ONE MINUTE OF DARKNESS (THREE LIVES)
synopsis
In the summer of 2006, film directors Dominik Graf, Christian Petzold and Christoph Hochhäusler began corresponding with each other on the subjects of film aesthetics, the Berlin School, Germany and the film genre (their correspondence was published in German film magazine "Revolver"). Two years later they decided to continue this theoretical discussion with a joint film project: three individual stories revolving around the same “fait divers”: the escape of a convicted criminal from police custody. Graf’s Komm mir nicht nach tells the story of a police psychologist who meets old acquaintances while investigating a case. In Petzold’s Etwas Besseres als den Tod a young man doing alternative national service experiences a love story without a future. And in Christoph Hochhäusler’s Eine Minute Dunkel an indefatigable policeman hunting the escaped prisoner begins to doubt false certainties. Three films, three styles, three exciting approaches, variations, analyses.
international title: | One Minute of Darkness (Three Lives) |
original title: | Dreileben - Eine Minute Dunkel |
country: | Germany |
sales agent: | Global Screen GmbH (a brand of Telepool GmbH) |
year: | 2011 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Christoph Hochhäusler |
film run: | 90' |
screenplay: | Christoph Hochhäusler, Peer Klehmet |
cast: | Stefan Kurt, Eberhard Kirchberg, Imogen Kogge, Holger Doellmann, Timo Jacobs, Joan Pascu, Paraschiva Dragus, Isabel Bongard, Luna Zimic Mijovic, Jacob Matschenz |
cinematography by: | Reinhold Vorschneider |
film editing: | Stefan Stabenow |
art director: | Renate Schmaderer |
costumes designer: | Renate Schmaderer |
producer: | Bettina Brokemper |
production: | Heimatfilm GMBH + CO KG, WDR Westdeutscher Rundfunk |