Keine Lieder über Liebe
No Songs of Love
How well do we know the people we spend our lives with? Young filmmaker Tobias Hansen has been living with his girlfriend Ellen for the past year. At the time of his move, all contact to his brother, a Hamburg rock musician, came to an abrupt end. Tobias suspects that the two most important people in his life have been lying to him.
Catching sight of a poster for the Hansen Band’s tour of Germany one day, Tobias decides to make a documentary about his brother. Reluctantly, Markus agrees. He has no idea what his brother’s real intentions are. Tobias invites Ellen to join him on the documentary shoot in order to find out what really happened a year ago. Ellen’s appearance unleashes unsolved conflicts. Amidst the chaos of their emotions, Tobias, Markus and Ellen try to make sense of their relationship to each other.
"Keine Lieder über Liebe" is an improvised semi-documentary in which the actors developed their character’s biographies in collaboration with the film’s director. Similarly, the film’s music and the band to which Markus belongs were also created in collaboration with real musicians, and the band genuinely went on tour in Germany. The film was shot chronologically, which allowed the film’s protagonists to interact in a succession of improvised scenes at concerts or on the tour bus, thus creating a constant interplay between reality and fiction.
Source: 55. Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin (Catalogue)
Credits
Director
Screenplay
Director of photography
Editing
Cast
- Tobias Hansen
- Ellen
- Markus Hansen
- Mutter
- Gitarrist Thees
- Gitarrist Marcus
- Bassist Felix
- Schlagzeuger Max
- Tourmanager
- Katharina
Production company
Producer
Alle Credits
Director
Assistant director
Screenplay
Director of photography
Assistant camera
Set design
Costume design
Editing
Assistant editor
Sound design
Sound
Sound assistant
Audio mixing
Casting
Music performer
Cast
- Tobias Hansen
- Ellen
- Markus Hansen
- Mutter
- Gitarrist Thees
- Gitarrist Marcus
- Bassist Felix
- Schlagzeuger Max
- Tourmanager
- Katharina
- Seemann
- Barmann
- Groupie
- 1. Backliner
- 2. Backliner
- Busfahrer
Production company
in co-production with
in association with
Producer
Producer (TV)
Unit production manager
Location manager
Original distributor
Subsequent distributor
Shoot
- 12.02.2004 - 06.03.2004: Niedersachsen, Hamburg, Bremen, Berlin
FSK-Prüfung: 10.10.2005, 103912, ab 6 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Uraufführung (DE): 14.02.2005, Berlin, IFF - Panorama Special;
Kinostart (DE): 27.10.2005;
TV-Erstsendung: 20.06.2007, ZDF;
Aufführung (DE): 31.01.2008, Saarbrücken, Max-Ophüls-Preis
Titles
- Originaltitel (DE) Keine Lieder über Liebe
Versions
Original
FSK-Prüfung: 10.10.2005, 103912, ab 6 Jahre / feiertagsfrei
Uraufführung (DE): 14.02.2005, Berlin, IFF - Panorama Special;
Kinostart (DE): 27.10.2005;
TV-Erstsendung: 20.06.2007, ZDF;
Aufführung (DE): 31.01.2008, Saarbrücken, Max-Ophüls-Preis