Our little differences

by Sylvie Michel

The seemingly harmonious relationship between the prestigious Doctor Sebastian (55) and his Bulgarian cleaning lady Yana (58) develops into a vicious power game, when her daughter Vera (22) and Arthur (17), the doctor´s son, vanish witout a trace.

Drama, Germany 2012, 80 min.
Theatrical release: 07.03.2013

Sebastian, a successful fertility doctor, leads a good life. He enjoys an open and easy-going relationship with his son, Arthur. At least that is the way he sees it.
His cleaning lady, Jana, has quite a different approach towards parenting. Sebastian finds Jana to be an overprotective mother. Conversely, Jana shakes her head at how much freedom Sebastian allows his son to have. One night both teenagers go out together, without Jana’s permission. The next morning, Jana panics when she finds out that Arthur and Vera hadn’t returned home from their night out. Attempting to calm her down, Sebastian instead provokes the opposite…

Director Sylvie Michel sensitively presents two people whose lives are closely interwoven, yet who cannot reach out to each other. Intimately observed and empathetically narrated, Our Little Differences is an ironic psychological drama about a deeply disrupted community.

Actor/Actress:	Role
Wolfram Koch:	Sebastian
Bettina Stuck:	Jana
Leonard Bruckmann:	Arthur
Silvia Petkova:	Vera
Wilhelm Eilers:	Dr. Noack
Cornelia Bruning:	Ulrike
Katharina Kubel:	Julia
Anne Ratte Polle:	Monika
Jaqueline Macaulay:	Frau Thalberg
Mehdi Nebbou:	Herr Thalberg

Director	Sylvie Michel
Author	Razvan Radulescu, Melissa de Raaf, Sylvie Michel
Producer	Thanassis Karathanos, Karl Baumgartner
Production	TWENTY TWENTY VISION
coproduced by	PALLAS FILM
supported by	Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg
	Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung
	German Federal Film Board, MEDIA
Distribution	Neue Visionen

Director of Photography	Mario Masini
Editor	Andreas Wodraschke
Sound Design	Noemi Hampel
Mixing	Lars Ginzel
Production Design	Claus Mayr
Music	Andreas Wodraschkle

2012

Internationales Film Festival München
Internationales Film Festival Toronto
Internationales Film Festival Thessaloniki
Festival Nouveau Cinéma Montreal
14th Festival del cinema Europeo
SNCGI Preis, best European actor: Wolfram Koch