Wellen
Waves
The icy waves of the Baltic Sea seems to bear the mysteries and longings of the romantic soul – like those of 18-year-old Lolo von Buttlär. It is summer 1913, and she and her aristocratic but penniless family are vacationing on the Baltic coast. To save his family from bankruptcy, Rolf von Buttlär has promised Lolo to the arrogant, cynical - and wealthy - Carl von Gonthard. But Carl begins courting the beautiful Countess Alice, who has left her husband to marry an artist. By doing so, Alice has lost all the privileges she enjoyed as an aristocrat and is now ostracized by her peers as a "fallen" woman. Lolo idolizes Alice and imagines a life of freedom, in which a woman can do as she pleases. What Lolo fails to see, however, is Alice's longing to be accepted by the very society that shuns her. When Lolo finds out about Alice's affair with her fiancé Carl, she tries to commit suicide - a regrettable loss of composure that the Buttlärs quickly patch up by announcing the engagement of Lolo and Carl. Appearances triumph once more, but now the Baltic's waves bear more than longings out to sea.
Germany - 2004 - 1 h 30 mn - Super 16 mm - Colour
Director
Vivian Naefe
Script
Günter Schütter
based on
Eduard von Keyserling
Camera
Peter Döttling
Sound
Peter Schumacher
Sets
Vytantas Tomasevicius
Editing
Hana Müllner
Music
Annette Focks
Cast
Marie Bäumer, Matthias Habich, Sebastian Blomberg, Monica Bleibtreu, Sunnyi Melles, Kati Eyssen, Florian Stetter, Christian Grashof
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Production
Ziegler Film GmbH,
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14057 Berlin, Allemagne
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Co-Production
ZDF, LKS (Lithuanian Films Studios)
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Sales
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