Official Program Berlinale 2015
DIE ABHANDENE WELT photo 2015 Concorde Filmverleih/Jan Betke

DIE ABHANDENE WELT

THE MISPLACED WORLD

By pure coincidence, a photograph found on the internet by chance of a renowned American opera singer, Caterina Fabiani, throws the lives of Paul Kromberger and his daughter Sophie into complete chaos. Paul, well advanced in his years, appears to recognize the image as that of his deceased wife Evelyn, Sophie’s mother. Unable to convince her controlling-and-stubborn-to-a-fault father otherwise, Sophie sets off for New York to seek out this mysterious stranger...

Director

MARGARETHE VON TROTTA ranks among the most important female directors in German cinema since the 1970s, during which time she also made a name for herself as an actress. Today primarily active as a screen­writer and director, her most well-known films include: THE LOST HONOR OF KATHARINA BLUM (1975, in co-direction with Volker Schlöndorff), THE SECOND AWAKENING OF CHRISTA KLAGES (1977), SISTERS OR THE BALANCE OF HAPPINESS (1979), MARIANNE AND JULIANE (1981), SHEER MADNESS (1983), ROSA LUXEMBURG (1985), THE AFRICAN WOMAN (1990), THE LONG SILENCE (1993), THE PROMISE (1994), ROSENSTRASSE (2003), I AM THE OTHER WOMAN (2006), VISION (2009), and her latest film THE MISPLACED WORLD (2015).

photo © 2015 Concorde Filmverleih/Jan Betke
  • Berlinale 2015 (Berlinale Special)

    Genre
    Drama
  • CATEGORY
    Feature
  • YEAR OF PRODUCTION
    2015
  • DIRECTOR
    Margarethe von Trotta
  • SCREENPLAY
    Margarethe von Trotta
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY
    Axel Block
  • CAST
    Katja Riemann, Barbara Sukowa, Matthias Habich, Gunnar Möller, Robert Seeliger, Karin Dor, Tom Beck, August Zirner, Rüdiger Vogler
  • PRODUCER
    Markus Zimmer
  • PRODUCTION COMPANIES
    Clasart Film, Tele München
  • RUNTIME
    101 min
  • LANGUAGE
    German
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