer
Ieva Pitruka
Festival Organizer
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