Strand Releasing presents
3 A film by Tom Tykwer Starring Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper, and Devid Striesow
Winner, Audience Award, Dramatic Feature, Outfest 2011 Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival
Country of Origin: Germany / In German with English Subtitles Format: 35mm / Color Aspect Ratio: 1:2.35 Sound Format: Dolby Digital Running Time: 119 minutes
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SHORT SYNOPSIS: Hanna and Simon, a couple in their early forties, live together in Berlin. With their 20th anniversary looming, they both become restless despite being truly and deeply in love. Unbeknownst to one another, they separately become acquainted with Adam, a younger man, and fall in love with him. Clearly not your typical 1930’s romp, this reinvention of those classic films with Tykwer’s sleek direction is a playful update: an intellectual study of a modern couple looking for redefinition in a world of absolutes.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT Love, work, daily life and death are intertwined and formed anew in this story, fused in a different way; it is a film about closeness and distance, loneliness and peer pressure, about the dangers of intimacy and the temptation of the unfamiliar. 3 revolves around the longings, hopes, enigmas, and contradictions of three people approaching middle age, who have had to pose some fundamental questions about the so-called “successful” lives they live. What does it mean today to live “properly” – in a social, emotional, political or private way? 3 is an attempt – at once tender and drastic, as ironic as it is serious – to describe the feeling that people have today as life brings them further away from birth and even closer to death. The storytelling methods used are sometimes elliptic, often fragmented, and then very strict, each one necessitated by the feeling being explored in each situation. In this way, the film investigates the condition of a generation that still – more or less doggedly – lights to depart from the patterns impressed upon them by their socialization. - Tom Tykwer, Writer/Director
CAST Hanna Simon Adam
SOPHIE ROIS SEBASTIAN SCHIPPER DEVID STRIESOW
CREW Production Co-Production Produced by Written & Directed by Director of Photography Production Design Costume Design Editor Original Music
Commissioning Editors
Line Producer Casting
X FILME CREATIVE POOL WDR, ARD DEGETO, ARTE STEFAN ARNDT TOM TYKWER FRANK GRIEBE ULI HANISCH POLLY MATTHIES MATHILDE BONNEFOY TOM TYKWER JOHNNY KLIMEK REINHOLD HEIL GABRIEL MOUNSEY BARBARA BUHL, WDR GEBHARD HENKE, WDR JORN KLAMROTH, ARD DEGETO ANDREAS SCHREITMULLER, ARTE ULLI NEUMANN SIMONE BÄR
ABOUT TOM TYKWER Tom Tykwer was born in 1965 in Wuppertal, Germany. Early on, he discovered his own interest in film and worked for years in various cinemas, as a projectionist and programmer before making his first feature DEADLY MARIA in 1993. His other features include WINTER SLEEPERS (1997), RUN LOLA RUN (1998), THE PRINCESS AND THE WARRIOR (2000), and PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER (2006). Tykwer’s THE INTERNATIONAL opened the 2009 Berlinale Film Festival. His most recent film is 3 starring Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper and Devid Striesow.
Tom Tykwer Select Filmography 2010
3
2009
THE INTERNATIONAL World Soundtrack Awards – Nominated, Best Original Score Of The Year
2006
PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER German Film Awards – Winner, Outstanding Feature Film European Film Awards – Winner, Best Cinematography European Film Awards – Nominated, Best Film
2004
PARIS, JE T’AIME (EPISODE: TRUE) Golden Trailer Awards – Winner, Best Foreign Romance Trailer Chlotrudis Awards – Nominated, Best Supporting Actress
2002
HEAVEN Berlin International Film Festival – Nominated, Golden Berlin Bear German Film Awards – Winner, Film Awards Silver For Outstanding Feature Film
1998
RUN LOLA RUN
CAST BIOS SOPHIE ROIS was born in 1961 in Ottensheim, Austria and studied acting at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna from 1982 to 1985. In the following years, she played at several theaters in Berlin. Since 1992 she has been an ensemble member at the city's Freie Volksbühne. Also appearing on successful TV productions such as “The Manns – Novel of a Century” (2001), she has become one of the most respected actresses in the German speaking region.
SOPHIE ROIS FILMOGRAPHY 2010
3
2008
DER ARCHITEKT German Film Awards – Winner, Film Award Gold For Best Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role – Sophie Rois
2004
SERGEANT PEPPER Munich Film Festival – Winner, White Elephant Award
2003
LEARNING TO LIE Munich Film Festival – Winner, Young German Cinema Award Brooklyn International Film Festival – Winner, Certificate Of Excellence, Best Cinematography Feature
2001
ENEMY AT THE GATES European Film Awards – Nominated, Audience Award- Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Director
SEBASTIAN SCHIPPER FILMOGRAPHY 2010
3
2005
DIE BLAUE GRENZE Fantastic Festival – Winner, Jury Prize For Best Cinematography Oldenburg Film Festival – Winner, German Independence Award, Best Film
2004
NIGHT SONGS Berlin International Film Festival – Nominated, Golden Berlin Bear
2003
GANZ UND GAR Max Ophuls Festival – Winner, Best Young Actor, David Rott
2002
ELEPHANT HEART Bavarian Film Awards – Winner, Bavarian Film Award, Best Cinematography German Film Awards – Nominated, Film Award In Gold, Outstanding Feature Film
DEVID STRIESOW FILMOGRAPHY 2010
3
2009
THIS IS LOVE
2007
DAS HERZ IST EIN DUNKLER WALD Lubeck Nordic Film Days – Winner, SOURCES Screenplay Prize
2006
THE RED COCKATOO Bavarian Film Awards – Winner, Bavarian Film Award, Best Young Actor – Max Riemelt
2005
FALSCHER BEKENNER Bogota Film Festival – Nominated, Best Film
