Invasion / Вторжение

GERMANY
2012, 104 MIN

Director & scriptwriter Dito Tsintsadze
Camera Ralf M. Mendle
Art director Jutta Freyer
Music Gio Tsintsadze
Cast: Burghart Klaussner, Anna F., Merab Ninidze, Heike Trinker, David Imper, Jasper Barwasser
Producers Thanassis Karathanos, Karl Baumgartner, Ebba Sinzinger, Vincent Lucassen
Production Pallas Film, Twenty Twenty Vision, WILDart Film, ARD Degeto, ORF

Joseph is an elderly man in his mid-fifties and just lost his beloved wife. He remains lonely and isolated in his old Villa, where everything painfully reminds him of the past. One day some visitors turn up unexpectedly, who appear to be relatives of his deceased wife. At the beginning, the uninvited guests support Joseph with loving care, but bit by bit the situations starts to change. The friendly visitors are slowly becoming hostile, aggressive invaders. They try to get rid of Joseph and occupy his house, his world, his thoughts. Is this just the paranoia of an old man or really a brutal invasion?

DITO TSINTSADZE

Born in 1957 in Tbilisi. Georgian scriptwriter and director, lives and works in Berlin. Studied directing under Eldar Shengelaia and Otar Iosseliani at the Institute for Theatre and Film in Tbilisi. In 1991, he shot his first long-feature “House”. In 1993 he won the Silver Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival and the Golden Eagle at the Tbilisi Film Festival for his feature “On the Borderline”. His film “Lost Killers” (2000) was awarded the Silver Alexander at the Thessalonica Film Festival. His next feature “Gun-shy” (2003) was awarded in San Sebastian and at the Tbilisi IFF. His filmography includes “The Man from the Embassy” (2006), “Mediator” (2008), etc.

Distribution
Neue Visionen Filmverleih GmbH
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