DeAD

STORY

Patrick feels absolutely lonely when he decides to search for his supposable genitor after the suicide of his mother. He doesn’t have a plan, a goal or hopes. He just wants to neet the phantom that he thinks is the reason for his mother’s  death. Almost remote-controlled he approaches the person that never took notice of him since his birth. That declared him as „nothing“. He starts a desperate visitation. His found or imagined father is the father he always wanted, with a perfect family. A beautiful wife, a cute daughter, a big house, a prominent person. An incarnation of Patrick’s imagination. An Image that Patrick in his anger destroys utterly. Regardless of the consequences.

FACTS

Feature Film (104 Minutes)

Executive Producer: Skalar Film GmbH

Co-Producers: Jenny Nesselhauf, Sven Halfar

Screenplay & Director: Sven Halfar

DoP: Carol Burandt von Kameke

Working Title: Long Day, short Cry

Shoot: Mid July – Mid August 2011

Location: in and around Hamburg

Official Website: www.DeAD-derfilm.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/deadfilm

Distribution: ARIES IMAGES

Video on Demand: alleskino.de

Soundtrack: Dead (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Official Premiere: 03.02.2014 – 20:00h in the Abaton Cinema, Hamburg

Theatrical Release: 13.02.2014
Abaton Hamburg, Camera Zwo Saarbrücken, Babylon Berlin-Mitte, Sputnik Berlin, Thalia Augsburg, Metropol Stuttgart, Cinecitta Nürnberg, Schauburg Karlsruhe, KIF Dresden, Orfeo’s Erben Frankfurt/Main, Filmkunsttheater Kammer Marburg, Luru Kino Leipzig, Cinema Ostertor Bremen, Cinemotion Kino Bremerhaven, Staufen Kino Göppingen, Li.Wu Rostock, Linse Weingarten

Postproduction Funding and Distribution Funding by the Filmfund Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein.

„DeAD“ – Themesong nominated for the German Filmmusicaward (category „best song in film“)

Berlinale 2013 – Perspektive deutsches Kino

Filmkunstfest M-V, Schwerin 2013

10. Neisse Filmfestival

Transilvania International Film Festival 2013, Rumänien

Ahrenshooper Filmnächte 2013

Filmfest Hamburg 2013

Deutsche Filmwoche 2013 vom Goethe-Institut in Belgrad, Nis & Novi Sad, Serbien

Nordische Filmtage Lübeck 2013

Exground Filmfestival Wiesbaden 2013

Filmfest KINO Lissabon 2014 vom Goethe-Institut, Portugal

Patrick: Tilman Strauß

Elmer: Niklas Kohrt

Dr. Borz: Thomas Schendel

Judith: Judith Rosmair

Birgit: Suzanne von Borsody

Holger: Tobias Kay

Romy: Ruby O Fee

Costumes: Heidrun Schwantge

Production Design: Kay Kulke

Make-Up Artist: Carina Häusler

Sound Engineer: Martin Gerigk

Casting: Suse Marquardt

Productionmanager: svenBo

Production Assistant: Elsa Wagener, Giuliana Prinz

Assistant Director: Florian Schwombeck