Lose My Self ( Vergiss mein Ich )

Lose My Self (DVD) (*)

$29.99

Original Title: Vergiss mein Ich
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

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

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

Running Time:
93 min + 23 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2014 and produced in:
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )

Directed By:
Jan Schomburg

Written By:
Jan Schomburg

Actors:
Maria Schrader ..... Lena
Johannes Krisch ..... Tore
Ronald Zehrfeld ..... Roman
Sandra Hüller ..... Frauke
Stefan Lampadius ..... Prediger
Nadine Petry ..... Ehefrau
Peter Prager ..... Stefan Berliner
Judith Wolf ..... Anne
Jeffrey Zach ..... Simon
Jürgen Rißmann ..... Schießbudenbesitzer
Yorck Dippe
Paul Herwig ..... Andreas
Valerie Koch ..... Sandra
Sylvana Krappatsch ..... Minnie
Martin Reinke ..... Prof. Lehnbach
Cedric Ufiteyezu
Nikolai Will ..... Ehemann (scenes deleted)

Synopsis:

Lena Ferben (Maria Schrader) has been married to her husband Tore (Johannes Krisch) for many years when she suddenly loses her self. The doctors call her condition retrograde amnesia; undiagnosed meningitis is the reason for why she no longer has access to that which medicine calls biographical memory. Yet how peculiarly the brain functions: language is still available, but the words are not linked to experiences. Rain... Comedy... Faithfulness... Gender... Love... Husband- concepts floating in a vacuum removed from the grounding of their meanings. Tore attempts to show Lena the way to her self, show who she was to him and who he to her. A recap of previously experienced reality. How will it have been, being Lena Ferben? Lena tries it out as an actress might try out a role, whilst within her, concurrently, something new is developing - a separate individual personality that recoils from doing that which Lena's entire environment is encouraging and coercing her to do: to become herself.

A successful woman suffers from retrograde amnesia: her whole biographical memory disappears from one moment to the next. Schomberg's intriguing and occasionally humorous second feature evokes fundamental questions about the construction of identity.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 08 May, 2015.

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