A Godsend
Filmfest 2014
(Ein Geschenk der Götter)
Germany 2014
Original version with English subtitles
(Original: German)
World Premiere
Director: Oliver Haffner
Section: New German Cinema
Out of the blue Anna, an actress at a provincial city theater, is fired. Fresh off the stage, she suddenly finds herself at the local unemployment bureau. On the urging of her theater-obsessed case worker, she takes on teaching an acting course for eight 'hard-to-place' welfare recipients – as a compulsory training measure. Overcoming their substantial resistance, Anna forms the frustrated lone wolves into a group and starts to rehearse Antigone with them. This gives new impetus to the participants' own private dramas, while Anna too experiences a sort of 'comeback' for which she is not quite prepared.
Cast: Katharina Marie Schubert, Adam Bousdoukos, Katharina Hauter, Paul Faßnacht, Marion Breckwoldt, Rainer Furch, Maik Solbach, Rick Okon, Canan Kir, Eva Löbau
Credits
Screenplay: Oliver Haffner
Director of Photography: Kaspar Kaven
Film Editor: Anja Pohl
Composer: Franz Schubert
Production Designer: Hannes Hartmann, Christine Bentele
Costume Design: Christian Röhrs
Sound: Rüdiger Fleck
Producer: Ingo Fliess
Production Company: if... Productions e.K.
Director: Oliver Haffner
