UP! UP! TO THE SKY
by Hardi Sturm
synopsis
The story of Arnold, a boy who has believed from an early age that he is an extraterrestrial and now sees his time on earth coming to an end. He tries to build a flying machine so that he can return finally to where he belongs. In his native village, people regard him as a loveable fool. But when a child is hurt in an accident, Arnold is held responsible and admitted to a psychiatric ward. The young doctor Wanda takes on his case as a subject for her doctoral thesis, but the better she gets to know him, the more she becomes uncertain about the initial diagnosis. Could the impossible be possible? Could Arnold be a “visitor”?
original title: | Up! Up! To the Sky |
country: | Germany |
year: | 2007 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Hardi Sturm |
screenplay: | Hardi Sturm |
cast: | Max Riemelt, Katja Riemann, Armin Rohde, Anneke Kim Sarnau, Uwe Rohde, Charly Hübner, Stephan Kampwirth, Matthias Klimsa |
film editing: | Jeannette Wuerl |
art director: | Birgit Esser |
producer: | Ute Schneider, Christof Groos |
production: | schneider + groos filmproduktion GmbH, NDR - Norddeutscher Rundfunk |
backing: | Filmfoerderungsanstalt (FFA), FilmFoerderung Hamburg, Filmstiftung NRW, MSH Schleswig-Holstein, Nordmedia |
distributor: | Zorro Film |