Directed by:
Brigitte Maria BerteleScreenplay:
Johanna StuttmannComposer:
Christian BiegaiCast:
Jona Ruggaber, Petra Schmidt-Schaller, Margarita Broich, Wolfram Koch, Hanno Koffler, Maxim Mehmet, Christina Große, Bruno Cathomas, Angelika Gersdorf (more)Plots(1)
25-year-old German soldier David returns to his hometown in the Black Forest after a deployment in Afghanistan. But he comes back to his former life only in appearances. His family and his girlfriend soon are forced to recognize that David is plagued by an inner turmoil that above all gets expressed in relation to his 8-year-old half-brother. The borders between play and violence become blurred between the two, to the point that they slip out of control. In her debut film, Brigitte Bertele profiles a young man's psychology with great precision, a man who landed in an existentially extreme situation as a soldier and as a result is futilely trying to cope with his surroundings. Bertele possesses the extraordinary talent to represent the invisible on screen. She manages to lay bare the psychic conditions and traumas of her protagonist and to show the spectator even unconscious mechanisms of suppression. At the same time Nacht vor Augen (Night Before Eyes) makes a contribution to the current discussion about the deployment of German soldiers in war zones, which – geographically far away from Germany – can indeed be isolated in their location, but not in their psychological proportions. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Jona Ruggaber
Best movies:
Night Before Eyes (2008) (TV movie)
Inga Lindström (2004) (series)
Petra Schmidt-Schaller
East Germany
Best movies:
The Final Journey (2017)
My Life in Orange (2011)
Almanya: Welcome to Germany (2011)
Margarita Broich
West Germany
Best movies:
The Reader (2008)
Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank (2016)
Sources of Life (2013)
Wolfram Koch
France
Best movies:
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The Captain (2017)
Night Before Eyes (2008) (TV movie)
Hanno Koffler
West Germany
Best movies:
Never Look Away (2018)
Rivals Forever - The Sneaker Battle (2015) (TV movie)
Besondere Schwere der Schuld (2014) (TV movie)
Maxim Mehmet
West Germany
Best movies:
Generation War (2013) (series)
Heidi (2015)
Baghdad in My Shadow (2019)
Christina Große
East Germany
Best movies:
Lessons of a Dream (2011)
Three (2010)
I Feel Like Disco (2013)
Bruno Cathomas
Switzerland
Best movies:
Me and Kaminski (2015)
Night Before Eyes (2008) (TV movie)
Someone Like Me (2012)
Angelika Gersdorf
Germany
Best movies:
Das Wunder von Berlin (2008) (TV movie)
The Flying Scotsman (2006)
Wolves of Berlin (2009) (series)
Torsten Hoffmann
Best movies:
Night Before Eyes (2008) (TV movie)
Ein Baby zum Verlieben (2004) (TV movie)
Marcus Michalski
West Germany
Best movies:
Fashion Victims (2007)
Night Before Eyes (2008) (TV movie)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Till Florian Beyerbach
West Germany
Best movies:
Forwards Ever! (2017)
Night Before Eyes (2008) (TV movie)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Markus Ertelt
West Germany
Best movies:
13 Minutes (2015)
Night Before Eyes (2008) (TV movie)
Polizeiruf 110 (1971) (series)
Dario Krosely
Best movies:
Night Before Eyes (2008) (TV movie)
Sebastian Schäfer
West Germany
Best movies:
The Color Out of Space (2010)
Night Before Eyes (2008) (TV movie)
Tatort (1970) (series)
Matthias Dietrich
West Germany
Best movies:
Night Before Eyes (2008) (TV movie)
Upstairs (2009)
Island - Herzen im Eis (2009) (TV movie)