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Hochhaus
Tower Block

film type fiction Production Country Germany production year 2006 runtime 40'00 colour Color
screening format 35mm aspect ratio 1.85:1 sound format Stereo languages Deutsch Subtitles Englisch

A weekend in Germany. Daniel (12) and his seventeen-year-old brother Patrick live together in a tower block in Germany. Patrick forces Daniel to go around collecting money for the hungry children in Africa and plays sadistic games with him. Daniel escapes into phantasy worlds. As he suffers more and more from his brothers tyranny, he believes to have found a friend in Bernd, a heroin junkie from the area.

Hochhaus Hochhaus
director Nikias Chryssos Animation Felix Kiessling Cast Daniel Fripan, David Scheller, Elisa Schrey, Paul Preuss Original Score Bülent Kullukcu Sound Design Bülent Kullukcu Editing Carsten Eder DOP Mathias Prause Script Nikias Chryssos film school Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
Festivals
Berlinale - Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin, Germany
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France
Message to Man International Documentary, Short & Animated Film Festival, Sankt Petersburg, Russian Federation (Centaur Award)
NextFrame International Student Film Festival, Philadelphia, USA (Screenwriting Award)
Drama International Short Film Festival, Greece (Special Award Greeks of the World)
Internationales Festival der Filmhochschulen München, Germany (Bestes Szenenbild)
Production
  • Sophia Rosa Schwert
  • Akademiehof 10
  • 71638 Ludwigsburg
  • +49 170 5806457
Distribution
  • Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
  • Katharina Schreiner
  • Akademiehof 10
  • 71638 Ludwigsburg
  • Germany
  • +49 7141 96982179
  • http://www.filmakademie.de
School

Nikias Chryssos

Born in 1978;
2001 student of Film & Video Production in England;
since 2002 attending the Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg;
2005 Berlinale Talent Campus and UCLA Masterclass Programme

Filmography
2003 Down
2004 Schwarze Erdbeeren Der Fremde und der Affe
2005 Ihr seid nicht allein
2009 DER GROSSVATER
2011 MANN LIEBT HUND
2015 DER BUNKER

Portrait of Nikias Chryssos