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AN INDISCREET JOURNEY

Germany / New Zealand | 2007 | 19 min | S16 | 35mm
by Olivia Lory Kay and Michael Henrichs

based on the life and writing of Katherine Mansfield
 
'Anytime one leaves anywhere, something precious, which ought not to be killed, is left to die.'
In February of 1915 Katherine Mansfield, a married women, travels to the French-German front - into a zone forbidden to women - to meet her lover, the French bohemian writer and front-soldier, Francis Carco.
 
Passion, danger and separation: An Indiscreet Journey.
 
This adaptation of Mansfield`s short story moves freely between reality and fantasy, placing one next to the other with the surreal logic of dreams.
 
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Cast Kate Elliott, Navid Akhavan, Franziska Troegner, Thorsten Merten, Sven Pippig
 
Writers / Diretors Olivia Lory Kay and Michael Henrichs
Cinematography Sophie Maintigneux
Editing Barbara Zosel
Costumes and Art Direction Anina Diener
Makeup Barbara Radke-Sieb
Music Jason Blair Breckenridge
Sound Design Philippe Ciompi
Production Management Katja Promess
Location Sound Till Röllinghoff
Sfx Production Christoph Kunzmann / Chris Creatures 
 
Produced by DIE GESELLSCHAFT DGS (GERMANY)
in Co-production with INDISCREET FILMS (NEW ZEALAND), IMPACT FILMS (GERMANY) 
Producer Michael Henrichs
Co-producers Olivia Lory-Kay, Marco Herten, Bernd Schaarmann
 
Support by Filmbüro Mecklenburg Vorpommern, BKM Filmförderung des Bundes, Creative New Zealand; National Film and Television School (nfts), London

''this . . . film brings off what no other Mansfield adaptation has managed.'' Vincent O'Sullivan in New Zealand Books

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selected festivals