Totes Land
Ghosts

film type fiction Production Country Germany production year 2014 runtime 29'58 colour
screening format DCP aspect ratio 2.35:1 (CinemaScope) sound format Dolby Surround languages Deutsch Subtitles Englisch
screening format Blu-Ray aspect ratio 2.35:1 (CinemaScope) sound format Dolby Surround languages Deutsch Subtitles Englisch

In Germany Europe's biggest open-pit lignite mine displaces entire villages and forces thousands of people to abandon their homes. A young woman and her mother are the last residents of one of these ghost towns. They have to protect their home from extinction.

director Benjamin Pfohl Besetzung / Cast André M. Hennicke, Daniela Schulz, Saskia Vester, Vita Tepel Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Dario Albiez Szenenbild / Production Design Markus Dicklhuber Schnitt / Editing Valesca Peters Bildgestaltung / DOP Tim Kuhn Produktion / Production Anna Maria Zündel, Korbinian Dufter, Rafael Parente, Simon Amberger Drehbuch / Script Benjamin Pfohl Tongestaltung / Sound Design Andreas Goldbrunner, Dennis Beckmann film school Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)
Festivals
2014 CineMAiubit International Student Film Festival, Bucharest, Romania
2014 Internationale Hofer Filmtage, Germany
2015 Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis, Saarbrücken, Germany
2015 Montreal World Film Festival, Canada
2015 AIFVF Athens International Film and Video Festival, USA
2015 Portobello Film Festival, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
2015 Sehsüchte - Internationales Studierendenfilmfestival, Potsdam, Germany
2015 RIFF - Rome Independent Film Festival, Italy
2015 TiSFF Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival, Greece
2015 Amirani International Student Short Film Festival, Tbilisi, Georgia
2015 Landshuter Kurzfilmfestival, Germany
Production
  • NEUESUPER GmbH & Co. KG
  • Jacqueline Jansen
  • Kyreinstr. 2
  • 81371 München
  • +49 89 125038290
  • http://www.neuesuper.de
Distribution
  • NEUESUPER GmbH & Co. KG
  • Jacqueline Jansen
  • Kyreinstr. 2
  • 81371 München
  • +49 89 125038290
  • http://www.neuesuper.de
Sales
  • NEUESUPER GmbH & Co. KG
  • Jacqueline Jansen
  • Kyreinstr. 2
  • 81371 München
  • +49 89 125038290
  • http://www.neuesuper.de
School
  • Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München (HFF)
  • Bernd-Eichinger-Platz 1
  • 80333 München
  • Deutschland
  • http://www.hff-muc.de

Benjamin Pfohl

Born in Cologne;
worked on several national and international feature film productions before enrolling at the University of Television and Film Munich;
wrote and directed several short films and was awarded a FIPRESCI prize;
his graduation short JUPITER competed in over forty film festivals worldwide and was shortlisted for the BAFTA Student Film Award

Filmography
2010 Munich Bohème
2012 Die Einsamkeit des Jägers
2014 Amazigh Ghostland
2014 Totes Land