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In this second collaboration between Petzold and actress Nina Hoss, the suburbs of the industrial city of Wolfsburg are the scene of a fateful accident involving a young boy. Philipp, a car salesman, plays an important role in the tragedy, the consequences of which will mark the development of the film, portraying the lives of Laura, the boy's mother, and Philipp - two people haunted by the same ghost.
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Cast:
Benno Fürmann, Nina Hoss, Antje Westermann -
Original Title:
Wolfsburg -
Country:
Germany -
Year:
2003 - 90 min Subtitles: PT and EN
Director
Christian Petzold
Christian Petzold is a German filmmaker, known as Hitchcock’s successor as master of suspense. In 2000, he directed his first feature-film, The State I Am In, a story about a couple of two German left-wing terrorists, that granted him several awards, of which the German Film Award for Best Film. His next three films premiered at the Berlin Film Festival: Wolfsburg (2003), in the Panorama section, where it won the FIPRESCI award, Ghosts (2005) and Yella (2007, in the official competition. Bárbara (2012) earned him the award for Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival. In the work of Petzold, filmmaker of the “Berlin School”, characters recurrently hide fundamental truths about themselves, thus finding their inner self continuously divided. In paranoia and anxiety, his films tackle forms of productivity and individuality habitual of the neoliberal economic model, questioning the “flexibility” of the labour world, without ever resorting to clichés. His most recent feature-film Undine (2020) won the Silver Bear for Best Actress (Paula Beer) and finds itself competing in the 2020 edition of LEFFEST.
