THE ICE BOMB

DIE EISBOMBE

Directed by Oliver Jahn

FRIDAY JANUARY 16 3:30 PM CASTRO

One day a large chunk of strangely colored ice crashes through the roof just as the Schuhmann-Weils are about to have dessert. Jörg, Beate, and their two sons Tom and Günter flee to their backyard underground bunker until the house can be decontaminated and things can get back to the family’s more normal level of neurotic environmental consciousness. For Beate, normal means protecting her sons by immediately throwing out frozen vegetables that a news report says may be contaminated with pesticide. For Tom, normal means constantly checking for allergens and walking under an umbrella no matter what the weather. Just as Tom is taking his first tentative steps into adulthood by beginning a job, moving away from home, and dating Lucie, his mom descends into a deepening bunker eco-anxiety. --Petra Wehle

PURCHASE TICKET

US Premiere

Country
Germany
Year
2008
Run Time
35mm, 94min., German
with English subtitles
Cast
Eike Weinreich
Karoline Eichhorn
Heike Jonca
Peer Martiny
Katharina Schüttler
Camera
Julian Atanassov
Screenwriter
Oliver Jahn
Stéphane Bittoun
Printsource
credofilm
Email
info@credofilm.de

Awards
Film Festival Emden-Norderney 2008: Exceptional Award

Director

Oliver Jahn
was born in 1969 in Oldenburg. In the mid-90’s he studied at the Berlin University of the Arts and transferred to the Deutsche Film und Fernsehakademie in 1997. Jahn is mostly noted for his German television science fiction series IJON TICHY: RAUMPILOT, in which he played the leading role. Jahn began making short and feature films in 1994. DIE EISBOMBE is his first feature for cinema.