The Prize (2011) ( Der Preis ) ( Gestern ist nirgendwo )

The Prize (2011) (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Der Preis
Alternate Title: Gestern ist nirgendwo
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival

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

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
83 min + 110 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

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

Directed By:
Elke Hauck

Written By:
Peggy Lehmann
Elke Hauck

Actors:
Florian Panzner ..... Alexander Beck
Sven Gielnik ..... Alexander Beck - young
Vincent Krüger ..... Michael (young)
Anne Kanis ..... Nicole
Vanessa Krüger ..... Nicole (young)
Guntbert Warns ..... Manfred Lange
Wiebke Bachmann ..... Jeanette
Anna Willecke ..... Jeanett (young)
Christian Näthe ..... Udo
Marcel Lucht ..... Udo (young)
Robert Gallinowski ..... Gerd
Timon Wloka ..... Wocke - young
Phillip Gräf ..... Jens - young
Peter Donath ..... Mr. Wahl
Magret Fritzler ..... Mrs. Wahl

Synopsis:

Architect Alexander Beck has just won an architecture prize. He wants to modernize GDR building blocks in Thuringia. Alex travels to the heart of rural Eastern Germany where he grew up and where people remember him as Alex from the Free German Youth, a pro-GDR youth organization. Alex is faced with a time in his life that he had successfully blocked out for years. He meets his highschool girlfriend, Nicole, and is forced to look back at his first teenage romance and the tragic demise of a great friendship. Slowly, Alex tries to grasp the events that occurred in the year 1988, over twenty years ago. DER PREIS is a film about guilt and responsibilities between friends. The protagonist Alexander represents a generation that set out into the new post-cold war world without ever stopping to look back - a generation that is slowly beginning to come of age by finally identifying, albeit ambivalently, with their roots.

Der Preis (The Prize), about a young German architect who returns to his old neighbourhood in East Berlin. Having won a prestigious design award, Alexander is commissioned to revitalize a Soviet-era apartment complex and oversee the project while it undergoes construction. The architect encounters old friends and acquaintances in the area, not quite comprehending that despite the disappearance of the Berlin Wall over twenty years ago, that this remnant of a bygone era has not only been forgotten in the future of Germany, but its inhabitants share that same malaise, too. It's strange to think that the old spirit of Communism, now stagnant, has been sucked out of the area and replaced with … nothing much else.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 05 November, 2012.

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