Snipers Alley

film type experimental film, fiction Production Country Germany production year 2002 runtime 14'00 colour Color
screening format 35mm aspect ratio 1.37:1 sound format Mono languages Deutsch

A country in civil war. Two UN blue helmet soldiers are observing a market place. Suddenly a sniper shoots at civilians. Attempting to help a wounded women, one of the two soldiers dies. The other one pusues the fleeing sniper, takes aim at him and recognises: The sniper is a 14-year-old boy.

director Rudolf Schweiger Cast Catherine Flemming, Lavdim Terzija, Leopold Hornung, Sebastian Ströbel Original Score Annette Focks Editing Peter R. Adam DOP Gerald Schank Script Rudolf Schweiger
Festivals
2003 Internationales Filmfest Emden-Norderney, Germany (Ostfriesischer Kurzfilmpreis)
Awards
2003 Kurzfilmpreis der Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Stiftung 2003
Distribution
  • interfilm Berlin Management GmbH
  • Sophie Röder
  • Straßburger Str. 55
  • 10405 Berlin
  • Germany
  • +49 30 25942903
  • http://www.interfilm.de

Rudolf Schweiger

born in 1963, 1988-1993 studied theatre studies, history of art and psychology at University of Munich, 1994-1997 editor at the Bavarian TV broadcasting station