I PHONE YOU
by Dan Tang
synopsis
Ling, mid-20s, lives in Chongqing. There she meets Yu, a Chinese business traveller who lives in Berlin. He gives her an iPhone as a goodbye present. They start a romantic telephone relationship. When Ling flies to Berlin to see Yu, another man, Marco, awaits her at the airport. He is Yu‘s German bodyguard. He is to make sure that Ling flies back home. Over two days Ling meets Turks, Poles and Berliners, waiters, policemen and whores, even a dog joins her. For the bodyguard she causes more pain than pleasure, and still he grows to like her. In the end Ling finds Yu and leaves him at the same time, in a way that is surprising to both of them. Love during the time of the World Wide Web. Distant yet close. Close yet distant.
original title: | I Phone You |
country: | Germany, China |
year: | 2011 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Dan Tang |
release date: | DE 26/05/2011 |
screenplay: | Wolfgang Kohlhaase |
cast: | Jiang Yiyan, Florian Lukas, David Wu, Wang Haizhen, He Bing, Annette Frier, Fritz Roth, Tino Mewes, Marie Gruber |
cinematography by: | Andreas Höfer |
film editing: | Sebastian Thümler |
art director: | Susanne Hopf, Li Ya Ding |
costumes designer: | Sabine Greunig, Tuan Tuan |
producer: | Peter Schwartzkopff, Wang Yu, Felix Eisele |
production: | Reverse Angle Production, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg - RBB, BR Bayerischer Rundfunk, ARTE GEIE, Ray Production, Beijing Taihe Universal Film Investment (CN) |
backing: | BKM, German Federal Film Fund (DFFF), German Federal Film Board (FFA), Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein (FFHSH) and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB) |
distributor: | Reverse Angle International GmbH |