Atomised ( Elementarteilchen ) ( Elementary Particles )

Atomised (DVD) (*)

$22.99

Original Title: Elementarteilchen
Alternate Title: Elementary Particles
Screened, competed or awarded at:
European Film Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
108 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2006 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Oskar Roehler

Written By:
Michel Houellebecq
Oskar Roehler

Actors:
Moritz Bleibtreu ..... Bruno
Christian Ulmen ..... Michael
Martina Gedeck ..... Christiane
Franka Potente ..... Annabelle
Nina Hoss ..... Jane
Uwe Ochsenknecht ..... Brunos Vater
Corinna Harfouch ..... Dr. Schäfer
Ulrike Kriener ..... Annabelles Mutter
Jasmin Tabatabai ..... Yogini
Michael Gwisdek ..... Professor Fleißer
Herbert Knaup ..... Sollers
Tom Schilling ..... Michael jung
Hermann Beyer ..... Annabelles Vater
Nina Kronjäger ..... Katja
Deborah Kaufmann ..... Hannelore

Synopsis:

With his bittersweet, German-language tragicomedy The Elementary Particles, writer-director Oskar Roehler brings to the screen Michel Houellebecq's popular seriocomic novel of two ill-adjusted siblings. Christian Ullmen and Moritz Bleibtreu portray, respectively, Michael and Bruno, half brothers who have each adjusted poorly to adult life, thanks in no small part to a cracked upbringing by their eccentric, social dropout mother. As the story opens, each brother experiences a personal crisis. Geneticist Michael returns to his work in cloning after an extended period away from his Irish laboratory, but suffers in quiet desperation from his intense inner loneliness; he must soon leave the lab once again and head back to his hometown, where his grandmother's corpse is being disinterred from a cemetery. Upon arrival, he reencounters Annabelle (Franka Potente of Run Lola Run), an adolescent crush to whom he was never before able to express his romantic yearnings; they consummate an intense erotic affair, and remain together, but a troubled pregnancy renders her infertile and makes family conception an utter impossibility. Meanwhile, high school teacher Bruno (a married husband and father) is driven completely around the bend by sexual yearnings for his female students, and consequently suffers from a nervous breakdown; he checks himself into a sanitarium, then heads off on a bender at a swingers' retreat with a new lover, Christiane (Martina Gedeck - but their pleasure is all too short-lived. Nina Hoss and Uwe Ochsenknecht co-star.

Michael and Bruno are two very different types of half-brothers. While Michael, the introverted molecular biologist, is more interested in genes rather than women, Bruno is more preoccupied with contacts in feminine sex or in brothels. Yet both in the end are favoured with the love of their life. But both women soon fall gravely ill, and paradise seems at an end...

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 18 July, 2007.

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