The Beginner

2018

A film by Alexandra Sell

In co-production with Lichtblick Film, Cine+, ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel and ARTE, Supported by BKM and Film- und Medienstiftung NRW

Treatment development supported by FFA
Script development supported by BKM

German distributor: Farbfilm Verleih

SYNOPSIS:

A late coming-of-age story: at the age of 58, physician Annebärbel Buschhaus puts on her ice skates again after more than forty years. On the ice, the notorious loner searches for her long lost childhood dreams - and finds a friend: Jolina Kuhn, Berlin youth champion in figure skating. Through her, she manages to open up and break away from her domineering mother.

CAST:
Ulrike Krumbiegel, Annekathrin Bürger, Christine Stüber-Errath, Maria Rogozina Rainer Bock, Franziska Weisz, Tatja Seibt, Stephan Grossmann

TEAM:

• Writer / DIrector: Alexandra Sell

• Producer: Martin Heisler 

• Co-Producers: Joachim Ortmanns, Helge Neubronner

• Creative Producer: Katrin Schlösser

• Commissioning Editors: Christian Cloos, Doris Hepp

• Director of Photography: Kolja Raschke

• Script Advisors: Martin Dolejs, Heide Schwochow

• Editor: Vessela Martschewski

• Music: Cassis B. Staudt

WORLD PREMIERE 2018:

13. Festival des deutschen Films Ludwigshafen, opening film

FESTIVALS:

• RiverRun International Film Festival, North Carolina, USA

• Scottsdale International Film Festival, Arizona, USA