MEDIATHEK

This film is a poem. A visual and acoustic poem. Two fugitives, maybe Ned and Dan, maybe Estragon and Vladimir, are drifting through the New World, more concretely: through Budapest. They are looking for the promised land. They want to belong. To have a part in freedom. To be recognised, socially and sexually. The film tells no story. The viewer remains at a distance. The inner and outer drama is not this. Roes reconstructs his filmic poem in harsh black-and-white images, building up the rhythm of aimless violence, malevolence, and the song of the quest for dignity and respect. Encounters with what is foreign are a constant in Michael Roes' work, in his novels, stage plays, radio dramas, and films. His is an ethnological gaze. Whether in the novel Rub' al-Khali - Leeres Viertel (1996) or in his movie Timimoun (2005), Roes addresses the chasm between what is our own and what is foreign, as well as the yearning to bridge it.

WRITTEN, FILMED, DIRECTED AND EDITED BY: Michael Roes

STARRING: Nadir Yousfi, Laid Berkati

PRODUCTION: Naomi Bari, Oliver Petö, David Weberman, Marton Sebes, Ulrich Müller, Eva Sebes, Attila Magyorossi, Farkas Banabas, George Khoshtaria, Jean-Claude Kuner, Alexandra Szunyog, Magdalena Meszaros, Mata Zsolt, Igaz Zaltán

ASSISTANCE: Claudia Martins, Lia Tarkhan-Mouravi

/ MUSIC /

Andreas Scholl: Wayfaring Stranger
Folksongs. Orpheus Chamber Orchester

Paolo Pandolfo: Travel Notes
New Music for Viola da Gamba

Heinrich Schütz: Musikalische Exequien
Alsfelder Vokalensemble. Wolfgang Helbich

Amos Elkana: Remains (Part 11)
Electronic Music (2002)

Elevation Theme
Michael Roes (piano)
Marton Sebes (saxophone)

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