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2007 | Color | 88 min 0 seg

Yella leaves her small town. She longs for the future. She wants to leave the life she has led up until now behind her. On her travels she meets a man who works in the venture capital world. Yella proves herself as his assistant, but time and fragments of her past come back to haunt her.


Country: Alemania
Direction: Petzold; Christian
Script: Petzold; Christian
Production: Schreitmüller; Andreas, Weber; Michael, Von Senden; Caroline, Koerner Von Gustorf; Florian
Photography: Fromm; Hans
Sound: Mücke-niesytka; Mücke-niesytka, Jacob; Dirk
Music: Will; Stefan
Cast:Hoss; Nina, Striesow; Devid, Schönemann; Hinnerk, Klaußner; Burghart, Auer; Barbara
Art direction: D. Gruber; K.
Participation year at FICM: 2012

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