Der Samu­rai

A wolf strives through the woods around an isolated German village. Jakob the young local police officer is onto him, but scents something more in the darkness. What he finds is a man, it seems, wild eyed, of wiry build, in a dress. He carries a katana, a Samurai sword. When the Samurai invites Jakob to follow him on his crusade towards the village, it becomes Jakob’s mission to pursue the lunatic to end this wanton destruction. At the end of the night Jakob has experienced too much, is too far from whom he once was. Something hidden has been unleashed to meet the first rays of daylight.

Credits

Cast:

Michel Diercks – Jakob

Pit Bukowski – Samurai

Uwe Preuss – Horvath

Ulrike Hanke-Hänsch – Grandma

Kaja Blachnik – Karo

Script:

Till Kleinert

Camera:

Martin Hanslmayr

Art Direction:

Tomoko Okada

Sandra Fleischer

Kostüm (Credit):

Malena Modéer

Vivien Waneck

Music:

Conrad Oleak

Tondesign:

Niklas Kammertöns

Matthias Kaatsch

Editing:

Till Kleinert

Chris Wright

Producer:

Anna de Paoli

Linus de Paoli

Filmförderung:

German Federal Film Board (FFA)

Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg

Film info

Direction:

Till Kleinert

Genre:

fictional

Country of production:

Germany

Production Company:

Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin

Schattenkante

Production:

2014

Shooting format:

HD

Screening format:

1:1,85

Frame rate:

24 fps

Aspect ratio:

1:1.85

Sound format:

Dolby digital 5.1

Language:

German

Version:

OV

Runtime:

80