BREAKDOWN IN TOKYO

In the throes of an existential crisis, an aging director decides to travel to Japan to film the tour of his son’s rock-band, PEROPERO. His partner Emma acts as producer as they follow the band’s per­formances in a string of live clubs across Japan. When the director falls hard for the young Japanese tour manager, both the film shoot and his life threaten to fall apart.

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ZOLTAN PAUL was born in Budapest. After studying Acting in Austria, he had roles in films by Michael Haneke and Reinhard Schwabenitzky, and then moved to Germany, where he was a member of several theater ensembles and took on roles in numerous television productions. He began directing in 1990, including his own play Salieri’s Mozart (1991) and the rock opera Rausch (loosely based on Goldoni’s The Liar), and has written the screenplays of several episodes of the popular TV crime series SOKO 5113. His films as a director include: GONE (2003), LIVE WIRE (2009), WOMAN’S LAKE (2012), AMOK – HANSI GEHT’S GUT (2015) and BREAKDOWN IN TOKYO (2017).

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