PAUL BOWLES HALBMOND
(Halfmoon)
Frieder Schlaich, Irene von Alberti,
D 1995,
93 min
AM STRAND VON MERKALA (On the Beach of Merkala) tells the story of two young men in Tanger. One of them likes smoking pot, the other one prefers drinking alcohol. When both fall in love with the same girl, their friendship is put to an ultimate test.
ZWISCHENHALT IN CORAZON (Stopover in Corazon) is the account of a newly-wed couple on their honeymoon-boat trip through the Amazonas jungle. At the end of their journey all is left are feelings of revenge.
In ALLAL an outcast boy in an Arab village at the edge of the Sahara desert turns into a snake.
Press Coverage
Together the three stories capture the essence of Mr. Bowles’s vision of human cruelty as a driving life force indivisible from the harsh equatorial landscapes in which his characters find themselves.
(The New York Times, 1996)
Awards and Festivals
- Spielfilmpreis der deutschen Filmkritik 1995
- Festival of European Cinema, La Baule 1995 - Grand Prix Europe
- Deutscher Kamerapreis 1995
