Triumph des Nichtschwimmers
Swimming Lessons

film type fiction Production Country Germany production year 2005 runtime 7'00 colour
screening format 35mm aspect ratio 1.66:1 sound format Dolby SR languages Tschechisch Subtitles Englisch, Deutsch

Summer 1979 in communist Czechoslovakia. The ten-year-old Milosch has fallen in love with the head of his pioneers unit. But Milosch cannot swim, he can only dive. Germany/West: Autumn 1980. Milosch is an asylum seeker. He cannot swim yet and he cant speak German. Therefore the swimming lesson is a pain. Until the diving contest starts...

director Martin Dolejs Besetzung / Cast Carolin Weber, Kristian Borissow Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Jochen Schleicher Schnitt / Editing Michael Stehle Bildgestaltung / DOP Angela Poschet bvk Drehbuch / Script Martin Dolejs Tongestaltung / Sound Design Robert F. Kellner
Festivals
Worldwide Short Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
Flanders International Film Festival, Ghent, Belgium
International Film Festival of Kerala, India
Seagate Foyle Film Festival, Derry, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival (RIIFF), Providence, Newport, USA
Avanca Film Festival - International Meeting of Cinema, TV, Video and Multimedia, Portugal
Production
  • CINEMANIAX! Filmproduktion
  • Frank Becher
  • Bucher Str. 101
  • 90419 Nürnberg
  • +49 911 341980
Distribution
  • CINEMANIAX! Filmproduktion
  • Frank Becher
  • Bucher Str. 101
  • 90419 Nürnberg
  • +49 911 341980

Martin Dolejs

Born 1969 in Slany, Czechoslovakia;
August 1980 emigration to Germany;
1997 MA in Film and TV Sciences;
1998 to 2000 scriptwriting at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb);
since 1998 freelance scriptwriter