THE DARK SIDE OF OUR INNER SPACE

THE DARK SIDE OF OUR INNER SPACE

THE DARK SIDE OF OUR INNER SPACE

Director: Roland Reber
Feature film | Germany | 2003
91 min | Stereo PCM

56th Hof International Film Festival
2022
Homage Roland Reber & Collective

Tanja, Jessie, Anna, Marcus and Kai go to a sealed-off former military barracks to play the “Great Game” – a game outside of any social norms and boundaries. “Welcome to the barracks called freedom. As long as you were outside, you had to bow to the rules of society. Here, in the barracks of freedom, there are no rules. If you need some, make them.”

What is reality? What is a game? Where are the boundaries? When does the one merge into the other? Each character has their own game, their own way to gain an advantage over the others: Jessie tries through sexual seduction, Anna by exercising power, Marcus through the rules he enacts, Tanja by staying well out of everything. Kai is the weakest link in the group and soon he turns into everyone’s victim.

In their search for the “Great Game”, they become more and more entangled in their own interpersonal games, slowly being drawn into the devious recesses of their own interior spaces. What begins as a harmless game ends in an all-too-real tragedy.

With CHRISTOPH BAUMANN, MANFRED GEBAUER, MARINA ANNA EICH, MIRA GITTNER, ROLAND REBER, SABINE KRAPPWEIS

Screenplay ROLAND REBER, Cinematography ROLAND REBER, MIRA GITTNER, CHRISTOPH BAUMANN, Editing MIRA GITTNER, Music WOLFGANG EDELMAYER, Production PATRICIA KOCH-PRITCHARD