Jerichow

The Afghanistan veteran Thomas returns to his home village of Jerichow after his mother dies. Ali, a local Turkish-German businessman, owner of a snack-bar chain, hires him as a driver. Meanwhile,Thomas meets Laura, his Turkish boss young and attractive wife. A classic love triangle emerges, unfolding in desolate northeastern Germany, where thick forests suddenly end on cliffs, overlooking the Baltic Sea. Caught between guilt and freedom, between passion and reason, the protagonists have no hope of fulfilling their dreams.

Duration: 90
Production year: 2008
Country: Germany
Subtitles: min Subtitles PT

Official Selection in Competition - Venice Film Festival

Christian Petzold

Christian Petzold is a German filmmaker, known as Hitchcock’s successor as master of suspense. In 2000, he directed his first feature-film, The State I Am In, a story about a couple of two German left-wing terrorists, that granted him several awards, of which the German Film Award for Best Film. His next three films premiered at the Berlin Film Festival: Wolfsburg (2003), in the Panorama section, where it won the FIPRESCI award, Ghosts (2005) and Yella (2007, in the official competition. Bárbara (2012) earned him the award for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. In the work of Petzold, filmmaker of the “Berlin School”, characters recurrently hide fundamental truths about themselves, thus finding their inner self continuously divided. In paranoia and anxiety, his films tackle forms of productivity and individuality habitual of the neoliberal economic model, questioning the “flexibility” of the labour world, without ever resorting to clichés. His most recent feature-film Undine (2020) won the Silver Bear for Best Actress (Paula Beer) and finds itself competing in the 2020 edition of LEFFEST.

Original title: Jerichow

Christian Petzold

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