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Title: Winter Sleepers (1997)
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| Ulrich Matthes | ... | Rene | |
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Marie-Lou Sellem | ... | Laura |
| Heino Ferch | ... | Marco | |
| Floriane Daniel | ... | Rebecca | |
| Josef Bierbichler | ... | Theo | |
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Agathe Taffertshofer | ... | Theos Frau |
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Sophia Dirscherl | ... | Theos Tochter (as Sofia Dirscherl) |
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Simon Donatz | ... | Theos Sohn |
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Jakob Donatz | ... | Theos Sohn |
| Laura Tonke | ... | Nina | |
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Werner Schnitzer | ... | Chefarzt |
| Sebastian Schipper | ... | Otto | |
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Robert Meyer | ... | Polizist |
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Harry Täschner | ... | Gerichtsvollzieher |
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Walter Anichhofer | ... | Souffleur |
Beautiful blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend, ski instructor Marco, in a small mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, a cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car while in a daze and gets into a car crash with local farmer Theo, whose daughter, after being in coma for a time, dies. Rene suffers from partial short term memory loss and starts a relationship with Laura. Meanwhile Marco is looking for the man who stole his car and Theo - for the man who killed his daughter... Written by JRS <jruizs@prodigy.net.mx>
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This movie pictures the life of five characters connect by a car accident in a snowing road, provoked by the projectionist Rene (Ulrich Matthes) and the broken farmer Theo (Josef Bierbichler). Rene is a kind of melancholic intellectual, who has amnesia problem and takes picture of the most important events of his life to recall them. One night he drinks too much and steals the car of the ski trainer Marco (Heino Ferch) just for fun. Due to a lack of attention of Theo on the road, there is a dreadful accident, when his young daughter is seriously hurt in the head. She is sent to a hospital without the necessary resources for such a case, but she is unable to be transferred to another suitable place due to the bad weather and her conditions. The nurse in charge of the young girl is Laura (Marie-Lou Sellen), an anorexic woman full of problems and inferiority complex due to her body, who lives in a house inherited from her grandmother with her friend Rebecca (the delicious and sexy Floriane Daniel). Rebecca works in translation, usually wears red colored clothes and has a kind of engagement (indeed their relationship is limited to sex) with Marco. He is a typical unfaithful male man, sexually chasing the women trained by him and being an empty person. The story is a kind of metaphor with the cycle of life, through the lives of five persons with different attitudes and behavior, who are linked by an incident, having death and birth but with life going on. The direction and the performance of the cast are excellent and the photography is wonderful. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): `Winter Sleepers Inverno Quente' (`Winter Sleepers Hot Winter')