Der letzte Mentsch

The Last Man

Germany / Switzerland, November 2013
FILM, Fiction, 95 min.

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directed by
Pierre-Henry Salfati
Written by
Pierre-Henry Salfati
Status
In distribution

Marcus is a Holocaust survivor. After the war, his strategy for survival had been to forget everything - as though nothing had happened, the horror had never taken place and his family had not been killed. As an old man Marcus is all of a sudden caught up by his past and wants to be buried in a Jewish graveyard. To his surprise though, he must first prove that he is Jewish. In search of proof he must return to the village of his childhood in Hungary. A young Turkish woman, Gül, agrees to accompany him. For both begins a critical examination of their own identity.

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World Premiere
November 2013
Original Version
German,  colour, DCP, 95 min.
ISAN
0000-0003-AD12-0000-4-0000-0000-P
Production
Elsani Film, FAMA FILM AG, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, Sequoia Films
Producer
Anita Elsani, Rolf Schmid, Sylvain Bursztejn
directed by
Pierre-Henry Salfati
Written by
Pierre-Henry Salfati
Cinemato­graphy
Felix von Muralt
Editing
Regina Bärtschi, Hansjörg Weissbrich
Sound Editing
Florian Kaltenegger
Sound Design
Karl Attlen
Re-Recording Mix
Tilo Busch
Music
René Dohmen, Joachim Dürbeck
Location Sound Mix
Hank Trede
Production Design
Jutta Freyer
Lighting Design
Hartmut Pollitt
Costumes
Romy Reinfeld
Casting
Nora Friedrich

Cast

Mario Adorf as Marcus Schwartz
Katharina Derr as Gül
Hannelore Elsner as Ethel
Herbert Leiser as Mikos
Roland Bonjour as Arnold
Markus Klauk as Premiak
Margot Gödrös as Madame Kodaye

World Sales / World Rights

World Sales
Atlas International Film

Worldwide Distribution

Austria
Thimfilm GmbH Distribution
Release date: 08.05.2014
Germany
Farbfilm Verleih GmbH Distribution
Release date: 08.05.2014

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