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Sometime in august (Mitte ende August) Son of the Sunshine
GERMANY
Thomas and Hanna, a deliriously happy couple in their late 30s, buy an
CANADA
Along with co-screenwriter Matthew Heiti, director, co-screenwriter,
Director: Sebastian Schipper
old house in the country with plans to fix it up over the summer. Hanna Director: Ryan Ward and lead actor Ryan Ward uses the hard-up, grungy streets of
is looking forward to their time together – so when Thomas invites his
Producers: Sebastian Zühr,
Executive Producer: Mike Masters Ontario, Canada, as a backdrop against which to explore the healing
Marcus Welke, Henning Ferber
older brother, Friedrich, who is deeply depressed over the failure of
Producer: Paul Fler
power of love in Son of the Sunshine.
Screenwriter: Sebastian Schipper
both his business and his marriage, to join them, she is disappointed
Screenwriters: Ryan Ward,
by the intrusion. Easygoing, charming, and talkative, Thomas seeks to
Cinematographer: Frank Blau
Matthew Heiti Sonny is a young man crippled with a disease that isolates him from
MS: A to Z
counterbalance the cloudier mood with an impetuous frenzy of activity,
Editor: Horst Reiter
Cinematographer: Chayse Irvin
society – Tourette’s Syndrome – even as it strengthens the cloying
MS: A to Z
il
but Hanna retreats into sullenness and retaliates by bringing in her
Cast: Milan Peschel, Marie Bäumer,
Editor: Sam Hall
grasp of his drug-addled mother. Determined to extricate himself
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nubile young godchild Augustine until things smooth themselves out.
Anna Brüggermann, André Hennicke,
Cast: Ryan Ward, Rebecca
from their codependent relationship, he opts to undergo an experi-
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Gert Voss
Augustine’s youthful sexiness has anything but a soothing impact on
McMahon, Shantelle Canzanese,
mental operation in the hopes of a cure that will allow him to lead a
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2008 / color / 92 min.
Thomas, however, whose adolescent impulses linger just below the JoAnn Nordstrom regular life. But as his Tourette’s subsides, so does his gift for healing
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surface. So when a visit by Hanna’s suave father and his sleek Russian 2009 / color / 95 min. the sick and wounded – a gift that he has never fully understood
girlfriend brings yet another disruption, the couple finds their love but that has shaped his entire family life: as a young boy he saved
SEBaSTian SChiPPEr
and trust being severely tested. Loosely based on Goethe’s 1809 novel his sister after she fell from a railroad bridge, although he can’t
Beginning his career as an actor,
Elective Affinities, Sometime in August follows the shifting play of rYan WarD remember the incident and she can’t explain it.
Sebastian Schipper attended the acting chemistry and love, loyalty and betrayal as bonds are stretched, broken,
Ryan Ward’s background in acting
school Otto Falckenberg School in
and remade.
and theatre has gained much
Meanwhile, in the midst of his search for normalcy, Sonny falls
Munich. While still attending school,
recognition and praise. Appearing
in love with a troubled young woman who exhibits the violent
Schipper was cast in the comedy Small
in both stage and film productions,
Sharks (1992). He has appeared in
Also an actor whose credits include The English Patient and Run Lola
he is best known for the role of Ash
mood swings he recognizes so well. The chaos of their relationship,
supporting roles in such films as The
Run, writer/director Sebastian Schipper won a German Film Award
in the cult hit Evil Dead: The Musical,
compounded by the trauma arising from the unearthing of family
English Patient (1996), Winter Sleepers (Germany’s Oscar equivalent) in Silver for Outstanding Feature with his
receiving a Best Actor nomination secrets long buried, leads to the return of his symptoms – along with
(1997), and Run Lola Run (1998). In
1999 film Gigantic. Sometime in August features a score by American
from the Dora Mavor Moore Awards
his instinctual ability to connect with those who are broken. As he
addition to film directing, Schipper is a
cult musician Vic Chesnutt, whose songs have been covered by the likes
(the Canadian Tonys). He has also
slowly comes to terms with the facts of his life, Sonny finally begins
successful commercial director.
directed two shorts.
of Madonna, REM, and the Smashing Pumpkins. to take responsibility for them – and, in so doing, to turn his own
Filmography
affliction into a source of reparation and redemption.
A Friend of Mine (2006)
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