The Old Man and the Bird (2015) [N/A]

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Release Date:
February 10, 2015

Original Title:
The Old Man and the Bird

Genres:
Animation

Production Companies:
Ocean Pictures Filmproduktion Memmingen

Production Countries:
Germany

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 7

Snowflakes drift through the forest. An old man, as old as the hills, lives alone in a remote hut. The winter is so cold that he can barely move his limbs. When a robin flies against his window and falls to the ground the old man first has to pause for thought. Then he pushes open the heavy front door and stomps outside to help the bird. Out in the deep snow his strength begins to fail him. But no sooner does he take the tender creature in his hands than a change comes over him. Life radiates in luminous colours and returns to the old man's hut. As it used to. Or is this just one last memory? An inventively animated rumination on love, on bidding farewell and the cycle of life.

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Costume Design:
Riet Hannah Bernhard

Director:
Dennis Stein-Schomburg

Director of Photography:
Christoph Neugebauer

Editor:
Dennis Stein-Schomburg

Executive Producer:
Roland Fischer

Makeup Artist:
Gabriel Sahlmüller

Music:
Thomas Höhl

Producer:
Roland Fischer

Set Designer:
Daniel Maaß
Svenja Matthes

Sound Designer:
Christian Wittmoser

Sound Recordist:
Tobias Böhm

Writer:
Dennis Stein-Schomburg

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