GhostsGermany
2005, 85min.
 Script: Christian Petzold, Harun Farocki, Dir.: Christian Petzold, Dir. of Phot.: Hans Fromm, Compos.: Marco Dreckkötter, Stefan Will, Prod. Design: Kade Gruber, Sound: Andreas Mücke-Niesytka, Edit.: Bettina Böhler, Prod.: Sigrid Hoerner, Anne Leppin, Antón Reixa.
Cast: Julia Hummer, Sabine Timoteo, Marianne Basler, Aurélien Recoing, Benno Fürmann, Anna Schudt, Claudia Geisler, Philipp Hauß, Victoria Trauttmansdorff.
A man travels from Paris to Berlin in search of his wife. He finds her in a psychiatric hospital in Spandau and takes her back to Paris. Every year, the wife makes the journey to Berlin, desperately searching for her daughter who was abducted in 1989 at the age of three. She was never found. The wife meets a young vagabond named Nina. A drifter who doesn't seem to have a home of her own, Nina roams about the city with Toni, taking the world as it comes, stealing whatever she can, here and there. The wife is convinced that Nina is her lost daughter. Ghosts are the spirits of those who refuse to believe they're dead.
Awards
"Findling" Award (Schwerin Art of Film Fesival,2005), German Film Critics Award - Best Feature Film, 2006. | Petzold, Christian  Christian Petzold (born 1960, Hilden, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany)
Studied at the German Academy of Film and Television in Berlin from 1988 to 1994. During that time, he also worked as an assistant director for Harun Farocki and Hartmut Bitomsky. Has lived in Berlin since 1981. Is considered to be one of the leading directors of the Berlin School, a movement of young German filmmakers, shooting ambitious independent movies.
Filmography
Pilotinnen (1994 TV), Cuba Libre (1996, TV), Die Beischlafdiebin (1998, TV), Die innere Sicherheit/The State I Am in (2000), Toter Mann (2001, TV), Wolfsburg (2003), Ghosts (2005), Yella (2007), Jerichow (2008).
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