Die endlose Nacht
The Endless Night
West Berlin'’s Tempelhof airport in 1962. The airport is socked in by fog and no planes can take off or land. A dozen or more passengers are stranded and have to spend the night in the airport. Loosely connected episodes make up a diverse whole of encounters and conversations – for instance, between a penniless starlet and two shady gentlemen, a farmer from Africa, and an airport employee looking to get married. Also among the denizens of this involuntary soirée are a wife with an Italian lover, a crooked businessman and a Polish jazz band…
Will Tremper has created a soap opera with documentary underpinnings. Shot without a finished script over 45 nights, after closing time in Tempelhof’s central hall, with original sound, "The Endless Night" gels into a realistic portrait of society. It is peopled with believable characters whose often-improvised dialogue seems perfectly in sync with the time. And the director might have been drawing a self-portrait with the character of the businessman in search of money – to make the film without subsidies, Tremper took out a mortgage on his own home.
Source: 74. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)
Credits
Director
Screenplay
Director of photography
Editing
Music
Cast
- Lisa
- Wolfgang Spitz
- Mascha
- J.M. Schreiber
- Dr. Achtel
- Herbert
- Sylvia Stössi
- Emil Stoltmann
- Ernst Kramer
- Mausi
Production company
Producer
Alle Credits
Director
Assistant director
Script supervisor
Screenplay
Director of photography
Assistant camera
Prop master
Make-up artist
Costume design
Editing
Sound
Sound assistant
Music
Music performer
Cast
- Lisa
- Wolfgang Spitz
- Mascha
- J.M. Schreiber
- Dr. Achtel
- Herbert
- Sylvia Stössi
- Emil Stoltmann
- Ernst Kramer
- Mausi
- Juanita
- McLeod
- Frau Achtel
- Juanitas Bekannter
- Bowlingbahnangestellter Wolfgang
- Kneipenwirt
- Pauline - ungenannt
- Frau Kramer - ungenannt
- Renzo - ungenannt
Production company
Producer
Co-Producer
Line producer
Unit production manager
Location manager
Original distributor
Funding
Shoot
- 18.11.1962 - 31.01.1963: Flughafen Berlin-Tempelhof
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 05.03.1963, 29808, ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Uraufführung (DE): 08.05.1963, Berlin, Marmorhaus
Titles
- Originaltitel (DE) Die endlose Nacht
- Arbeitstitel Die längste Nacht
- Arbeitstitel Nebel über Tempelhof
- Weiterer Titel (eng) The Endless Night
Versions
Original
FSK-Prüfung (DE): 05.03.1963, 29808, ab 16 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Uraufführung (DE): 08.05.1963, Berlin, Marmorhaus
Restaurierte und digitalisierte Fassung
Uraufführung (DE): 22.02.2024, Berlin, IFF - Retrospektive
Awards
- künstlerisch wertvollster deutscher Film 1963
- Filmband in Silber, Abendfüllende Spielfilme
- Filmband in Gold, Beste Filmmusik
- Filmband in Gold, Beste darstellerische Leistung
- Filmband in Gold, Beste Kamera