SLEEPER
synopsis
Johannes is approached by the German secret service to report on his Persian colleague Farid. When Farid starts an affair with Beate, a waitress, with whom Johannes has also fallen in love, and job-related conflicts appear between the two men, fundamental values like friendship, love and trust are suddenly at stake. Three characters in a dangerous menage-à-trois, set in a triangle of science, politics and love.
| international title: | Sleeper |
| original title: | Schläfer |
| country: | Austria, Germany |
| year: | 2005 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Benjamin Heisenberg |
| film run: | 98' |
| release date: | AT 03/06/2005, DE 04/05/2006 |
| screenplay: | Benjamin Heisenberg |
| cast: | Bastian Trost, Mehdi Nebbou, Loretta Pflaum, Gundi Ellert, Wolfgang Pregler, Charlotte Eschman, Ludwig Bang, Masayuki Akiyoshi |
| cinematography by: | Reinhold Vorschneider |
| film editing: | Karina Ressler, Stefan Stabenow |
| art director: | Renate Schmaderer |
| costumes designer: | Stephanie Riess |
| music: | Lorenz Dangel |
| producer: | Antonin Svoboda, Peter Heilrath, Martin Gschlacht, Barbara Albert, Jessica Hausner |
| production: | Coop99 Filmproduktion, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Arte, Juicy Films (DE) |
| distributor: | Filmladen, Zorro (Filmwelt) (DE) |
