Schmitke

Deutschland Tschechien 2014 Spielfilm

Summary

Julius Schmitke is a 57-year-old German wind turbine engineer. He feels ill and his body creaks, crunches and groans with age. One day, he is sent somewhere to the Czech side of the Ore Mountains to fix one of his old models, a C 174 turbine that, mysteriously, will not stop creaking and squeaking, just like his own body does. But this is not the only mystery that awaits him. His colleague disappears, strange things happen, and Schmitke starts to "feel" the spirit of the forest around him. The more he wanders around the harsh and misty mountains, the more it surprises him that this entire expedition into the ominous and unknown jungle seems to be a return to old, familiar places within himself.

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Credits

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Director of photography

Assistant camera

Lighting design

Art director

Production design

Make-up artist

Sound editor

Sound design

Sound assistant

Cast

Co-Producer

Unit production manager

Production coordinator

Original distributor

Duration:
94 min
Format:
DCP, 16:9
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 04.09.2015, 154133, ab 6 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (KR): Oktober 2014, Busan, IFF;
Aufführung (DE): November 2014, Cottbus, FilmFestival;
Kinostart (DE): 05.11.2015

Titles

  • Originaltitel (DE) Schmitke
  • Arbeitstitel (DE) Julius Schmitke
  • Weiterer Titel How Julius Schmitke Escaped Death Like a Clumsy Seal
  • Arbeitstitel (CZ) Jak Julius Schmitke proklouznul smrti jako neobratný tulen

Versions

Original

Duration:
94 min
Format:
DCP, 16:9
Video/Audio:
Farbe, Dolby
Censorship/Age rating:

FSK-Prüfung (DE): 04.09.2015, 154133, ab 6 Jahre / feiertagsfrei

Screening:

Uraufführung (KR): Oktober 2014, Busan, IFF;
Aufführung (DE): November 2014, Cottbus, FilmFestival;
Kinostart (DE): 05.11.2015

Awards

Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2015
  • FIPRESCI-Preis der deutschsprachigen Filmkritik
  • Beste Musik- und Tongestaltung
FilmFestival Cottbus 2014
  • Bester Debütfilm