Ben­zin, 2019

BENZIN is a 2019 ger­man dra­ma and the debut fea­ture film writ­ten and direct­ed by Oliv­er Mohr. It pre­miered at Moviemen­to, the old­est run­ning cin­e­ma in Ger­many and was nom­i­nat­ed for best mid-length fea­ture at the 2020 First Steps Awards in Berlin. Fred­erik von Lüt­tichau plays Alex, a hard work­ing­man who ben­e­fits from new peo­ple com­ing to the vil­lage.

30 years after the reunion of Ger­many, there are still some vil­lages in the east, where just a few peo­ple did­n’t leave their home. Noth­ing hap­pens. Nobody talks about the past. When sud­den­ly Kate, a young woman from Ukraine appears, things change. The film is about the encoun­ters of char­ac­ters that help­less­ly want to get some­thing from each oth­er but fail try­ing.

IMDB FIRST STEPS AWARDS

  • Nom­i­nat­ed for best mid-length fea­ture at First Steps Award, 2019
  • Win­ner Best Stu­dent Film — Bor­der­scene Film Fes­ti­val, Las Cruces, New Mex­i­co 2019
  • Offi­cial Selec­tion — Inter­na­tion­al Film Fes­ti­val “Cin­e­ma and You” Mar­i­upol, Ukraine 2019
  • Offi­cial Selec­tion — Mid­dle­bury New Film­mak­ers Fes­ti­val 2019
  • Offi­cial Selec­tion — Kami­anets-Podil­skyi Inter­na­tion­al Film Fes­ti­val “BRUKIVKA” Ukraine 2019
  • Offi­cial Selec­tion — Cinalfama Lis­bon Inter­na­tion­al Film Awards, Lis­bon, Por­tu­gal 2019
  • Spe­cial Men­tion — Cinalfama Lis­bon Inter­na­tion­al Film Awards, Lis­bon, Por­tu­gal 2019
  • Spe­cial Men­tion — Ca’ Fos­cari Short Film Fes­ti­val ‚Venice, Italy 2019

“Wenn sich Nest­wärme ver­flüchtigt.”

Ulf Grieger, MOZ
  • Cast Bela Gabor Lenz — Leon
    Kate Molchano­va — Sascha
    Joseph Bund­schuh — Jaro
    Jörg Bund­schuh — Johann
    Fred­erik von Lüt­tichau — Alex
  • Direc­tor & Pro­duc­er Oliv­er Mohr
  • Writer Ele­na Hell, Oliv­er Mohr
  • Direc­tor of Pho­tog­ra­phy Doro Götz
  • Set Design Clara Wuigk
  • Cos­tume Design Nora Con­ra­di
  • Music Lukas Mcnal­ly
  • Edi­tor Aaron Arens, Oliv­er Mohr