dir. Ulrich Köhler
year. 2002
country. Germany
run-time. 95 mins
£6.00 (£4.50 conc.)
Doors - 7:30pm
Film - 8:00pm
Following Christian Petzold and Harun Farocki’s The State I Am In (2000) and Angela Schanelec’s Passing Summer (2001), Ulrich Köhler makes his hugely impressive filmmaking debut with Bungalow (2002): a deceptive drama considerably more complicated than the low-key love triangle it may initially seem. Absent without leave, wayward young soldier Paul (Lennie Burmeister) returns home to the cumulative despair of dislocation, and the alienating, almost-immediate interruption of both his brother (Devid Striesow), and his brother’s girlfriend Lene (Trine Dyrholm — Festen, Nico, 1988). A quiet and compelling character study—a hugely impressive first feature that was, on its premiere, described by magazine Cahiers du Cinema as: “moving and minimalistic… a throwback to the New Wave of the ‘60s.”
Bungalow will be preceded by two short films by Ulrich Köhler: Feldstraße (1993) and Palü (1998).
Doors - 7.30pm
Programme start - 8.00pm
Screening as part of Deptford Cinema and the Goethe-Institut's retrospective season Be the Cowboy: The Cinema of Ulrich Köhler.
Bungalow
Germany, 2002, colour, 85mins, Digital, with English subtitles
Directed by Ulrich Köhler. With Lennie Burmeister, Devid Striesow, Trine Dyrholm
+ Feldstraße
Germany, 1993, colour, 4mins, Digital
Directed by Ulrich Köhler
+ Palü
Germany, 1998, colour, 6mins, Digital
Directed by Ulrich Köhler and Joseph Dehn