Vacation from life
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| Original title | Vacation from life |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK without |
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| Director | Neele Vollmar |
| script | Janko Hashemian |
| production | Jochen Laube |
| music | Thomas Mehlhorn |
| camera | Pascal Schmit |
| cut | Andrea Mertens |
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Urlaub vom Leben is a German feature film from 2005. It is the diploma film by Neele Vollmar ( director ), Jochen Laube ( production ) and Pascal Schmit ( camera ) at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy . It is distributed by Schwarz-Weiss Filmverleih .
"Urlaub vom Leben" is a co-production with " ZDF / Das kleine Fernsehspiel" and was shot in Bremen . The film ran very successfully in German cinemas on February 2, 2006 , and over 95,000 viewers saw it. Before it was released, "Urlaub vom Leben" was shown at numerous festivals , and had its world premiere as the opening film of the Hof International Film Festival . In April 2006, the film was awarded the Studio Hamburg Young Talent Award as the best newcomer feature film of the year .
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Rolf Köster has been working as a cashier in a small bank branch for years. Every day goes by like the day before. He has a thirteen-year-old daughter who prefers to write a diary than to speak and a six-year-old son who has to wear a bicycle helmet because his head is constantly running against walls. His wife organizes all of family life, and Rolf stays in the background. But he doubts whether he, who has "everything", is really happy. Rolf surprisingly gets a week's vacation. He decides not to tell his family about this and to go out of the house as usual. Rolf Köster begins a double life.
Together with the lively taxi driver Sophie he begins to explore his surroundings. On this voyage of discovery, he gets to know his environment and people anew. As luck would have it, he discovered his wife in a supermarket. Köster has lived with her for years, but lately he has not known her or her life anymore. Now another man is waiting for her in front of the shop. The "vacation from life" opens Köster's eyes and makes it clear to him that he is actually no longer alive. At the end of this week, Rolf Köster will return to real life and has regained his curiosity.