Science Fiction – EPISODIC DRAMA
120 MIN – GERMANY, WORK IN PROGRESS – 35 MM, COLOR, 1:2,35

KOSMOPOLIS IS AN ULTRA MODERN EPISODIC FAIRY TALE.
A METROPOLIS UPDATE. IT IS AN ODYSSEY ACROSS THE UNPLUMBED DEPTHS AND DESIRES OF PRESENT-DAY MANKIND AND ACROSS THE MAGIC WITHIN REALITY. KOSMOPOLIS IS A TALE ABOUT A MEGA-CITY AT THE BORDERS OF YOUR IMAGINATION.

ON A HOT SUMMER’S DAY IN A FICTITIOUS EUROPEAN CITY THE COMIC AND TRAGIC FATES OF ITS INHABITANTS GRADUALLY INTERTWINE. CROOKS AND MANAGERS, HOUSEWIVES AND POP STARS, ADVENTURERS AND GENTELMEN – EVERYONE ASPIRES TO GET THE MOST OF THEIR LIVES. IN QUEST OF PLEASURE AND HAPPINESS ONE DSTINY INTERFERES WITH ANOTHER AND CHANGES IT IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS.

LOVE, SOLITUDE, VIOLENCE AND CRIME – FAME, EXCESS, AGONY AND DEATH – AGE, YOUTH, BEAUTY AND DISASTER – KOSMOPOLIS IS AN HOMAGE TO PLEASURES AND INIQUITIES OF MODERN LIFE.

*Talent Project
–> BERLINALE CO-PRODUCTION MARKET 2005
*Official Selection
–> EUROPEAN FILMS CROSSING BORDERS – Berlin 2005

WRITERS
Simone Bennett
Daniel Böhme
Adrian Künzel
John Phillpotts
Alexandre Powelz
Jan Wojciechowski
Gillian Wood
Olivier Kayser
Luca Zamai

HEAD WRITER
Alexandre Powelz

STORY EDITORS
Olivier Kayser
Luca Zamai

PRODUCTION
Luca Zamai, Olivier Kayser, Jana Piehl, Damián Garcia (Trainee)

SPECIAL THANKS
Herbert Caceres, Michael Kruse, Gerald Rasanayagam, Michael Olmer, Shai Levy, Ola Czarniecka, Slavis Poczebutas, David Jazay, Jens Gruenhagen, Hagen Myller, Mike Koloska, Berke Tataroglu, Alexander Mavrodin, Angela Scholz, Klaus Trawinski, Georg von Auersperg, Carsten Braatz, Sandra Walzberger, Malte Behrmann, Hersoy Baykal, Habib Jawadi, Boris Schulmeister, Tanja Cummings, Sira Ullrich, Caroline Otteni, Laure Bombail, Hr. Heinemann (Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin), Peter Ott, Claudia González Espíndola, Renee Gundelach, Ivana de Vert, Andreas Krüger, Kathi Bildhauer, Sonja Heinen, Claudia Landsberger, Sibylle Kurz, Renate Roginas