The Bloom of Yesterday (2016)
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Country:
Germany, Austria, France
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Duration:
125 min
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Genre:
comedy, drama, melodrama
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Director:
Chris Kraus
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Producer:
Philip Evenkamp, Gerd Huber
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Cast:
Lars Eidinger, Adèle Haenel, Jan Josef Liefers, Hannah Herzsprung
About film
Toto, a Holocaust researcher, is preparing for a congress when he is assigned an assistant Zazie, who is of Jewish origin and has pronounced Teutophobia (a fear of Germans or German things). Together they are going to make a number of unexpected discoveries, which would drastically change Toto's life.
Rewards and nominations
- Tokyo International Film Festival 2016 — Grand Prix
Director
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
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Speaker:
Lars Eidinger
Along with
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Speaker:
Lars Eidinger
Trailer
Director
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.
