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“There has to be one man that suits you“, Mrs Stein tells her daughter. But Christina believes she has already found “her man“. To earn the living of herself and her boyfriend Peter, an unsuccessful painter, Christina works as a telephone hostess at a sex hotline. It‘s a job that doesn‘t mean anything to her, as she assures Peter. Secretly however, it makes her suffer. Peter feels deceived and calls on Christina to find another job. This gets down to an argument in which Christina reveals her existential fears to Peter, using the same phrases as her mother – what are they supposed to live on after all: Just on love?
Peter escapes from the flat leaving Christina back alone. The phone rings, signalising another hotline customer, and this time, Christina almost doesn‘t pick up. Eventually, she answers, perhaps out of habit. But perhaps also in order to flee from her own loneliness. But unlike the usual callers, this man doesn‘t seek after a quick satisfaction. He tells Christina he has only a few minutes left to live.
Christina is a film about solitude, about the loneliness in the company of people you love but still don‘t get through to.
writer,
director, editor: Benedikt
Maria Kramer
camera: Moritz Vodermeier
sound, music: Florian Schanz
light: Jens Beller
props, set design: Jens Beller
make up, hair: Andrea Stech
assistant director: Geraldine Bryant
producer: Benedikt Maria Kramer
cast: Stephanie Gossger, Michael A. Grimm,
Wolfgang Grabow, Christel
Peschke, Frank Siebenschuh, Matthias
Lidl, Pauline Steinle
IMDb entry
running time: 30 min
format: Mini35 / DV 1:1,33 (english subtitles)
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