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SASCHA

by Dennis Todorovic

synopsis

While Sasha's mother is dreaming of her son's great career as a pianist, Sasha is left speechless for other reasons: his beloved piano teacher Mr. Weber tells him, he is leaving town forever. Sasha is heartbroken, and the only person in whom he can confide his feelings, is his best friend, Jiao. As a son of an Ex-Yugoslav family even in Germany one rarely lives outside the closet, and Sasha is grateful that his homophobic father believes Jiao is his girlfriend. But what begins as a useful lie becomes a large and complicated one, when Sasha's younger brother, begins an affair with Jiao…

original title: Sascha
country: Germany
year: 2010
genre: fiction
directed by: Dennis Todorovic
release date: DE 24/03/2011
screenplay: Dennis Todorovic
cast: Sascha Kekez, Predrag Bjelac, Ljubisa Gruicic, Zeljka Preksavec, Gosia Konieczna, Tim Bergmann, Jasin Mjumjunov, Yvonne Yung Hee
cinematography by: Andreas Köhler
film editing: Britta Strathmann
art director: Daniel Chour
costumes designer: Nina Albrecht, Sarah Raible
music: Peter Aufderhaar
producer: Ewa Borowski
production: Eastart Pictures
backing: Filmstiftung NRW, BKM, Kuratorium junger deutscher Film

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