Gripsholm
Switzerland / Germany / Austria, October 2000
FILM,
Fiction,
100 min.
- directed by
- Xavier Koller
- Status
- In distribution
The film takes us deep into the shady, pleasure-seeking cabaret world of Berlin at the beginning of the 1930's, where “open season” has been declared on the last remaining bourgeois taboos, and the few remaining fig leaves of modesty are about to be swept away. Kurt, a campaigning journalist and satirist who has become a celebrity thanks to the rather saucy lyrics he has written for the songs of various shows has set off with his girlfriend Lydia, his princess, on a journey to Gripsholm castle in Sweden, in the course of a seemingly endless summer. Two friends, the fashionable variety show singer Billie and a temperamental aviator who goes by the name of Karlchen join them briefly on the holiday in Sweden. Erotic impulses inevitably lead to complications in their relationships.
credits
- World Premiere
- October 2000
- Original Version
- German (french subtitles), colour, 35mm, 100 min.
- Production
- Catpics, Thomas Wilkening Filmgesellschaft, DOR Film GmbH, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, Teleclub AG
- Producer
- Alfi Sinniger, Katja Dor, Thomas Wilkening
- directed by
- Xavier Koller
- Cinematography
- Pio Corradi, Felix von Muralt
- Lighting Design
- André Pinkus
Cast
World Sales / World Rights
- World Sales
- Bavaria Media GmbH
Awards
(a selection)
- Solothurn, Bundesamt für Kultur, Swiss Film Award, Best Fiction Film 2001 (Nomination)
Festivals
(a selection)
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Haifa, 29th Haifa International Film Festival
19.09.2013 - 28.09.2013 -
San Diego, San Diego International Film Festival
29.03.2002 - 14.04.2002 -
Washington, D.C., Jewish Film Festival
29.11.2001 - 09.12.2001 -
Festival of Jewish Cinema
08.11.2001 - 25.11.2001 -
Boston, Boston Jewish Film Festival
01.11.2001 - 11.11.2001 -
Ghent, International Flanders Film Festival
08.10.2001 - 18.10.2001 -
Festival do Rio
27.09.2001 - 08.10.2001 -
Locarno, 54. Festival internazionale del film Locarno
02.08.2001 - 12.08.2001 -
Jerusalem Film Festival
12.07.2001 - 21.07.2001 -
Festival of Festivals IFF St. Petersburg
23.06.2001 - 29.06.2001
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Graz, Festival des österreichischen Films
19.03.2001 - 25.03.2001 -
German Cinema
07.02.2001 - 18.02.2001 -
Solothurn, Solothurner Filmtage
23.01.2001 - 28.01.2001 -
Palm Springs, Palm Springs International Film Festival
11.01.2001 - 22.01.2001 -
Busan, Busan International Film Festival
06.10.2000 - 14.10.2000