Breathing ( Atmen ) ( Anapnoi )

Breathing (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Atmen
Alternate Title: Anapnoi
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival
European Film Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
German ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
German ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
90 min + 129 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Music Video
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2011 and produced in:
Austria ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Karl Markovics

Written By:
Karl Markovics

Actors:
Thomas Schubert ..... Roman Kogler
Karin Lischka ..... Margit Kogler
Georg Friedrich ..... Rudolf Kienast
Gerhard Liebmann ..... Walter Fakler
Stefan Matousch ..... Gerhard Schorn
Luna Mijovic ..... Mona
Georg Veitl ..... Jürgen Hefor
Klaus Rott ..... Leopold Wesnik
Michael Duregger ..... Polizist #2
Elena Dörfler ..... Roberta Fakler
Magdalena Kronschläger ..... Junge Frau
Reinhold G. Moritz ..... Josef Kallinger
Martin Oberhauser ..... Gefängniswärter #3
David Oberkogler ..... Polizist #1
Robert Putzinger ..... Zugbediensteter

Synopsis:

18-year-old loner Roman (Thomas Schubert) might be staring into the precipice of adulthood, but he's barely ever been exposed to the real world. Handed over to social services by his mother when he was just a baby, Roman grows up in care until an altercation with another boy sees him placed in a juvenile detention centre. He's been there ever since. With a parole hearing on the cards, Roman takes a job at a local mortuary to boost his chances of being released. What he learns there shapes his life in ways he could never have imagined.

Markovics roots his coming-of-age drama deep in the big questions of life and death, right and wrong. But his film is never bogged down in philosophy. Life at the mortuary is a surprisingly simple existence; death is an everyday occurrence, and with the acceptance of the inevitable comes a certain kind of peace. There's a blasé humour among the mortuary workers, and their touches of black comedy prevent the film from sinking into chin-stroking pontification. Breathing is anchored to reality by its strange marriage of the banal and the profound.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 02 August, 2012.

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