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DER TAG (The Day)

fotoUli M. Schueppel | D 2008 | 84 min.

Material: DV
Format: BetaSP
Original language: German

Script: Uli M. Schueppel
Camera: Cornelius Plache
Editing: Ernst Carias
Sound: Martin Frühmorgen
Musik: FM Einheit

Production: schueppel-films & zdf in Zusammenarbeit mit arte
Print/Sales: schueppel-films

New Berlin Film Award, Berlin 2009

www.schueppel-films.de

 

 

A film in twelve stanzas about other people's death. Twelve survivors narrate off-screen how they spent their last day with a person close to them: a child, a friend, a lover, a colleague or a parent. Often death was anxiously expected, but just as often it happened suddenly and, above all, at the wrong moment.

Uli M. Schueppel isn't interested in professions of faith in the power of death. He doesn't squeeze sentimental mourning reflexes from his audience, nor does he wallow in esoteric small talk to the effect that dying just has to be 'accepted' as a part of life that we normally block out. He confidently takes a position beyond all cheap talk and invites us to share with his narrators the moments when death prepares to take a close person irrevocably away. – Ralph Eue

 

Uli M. Schueppel, born in 1958, studied at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb). In 1998, Schüppel together with producer Milanka Comfort set up the production company "deflex-film". Schüppel works as an advisor and as a curator for the "b.film & digital vision Festival" in Berlin. He also regularly works as a guest lecturer at dffb since 2002.

Films (selection): 2010 Tranzania Living. Room | 2008 Der Tag | 2009 Elektrokohle (von wegen) | 2007 Berlin Song | 2005 Santos – Heldentaten, die keiner braucht | 2001 Planet | Alex | 1992 Vaterland

 

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