FLUG IN DIE NACHT
synopsis
Johann Lender’s job turns out to be his undoing: the 35-year-old air-traffic controller was alone on his shift on July 1, 2002, when a Russian passenger airliner collided with a cargo plane in the airspace under his control and crashed near Überlingen on Lake Constance. All 71 passengers were killed. Yuri Balkayev’s wife and two children were also among the casualties. About one year later, Balkayev stabs the air-traffic controller to death in front of his own family. But hope is still alive in little Kolya, an orphan who also lost his mother, a Russian stewardess, in this tragedy.
original title: | Flug in die Nacht |
country: | Switzerland |
sales agent: | Beta Cinema |
year: | 2009 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Till Endemann |
film run: | 90' |
screenplay: | Don Bohlinger, Till Endemann |
cast: | Ken Duken, Jewgenij Sitochin, Sophie von Kessel, Sabine Timoteo, Noemi Mühle, Peter Jecklin, Mike Müller, Heinrich Schmieder, Anton Bennent, Charlotte Schwab |
cinematography by: | Lars Liebold, Andreas Schneuwly, Valentin Bärlocher |
film editing: | Benjamin Fueter |
art director: | Reto Trösch, Doris Baumgartner, Ursula Sax |
costumes designer: | Bettina Marx, Stefania Tedesco |
producer: | Peter-Christian Fueter |
production: | C-Films, Maran Film GmbH, SRF - Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen, SWR – Südwestrundfunk |