Friends of Friends

Die Freunde der Freunde

Germany

2002

89 Min

Color

German

Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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SCR Markus Busch, Dominik Graf, Henry James

CAST Matthias Schweighöfer, Sabine Timoteo, Florian Stetter, Jessica Schwarz, Tanja Schleiff

PROD DES Claus-Jürgen Pfeiffer

MUSIC Sven Rossenbach, Florian van Volxem

Synopsis

Dominik Graf relocates the story of the same name by Henry James from the 19th century to the year 2001. It´s the story of an A level student Gregor, who, whilst studying at a Bavarian public school, meets the promiscuous and rakish Arthur. Both boys are bound by a deep friendship until Gregor meets the equality beautiful and mysterious Billie. Billie und Arthur have one thing in common. They have both, independently from one another, experienced inexplicable encounters with the afterlife. A meeting between Billie and Arthur continually fails and the reasons for this are weird. Eventually, Billie disappears and Gregor doesn´t see her again until months later in Munich where he is now living with Arthur. Gregor and Billie become a couple and Gregor grows afraid that he will lose Billie a second time, while Arthur seems to drift towards a life of crime. Gregor suddenly realises that Arthur and Billie are meant for one another and does everything in his power to stop them meeting. —http://www.sounddesign.com/filme/fdf/indexe.html

Director

Dominik Graf

Dominik Graf was born September 6, 1972, as the son of the actors Selma and Robert Graf. In 1972, he took up German language and literature studies as well as musicology at the University of Munich. In 1974, however, he switched to the Academy for Television & Film (HFF), where he shot the short film “Carlas Briefe” during his first academic year. In addition to his studies, he wrote screenplays for the TV series Auf Achse. Furthermore, he played small roles in feature films such as Der Mädchenkrieg (1977, Alf Brustellin, Bernhard Sinkel). He also took on the leading role in Heidi Genée’s comedy 1 + 1 = 3 (1979).

He received the Bavarian Film Award for his graduation film Der kostbare Gast (1979). Subsequently, Graf concentrated on his television work and directed several episodes for series such as Familientag and Köberle kommt. With his work on the TV series Der Fahnder and the Tatort episode Schwarzes… read more