LARA © Frank Griebe/Schiwago Film

LARA

It’s Lara’s 60th birthday, and she has every reason to celebrate: this evening, her son Viktor will be giving the most important piano concert of his career. Lara was, after all, the one who’d mapped out and driven his musical career. Yet Viktor has been unreachable for weeks and nothing indicates that Lara will be welcome at his debut performance. Without further ado, she buys up all the remaining tickets and hands them out to everyone she meets. The more Lara strives to make the evening successful, however, the more events get out of control.

Director

JAN-OLE GERSTER is a Berlin-based writer and director. After working for German film production companies for several years he began studying Screenwriting and Directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. His debut film OH BOY, which premiered at Karlovy Vary in 2012, became a domestic box-office success and was released in cinemas in over 20 countries and won numerous national and international awards, including the Audience and Jury Awards at Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers and the Tallinn International Film Festival, six German Film Awards and the European Film Award for Best Debut Film. He has just completed his second feature film LARA and is currently working on a screen adaptation of Christian Kracht’s best-selling novel Imperium.

photo © Frank Griebe/Schiwago Film
  • Genre
    Drama
  • CATEGORY
    Feature
  • YEAR OF PRODUCTION
    2019
  • DIRECTOR
    Jan-Ole Gerster
  • CINEMATOGRAPHY
    Frank Griebe
  • CAST
    Corinna Harfouch, Tom Schilling, Rainer Bock, Volkmar Kleinert
  • PRODUCER
    Marcos Kantis
  • CO-PRODUCER
    Jan-Ole Gerster
  • PRODUCTION COMPANY
    Schiwago Film, in co-production with STUDIOCANAL
  • RUNTIME
    98 min
  • LANGUAGE
    German
  • FESTIVALS
    Karlovy Vary 2019 (In Competition), Filmfest Munich 2019
  • AWARDS
    Ecumenical Jury Award, Best Actress (Corinna Harfouch) & Special Jury Prize Karlovy Vary 2019, Fipresci Prize & German Cinema New Talent Award Munich 2019
  • SALES
    Beta Cinema
    beta@betacinema.com
    www.betacinema.com
  • Trailer (Link)