SYNOPSIS
After the shy and reclusive Christian loses his job, he starts to work for a wholesale market. Bruno from the Beverage aisle takes him under his wing and quickly becomes a fatherly friend to him. He shows him the ropes and patiently teaches him how to operate the fork lift. In the aisles he meets “Sweets”-Marion. He is instantly smitten by her mysterious charm. The coffee machine becomes their regular meeting point and the two start to get to know each other. But Marion is married and Christian’s feelings for her seem to remain unrequited, especially when Marion does not return to work one day. Christian slowly becomes a member of the wholesale market family and his days of driving fork lifts and stacking shelves mean much more to him than meets the eye.
CAST & CREW
Thomas Stuber
Director
Producer(s)
Jochen Laube, Fabian Maubach
Script
Clemens Meyer, Thomas Stuber
Director of Photography
Peter Matjasko
Production designer
Jenny Roesler
Sound
Kai Tebbel, Christoph Schilling
Edit
Kaya Inan
Cast
Franz Rogowski, Sandra Hüller, Peter Kurth, Andreas Leupold, Michael Specht, Steffen Scheumann, Ramona Kunze-Libnow, Henning Peker, Matthias Brenner, Gerdy Zint.
Production company(ies)
Sommerhaus Filmproduktion GmbH
Thomas Stuber
After gaining work experience in the film industry he studied at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg from 2004 to 2011. His short film We Are Fine won a development award from the Baden-Württemberg film industry in 2006. His feature film Teenage Angst screened in the 2008 Perspektive Deutsches Kino. In 2011, Dogs and Horeses was nominated for the First Steps Award, won the German Short Film Award and, in 2012, a Student Academy Award in Silver. His film Herbert premiered in Toronto in 2015 and won the German Film Award in Silver in 2016.
Filmography
We Are Fine (2006, short), Teenage Angst (2008), Dogs and Horses (2011), Herbert (2015), A Man under Suspicion (2016, TV), Kruso (2017), In the Aisles (2018).
