Official Program Berlinale 2018
IN DEN GÄNGEN photo  © Sommerhaus Filmproduktion/Anke Neugebauer

IN DEN GÄNGEN

IN THE AISLES

After the shy and reclusive Christian loses his job, he starts to work for a wholesale market. Bruno from the beverage aisle takes him under his wing and quickly becomes a fatherly friend to him. He shows him the ropes and patiently teaches him how to operate the fork lift. In the aisles he meets “Sweets”-Marion. He is instantly smitten by her mysterious charm. The coffee machine becomes their regular meeting point and the two start to get to know each other. But Marion is married and Christian’s feelings for her seem to remain unrequited, especially when Marion does not return to work one day. Christian slowly becomes a member of the wholesale market family and his days of driving fork lifts and stacking shelves mean much more to him than meets the eye.

Director

THOMAS STUBER was born in 1981 in Leipzig and completed his degree in Media and Directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in 2011. With the short film ES GEHT UNS GUT he won the Young Talent Award of the Film Industry in Baden-Württemberg in 2006. His first feature film TEENAGE ANGST was invited to the Berlinale/Perspektive Deutsches Kino in 2008 and won the German Young Talent Award at the Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival. In 2011 his short film OF DOGS AND HORSES was nominated for the First Steps Award. It won the German Short Film Award in Gold and won the Student-Oscar® in Silver in 2012. His feature film A HEAVY HEART premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won the German Film Award in Silver in 2016. His latest film, IN THE AISLES, premieres in Competition at the Berlinale 2018.

Poster IN THE AISLES
photo © Sommerhaus Filmproduktion/Anke Neugebauer
  • Genre
    Drama
  • CATEGORY
    Feature
  • YEAR OF PRODUCTION
    2018
  • DIRECTOR
    Thomas Stuber
  • SCREENPLAY
    Clemens Meyer, Thomas Stuber
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY
    Peter Matjasko
  • CAST
    Franz Rogowski, Sandra Hüller, Peter Kurth
  • PRODUCERS
    Jochen Laube, Fabian Maubach
  • CO-PRODUCERS
    Undine Filter, Thomas Král, Martin Frühmorgen
  • PRODUCTION COMPANY
    Sommerhaus Filmproduktion, in co-production with Rotor Film, DEPARTURES Film
  • RUNTIME
    125 min
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • FESTIVALS
    Berlinale 2018 (In Competition)
  • SALES
    Beta Cinema
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