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BYE BYE AMERICA
(AKA: AUF WIEDERSEHEN AMERIKA)
| | DIRECTOR | Jan Schütte | | YEAR | 1994 | | STATUS | completed | | SYNOPSIS | This is the story of an unusual journey. Isaac, his friend Moshe and Moshe's wife Genovefa travel by boat from New York to Poland. They end up in Germany, celebrate Christmas in Berlin and eventually reach their final destination. Isaac finds his future wife and Genovefa finds an apartment. In the end everyone is happy, if only briefly. One couple ends in Gdansk, the other in Brighton. Schütte relates the story of the three people and their tragi-comic Odyssey with great tenderness. Used to setbacks in life, they still find the strength to complete their journey. Life is like Moshe's coat: boring and worn out on one side, bright red on the other. | | LENGTH | 85 min. | | FORMAT | colour, 35mm, 1:1.66, Dolby SR | | CAST | Otto Tausig, Jakov Bodo, Zofia Merle, Christa Berndl, Ben Lang, Josh Mostel, George Tabori, Aleksander Bardini, Henryk Bista | | SHOOTING LOCATION | USA, Germany, Poland | | ORIGINAL LANGUAGE | German | | CO PRODUCTION WITH | Novoskop Film in co-production with Pandora Film, Arte, Casting S.F., WDR | | SUPPORTED BY | --- | | WORLD SALES | Flach Pyramide (Paris) | | FESTIVALS AWARDS | German Film Awards 1994; Outstanding Shaping of a feature Film, Film Award in Silver Bavarian Film Awards 1995, Best Screenplay | | GERMAN DISTRIBUTOR | Pandora Film / Kinowelt | | SOUNDTRACK AVAILABLE | --- | | DVD VIDEO AVAILABLE | yes | | LINKS | www.flach-pyramide.com
| | PRODUCERS | Otto Grokenberger (producer), Joachim von Mengershausen, Robert Nickson, Lisa Bruce, Karl Baumgartner (co-producers) | | WRITERS | Thomas Strittmatter, Jan Schütte | | DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY | Thomas Mauch | | EDITING | Renate Merck | | CASTING | --- | | PRODUCTION | Ted Hope (production New York), Martin Hagemann (production Berlin), Piotr Lazarkiewicz (production Poland) | | SOUND | Eckhard W. Kuchenbecker | | ART DIRECTION | Katharina Wöppermann | | COSTUMES | --- | | MAKE UP HAIR | --- | | MUSIC | Claus Bantzer, Janusz Jankowski, Max Perlmann | | BACK |
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