Spain

Spanien

Spain

Anja Salomonowitz

Why Spain? »People there are still afraid of God. Where people are afraid of God, you can live well.«
– Sava

A Volkswagen minibus drives through the night, then it crashes into a car. Sava slips out from a hiding place under the cargo hold. He has paid a lot of money to be smuggled to Spain. He leaves the scene of the accident, and soon realises that he is not in Spain at all, but in Austria. Yet his destination is still Spain, so he sets off in search of the smugglers to get the money back that he has paid for the journey. On his search, Sava meets people with great anger, with great longing and great secrets. People who have money, and those with none, people with and without illusions. People who distract you from your destination and people for whom it is worth forgetting you had a destination.

Director

Anja Salomonowitz

Script

Dimitré Dinev, Anja Salomonowitz

Cinematography

Sebastian Pfaffenbichler

Editing

Frédéric Fichefet

Sound

Nikolay Urumov

Music

Max Richter

Cast

Grégoire Colin, Tatjana Alexander, Cornelius Obonya, Lukas Miko und andere

Production

Dor Film

Contact

Doc & Film International

Porträt von Anja Salomonowitz

Anja Salomonowitz

Anja Salomonowitz studierte Filmschnitt und Regie an der Filmakademie in Wien und an der Hochschule für Film und Fernsehen (HFF) »Konrad Wolf« in Potsdam. Ihre ersten Arbeiten Das wirst Du nie verstehen und Kurz davor ist es passiert – Dokumentarfilme an der Grenze zur Fiktion – erhielten international Anerkennung, zahlreiche Filmpreise und fanden Eingang in einschlägige Literatur zum Dokumentarfilm. Spanien war Anja Salomonowitz’ erster langer Spielfilm. Anja Salomonowitz lebt mit ihrer Familie in Wien.


Filme von Anja Salomonowitz
Spanien 2012 | Kurz davor ist es passiert 2006 | Das wirst Du nie verstehen 2003 | Carmen 2000