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Totem
Germany
Director: Jessica KRUMMACHER
86 min. 2011 DVD, Colour,
with dialogue, German, English subtitled
Distributor: Jessica Krummacher
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Producer: Arepo Media, kLAPPbOXfILME, schlichtundergreifend Film
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Screenplay: Jessica Krummacher
Cinematographer: Björn Siepmann
Music: Marina Frenk
Editor: Jessica Krummacher
Cast:
Marina Frenk, Natja Brunckhorst, Benno Ifland, Alissa Wilms, Dominik Buch, Cedric Koch
A young woman called Fiona turns up in a city in the Ruhr Area in Germany to work for the Bauer family as a housekeeper. Father, mother, daughter and son all live their own lives, co-existing without communicating. Nobody realizes that Fiona has made a decision. Only the neighbour starts worrying. Totem shows a family’s routine spinning out of control with the arrival of a stranger.
Major screenings, presentations:
68. Biennale di Venezia 2011
Viennale: Vienna International Film Festival 2011
FIC Gijon: Festival Internacional de Cine de Gijon 2011
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2012
BAFICI Festivales de Buenos Aires 2012
IndieLisboa International Independent Film Festival 2012
Jessica KRUMMACHER
Grown up in Bochum, Germany, she lives in Berlin. After having completed her degree in documentary filmmaking and TV publishing at the University of Television and Film Munich she founded her production company kLAPPbOXfILME, together with filmmaker Timo Müller. In addition to TOTEM the company produced MORSCHOLZ, a feature film by Timo Müller which won the “Förderpreis Deutscher Film” for Best Director. TOTEM is a co-production with schlichtundergreifend Film and Arepo Media. TOTEM celebrates its world premiere at the “26th Settimana Internazionale della Critica” at the 68th Venice Film Festival.
Filmography: 2012 MORDOGAN (WT), 2011 TOTEM, 2008 MORSCHOLZ,
2005 DIE KINDER VON AHAUS
kLAPPbOXfILME