Time Stau (2013)

Time Stau is a gritty, hyper-real movie detailing a young couple falling in love, experiencing the exciting beginnings methamphetamine of addiction and seeking simultaneous time travel.

Directors:

Dirk Skreber (co-director), Zefrey Throwell (co-director)

Writers:

Dirk Skreber, Zefrey Throwell

Stars:

Lena Kupke, Bernhard Schmidt-Hackenberg, Celina Englebrecht

Cast

Cast overview:
Lena Kupke	...	Lena
Bernhard Schmidt-Hackenberg	...	Bernhard
Celina Englebrecht	...	Nadja
Lena Markwald	...	Hannah
Tali Barde	...	Matias
Andreas Schmid	...	Andreas
David Quaas	...	Marco
Dirk Skreber	...	Sascha
Paulina Steinmeyer	...	Lola

Storyline

'Time Stau' is a gritty, hyper-real movie detailing a young couple falling in love, experiencing the exciting beginnings of addiction and seeking simultaneous time travel. Partially based on Throwell's personal history, 'Time Stau' expands the narrative from the personal to the global by portraying the fast spreading epidemic of meth destroying lives throughout the world. Dirk Skreber and Zefrey Throwell's first short film collaboration was filmed in Cologne, Germany and takes us along for the ride through a sumptuous tableaux of heartrending narratives of this lost young couple. While most drug films tend to focus on the gutter and the havoc at the end of addiction, this movie concentrates specifically on that incomprehensible moment when ordinary kids throw away their promising young lives and turn towards the dark path of drugs. Seen from their perspective, they are experiencing time travel after simultaneous orgasm while high on meth, seen from the outside they are lost in the fog...

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Plot Keywords:

time travel | germany | cologne | art | leopold hoesch museum | 

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Genres:

Short | Drama

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Details

Country:

Germany USA

Language:

German English

Release Date:

28 February 2013 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Box Office

Budget:

$20,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

20 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color (HD)

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD

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