Sieben Himmel

Summary

Moments repeat themselves in Seven Heavens. Words resound and images reappear. Johann knows he has seen Jenny before. He can predict her movements and imagines where they will take him before he arrives there. Director Michael Busch recreates Johann′s deja-vu for audiences as he takes them through an aesthetically and intellectually intriguing puzzle that explores memory, spirituality and desire.

Johann′s a recluse who is studying the way of the Carthans and learning to free himself from the ego. Jenny′s a gothic beauty who strips for an online webcam. In the summer, the two have a love affair that will echo into their present. Come wintertime, Jenny lives at home with her parents, while Johann suffers a fever in his isolated cabin. Unable to escape the memory of their brief love, Jenny makes a fateful visit to the lake where he lives and where their passionate memories took form. With its unsettling eeriness and haunting beauty, Seven Heavens plays out like a dark dream. It plunges into the human psyche and resonates long after the screen goes black. (Jens Hussey, Cinequest)

Source: German films Service & Marketing GmbH