Feature Film

The Bloom of Yesterday

A renownend German Holocaust researcher, the grandson of a Nazi war criminal, is struggling with his family history, his career and his hatred of people in general. At the height of his personal crisis, he encounters a passionate, manic French Jewish. Her remarkably frank and unconventional manner turns his whole life upside down and helps him finally break down the barriers he has built around his life.

Data

Category: Feature Film
Financing: Minority coproduction
Format: DCP, 125 Min
Release: 13.01.2017
Distribution: FILMLADEN Filmverleih GmbH
Admissions: 12.463
Funding Film Institute: 400.000 €
Share of Austrian production costs: 30 %
Share of total production costs: 8 %
Television investment: 250.000 €
Co-production: Dor Film West, Four Minutes Film (DE, 74%)
International funding: Medien- und Filmgesellschaft Baden Württemberg, Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, Filmförderungsanstalt, Deutscher Filmförderfonds, Eurimages
Funding program: ÖFI
first run on ORF2 Austrian Broadcasting Service: 03.02.2019
Viewers: 79.000
Film location: Germany, Vienna, Riga, New York
Shooting time: April - June 2015
Days of shooting: 42
Completion: Spring 2016
Funding institutions Austria: Filminstitut, Filmfonds Wien, Filmstandort Austria

Credits

Production: DOR FILM Produktionsgesellschaft m.b.H.
Producer Austria: Danny Krausz, Kurt Stocker
Director: Chris Kraus
Script: Chris Kraus
DOP: Sonja Rom
Editor: Brigitta Tauchner
Sound engineer: André Zacher
Sound design: Philipp Mosser, Reinhard Schweiger
Costume design: Gioia Raspé
Set design: Silke Buhr
Music: Anette Focks
Cast: Lars Eidinger (Totila), Adèle Haenel (Zazie), Jan Josef Liefers (Balthasar), Hannah Herzsprung (Hannah)
Production manager: Peter Hermann, Isabel Sztriberny
German Title: Die Blumen von gestern
Television investment: ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen), SWR, NDR, HR, BR, ARD-Degeto