According to the Plan
Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2008 / Frei nach Plan / Germany 2007
Three sisters find that not much goes “According to the Plan” as they assemble to celebrate their alkie mom’s birthday in their native Saxony village. Bittersweet comedy by helmer Franziska Meletzky, following her impressive 2004 graduation film, Wanted!, is led by the feisty Dagmar Manzel, and dry dialogue that keeps the tone light.
Synopsis
Three sisters find that not much goes According to the Plan as they assemble to celebrate their alkie mom’s birthday in their native Saxony village. Bittersweet comedy by helmer Franziska Meletzky boasts simpatico playing from a name distaff cast, led by the feisty Dagmar Manzel, and dry dialogue that keeps the tone light. It’s summertime in the small burg of Wettin, where divorced Silvia (Ch. Schorn), who runs the local amateur theatrical troupe when she’s not hitting the bottle, lives with her long-suffering eldest daughter, Iris (C. Harfouch). Unmarried Iris, who has a job in a stable, is literally the workhorse of the family, putting up with her mom’s tipsy turns and having no personal life of her own. Into this picturesque but strained environment arrives Silvia’s long-lost middle daughter, Anne (Manzel), an energetic rebel who left home years ago to be a rock singer.
About the film
90 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Franziska Meletzky
/ Screenplay Elke Rössler
/ Dir. of Photography Ngo The Chau
/ Music Eike Hosenfeld, Moritz Dennis
/ Editor Jürgen Winkelbach
/ Producer Susann Schimk, Jörg Trentmann
/ Production Credofilm GmbH
/ Cast Corinna Harfouch, Kirsten Block, Dagmar Manzel, Christine Schorn
/ Contact Credofilm GmbH, MDC Int. GmbH
www: www.freinachplan.de
Contacts
Credofilm GmbH
Schiffbauerdamm 13, D - 10117, Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 30 978 945 31
Fax: +49 30 978 945 33
E-mail: info@credofilm.de
MDC Int. GmbH
Schillerstr. 7a, D - 10625, Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 30 264 979 00
Fax: +49 30 264 979 10
E-mail: info@mdc-int.de
Guests
Franziska Meletzky
Film Director, Film Director
Marta Švecová
Festival Organizer, Film Institution Rep., Sales Agent
