A PURE PLACE
Feature film - 91′
Directed by Nikias Chryssos
Written by Nikias Chryssos & Lars Henning Jung
Producer: Alexis Wittgenstein
Production design: Marcel Beranek
DoP: Yoshi Heimrath
Editors: Carsten Eder, Stephan Bechinger
Music: John Gürtler, Jan Miserre
Costume design: Anna Wübber
Title design: Chaveli Sifre Riestra
Production companies: Violet Pictures, View Master Films
World sales: The Playmaker
German distributor: Koch Films
DVD/BluRay/Mediabook: Koch Films Shop / Amazon
Starring Sam Louwyck, Greta Bohacek, Claude Heinrich, Daniel Sträßer, Lena Lauzemis, Daniel Fripan, and many more
AWARDS
Best Director (Munich Film Festival) Randfilm Award (Randfilmfest Kassel) Best Music (German Film Critics Association) Best Screenplay (Grimmfest UK)
PRESS QUOTES
"One of the most radical genre films in Germany in the last years.“ (epd Film)
"A triumph of fantasy." (Tagesspiegel)
"Part fable, part Lynchian nightmare, A Pure Place is a deftly constructed satiric horror that never ceases to amaze." (Toisto Magazine Helsinki)
"A fine example of what visionary and demented German-language cinema should, can, and must be.“ (Slash Film Festival Vienna)
"Somewhere in the realm between dark farce, Greek tragedy, gloomy neo-noir fairytale and Weird Wave." (Kino-Zeit)
"The Greek New Wave with their images of undisguised brutality meets a deeply rooted German ideology of purity." (Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
"Pure cinema." (Filmdienst)
"Impressive images bursting with imagination and images loaded with cinematic effects." (Festival Jury Munich)
SOUNDTRACK
Out on Counterchange
Featuring vocals by Maroulita de Kol and a bonus track by Sam Shackleton
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