Schultze gets the Blues

Schultze has spent his whole life living and working in a small East-German village. His daily routine of working in the mine; his regular visits to the pub, his interest in his garden, in polka music and fishing, come to a premature end as he and his friends, Manfred and Jürgen, are unexpectedly sent into early retirement. While the other two sink deeper into oblivion, Schultze suddenly discovers a whole different way of playing the accordeon -the zydeco music ofthe Creole people of Louisiana. The tunes of the southern states of America change his life completely and he decides to visit the new world.
Michael Schorr's feature debut opened to wide acclaim to both audience and press at this year's Venice Film Festival and the director won the prestigious Special Director's Award in the section Controcorrente, dedicated to innovative narrative forms. Schorr's style, with its revealing depiction of the quiet pulse of a lonely person's everyday life, seems both aesthetically and thematically - somewhat reminiscent of the works of Swedish film maker Roy Andersson, presenting a film about usual people, ordinary in their oddity.
CHRISTO BURMAN

Medverkande
Horst Krause,Harald Warmbrunn,Karl-Fred Müller: Producent
Jens Körner: Manus
Michael Schorr: Foto
Axel Schneppat: Musik
Thomas Wittenbecher: Talat språk
German