Our Little Differences

  • a film by Sylvie Michel
  • feature film
  • 90 min
  • 2012

The seemingly harmonious relationship between the prestigious Doctor Sebastian (55) and his Bulgarian cleaning lady Yana (58) develops into a vicious power game, when her daughter Vera (22) and Arthur (17), the doctor´s son, vanish witout a trace.

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Info

  • Genre

    • Drama

  • Countries of Production

    • Germany

  • Language

    • German

  • World premiere

    • 2nd July 2012 – FF Munich

  • German cinema release

    • 7th March 2013

  • a production by

    • Pallas Film, Twenty Twenty Vision

  • with the support of

    • MDM – Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, FFA, MBB - Medienboard Berlin – Brandenburg, MEDIA

  • World Sales

    • The Match Factory

  • Distribution

    • Neue Visionen Filmverleih
Synopsis

Sebastian, a successful fertility doctor, leads a good life. He enjoys an open and easy-going relationship with his son, Arthur. At least that is the way he sees it.
His cleaning lady, Jana, has quite a different approach towards parenting. Sebastian finds Jana to be an overprotective mother. Conversely, Jana shakes her head at how much freedom Sebastian allows his son to have. One night both teenagers go out together, without Jana’s permission. The next morning, Jana panics when she finds out that Arthur and Vera hadn’t returned home from their night out. Attempting to calm her down, Sebastian instead provokes the opposite…

Director Sylvie Michel sensitively presents two people whose lives are closely interwoven, yet who cannot reach out to each other. Intimately observed and empathetically narrated, Our Little Differences is an ironic psychological drama about a deeply disrupted community.

Cast

  • Sebastian

    • Wolfram Koch

  • Jana

    • Bettina Stucky

  • Arthur

    • Leonard Bruckmann

  • Vera

    • Silvia Petkova

  • Dr. Noack

    • Wilhelm Ellers

  • Ulrike

    • Cornelia Bruning

  • Julia

    • Katharina Kubel

  • Mrs Thalberg

    • Jaqueline Macaulay

  • Mr Thalberg

    • Mehdi Nebbou

  • Monika

    • Anne Ratte-Polle
Crew

  • Written by

    • Sylvie Michel, Razvan Radulescu, Melissa de Raaf

  • Directed by

    • Sylvie Michel

  • Producers

    • Thanassis Karathanos, Karl Baumgartner

  • Director of photography

    • Mario Masini

  • Editor

    • Andreas Wodraschke

  • Set design

    • Claus Mayr

  • Music

    • Andreas Wodraschke

  • Location Sound Recordist

    • Stephan von Hase

  • Sound Design

    • Noemi Hampel, Markus Glunz

  • Mixing Engineer

    • Lars Ginzel

  • costumes

    • Patricia Puisy
Festivals
  • Munich IFF
  • Toronto IFF
  • Montreal Nouveau Cinema
  • Thessaloniki IFF
  • Braunschweig FF
  • Festival Del Cinema Europeo
  • Sofia IFF
Awards
  • SNGCI Award - Best European Actor (Wolfram Koch) / Festival del Cinema Europeo

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