More than Strangers
Drama/Comedy, Germany / Greece
HD – color – 100 min. – sound 5.1
Language: France, English, German, Greece
German cinema release: 22. August 2024
Production:
A production by PALLAS FILM
In Co-Production with:
TWENTY TWENTY VISION and VIEW MASTER FILMS
In cooperation with:
ZDF/ARTE and ERT
supported by:
MDM – Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
FFA – German Federal Film Board
DFFF – German Federal Film Fund
Director: Sylvie Michel
Authors: Sylvie Michel & Maria Teresa Curzio
Producers: Thanassis Karathanos, Martin Hampel
Co-producers: George Kyriakos, Costas Labropoulos
The House of Europe, squeezed into the confines of a car interior: on a long car ride, a distinct group dynamic develops around the potent issues of our time.
Five strangers of different nationalities share a car ride from Berlin to Paris. All of them have only one thing in common: wanting to reach their destination easily and cheaply. When it turns out that one passenger has a serious problem that could get them all into trouble, the trip becomes a little more complicated. The journey must go on. How it does is now up to them!
PATRICK Cyril Gueï
GEORGE Léo Daudin
SOPHIA Smaragda Karydi
JULIA Julie Kieffer
CHRIS Samuel Schneider
ROBERT Samuel Finzi
POLICEMAN WOLFRAM Wolfram Koch
POLICEWOMAN ANNE Jaqueline Macaulay
GARAGE OWNER MEHDI Mehdi Nebbou
script: Sylvie Michel, Maria Teresa Curzio
director: Sylvie Michel
DOP: Patrick Orth
editor: Kate Williams
casting: Ulrike Müller
productiondesign: Maria Nickol, Antje Krug
sound recordist: Johannes Doberenz
gaffer: Daniel Pauselius
grip: Erik Sens
make-up & hair: Katharina Kraft
costum: Anette Guther
unit manager: Alexander Thiel
music: Konstantis Papakonstantinou
World and German premiere: 26.06.2023 | Munich Film Festival
AWARDS:
SI STAR Film Award, Advancement Award
New German Cinema, Advancement Award for Directing, Filmfest München
FESTIVALS:
FILMZ – Festival of German Cinema
European Film Festival Göttingen, opening film
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Sydney Film Festival
Altre Rive – Festival Cinematografico Interculturale, Palermo
Aegean Film Festival