Winter Sleepers (1997)
Winterschläfer
122 min
Young blonde translator Rebecca lives with her boyfriend ski instructor Marco in a mountain villa owned by her friend, nurse Laura. Rene, local cinema projectionist, steals Marco's car and gets into a car crash with local Theo, whose daughter, after being in coma for a time, dies. Rene suffers from partial short term memory loss and starts a relationship with Laura. Meanwhile Marco is looking for the man who stole his car and Theo - for the man who killed his daughter...
- Release date
- October 30, 1997
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Box office
- $323,041
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Cast
- Ulrich Matthes as Rene
- Marie-Lou Sellem as Laura
- Floriane Daniel as Rebecca
- Heino Ferch as Marco
- Josef Bierbichler as Theo
- Laura Tonke as Nina
- Sophia Dirscherl as Theos Tochter
- Sebastian Schipper as Otto
- Saskia Vester as Anna
- Robert Meyer as Polizist
- Martin Leutgeb as 2. Polizist
- Anne-Françoise Pyszora as Kitsch-Erzählerin
- René Schoenenberger as Gerd
- Agathe Taffertshofer as Theos Frau
- Simon Donatz as Theos Sohn
- Jakob Donatz as Theos Sohn
Crew
- Tom Tykwer · Director
- Tom Tykwer · Writer
- Anne-Françoise Pyszora · Writer
- Stefan Arndt · Producer
- Reinhold Heil · Composer
- Johnny Klimek · Composer
- Tom Tykwer · Composer
- Frank Griebe · Cinematographer
- Katja Dringenberg · Editor
- An Dorthe Braker · Casting director
- Alexander Manasse · Production designer