Business as usual

film type fiction Production Country Germany production year 2003 runtime 5'00 colour
screening format 35mm aspect ratio 1.37:1 sound format Mono languages Deutsch

Downtown area. Clerks, businesspeople and a bum grubbing in the garbage. A bored security man behind monitors controls everything. A short, laconic metaphor about our competitive economic system.

director Tom Zenker Besetzung / Cast Knut Koch, Manfred Niepel, Uwe Uhlmann Original-Filmmusik / Original Score Playoff Schnitt / Editing Tom Zenker Drehbuch / Script Tom Zenker Bildgestaltung / DOP Frank Meyer Tongestaltung / Sound Design Till Spielhoff film school Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB)
Production
  • 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

Tom Zenker

Born 1971 in Munich;
trained as a carpenter and studied sculpture;
studied directing film at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin

Filmography
2000 Hilflos
2001 Es leckt
2003 Business as usual
2007 Der blinde Fleck