Christian Schmidt
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Halle an der Saale, Germany
Birthday: May 13, 1970
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Fata Morgana
Overview: Following Bellavista and Totó, Peter Schreiner completes his informal trilogy of epic, black-and-white digital-video essay-films with the utterly monumental Fata Morgana. Shot in the Libyan desert and in an abandoned building in Lausitz, Germany, it features a man (Christian Schmidt), a woman (Giuliana Pachner, from Bellavista) - and, glimpsed now and again, a guide (Awad Elkish.) They talk, they fall silent. Winds blow. The sun shines. The camera runs. What gradually takes shape is nothing less than a painstakingly concentrated attempt to understand the human condition through the lens of cinema. A lofty ambition, and one that demands a considerable leap of faith on the part of the audience: this film is sedate, "difficult", challenging, often apparently impenetrable. But anyone who has seen Schreiner's previous films will be aware that he is by any standards a major artist, one that can be trusted to find places that other directors may not even suspect exist.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-10
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Wenn Weihnachten wahr wird
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-12-16
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Auf dem Weg
Overview: Voted for in the 2012 Sight & Sound poll
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-18
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