La vie de Marie no comments
du 14 au 31 mars 2019
5.– 14.10.2018
A temporary installation for „Maries Leben“
Presentation of the concepts for a pop-up information stand for „Maries Leben“ from the students of the BAU International University of Applied Siences
10-17 December 2017
Bahamas International Film Festival, Baha Mar
sponsored by german films
Artist Forum Festival of the Moving Image
Award overall Best International Short
Award Best Cinematography
Polish International Film Festival
Award Best International Short Film
Colortapes International Film Festival
Top 10 Romantic Short Films Award
Directors note
“Maries Leben” is the first part of a trilogy about the relation between members of the working, the middle and the aristocrat class.
The film is one of the rare short films that was shot almost exclusively in candlelight. The story of “Maries Leben” takes place in the real existing salon from Mrs.Tilebein in Stettin, where German bourgeois and aristocrats of the Biedermeier period met artist and intellectuals of that time.
We are looking at the this salon with the eyes of the maid Marie, who gets involved with the trouble between the bourgeois Mr. Stein and the countess Anne von Borke. The more the Marie gets involved in the relationship between the countess and a member of the bourgeois, the more she lives in their phantasmal views: in the aristocratic view of her rejected, suffering mistress, who seeks Marie’s closeness yet blames her for seducing her husband; in the bourgeois view of Anton Stein, who idealizes her and yet makes fun of her; and in the view of the present salon society, which reacts with contempt to her transgression of wearing her mistress‘ extravagant dress.
The film sheds a light on the double standards of the beginning 19th century upper class. Even though in the upper-class Marie is familiarized with the concepts of enlightenment, the same circle of people forces her to accept and confirm the social system she lives in. At the end Marie realizes that this day with this experience will continuously repeat itself, as it seems to be impossible to go beyond the boundaries.
The second part of this trilogy should play in our time, the third part at the year 2050.
Synopsis
The life of the maid Marie is dedicated to the countess Anne von Borke. While reading a letter for her, Marie unwittingly becomes involved in the end of a love affair between the countess and the bourgeois Mr. Stein. Instead of expressing her emotions, her mistress asks Marie to accompany her to a salon concert dressed in an aristocrat robe from her.
Marie decides to redeem her mistress’ honor and recover her first love letter she has sent to Mr. Stein. She has a hard time surviving the night in the upper- class, whose main interest is self- portrayal. She does not feel comfortable in her clothes, which is why everyone can see the maid in her. It is only Mr. Stein who is demanding civic rights for her – but his quotations from the German master poets Goethe and Kleist are finally just empty shells. When Marie finds out that the countess has been telling salon guests that Marie herself seduced the count, it is hard for her to keep the belief in her mistress alive.
In the meantime an opera singer is singing about the revenge of a deceived woman.
Jacqueline Pawliczek (Marie Kowalik)
Silvina Buchbauer (Countess Anne von Borke)
Merlin Leonhardt (Anton Stein)
Monika Oschek (Lisa)
Amelie Kiefer (Madame Duchamps)
Beate Biermann (Miss Tilebein)
Sven Brieger (Mister Rabow)
Maria Dabrowska (Governess)
Lena Kutzner (Sophie Löwe)
Lukas Krüger (Walther von Goethe)
Ireneusz Rosinski (Count Eduard von Borke)
Anita Twarowska (Miss Lentz)
Fabian Ave (Groom)
Bogdan Balcerczyk (Coachman)
Producer: Rolf Kasteleiner / Lapama-Film
Co-Producer: Stella Schüssler / Kunsthaus Neustrelitz,
Monika Tomczyk, Artur Arament / Media Dizajn
Director / author: Rolf Kasteleiner
Assistant director: Lucas Thiem
Dramaturge: Irene Rudolf
Script Consultant: Nina Höhn
Director of photography: Jakob Creutzburg
Camera assistant: Sonja Thesing
Clappers: Szymon Pawlik, Julia Lehmann
Gaffer: George Steffens
Best boy: Marcin Kawczynski
Sound engineer: Adam Barwinski
Boom operator: Amrod Kai Ringeril (Marcin Bobrowicz), Henrike Sommer
Production sound mixer: Moritz Monorfalvi
Production designer: Joanna Piestrzynska
Production design assistants:
Anne Storandt, Kinga Dalska, Aleksandra Zielinska, Danielle Fagen
Costume designers: Regina Fraas, Agnieszka Miluniec
Costume designer assistants:
Olga Baszuro, Jolanta Brygert, Natalia Piesik, Maximilian Hirsch, Paulina Fabian
Make-up artist: Natalia Janas
Make-up artist assistants: Nicoletta Kowalska, Hjördis Tyra Lingnau
Hairdressers Germany: Christina Konnertz, Nina Gundermann
Hairdresser Poland: Marek Marosz
Bookkeeper: Anke Müller
Production manager Germany: Marc Hellige, Thomas Kowarik
Production manager Poland: Marcin Lewandowski
Location manager: Christoph Kurzweil, Karoline Latowska
Location manager assistant: Clara-Maria Schade
Catering Germany: Bärbel Kowarik
Editor: Nevin Wolf, Zhelyaz Tomov
Editor Supervisor: Adrienne Hudson
Grader: Sally Shamas
Retouch: Liana Lessa
Continuity: Jakub Zukowski
Location scout Poland: Aleksander Kühl
Transportation Captain: Maciej Gwarek
Le court-métrage d’époque et fait dans le cadre d’un échange de film entre Kunsthaus Neustrelitz et Media Dizajn Stettin.
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