Official Program Berlinale 2017
HELLE NÄCHTE photo Marco Krüger/Schramm Film

HELLE NÄCHTE

BRIGHT NIGHTS

Berlin-based engineer Michael must travel to Norway for his father’s funeral. When his sister is unwilling to travel, Michael decides to take along his 14-year-old son Luis, with whom he has always had minimal contact. Michael hopes to bond with Luis while exploring the remote region of northern Norway for a few days. But their first trip together is much more difficult than expected. Daily interaction is unfamiliar territory to both, and Luis obviously holds a grudge because of his father’s negligence. But during these longest days of summer, Michael is determined to break a bittersweet father-son pattern.

Director

THOMAS ARSLAN was born in 1962. He studied Germanics and History in Munich and Film at the German Film & Television Academy (DFFB) in Berlin. He has been working as a writer and filmmaker since 1992. His films include: MACH DIE MUSIK LEISER (1994), the trilogy, GESCHWISTER (1996), DEALER (1998) and A FINE DAY (DER SCHÖNE TAG, 2000), IM SCHATTEN (2009), GOLD (2013), and BRIGHT NIGHTS (HELLE NÄCHTE, 2017).

Thomas Arslan
Thomas Arslan
photos © Marco Krüger/Schramm Film
  • Berlinale 2017 (In Competition)

    Genre
    Drama
  • CATEGORY
    Feature
  • YEAR OF PRODUCTION
    2017
  • DIRECTOR
    Thomas Arslan
  • SCREENPLAY
    Thomas Arslan
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY
    Reinhold Vorschneider
  • CAST
    Georg Friedrich, Tristan Göbel, Marie Leuenberger, Hanna Karlberg
  • PRODUCERS
    Florian Koerner von Gustorf, Michael Weber
  • CO-PRODUCERS
    Maria Ekerhovd, Svein Andersen, Kjetil Jensberg, Andrea Hanke
  • PRODUCTION COMPANY
    Schramm Film Koerner & Weber, in co-production with mer Films, FilmCamp, WDR
  • RUNTIME
    86 min
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • FESTIVALS
    Berlinale 2017 (In Competition)
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