"Not a Love Song", by Jan Ralske (Germany)

*NOT A LOVE SONG*	Germany

In a 'Becket-like' atmosphere showing some inspiration from the theater play Waiting for Godot, the couple Karl and Louise find themselves in a lost city close to the Polish frontier, 'where even the animals are beginning to kill each other'. It is in this place that both desperately try to find an answer to their lives. They meet Bruno, a boy crazy to live new adventures, but who does not know exactly how to behave in order to escape from the tedium that assails the place where he lives. The climate between the three becomes heavy, nothing works, time seems not to pass, there is no money, and all attempts at communication between them fail.

Director

DIRECTOR:	Jan Ralske
SCREENPLAY:	Jan Ralske
CINEMATOGRAPHER:	Hans Fromm
EDITION:	Jan Ralske e Alida Babel
MUSIC:	Kurt Ralske
CAST:	Mathias Freihof, Lars Rudolph, Anna Thalbach
PRODUCER:	Gudrun Ruzicková-Steiner
PRODUCTION:	Luna Film, em co-produção com SFB e MDR Gudrun Ruzicková-Steiner Waldenserstd. 34 D-10551 - Berlim Tel: 00 49 30 395 30 26 Fax: 00 4930 395 1348
WORLD SALES:	Luna Film GmbH Gudrun Ruzicková-Steiner Waldenserstd. 34 D-10551 - Berlim Tel: 00 49 30 395 30 26 Fax: 00 4930 395 1348
	P & B., 84 min., 1997

Jan Ralske

Born in Texas (USA) in 1959, he studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and at Wilhelm Pieck University. He worked with photojournalism and was a freelancer in Deutsche Welle TV. He directed several short films amongst which Der Partisan (1993) and Vergangen, Vergessen, Vorüber (1994). He graduated in cinema in the German Film & Television Academy.