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IN TIMES OF FADING LIGHT (IN ZEITEN DES ABNEHMENDEN LICHTS) (Past Film)
DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, AUSTRIA
Local title : IN ZEITEN DES ABNEHMENDEN LICHTS  ;  Release date : Jul 28, 2017
 
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Completed - GERMAN, RUSSIAN - Drama - 100 minutes

Log Line

Just before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the birthday celebrations of an East German family turn into a tragicomical moment of political and personal breakdown.

Year of production : 2016

Director(s) : Matti GESCHONNECK
Writer(s) : Wolfgang KOHLHAASE
Cast : Bruno GANZ, Sylvester GROTH, Hildegard SCHMAHL, Alexander FEHLING, Natalia BELITSKI, Peter KURTH

Producer(s) : Oliver BERBEN (Moovie GmbH)

Synopsis

East Berlin, in the early autumn of ’89. The Powileit family celebrate the 90th birthday of Wilhelm, a former resistance fighter, returned expatriate and incorrigible Stalinist. His wife Charlotte is hosting the festivities where neighbors, acquaintances and dignitaries deliver flowers and give speeches as if nothing were amiss in the outside world. But someone is missing, and he’s the only one who in Charlotte’s opinion knows how to set up the extending table for the cold buffet: Sascha, her grandson. No one suspects that Sascha fled to West Germany just a few days ago… Through the eyes of Sascha’s father, Kurt – a historian, Gulag survivor, unhappily married to the Russian Irina – we experience the “Time of Fading Light” as a snapshot in time of the disintegration of a family and of a political system.

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Country(ies) : GERMANY

AUSTRIA Jul 28, 2017 FILMLADEN GMBH
GERMANY Jun 01, 2017 X VERLEIH AG
SWITZERLAN Aug 17, 2017 FILMCOOPI ZURIC


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