UNVEILED
 
STILLS

Fariba, prosecuted in Iran because of her love to a women, flees to Germany. But her application for asylum is turned down. Her desperate prospects are improved by the suicide of her fellow-inmate Siamak: she assumes his identity and using his temporary permit of sojourn, is send to a province village.

At first glance her survival seems to be assured, but in the refugee home she is obliged to uphold her male disguise in cramped quarters and a single mistake could blow up her cover.

In order to pay for forged documents, she takes an illegal job in a sauerkraut factory, where she meets Anne, who is very solicitous about Siamak’s well-being and derives some kind of pleasure from the strange foreigner. While spending more and more time together, they become dangerously close and Anne begins to suspect Fariba’s true identity.

 

 

Angelina Maccarone has directed feature films such as Unveiled (2005) which received numerous awards like “Best Feature Film – Hessischer Filmpreis” 2005, “Jury Grand Prize” at image+nation Int. LGBT Festival Montréal 2005, Jury Award “Best Narrative Feature” at Seattle L&G FilmFestival 2005, and “Best Film” and “Best Direction” at the Cyprus Int. Film Festival 2006. Among her older films, Everything will be fine (1997), which was premiered at the Hamburg Festival, received international awards. Other films include An Angel’s Revenge (1998) and award winning social spots You can’t rewind your life.
Her latest feature film is Hounded (2006).

“What interests me is the inalterable and the alteration of one’s own identity. The fact that Fariba is forced to assume a different identity, to transform herself into a foreign body, adds even more gravity to the condition of exile. She has to submit, not only to an external exile, but also to an internal one. She offers herself as a projection surface for prejudices but against all expectancy, she rises above all the rules of prohibition; she is the bearer of a secret, a personality with a mind of its own concealed behind a prescribed mask.”

JASMIN TABATABAI

Born in 1967 in Theheran, Iran, Jasmin Tabatabai has appeared in numerous films and TV movies. Among her finest performances are the award winning Bandits (1997), No Place to Go (2000) and Moonlight Tariff (2001). For Late Show (1999) she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress at the German Film Awards.

Cast

Fariba
JASMIN TABATABAI

Anne
ANNEKE KIM SARNAU

Siamak
NAVID AKHAVAN

Uwe
HINNERK SCHÖNEMANN

Andi
JENS MÜNCHOW

Gasmut
JEVGENIJ SITOCHIN

 

Crew

Directed by
ANGELINA MACCARONE

Written by
ANGELINA MACCARONE and JUDITH KAUFMANN

Director of Photography
JUDITH KAUFMANN (BVK)

Production Design
THOMAS STROMBERGER

Editor
BETTINA BÖHLER B.F.S.


Sound Engineer
ANDREAS MÜCKE NIESYTKA

Make Up
SUSANA SÁNCHEZ NUNEZ

Costume
ATELIER VON WEDEL & TIEDEKEN

Casting
TINA BÖCKENHAUER

Production Manager
MILANKA COMFORT

Producer
ULRIKE ZIMMERMANN

Co-Producer
MARKUS FISCHER

A MMM FILM ZIMMERMANN Production in Coproduction with FISCHER FILM.

Supported by MEDIEN- & FILMGESELLSCHAFT BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG, FILMFÖRDERUNG HAMBURG, FILMFONDS WIEN, ÖSTERREICHISCHES FILMINSTITUT, BKM, MEDIENBOARD BERLIN-BRANDENBURG, FILMSTIFTUNG NRW. HESSISCHE FILMFÖRDERUNG, MEDIA Plus Programme.

 

Technical Information

UNVEILED (Fremde Haut) - Germany/Austria 2005 - Original Language: German, Farsi w. Engl. subtitles - 97 min -35mm - Colour -1:1,85 - Dolby Digital

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