Limbo

  • 80'
  • Germany
  • 2014
Sara lives in Nakskov, a dull port on the southern Danish island of Lolland. Children cycle in circles in car parks and yokels talk in the bar about their careers in the local sugar factory - hardly a stimulating environment for an intelligent, ambitious girl.
Sara isn’t interested in her classmates either. The only thing that makes her enthusiastic is drama classes at school, especially because they’re given by Karen. Sara falls in love with the young teacher, confesses this to Karen and is rejected. The consequences are dramatic.
Even the most intense events in Limbo are shown in such a cursory way we hardly realise what’s going on. Promising young director Anna Sofie Hartmann has the cool and observing gaze of an anthropologist; the conversations in a bar between Sara and her classmates get as much attention as the chatter of the immigrant kitchen staff. In long shots, tractors with sugar beet drive towards the factory, machines turn, smoke curls up from the chimneys. In Nakskov, life knows little relief. Until it’s over.


  • 80'
  • Germany
  • 2014
Director
Anna Sofie Hartmann
Country of production
Germany
Year
2014
Festival Edition
IFFR 2015
Length
80'
Medium
DCP
Language
Danish
Producers
Ben von Dobeneck, Nina Helveg
Production Companies
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin, Gourmet Film
Sales
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin
Screenplay
Anna Sofie Hartmann
Cinematography
Matilda Mester
Editor
Sofie Steenberger
Production Design
Ida Hammer Ingerslev
Sound Design
Christian Obermaier
Music
Mads Hartmann
Cast
Annika Nuka Mathiassen, Sofía Nolsøe Mikkelsen
Website
http://dffb.de/html/en/films/film/415
Director
Anna Sofie Hartmann
Country of production
Germany
Year
2014
Festival Edition
IFFR 2015
Length
80'
Medium
DCP
Language
Danish
Producers
Ben von Dobeneck, Nina Helveg
Production Companies
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin, Gourmet Film
Sales
Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin
Screenplay
Anna Sofie Hartmann
Cinematography
Matilda Mester
Editor
Sofie Steenberger
Production Design
Ida Hammer Ingerslev
Sound Design
Christian Obermaier
Music
Mads Hartmann
Cast
Annika Nuka Mathiassen, Sofía Nolsøe Mikkelsen
Website
http://dffb.de/html/en/films/film/415