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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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