Sleep (2020)
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| Original title | sleep |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2020 |
| length | 101 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Michael Venus |
| script | Michael Venus, Thomas Friedrich |
| production | Verena Gräfe-Höft |
| music | Johannes Lehninger , Sebastian Damerius |
| camera | Marius von Felbert |
| cut | Silke Olthoff |
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Sleep is a German thriller under the direction of Michael Venus . the script was written by Thomas Friedrich and Michael Venus. The debut film had its world premiere at the Berlinale in February 2020 in the Perspektive Deutsches Kino section .
action
The psychological thriller tells of a daughter who tries to help her mother and comes across an old family secret. Three generations of women are linked to a village community that is plagued by a series of suicides.
The 39-year-old Marlene has been tormented by violent nightmares for years: As a demonic figure, she drives the inhabitants of a low mountain village unknown to her insane. She recorded this in every detail in her dream diaries. When she happens to see pictures of the village of Stainbach in a travel journal, she recognizes this as the place where her dreams take place. She goes there spontaneously without telling her 19-year-old daughter Mona anything about it.
Arriving in Stainbach, Marlene gets to feel the real consequences of her dreams: She learns that her dreams had frighteningly real consequences in the village. Marlene then collapses, goes into shock and is no longer able to speak. She is admitted to a psychiatric clinic and lies there in a deep, coma-like sleep. Her daughter Mona comes to her aid. In Stainbach she meets the couple in whose hotel her mother lived. The two now want to help her find answers: What happened in Stainbach? What bothered Marlene so much? Step by step, Mona uncovered her family's secret. The young woman not only encounters resistance from the locals, but also black spots in the past of the idyllic village: Mona finds an explosives factory in the forest. Forced laborers died there during the Nazi era . The young woman has to face the fight against the dark forces of the past - first in her dreams, but then the danger becomes real.
production
This German thriller was directed by Michael Venus and the screenplay was written by Michael Venus and Thomas Friedrich. The cameraman was Marius von Felbert . The film was produced by Verena Gräfe-Höft, Junafilm and the small television game of ZDF .
The film was shot from April 8, 2019 to May 7, 2019 in Hamburg and at 43 locations in the Harz Mountains ( Clausthal-Zellerfeld and Wildemann ). The central location was the former Erherprinzentanne sanatorium , which in the film becomes the Sonnenhügel hotel. The film takes place in a fictional location.
The music was composed by Johannes Lehninger and Sebastian Damerius , Silke Olthoff was responsible for the film editing , and Lena Mundt was the set designer .
The budget was around 1.4 million euros. Funding came from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (production funding : 180,000 euros in December 2017), the German Film Fund (production funding : 230,000 euros), the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein film funding (40,000 euros for project development in November 2016 and 350,000 euros for production development in November 2017) and Nordmedia (production funding : 200,000 euros in August 2018).
The lender is Salzgeber & Company Medien . World sales are in the hands of Global Screen .
The film launch in Germany is scheduled for August 6, 2020.
Awards
The film was at the Berlinale 2020 for the award the Best First film of GWFF nominated. At the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival he is nominated for the audience award in the online competition.
Web links
- Profile at berlinale.de
- Sleep with crew united
- Sleeping in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for sleep . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 198639 / K).
- ↑ a b c ZDF is shooting psychological thriller "Sleep". Press portal ZDF, accessed on February 8, 2020 .
- ↑ a b sleep | Film 2020. Accessed February 7, 2020 .
- ^ ZDF psychological thriller "Sleep" on the shoot. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .
- ↑ a b SLEEP. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Movie starts: Sleep. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Film starts: cast and staff of Schlaf: actors, directors, production. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Crew United, Sleep, main data accessed January 12, 2020
- ↑ a b c visit to the set in Clausthal-Zellerfeld :. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Crew United, sleep, shooting dates accessed January 12, 2020
- ↑ Crew United, Sleep, project data accessed January 12, 2020
- ↑ GWFF Award for Best First Feature. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .
- ↑ sleep. In: nifff.ch. Retrieved July 9, 2020.