Schmitke
Schmitke
Schmitke is a German wind turbine engineer who you might say is a little past his best. Due to technical difficulties with one of his older models he, together with a younger colleague, is sent on a kind of punishment mission to the Bohemian mountains in order to fix the creaking turbine. On first encountering a Czech, Schmitke notices that they're somehow different. And then his colleague Thomas disappears... Director Štěpán Altrichter spent his youth in both the Czech Republic and Germany and is thus more than familiar with both cultures. His début feature film is brought to life by a subtle sense of humour and appreciation for the bizarre.
DCP | Farbe / colour
Jan Fusek, Tomáš Koncinský, Štepán Altrichter
Cristian Pirjol
Philipp Schneider
Johannes Repka
Peter Kurth, Johann Jürgens, Petr Vršek, Lana Cooper, Stephan Grossmann, Johana Schmidtmajerová, Jakub Žácek, Helena Dvoráková
Filmuniversität Babelsberg „Konrad Wolf“
Filmuniversität Babelsberg „Konrad Wolf“
Cristina Marx
Marlene-Dietrich-Allee 11
14482 Potsdam
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Štěpán Altrichter - – born in 1981 in Brno, Czech Republic, Štěpán grew up in Prague and southern Germany. In 2005 he enrolled to study directing at the Filmarche in Berlin. Since 2006 he has been studying at the Film University Babelsberg. Altrichter is a scholarship holder with both the Heinrich Böll Foundation (since 2008) and the Alfred Toepfer Foundation (since 2011).
DUYGU (2012, short, doc)
ALYENA-LITTLE MISS NEUKÖLLN (2011, short, doc)
DID MICHAEL KNIGHT END THE COLD WAR? (2009, short)
SECHZEHN (2009, short)
TUNING MAN (2009, short, doc)
BOB, FISH AND DOG (2007, short, doc)
DAVID (2007, short, doc)