27 November - 3 December 2009
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Sturm
STORM
Kerry Fox stars as Hannah Maynard, a prosecutor
at the tribunal in The Hague. She is leading a trial against Goran Duric,
who is accused of the deportation and killing of Bosnian-Muslim civilians
in a small town in what is now the Republika Srpska. When a key witness
is ensnared in the contradictions of his testimony, the court sends a
delegation to Bosnia to get a definitive picture of the events on site,
which only raises further doubts as to the witness’ credibility.
Shortly afterwards, he commits suicide. For Hannah, the case is not yet
lost. Hoping to uncover new findings, she travels to the witness’
burial in Sarajevo and meets his sister Mira. Hannah senses that Mira
has more to say about the defendant than she is willing to admit, but
she is afraid to face up to the past and endanger the future she has built
up with her family in Germany after the war. Finally winning her trust,
Hannah convinces her to testify in The Hague. Shortly before the critical
hearing, Duric’s defense tries to have Mira’s testimony disallowed
and finds unexpected support from the side of the judiciary. Hannah realizes
that her opponents are not only to be found in the dock, but also among
her own ranks.
Storm will be released in cinemas in Spring 2010.
Hans-Christian Schmid made his directorial debut in 1989 with the documentary Sekt oder Selters followed by the short Das lachende Gewitter, the documentary The Mechanism of the Miracle (Die Mechanik des Wunders) and the TV film Himmel und Hoelle. His breakthrough came in 1995 with It’s A Jungle Out There (Nach fuenf im Urwald). His other highly-acclaimed films include: 23 (1998), Crazy (2000), Distant Lights (Lichter, 2003), Requiem (2006), The Wondrous World of Laundry (Die wundersame Welt der Waschkraft, 2009), and Storm (Sturm, 2009).
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Director
Hans-Christian Schmid
Screenplay
Bernd Lange, Hans-Christian Schmid
Director of Photography
Bogumil Godfrejów
Editor
Hansjoerg Weissbrich
Music by
The Notwist
Producers
Britta Knoeller, Hans-Christian Schmid
Production Company
23/5 Filmproduktion/Berlin,
in co-production with Zentropa Entertainments/Berlin,
Zentropa International/Cologne, Zentropa Entertainments5/Hvidovre, Zentropa
International Netherlands/Amsterdam,
IDTV Film/Amsterdam,
Film I Vaest/Trollhaettan,
SWR/Baden-Baden, ARTE/Strasbourg, WDR/Cologne, BR/Munich
Principal Cast
Kerry Fox, Anamaria Marinca, Stephen Dillane, Rolf Lassgård, Alexander
Fehling, Tarik Filipovic, Kresimir Mikic, Steven Scharf,
Bent Mejding, Jesper Christensen
Length/Format
105 min, colour
Festival Screenings
Berlin 2009 (In Competition),
Sarajevo 2009, London 2009,
Prishtina 2009, Chicago 2009, Rio 2009
Awards
Amnesty International Film Prize 2009,
Prize of the Guild of German Art House Cinemas,
The “Berliner Morgenpost” Readers’ Jury Prize,
Part of the Official Selection of the LUX Prize 09 (European Parliament
Film Prize)
Verlag der Autoren Author’s Award 2009, Bernhard Wicki Film Prize
- The Bridge - German Cinema Award for Peace 2009
Original Version
English/German/Bosnian/Croation/
Serbian
Subtitled Version
English
With backing from
Eurimages, Filmstiftung NRW,
German Federal Film Board (FFA), DFFF, BKM, Danish Film Institute, Netherlands
Film Fund,
City of The Hague, Rotterdam Film Fund
World Sales
TrustNordisk
UK Distributor
Soda Pictures
A special thank you toSoda Pictures for
their kind permission to screen this film
