|
VIVERE |
|||||||||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||||||||||
 |
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
STILLS | |||||||||
 |
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||
|
Three women on the run, saving each other, saving themselves…On Christmas Eve, Francesca's little sister, Antonietta, runs away to Rotterdam with her musician boyfriend. On the way to find her, Francesca picks up Gerlinde, a suicidal lovesick woman. Now she has two lives to save. With the paths of three lost souls criss-crossing in Rotterdam, it soon is hard to tell who is saving whom. |
Angelina Maccarone wrote song lyrics for German pop star Udo Lindenberg and others, before co-directing her first screenplay "Kommt Mausi raus?!". For her movies "Everything will be fine" and "An Angel’s revenge" she won numerous prizes and awards. In 2004 she wrote and directed the feature film "Unveiled" (co-writer Judith Kaufmann). The film won the Hessen Film Prize and was followed immediately by the project "Hounded", which won a Golden Leopard in Locarno. VIVERE is her 6th movie, for which she has been working together with Judith Kaufmann again. This genius creative partnership leverages the movie into a very high quality of visual storytelling. |
On Christmas Eve, three women of different generations meet. They could be the same woman at different turning points in her life, as in their unfulfilled desires and their loneliness they seem to be soul mates. On that sacred day that others spend in the circle of their beloved, the Christmassy atmosphere is all around but never where they are. For them it shall become the day that unsettles their lives. Rotterdam, a city of contrasts between village and metropolis is where their paths lead them to. The place becomes the symbol for their lives where all of the three painfully have to let go of their old beliefs. The film is about the decisiveness to live your dreams and desires instead of dying for them. The script has the structure of three stories which meet at one point and become one. My concept of starting each story at noon on Christmas Day and covering the main events for each character until they all meet on the day after, allows to experiment with different cinematographic styles to underline each story’s own perspective. Hannelore Elsner Hannelore Elsner already demonstrated her brilliant acting in Oskar Roehler's „Die Unberührbare“ (No Place to Go, 2000), Oliver Hirschbiegel's „Mein letzter Film“ (2002), Rudolf Thome's “Frau fährt, Mann schläft” (Woman Driving, Man Sleeping, 2003) as well as Dany Levy's „Alles auf Zucker“ (Go for Zucker! 2004) and many more and was awarded several highly reckoned prizes. 2006 she most recently received the „Bundesverdienstkreuz“ as well as the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Bavarian Filmprize Jury |
Cast
Gerlinde Habermann Francesca Conchiglia Antonietta Conchiglia Enrico Conchiglia Snickers Carl Crew Written & Directed by Producer Coproducers Director of Photography Editor Production Designer Costume Designer Music Mixing Production Manager Technical information
VIVERE (Germany 2006) – Original Language: German |
click to enlarge/download
|
||||||||||||||
