THE FORGER
by Maggie Peren
synopsis
21-year-old Cioma Schönhaus won't let anyone take away his zest for life, especially not the Nazis. He wants to discover life, but has the misfortune of living as a Jewish person in Berlin in the 1940s. Since the best hiding spots are in plain sight, Cioma decides to go out into the light to escape deportation. Using the identity of a marine officer he created for himself, he throws himself into the city's nightlife and even finds a fragile hope for love during the darkest moments of the war. Throughout the day he forges IDs with just a brush, some ink and a steady hand - and saves the lives of many others. His talent puts him in more and more danger, though, and at some point Cioma's only hope to survive is a last forged ID - with his own name on it.
international title: | The Forger |
original title: | Der Passfälscher |
country: | Germany |
sales agent: | Beta Cinema |
year: | 2022 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Maggie Peren |
film run: | 117' |
screenplay: | Maggie Peren |
cast: | Louis Hofmann, Jonathan Berlin, Luna Wedler, Nina Gummich, Marc Limpach, André Jung, Yotam Ishay, Luc Feit, Jeanne Werner, Joscha Schönhaus |
cinematography by: | Christian Stangassinger |
film editing: | Robert Sterna |
art director: | Marc Ridremont, Eva Stiebler |
costumes designer: | Diana Dietrich |
music: | Mario Grigorov |
producer: | Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Alexander Fritzemeyer, Dietrich Kluge, Martin Kosok, Jutta Lieck-Klenke, Bady Minck |
line producer: | Peter Hermann |
production: | Dreifilm GbR, Amour Fou Luxembourg, Network Movie Film und Fernsehproduktion, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) |
distributor: | X Verleih |