STILLE NACHT - EIN FEST DER LIEBE / SILENT NIGHT

SILENT NIGHT

STILLE NACHT - EIN FEST DER LIEBE / SILENT NIGHT

Director: Dani Levy
Feature film | Germany, Switzerland | 1996
87 min | Dolby 5.1

57th Hof International Film Festival
2023
Retrospective Maria Schrader

A man in Paris, a woman in Berlin. Julia, an art student in her late twenties, has been living together with Christian, a police detective, for several years. Their relationship has been at risk since Julia fell in love with a young bartender, Frank, who likes to unsettle her with provocative sex. Christian escapes Berlin over the holiday. He doesn’t want to live without Julia and yet he can’t stand being with her. He sets himself an eight-hour ultimatum to win her back. Alone for the first time, Julia decides to end the affair with Frank. Frank, in turn, thinks Christmas Eve would be a good time to finally confess his love to Julia. In this situation, Christian initiates a night of relationship all-time-lows with a macabre move. An erotic adventure begins.

With Adisat Semenitsch, Ingrid Caven, Jürgen Vogel, Maria Schrader, Mark Schlichter, Maurice Lamy

Screenplay Klaus Chatten, Dani Levy, Maria Schrader, Cinematography Carl-F. Koschnick, Editing Dani Levy, Costume design Ingrida Bendzuk, Sound Raoul Grass, Sound Design Michael Bard, Music Niki Reiser, Make-up Sabine Liedl, Production Dani Levy, Stefan Arndt, Rolf Schmid