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Frau faehrt, Mann schlaeft
WOMAN DRIVING, MAN SLEEPING
The dentist Sue and the philosophy professor Anton
have been leading a seemingly in tact life; juggling
careers and a family with four children. Until one day,
however, when their 18-year-old son Thomas has a
break down. Thomas’ situation threatens the stability
of the family. While the other almost grown-up children
continue on with their own lives, Sue and Anton
are suddenly left to themselves. Sue recognizes that
she has fallen in love with another man, and Anton’s
current mistress is pregnant with his child. When
Thomas suddenly dies, Sue realizes that she must do
something to change her life. Faced with the decision
of ending or revitalizing her relationship to Anton, she
understands that sometimes it can be quite easy to be
happy.
Genre Drama Category Feature Film Cinema Year of
Production 2003 Director Rudolf Thome Screenplay
Rudolf Thome Director of Photography Michael
Wiesweg Editor Sarah Wiener Music by Justyna Hayda
Production Design Felix Wagner Producer Rudolf
Thome Production Company Moana-Film/Berlin
Principal Cast Hannelore Elsner, Karl Kranzkowski, Serpil
Turhan, Joya Thome, Nicolai Thome, Hanns Zischler
Casting Christoph Liptay Length 120 min, 3,300 m
Format 35 mm, color, 1:1.85 Original Version German
Subtitled Version English Sound Technology Dolby
SR German Distributor Academy Films/Ludwigsburg
Rudolf Thome was born in Wallau/Lahn in 1939 and studied
German, Philosophy and History in Munich and Bonn. He
began writing film reviews in 1962 for various newspapers and
magazines. In 1964, he collaborated with Max Zihlmann and
Klaus Lemke on his first short film, Die Versoehnung. He
then became managing director of the Munich Film Critics’
Club in 1965 and founded his own production company,
Moana-Film, in 1977. He received the 2nd place Guild Award in
the category Best German Film for Berlin – Chamissoplatz
in 1981, and the International Film Critics’ Award in
Montreal in 1989 for his film The Philosopher. In 1993, he
went on to establish his own distribution company,
Prometheus. His film Paradiso (1999) won a Silver Bear at
Berlin in 2000. His other films include: Stella (1966), Red
Sun (Rote Sonne, 1969), Supergirl (1971), Made in
Germany and USA (1974), Love at First Sight
(Liebe auf den ersten Blick, 1991), Das Geheimnis
(1995), Just Married (1998), Venus Talking (2001),
Red and Blue (Rot und Blau, 2002), and Woman
Driving, Man Sleeping (Frau faehrt, Mann
schlaeft, 2003), among others.
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