ELLA & NELL
synopsis
Two women, friends in the middle of their lives. But the business of everyday has kept them at a distance. Now they want to reconnect with something that once was, but is no longer. One of the women has made herself comfortable in a neoliberal life and lifestyle, the other has become lost pursuing an academic career without a future. Decisions have been made. While on a walking holiday together in the Czech mountains it is not only the near-impassable terrain that keeps pulling them off their joint route, but also jealousy, fear and shame. Ella & Nell is a gentle, nostalgically funny story about friendship and inexorable decay.
international title: | Ella & Nell |
original title: | Ella und Nell |
country: | Germany |
year: | 2018 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Aline Chukwuedo |
screenplay: | Sabina Gröner, Aline Chukwuedo |
cast: | Kirsten Schlüter, Stephanie Petrowitz, Christian Martin Schäfer, Alexander Wolf, Ruth Bickelhaupt |
cinematography by: | Sebastian Lempe |
film editing: | Benjamin Laser |
producer: | Ibrahim-Utku Erdogan |
co-producer: | Kordula Hildebrandt, Marco Nieschka |
line producer: | Andreas Louis |
production: | Deutsche Film & Fernsehakademie Berlin (DFFB) / German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (DFFB), Hildebrandt Film |