Half asleep
Half asleep is an excellent national and international awards Swiss short fiction of Berners John Hartmann . The 8-minute dark thriller was produced by the Decoy Collective company and financed with funds from the Burgergemeinde Bern and with the help of private investors and sponsors .
Half asleep celebrated its premiere at the 46th Solothurn Film Festival .
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Half asleep |
| Original title | Half asleep |
| Country of production | Switzerland |
| original language | Swiss German |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 8 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Johannes Hartmann |
| script | Johannes Hartmann |
| production | Johannes Hartmann |
| music | Fredrik Strömberg |
| camera | Eric Lehner |
| cut | Johannes Hartmann, Felix Tanner |
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production
The official budget was 80,000 Swiss francs , although the film was ultimately made with a much smaller budget, which was only possible thanks to the generous support of the actors and crew.
action
Ben and Nina come home late and have one last drink. They philosophize together about times past. When the doorbell rings unexpectedly, events precipitate and suddenly nothing is what it seems. A game of confusion begins through dream and reality.
When Ben opens the door, nobody is outside. But the doorbell rings again, causing Ben to wake up. Drunk with sleep, he opens the door and meets two policemen. The officers inform him that his girlfriend is dead and he must now accompany her to the station. When Ben resists the arrest, he wakes up from the nightmare bathed in sweat - and finds that Nina is sleeping peacefully in bed next to him. He takes her in his arms, reassured, and falls asleep again.
When the alarm goes off in the morning, Ben gets up and drinks a coffee in the kitchen. Then he says goodbye to the sleeping Nina. When Ben has left the apartment, you can see that Nina is already dead and that her body is already decaying.
background
The film deals with the subject of death and how people deal with it. The author was inspired to the story by a newspaper article about a man who lived with his late wife for several years.
Reviews
Film critics particularly praise the visual and technical implementation of the film and the performance of the actors.
Awards
- Festivus Film Festival 2012 (Denver, Colorado USA)
- Winner in the Best Short Short category
- Los Angeles Cinema Festival of Hollywood 2012 (USA)
- Award of Merit
- YoungCuts International Film Festival 2011 (Montreal, Canada)
- Winner in the Best International Film category
- Swiss Youth Film Festival 2012 (Zurich, Switzerland)
- Swiss Youth Film Festival, category D award winner
- Special mention by the UNICA jury
Web links
- Half asleep in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website for the film
- Trailer for the film on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filming in September. ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Halbschlaf.ch from August 10, 2010
- ↑ Half asleep - Exclusive preview In: OutNow.ch
- ↑ Half asleep Review. ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: OutNow.ch
- ↑ Swiss Youth Film Festival 2011: Jury statement ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Festivus Film Festival 2012 Award Winners & Recap ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Winter 2012 Winners
- ↑ YoungCuts Film Festival: Award Winners
- ↑ Swiss Youth Film Festival 2011: Jury statement ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
