Edition: First Cut Lab Hamburg 2021
HUMAN FLOWER OF FLESH
Germany, France
Production company: Fünferfilm
World premiere: Locarno Film Festival 2022 – Films After Tomorrow
Participants
Ida lives on a ship with her crew of five men. In Marseille her attention is caught by the secretive male world of the French Foreign Legion and she decides to follow its traces across the Mediterranean. As Ida and her crew sail via Corsica to the historical headquarters of the Legion in Algeria, boundaries and certainties blur while life at sea produces a special kind of mutual understanding.
CREDITS
Director, Writer & editor: Helena Wittmann
Producer: Frank Scheuffele, Karsten Krause & Julia Cöllen
Co-Producers: Tita Productions
Cast: Angeliki Papoulia, Ferhat Mouhali, Gustavo de Mattos Jahn, Ingo Martens, Mauro Soares, Vladimir Vulevic, Steffen Danek, Nina Villanova, Denis Lavant
International sales: Shellac
Consultant editor