Die amerikanische Botschaft oder WARUM WIR UNS BEWEGEN
The American Embassy OR why we are moving

film type mockumentary Production Country Germany production year 2004 runtime 10'00 colour
screening format 35mm aspect ratio 1.66:1 sound format Dolby SR languages Deutsch Subtitles Englisch

January 2003, on the eve of the America-led Iraq campaign, a young couple tries to improvise a protest march heading to the American Embassy with the motto No blood for oil. As nobody shows the solidarity they were trying to gain, the couple starts an argument and the movement seems doomed to fail...

director David Sieveking Besetzung / Cast Attila Borlan, Dorothea Arnold, Oliver Urbanski Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Ilja Köster Schnitt / Editing David Sieveking, Kathrin Hembus, Vero Cabois Drehbuch / Script David Sieveking Bildgestaltung / DOP Marcel Reategui Tongestaltung / Sound Design Andreas Samland, Ota Bilek film school Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
Festivals
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Czech Republic
Seagate Foyle Film Festival, Derry, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Next Reel International Film Festival, New York, USA
International Human Rights Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Production
  • Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
  • Anna Laura Wenzel
  • Potsdamer Str. 2
  • 10785 Berlin
  • +49 30 25759152
  • http://www.dffb.de
Distribution
  • Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
  • Anna Laura Wenzel
  • Potsdamer Str. 2
  • 10785 Berlin
  • +49 30 25759152
  • http://www.dffb.de
School
  • Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
  • Potsdamer Str. 2
  • 10785 Berlin
  • http://www.dffb.de

David Sieveking

Born 1977 in Germany;
during an employment as editing-assistant he realizes several short films and documentations;
since 2000 he studies directing at the dffb.

Filmography
1998 Mondschatten Nachdreh
2000 Apropos Dennis Elwood
2002 Ganga Guest House