Paradiso - Seven Days with Seven Women




FILM CREDITS
Director Rudolf Thome
Cast Hanns Zischler,
Marquart Bohm,
Cora Frost,
Adriana Altaras,
Irm Hermann
Durée 103 min
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by Rudolf Thome

Trailer

"I can only think one day ahead, other-wise I'd go crazy," noted director Rudolf Thome during the second week of a four-week shoot in the summer of 1999.

Fortunately, the sexagenarian, who is represented in the Competition for the first time (he is a five-time Forum participant), did not go nuts. Instead, he has made a film that critic Norbert Grob has designated "the first important German film of the new millennium."

A composer (Hanns Zischler) celebrates his 60th birthday with the seven most important women in his life and a party kicks off that has its hellish moments. Hellish, because that's how people are: wrathful and wild. But they're also wonderful.

Thome's film is full of unflinching lyricism. A man speaks to a tree, and a nun dances to rock 'n' roll. Love forms a motif throughout the Berlin director's 30-year career, notably in the trilogy Forms Of Love, made between 1987 and 1989.

Silke Schütze

Awarded the Silver Bear for an outstanding achievement to the entire cast

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FESTIVAL DE CINE ALEMÁN
MADRID 30 MAY - 3 JUNE

The second Festival of German Cinema in Madrid, opening on Tuesday 30 May, with Volker Schlöndorff's new picture The Legends of Rita, will present on its second and third day Rudolf Thome's entry at Berlin Film Festival this year:

"What if all the women in your life were gathered in one room?" someone says during ‚Paradiso - Seven days with Seven Women'.

Composer Adam Bergschmidt takes the opportunity of his 60th birthday to gather the seven most influential women of his life around him. Adam invites the women to spend a week with him at his secluded lakeside house to celebrate his birthday." (Variety)

Thome's film has the same swaying motion of a relaxing summer stroll. (Berliner Morgenpost).

Reinhold Vorschneider's camera paints the scene with a light French touch, reminiscent of the films of Eric Rohmer. (Dorothea Moritz in German Film).

Thome, whose The Philosopher won the Fipresci-Prize at Montréal World Film Festival in 1989, has received great interest internationally for this perfectly balanced and well rounded picture, that will be shown for the first time to Spanish audience after sales to neighbouring countries Portugal and France.