SUPERTEX
by Jan Schütte
synopsis
Max Breslauer, attractive, vital and in his mid-thirties, is living as a business consultant in Amsterdam. He is the elder of Simon Breslauer's two sons, who as the only one of a family of poor East European Jews survived the war and established a textile empire in the Netherlands. Simon is an experienced businessman, rough, yet clumsy - and full of sentimentality. Strict and loving at the same time, he values traditions such as the obligatory family dinner on Shabbat, which he uses for suffocating his two sons and his wife with his Jewish worldly wisdoms.
international title: | Supertex |
original title: | Supertex |
country: | Germany, Netherlands, France |
sales agent: | Telepool |
year: | 2003 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Jan Schütte |
film run: | 95' |
release date: | DE 18/12/2003 |
screenplay: | Richard Reitinger, Andrew Kazamia, Jan Schütte |
cast: | Stephen Mangan, Jan Decleir, Maureen Lipman, Elliot Levey, Tracy-Ann Oberman |
cinematography by: | Edward Klosinski |
film editing: | Renate Merck |
art director: | Benedict Schillemans |
music: | Zbigniew Preisner |
producer: | Haig Balian, Wiebke Toppel |
production: | HaleBob Film, Novoskop Film, Minerva Film, Tobis Filmproduktion, WDR (DE); ARTE France Cinema, Covimage (FR) |
distributor: | Tobis Film |