27 November - 3 December 2009
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Sunday 29 November 20:00 and Thursday
3 December 13:30
The screening will be preceded by
the short The Green Sheep 
Friedliche
Zeiten
Peaceful Times
Germany in the 1960s: Peaceful times in the West can start at last, if only Irene Striesow could manage to shake off the past. She is homesick for East Germany, mistrustful of the cease-fire, and most of all, distraught about her husband Dieter’s other women. She would rather die young and she doesn’t make any effort to hide it from Dieter and her three children Ute, Wasa and Flori. As their living room begins to look more like a war zone, the children decide to take matters into their own hands. They want their mother to finally be happy, Dieter to crack light-hearted jokes about East Germany again, and if possible, for World War III not to happen after all...
Neele Leana Vollmar studied at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg from 2000-2005. In 2003 she also participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus and the Hollywood Masterclass. Her films include: the shorts Wattenmeer (1999), Zu Zweit (1999), Eine Reise (2000), Sans une parole (2001), Weiss (2001), Tote Fische schwimmen oben (2002), My Parents (Meine Eltern, 2003), and the features Vacation from Life (Urlaub vom Leben, 2004), Peaceful Times (Friedliche Zeiten, 2008), Maria, He Doesn’t Like It! (Maria, ihm schmeckt’s nicht!, 2009).
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Director
Neele Leana Vollmar
Screenplay
Ruth Toma
Director of Photography
Pascal Schmit
Editor
Florian Drechsler
Music by
Oliver Thiede
Producer
Caroline Daube
Production Company
Royal Pony Film/Munich,
in co-production with BR/Munich,
ARTE/Strasbourg,
Odeon Pictures/Cologne,
Lunaris Film- & Fernsehproduktion/Munich,
Neue Kinowelt Filmproduktion/Berlin
Principal Cast
Katharina Marie Schubert,
Oliver Stokowski, Nina Monka,
Leonie Brill, Tamino Wecker,
Axel Prahl
Length/Format
98 min, colour
Festival Screenings
Munich 2008, Montreal 2008
Original Version
German
Subtitled Version
English
With backing from
German Federal Film Board (FFA),
FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, DFFF
World Sales
The Match Factory GmbH