Das Gespenst des Glücks

The Ghost Of Happiness

Switzerland, April 2011
FILM, Experimental, 11 min.

Save as Favorite

directed by: Max Philipp Schmid
Written by: Max Philipp Schmid
Status: In distribution

A woman and a man practise the grand embrace. Assiduously, they try to imitate the lively examples from Hollywood musicals but their feet keep sticking to the floor. In essence, they are caught in stereotypes. The only thing that remains is the melancholy of failure in their exhausted faces.

credits

World Premiere: April 2011
Original Version: Without dialogue, colour, HD Cam, 11 min.
Production: freihändler Filmproduktion GmbH
Producer: Stella Händler
directed by: Max Philipp Schmid
Written by: Max Philipp Schmid
Cinematography: Sarah Derendinger
Editing: Max Philipp Schmid
Sound Editing: Max Philipp Schmid
Music: Max Philipp Schmid
Production Design: Monika Görner-Vogt
Lighting Design: André Pinkus, Sarah Derendinger
Costumes: Monika Görner-Vogt, Cornelia Peter

Cast

Desirée Meiser as Frau
Klaus Brömmelmeier as Mann

World Sales / World Rights

World Rights: freihändler Filmproduktion GmbH

Worldwide Distribution

Switzerland: freihändler Filmproduktion GmbH Distribution
Release date: tba

Awards

(a selection)

Open Cinema International Short and Animation Film Festival, Best Short Experimental Film 2012 (Winner)
Wroclaw, T-Mobile New Horizons International Film Festival, Prize for Best Experimental Film of the European Short Films Competition 2012 (Winner)
Basel, Basler Filmpreis, Bester Kunstfilm 2011 (Winner)

Festivals