Nemez
Genre: Coming-of-age drama
Running time: 93 minutes
Festival premiere: Hof International Film Festival 2012
Director: Stanislav Güntner
Screenwriters: Stanislav Güntner, Alexei Mamedov
Cast: Mark Filatov, Emilia Schüle and others
Producers: filmschaft maas & füllmich, nominal film
Co-production: ZDF Das kleine Fernsehspiel
Funding: FFF Bayern
Synopsis
Dima is half Russian, half German. But he never really belongs anywhere. To the Russians, he is always just the “Nemez” – Russian for “German”. To the Germans, he is always the foreigner who can’t get his life together. And so Dima ends up on the sidelines, stealing valuables from other people’s apartments for Georgij, an organised art thief. But one day, a robbery goes wrong in a way that shocks Dima. And then love comes into play when Nadja enters his life. For her, Dima is ready to change and get his life together. But he has not reckoned with Georgij.
Cast
Dima: Mark Filatov
Nadja: Emilia Schüle
Georgij: Alex Brendemühl
Paul: Kai-Michael Müller
Irina: Katerina Poladjan
Gustav: René Erler
Horst Keller: Michael Lott
Petra Keller: Ruth Hornemann
Professor Kleber: Michael Schweighöfer
Alexander Ritter: Jurij Rosstalnyj
Priest: Detlef Bothe
Crew
Director: Stanislav Güntner
Screenplay: Stanislav Güntner, Alexei Mamedov
Cinematography: Bernhard Keller
Production design: Graziella Tomasi
Editing: Barbara von Weitershausen
Music: Levan Basharuli
Sound: Thomas Diesel
Sound mixing: Michael Stecher
Costume design: Petra Fassbender
Make-up artist: Claudia Rotoli
Commissioning editor: Lucas Schmidt
Producers:Torben Maas, Christian Füllmich, Maximilian Plettau
Festivals and awards
Drehbuchwerkstatt München (Munich Screenwriting Workshop) 2008/09
Winner of the 20th Tankred Dorst Screenplay Award
29th Bogotá Film Festival, Colombia
Círculo Precolombino de Plata 2012 for Best Film
46th Hof International Film Festival
EASTMAN Award 2012 for Best New Director
Bavarian Film Awards 2012
Winner of the VGF Young Producers Award 2012
34th Max Ophüls Preis Film Festival 2013
Nominated for the Max Ophüls Preis 2013
Nominated for Best New Actor 2013 (Mark Filatov)
Nominated for Best New Actress 2013 (Emilia Schüle)
Other festivals
- Shanghai International Film Festival 2013
- 21st International Film Festival St. Petersburg
- Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival
- Flickers – Rhode Island International Film Festival
- International Debut Film Festival Khanty-Mansiysk – Spirit of Fire, Brasília International Film Festival
- 13th Festival of German Films in Australia
- Festival of German Films, Paris
- International Film Festival Bratislava
- 3rd International Crime & Punishment Film Festival Istanbul, 10th International Neisse Film Festival
- Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2013