title Prinzip Zufall [random principle]
shooting format Super8 Cinemascope Kodak Vision 200
digital format SD, h264, AAC
subtitles english / german / french subtitles
length 26 min
Director Romeo Grünfelder
Screenplay Romeo Grünfelder
Director of photography Simon Rittmeier
Composer Thomas Meadowcroft
Sound Stefan Fendrich
Production company felderfilm, Hamburg
cast Dr. Johannes Hagel, Yakup Aydin, Roland Appelt
genre docu fiction, shortfilm
Festivals (selection)
(2011) CPH:DOX, Kopenhagen
(2011) Short Film Festival, Hamburg
(2012) FIPA, Biarritz
(2013) IndieLisboa, Lissabon
SYNOPSIS
In an experiment with a train set the psycho-physicist Dr. John Hagel examined unexplained phenomena of syncronicity. According to his statistics, the train set shouldn’t show abnormalities after several thousand passes. Surprisingly the psycho-physicists observed, however, something entirely else.
REVIEWS
"PRINZIP ZUFALL is definetely one of the most fascinating films I've seen this year."
Paolo Moretti, Programmer, Venice Film Biennale
"When I saw PRINZIP ZUFALL I was completely mesmerized."
Mads Mikkelsen, Programmer, CPH:DOX
"Great cast, wonderful combination of aerial photos of the city with the principle of model railway and a rest in the narrative that I find rare."
Andreas Platthaus, FAZ
"It's not cinema, it's art."
Olaf Stüber, Gallerist Berlin