Stopped on Track

Halt auf freier Strecke

Germany

2011

110 Min

Color

1.85:1

German

Currently 3.3/5 Stars.
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SCR Andreas Dresen, Cooky Ziesche

CAST Milan Peschel, Steffi Kühnert, Talisa Lilly Lemke, Mika Nilson Seidel, Ursula Werner, Otto Mellies, Bernhard Schütz, Marie Rosa Tietjen

SOUND Peter Schmidt, Ralf Krause

Cannes (Un Certain Regard): Un Certain Regard Award, Karlovy Vary (Horizons), Vancouver (Cinema of Our Time), London (Cinema Europa), Ghent (World Cinema), São Paulo (International Perspective), Göteborg (Mästare), Berlinale (German Cinema)

Synopsis

The doctor told the truth. The days are numbered.
Why me and why now?
A man leaves wife and children behind, parents, friends, neighbours and yesterday’s lover, the people in his life.
Day by day a little farewell.
Words are getting rare, longer the silence.
In front of the window the year changes its colours.
Dying is a final work to do.
Not being alone while you are left behind alone, maybe that’s a good thing. –Cannes Film Festival

Director

Andreas Dresen

Andreas Dresen was born August 16, 1968, in Gera. He grew up in Schwerin and started shooting his own amateur movies since the late ’70s. After receiving his university-entrance diploma, he worked as a sound engineer at the theater in Schwerin and completed a traineeship at the DEFA Studio for Feature Films where he also worked as an assistant director to his later mentor Günther Reisch. From 1986 until 1991 Dresen studied directing at the “Konrad Wolf” Academy of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Since 1992, he has been working as a freelance author and director. He lives in Potsdam. —filmportal.de