SASCHA
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 |