DIE DUNKLE SEITE DES MONDES

THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

Corporate lawyer Urs Blank is the undisputed star of his profession. He has money and the perfect wife. But the suicide of a business colleague throws him off track and leads to an attraction with Lucille and her alternative lifestyle. Seduced into experimenting with hallucinogenic mushrooms, his dark side emerges, as with merciless power, long suppressed aggressions burst out and go wild. The once civilized lawyer turns into an instinct-driven individual and erratic murderer. Deeply unsettled by the change, he flees to the woods in search of an antidote, but the police and his vindictive business partner are already on his tracks.

Director

STEPHAN RICK was born in 1974 and trained as a camera assistant, followed by studies in Art History, Drama, Television and Film. Active as a freelance director, his work includes: the TV series ALLEIN GEGEN DIE ZEIT, the crime series episode EINE MÖRDERISCHE IDEE for the popular POLIZEIRUF series, and the features UNTER NACHBARN (2011) and THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON (2015).

Stephan RickPoster THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
Stephan Rick (photo © Sabine Finger)
photos © Port-au-Prince Film/Iris Productions
  • Genre
    Thriller
  • CATEGORY
    Feature
  • YEAR OF PRODUCTION
    2015
  • DIRECTOR
    Stephan Rick
  • SCREENPLAY
    Catharina Junk, Stephan Rick
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY
    Stefan Ciupek, Felix Cramer
  • CAST
    Jürgen Prochnow, Moritz Bleibtreu, Nora von Waldstätten, Doris Schretzmayer, Luc Feit, André Hennicke, Sabine Rossbach, Yves Robert Schaaf
  • PRODUCERS
    Amir Hamz, Jan Krüger, Nicolas Steil
  • PRODUCTION COMPANY
    Port-au-Prince Film & Kultur Produktion & Iris Productions, in co-production with Film 1 & SWR & ARD DEGETO, in association with Iris Productions Deutschland, Lailaps Pictures, Arctic Pictures
  • RUNTIME
    98 min
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • FESTIVALS
    Zurich 2015, Hamburg 2015
  • SALES
    Picture Tree International
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