Flug in die Nacht

Switzerland / Germany, July 2009
FILM, Fiction, 90 min.

Save as Favorite
directed by
Till Endemann
Written by
Till Endemann
Status
In distribution

Johann Lender’s job turns out to be his undoing: the 35-year-old air-traffic controller was alone on his shift on July 1, 2002, when a Russian passenger airliner collided with a cargo plane in the airspace under his control and crashed near Überlingen on Lake Constance. All 71 passengers were killed. Yuri Balkayev’s wife and two children were also among the casualties. About one year later, Balkayev stabs the air-traffic controller to death in front of his own family. But hope is still alive in little Kolya, an orphan who also lost his mother, a Russian stewardess, in this tragedy.

credits

World Premiere
July 2009
Original Version
Swiss-German, German,  colour, 16mm, 90 min.
Production
C-FILMS AG, Maran Film GmbH, SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SWR – Südwestrundfunk
Producer
Peter-Christian Fueter
directed by
Till Endemann
Written by
Till Endemann
Cinemato­graphy
Valentin Bärlocher
Editing
Benjamin Fueter
Location Sound Mix
Patrick Storck
Production Design
Reto Trösch, Doris Baumgartner, Ursula Sax
Lighting Design
Peter Demmer, Simon Schaerer
Costumes
Bettina Marx, Stefania Tedesco
Casting
Ruth Hirschfeld

Cast

Ken Duken
Jewgenij Sitochin
Sophie von Kessel
Sabine Timoteo
Noemi Mühle
Peter Jecklin
Mike Müller
Heinrich Schmieder
Anton Bennent

World Sales / World Rights

World Sales
Beta Cinema

Festivals

(a selection)

Newsletter