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Die schiefe Bahn
The Rat Train Robbery

film type animated film Production Country Germany production year 2008 runtime 11'00 colour Color
screening format 35mm aspect ratio 1.85:1 sound format Dolby Digital languages Deutsch Subtitles Englisch

Since the British train privatisation went so well, the German government has decided to follow their lead and privatise their own rail service. German Rail, once a Mercedes among Fiats, is now ready for the stock market, but what happened to all of those German Rail employees we always loved to hate...

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director Jim Lacy, Kathrin Albers Animation Kathrin Albers Original Score Edward Harris Editing Georg Krefeld DOP Jim Lacy Script Jim Lacy Sound Design Pierre Brand
Festivals
Filmfest Osnabrück - Festival des Unabhängigen Films, Germany
Open Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, Germany
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France
Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Germany (Publikumspreis)
Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany (1. Platz)
exground filmfest, Wiesbaden, Germany (exground filmfest)
Shorts at Moonlight KurzFilmFestival, Hofheim, Germany (Bad Soden Publikumspreis)
Production
Distribution
  • Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg
  • Bodenstedtstr. 16
  • 22765 Hamburg
  • Germany
  • +49 40 3910630
  • http://www.shortfilm.com
Sales
  • Kurzfilm Agentur Hamburg
  • Bodenstedtstr. 16
  • 22765 Hamburg
  • Germany
  • +49 40 3910630
  • http://www.shortfilm.com

Jim Lacy

Wrote and directed a large number of films;
teaches film and animation at the Flensburg University of Applied Sciences

Filmography
1999 Rattenskat
2002 Spelunkers
2007 Peters Prinzip
2008 Die schiefe Bahn

Kathrin Albers

Illustration studies in Hamburg;
has made a number of animated films;
teaches stop motion animation at the Nanyang Technical University in Singapore

Filmography
2007 Peters Prinzip
2008 Die Schiefe Bahn

Portrait of Kathrin Albers