Comrades in Dreams (2006)

User Rating:

7.3/10   

Director:

Uli Gaulke

Writers:

Jeannette Eggert (writer)
Uli Gaulke (writer)

Release Date:

15 October 2006 (South Korea)

Genre:

Documentary

Tagline:

Cinema at the far corners of the world.

Plot:

Four lives that could not be more different and a single passion that unites them: the unconditional love for their cinemas...

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Lasanne Badiel	...	Himself
Yong-Sil Han	...	Herself
Anup Jagdale	...	Himself
Penny Tefertiller	...	Herself

Also Known As:

Leinwandfieber (Germany)

Runtime:

Germany:100 min

Country:

Germany

Language:

Korean | French | Marathi | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Company:

Flying Moon Filmproduktion

The dust you seldom see

"If I did not talk to the theater owner or the ticket seller, I should be lost, cut loose metaphysically speaking", says Binx Bolling in Walker Percy's "The Moviegoer". Uli Gauke takes Bolling's creed to its literal extreme and zooms in on the people behind the movies. "Comrades in Dreams" portrays an African cinema entrepreneur, the young Indian owner of a traveling tent cinema, a North Korean projectionist, and an American owner of a small-town warehouse theater. Four corners of the world, two men, two women, each with a story of their own. But the secret stars are the people on the fringes: an African cinema-goer who is afraid he might disappear in the darkness of the theater, a freckled young cowboy refusing to praise the Lord in Sunday school, a well-meaning friend scouting potential brides for Anup, the bachelor king of the traveling cinema. I usually stay away from feature-length documentaries, but I can't say I have any regrets in this case. I'm with that unnamed guy in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: "I have no friends and don't like bars either. So I go to the movies."