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Plakat "5 Seasons - eine Reise"  2023 | ©KatjaSallay
©KatjaSallay
Independent Feature Film | 2020-2022 | Drama | Germany

Shooting data

Start of shooting08/09/2020
End of shooting16/06/2021
Number of shooting days32
LocationsMannheim, Berlin, Budapest
Filming regionsGermany - Baden-Württemberg, Germany - Berlin, Hungary

Project data

Film financing
Length of movie116'
Sound formatDolby SRD / Dolby digital (5.1, 6 channels)

Brief synopsis

In the shimmering summer heat, Great, a Jewish Hungarian Mother of three announces that she's terminally ill with cancer. For her children Miki, Bina and Ali, not only their family but their whole world falls apart. They fall like colorful autumn leaves and only pull themselves together and pile themselves up to accompany Greta on her last journey. They are joined by a Hungarian doctor, Melina, who is on her own journey of emancipating herself from her tyrannical father, and also trying to start a family of her own with Miki and Ali’s father, Greta’s ex husband Josef. For one heartbeat death unites them all. But a harsh winter pushes them apart like snowflakes; everybody suffers in their own martyrdom. Bina stops talking and travels to Hungary to connect with her American birth father, the other two despair at the weakness of their father Josef, and the ways in which he treated Greta. Spring finally comes and Melina leads the three siblings to Budapest to seek traces of Greta’s past. Slowly their hibernation ends and family starts to blossom again.

Cast

ActorRole nameVoice actor / SpeakerVoice actor
Katja Hutko
Ali [L]
Jana LissovskaiaGreta Erös [L]
Konstantin MarschMiki [L]
Sithembile MenckBina [L]
Katja SallayMelina Adrássy [L]
Florian AndererRinder Boy [SR]
Pegah FerydoniSana Farahani [SR]
Pablo GrantLeroy Sanford jung [SR]
Samuel KochEmil 2 [SR]
Sarah KochSchwester Maria [SR]
Alessija LauseFr. Freytag [SR]
Errol Trotman-HarewoodLeroy [SR]
Farba DiengEmil 1 [SR]
Sara FazilatSchwester Nela [SR]
Christoph GawendaEmil 1A [SR]
Heiner HardtHerr Urzendowsky [SR]
Max HegewaldEmil 3+4 [SR]
Mišel MatičevićDarth Vater [SR]
Bernhard SchützJosef [SR]
Jenny GroßJosie [SR]
Timur IsikEmil 5 [SR]
Mutlu AcarWondraschek [SR]
Peter LadachEmil 6 [SR]
Wassilissa ListGreta jung [SR]
Johannes MeisterJosef jung [SR]
Robert NetzfelderArztkollege [SR]
Florentia MartensSchwester Floor [SR]
Dominique RusakeDr. Usake [SR]
Ronja Rückgauer
junge Mitarbeiterin [BP]
Kaan Friedrich AcarMiki 4 Jahre
Max KühnerMiki 7 Jahre
Marley Soleil VollmerBina Toddler

Crew

ActivityNameComment
3d lead character animatorTimo von Wittken
3d character animatorFlorian Dehmel
3d character animatorJulia Fritsch
Post production supervisorBewegte Bilder Medien GmbH
Fx animatorJannes Kreyenberg
Fx animatorTobias Sprengart
Vfx animation supervisorStephanie Baumgarte
Director of photographyMark Dölling
Drone camera operatorJonathan Preker
1st assistant cameraVictoria Rausch
Alexa Mini, Sigma Classics, 20 DT
Alexa Mini, Sigma Classics, 20 DT
1st assistant cameraTilman Bandel
08.09.2020-08.10.2020
08.09.2020-08.10.2020
1st assistant cameraAyse Alacakaptan
1st assistant cameraNuno Martini
2nd assistant cameraCalvin Esser
Camera traineeCalvin Esser
Casting directorMai Seck
Costume designerNatascha Maraval
Costume designerJosefin Kwon
Costume supervisorDilara Özkan
DirectorKatja Sallay
1st AD (local system)Marie-Therese Ószegi
1st AD (local system)Birka Saß
2020-2021
2020-2021
EditorHenning Stöve
Makeup artist / hair stylistCornelia Palitzsch
Makeup artist / hair stylistDaniela Schmiemann
ComposerPopakademie Baden-Württemberg
Musical directorPopakademie Baden-Württemberg
ProducerMarie-Therese Ószegi
ProducerKatja Sallay
Co-producerTim Klein
Line producerMarie-Therese Ószegi
Production managerDaniel Eckardt
Production managerMarkus Boestfleisch
vom 21.-28.8.20
vom 21.-28.8.20
Assistant production managerMarc Philipps
4.-7. September 2020
4.-7. September 2020
Location manager (local system)Szandra Tönkö
Location manager (local system)Mutlu Acar
Mannheim
Mannheim
Set runnerSebastian Glasner
CreatorKatja Sallay
Production sound mixerAdel Gamehdar
Tonmeister
Tonmeister
Production sound mixerHussen Ibraheem
08.Sept.-18.Dez 2020
08.Sept.-18.Dez 2020
Sound re-recording mixerTilo Ehmann
Supervising sound editorTilo Ehmann
Dialogue editorTilo Ehmann

Facilities

DepartmentCompanyComment
Production ServicesBewegte Bilder Medien GmbH
Film Processing/TransfersBewegte Bilder Medien GmbH
Film Processing/TransfersBewegte Bilder Medien GmbH
Image (VFX)Sehsucht GmbH [de]
Sound (Postproduction)Bewegte Bilder Medien GmbH

Festivals

YearCountryFestivalComment
2023GermanyAchtung Berlin Film Festival