The Bloom of Yesterday (2016)

The Bloom of Yesterday
12+
  • Country:

    Germany, Austria, France

  • Duration:

    125 min

  • Program:

    Main Competition, 3rd MJFF

  • Type:

    Narrative, Feature

  • Genre:

    comedy, drama, melodrama

  • Director:

    Chris Kraus

  • Producer:

    Philip Evenkamp, Gerd Huber

  • Cast:

    Lars Eidinger, Adèle Haenel, Jan Josef Liefers, Hannah Herzsprung

About film

Rewards and nominations

Director

Chris Kraus

57-year-old German writer, screenwriter, director, and producer. He worked as a journalist and an illustrator. Kraus studied directing at the German Academy for Film and Television. He had spent four years working on his project Four Minutes, which premiered at the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2006. In 2016, Kraus filmed The Bloom of Yesterday – the story of a man who is preparing a lecture about the Holocaust together with a Jewish woman, afraid of all things German. The film won the Grand Prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival and the Moscow International Film Festival. It has also won multiple German awards for Best Screenplay.

Along with

Opening of the 3rd MJFF
  • Category:

    Special

  • Speaker:

    Lars Eidinger

Along with

Opening of the 3rd MJFF
  • Category:

    Special

  • Speaker:

    Lars Eidinger

Trailer

Director

Chris Kraus

57-year-old German writer, screenwriter, director, and producer. He worked as a journalist and an illustrator. Kraus studied directing at the German Academy for Film and Television. He had spent four years working on his project Four Minutes, which premiered at the Shanghai International Film Festival in 2006. In 2016, Kraus filmed The Bloom of Yesterday – the story of a man who is preparing a lecture about the Holocaust together with a Jewish woman, afraid of all things German. The film won the Grand Prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival and the Moscow International Film Festival. It has also won multiple German awards for Best Screenplay.