CLOUD 9

WOLKE 9

Directed by Andreas Dresen

SATURDAY JANUARY 17 6:30PM CASTRO

CLOUD 9’s opening scene involving an elderly man and woman having sex sets the tone for an intense, emotional, and surprising story about a love triangle. Inge’s life with Werner, her husband of thirty years, has settled into a comfortable routine. Werner is retired but Inge still does alterations in their faceless East Berlin apartment. One day client Karl takes notice of Inge in a way that powerfully reawakens her passionate longings. As she begins to allow herself to follow her heart’s desire, family reactions test Inge’s poignant struggle to stay true to her newfound self. The mature cast sets enduring questions in the final decades of life. Beautifully acted and directed.
“Dresen’s work has a hypnotically stripped-down style...CLOUD 9 is much like his tonally perfect SUMMER IN BERLIN, which also involved three ordinary people tripping over the selfishness inherent in the act of falling in love.” --Cameron Bailey, Toronto International Film Festival

IN PERSON: Andreas Dresen

Co-presented by the SAN FRANCISCO FILM SOCIETY and the PACIFIC INSTITUTE

PURCHASE TICKET

Northern California Premiere

Country
Germany
Year
2008
Run Time
35mm, 95min., German
with English subtitles
Cast
Ursula Werner
Horst Rehberg
Horst Westphal
Steffi Kühnert
Camera
Michael Hammon
Screenwriter
Andreas Dresen
Jörg Hauschild
Printsource
The Match Factory
Email
info@matchfactory.de

Awards
Cannes Film Festival 2008: Heart Throb Jury Prize
European Film Festival
Cinéma Tous Écrans Festival 2008, Switzerland: Tudor Award for Best Female Performance (Ursula Werner)
European Film Awards 2008

Director

Andreas Dresen
was born in 1963 in Gera, Germany, and studied filmmaking at the Film & Television Academy “Konrad Wolf” in Potsdam-Babelsberg. His feature films include NIGHT SHAPES (1999, B&B 2000), GRILL POINT (2002, B&B 2003), WILLENBROCK (2005), SUMMER IN BERLIN (2005, Opening Night B&B 2007), and CLOUD 9 (2008).