Lara
It is Lara’s sixtieth birthday, and actually she would have every reason to be happy, because her son Viktor is giving the most important piano concert of his career that evening. After all, it was she who designed and pushed his musical career. But Viktor has been unreachable for weeks and there is nothing to suggest that Lara will be welcome at his premiere. Without further ado, she buys all the remaining tickets and hands them out to everyone she meets that day. But the more Lara struggles to have a successful evening, the more events spiral out of control.
Credits
Cast: Corinna Harfouch, Tom Schilling, André Jung, Volkmar Kleinert, Rainer Bock, Gudrun Ritter u.v.m.
Screenplay: Blaž Kutin
Director: Jan-Ole Gerster
Camera: Frank Griebe
Composer: Arash Safaian
Piano: Alice Sara-Ott
Editing: Isabel Meier
Production design: KD Gruber
Costume: Anette Guther
Supervising Sound Editor: Fabian Schmidt
Sound: Magnus Pflüger
Production Management: Dorissa Berninger
Line Producer: Charles E. Breitkreuz
Co-producers: Kalle Friz, Isabel Hund
Producers: Marcos Kantis, Martin Lehwald, Michal Pokorny
Editors: Cooky Ziesche (rbb), Claudia Simionescu (BR), Andreas Schreitmüller (arte), Manuel Tanner (arte)
Broadcasters: rbb, BR, arte
Funded by: Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB)
German Film and Television Fund (DFFF)
German Federal Film Board (FFA)
The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM)
Central German Media Funding (MDM)
In cooperation with: The Post Republic Halle GmbH
Festival Participations
- 43rd Göteborg Film Festival, 2020
- 21st Festival del Cinema Europeo, 2020
- Miami Film Festival, 2020
- Palm Springs International Film Festival, 2020
- Romy Awards (Austria), 2020
- German Film Critics Association Awards, 2020
- Bavarian Film Awards, 2020
- German Film Awards, 2020
- Chicago International Film Festival, 2019
- 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2019
- 37th Filmfest München, 2019
- Manaki Brothers International Cinematographers’ Film Festival, 2019
- Ljubljana International Film Festival, 2019
- Haifa International Film Festival, 2019
- 27th Hamptons International Film Festival, 2019
- 15th Zurich Film Festival, 2019
- 11th Les Arcs European Film Festival, 2019
- El Gouna Film Festival, 2019
- 64th Valladolid International Film Festival (Seminci), 2019
- Oldenburg International Film Festival, 2019
Awards
- German Film Critics Association Awards, 2020: Best Actress – Corinna Harfouch
- 21st Festival del Cinema Europeo, 2020:
Special Jury Prize – Best Film
SNGCI Award – Best European Actress (Corinna Harfouch) - Bavarian Film Awards, 2020:
Best Film Score – Arash Safaian - 54th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 2019:
Special Jury Prize
Best Actress – Corinna Harfouch
Prize of the Ecumenical Jury - 35th Ljubljana International Film Festival, 2019: Special Mention – Kingfisher Award (Blaž Kutin)
- 37th Filmfest München, 2019:
FIPRESCI Prize;
New German Cinema Award – Best Director (Jan-Ole Gerster) - 11th Les Arcs European Film Festival, 2019: Press Prize
- 27th Hamptons International Film Festival, 2019: Honorable Mention – Narrative Feature (Corinna Harfouch)







