Gisela
GER 2005, 90 min
A love triangle.
Synopsis
Georg and Paul, two slightly aged slackers in an anonymous tower block estate celebrate booze feasts, boast their sexual accomplishments and get under the spell of married check-out girl Gisela ...
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Language: German, Subtitles: English
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Press reviews
Stever’s admirably matter-of-fact account of the development of this decidedly unromantic triangle paints a persuasive portrait of the lives of lower-middle-class twenty- and thirtysomethings in today’s Europe. Without resorting to melodramatic cliché or easy moral judgements, she subtly suggests that her characters are caught in a world circumscribed by feelings of powerlessness, passivity, conformism, frustration and boredom. The naturalistic performances ring as true as the low-key realism informing both the visuals and the narrative, at times lending the film an authenticity and integrity reminiscent of the Fassbinder of ‘Katzelmacher’ and ‘Wild Game’. – Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Awards and Festivals
Crossing Europe Film Festival, Österreich - „Best Film“
Baltic Debuts Film Festival, Russland - „Best Film“
International Filmfestival Locarno, Schweiz
New Montreal Filmfest, Kanada
London Filmfestival
Göteborg Filmfestival, Schweden
Filmfestival Max-Ophüls-Preis
Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin - German Cinema
Midnight Sun Film Festival, Finnland
Cairo International Film Festival, Ägypten
JIFF Jeonju, Korea
Additional Texts
For me Gisela is a story about freedom. What I liked about the novel was the anarchist attitude and its humour. Its nature suggests a film, which cannot be a study of a milieu. The setting is quite abstract, so that the attention is focused on the characters. [...] Georg, Paul and Gisela are not concerned with morality in a conventional sense, that‘s why I am thrilled finding them modern and progressive. In keeping with that, I wanted Gisela to have a non-judgemental, matter-of-fact authenticity. – Isabelle Stever
Galerie Extras
Set photos from the film shooting of GISELA.
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Credits
Director
Isabelle Stever
With
Anne Weinknecht, Carlo Ljubek, Stefan Rudolph, Anna Loos, Esther Zimmering, Judith Hoersch, Horst Markgraf
Screenplay
Anke Stelling, Isabelle Stever
Book template
Anke Stelling, Robby Dannenberg
Director of Photography
James Carman
Editor
Christian Krämer
Music
Jojo Röhm, Jochen Arbeit
Production Design
Alexander Scherer
Props
Volker Tobian
Make-up Artist
Marie Leibfried, Mieke Willaert
Costume Design
Alexander Scherer
Sound Design
Roland Platz
Sound
Ulf Herrmann
Sound Mixing
Michael Kranz', Heiko Müller
Casting
Bernhard Karl
Commissioning Editor
Barbara Buhl
1st AD
Jakob Rühle
2nd AD
Manuela Morsch
Line Producer
Cornelia Kellers
Production Manager
Till Derenbach
Set Manager
Holger Büscher, Daniel Illigens
Producer
Gerd Haag
Production
TAG/TRAUM
Co-produced by
WRD
World Premiere
June 27, 2005, Filmfest München
DVD-Details
Extras
Short film REQUIEM FÜR ETWAS, DAS SEHR KLEIN IST (1997), Trailer
Language
German
Subtitles
English
Country Code
Code-free
System
PAL / Color
Length
90 min + Extras
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Sound Format
DD 2.0
Set-Content
Softbox (Set Inhalt: 1)
Release date
09.03.2007
Rating
From 16 years
Distribution Details
Screening Format
DCP (2K, 25 fps, 5.1)
Aspect Ratio
16:9
Language
German
Subtitles
Englisch, Russisch
Promotion Material
/
License Area
Germany, Austria, Swiss
Rating
From 16 years
