2023 - 68th Edition
European Film Academy

LA TEORÍA UNIVERSAL

Timm Kröger
Germany
 - 2023
  1. Johannes Leinert, together with his doctoral advisor, travels to a physics congress in the Swiss Alps, where an Iranian scientist is set to reveal a «groundbreaking theory of quantum mechanics». But when the physicists arrive at the five-star hotel, the Iranian guest is nowhere to be found.
Timm Kröger

Born 1985 in Itzehoe, Germany, he studied at the European Film College in Ebeltoft, Denmark, then at Filmakademie BW in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Timm’s first feature and graduation film, ‘The Council of Birds’, premiered in Venice in 2014 at the Settimana della Critica and was followed by two collaborations as cinematographer with Sandra Wollner (‘The Trouble with Being Born’, ‘The Impossible Picture’). Since 2018, he is part of The Barricades, a production company in Berlin together with Viktoria Stolpe. ‘The Universal Theory’ is his debut feature as a writer and director and premiered in competition at the Venice Biennale.

DIRECTOR
Timm Kröger
SCREENPLAY
Roderick Warich, Timm Kröger
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Roland Stuprich
EDITOR
Jann Anderegg
SOUND
Johannes Schmelzer-Ziringer, Dominik Leube
MUSIC
Diego Ramos Rodriguez, David Schweighart
PRODUCTION
Heino Deckert, Tina Börner, Viktoria Stolpe, Timm Kröger, Lixi Frank, David Bohun, Sarah Born, Rajko Jazbec, Dario Schoch
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Ma.ja.de. Fiction, The Barricades, Panama Film, Catpics
CAST
Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross, Hanns Zischler, Gottfried Breitfuss, David Bennent, Philippe Graber, Imogen Kogge, Emanuel Waldburg-Zeils
RUNNING TIME
118 min.
NARRADOR
Dominik Graf
TYPE
Largometraje
FORMAT
blanco y negro
YEAR OF PRODUCTION
2023
VERSION
O.V. in German, French, Italian and English with English and Spanish subtitles
COUNTRY
Germany
CONTACT
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