Lostage
Jakob is really a woman, but the superstitious villagers are obsessed with the idea that Jakob has to be a man in order to protect the village from a great calamity. Jakob has never been in any doubt about this destiny. She lives an isolated existence on a lonely farm. One day Jakob takes on Tom at the farm. Tentatively, the two come closer. The villagers are not at all happy about this development. A friendship has to be avoided at all costs.
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Runtime
34 min -
Country
Switzerland, Germany -
Year of Presentation
2008 -
Year of Production
2007 -
Director
Bettina Eberhard -
Cast
Ulrike Schwab, Till Firit, Heiner Stadelmann, Klaus Heindl, Theresa Hupp, Phillip Lukas Langenegger, Frank Mittmann, Elisabeth Piper, Birgit Pacht, Stefan Lampadius, Juliane Baldy -
Production Company
KHM Kunsthochschule für Medien -
Berlinale Section
perspective german cinema -
Berlinale Category
Short Film
pictures from the movie
Biography Bettina Eberhard
Born in Zurich, she studied art at Gold smiths College in London, subsequently working in London and Madrid. A member of the artists’ group “Drater!”, she attended the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne (KHM) from 2004-07. LOSTAGE is her graduation film.
Biography Klaus Heindl
Born in the Tyrol, Austria in 1969, he studied acting in Vienna and then joined the ensemble at the Schauspielhaus in the same city. He took smaller parts in films by Christian Berger, Urs Egger, Michael Haneke, Jessica Hausner, Dagmar Knöpfel and others. Since 1994 he has been writing prose and plays for the radio and theatre as well as opera librettos for Beat Furrer, Georg Friedrich Haas, Arnulf Herrmann, Heinz Holliger, Klaus Lang and Hèctor Parra.
His debut feature film MÄRZ (MARCH) won the Silver Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2008.