MUTTER DUNKELHEIT

Mother Darkness

Alemania. 2017. Color. 15 min. Ficción. .
  • Film Director: Maximilian Villwock.
  • Scriptwriter: Maximilian Villwock; Sophia Bierend.
  • Cast: Petya Alabozova; Ralph Herforth; Steven Sowah; Souleymane Sylla.
  • Cinematography: Cedric Retzmann.
  • Editing: Laura Camila Espinel; Dennis Gnoni.
  • Music: Alexander Eckhardt; Lukas Meinardus.
  • Sound: Michael Kondaurow.
  • Producer: John Pablo Elsner; Sophie Lakow.

Djibril is planning a suicide attack together with his best friend Oleg. When Oleg discloses his doubts and fears in the night before the attack, Djibril encourages him and eventually convinces Oleg to carry out their plan. He doesn’t expect that their roles will switch.



Maximilian Villwock

After finishing school Maximilian Villwock left Hamburg to work for a shipping company in Santiago de Chile. Two years later he returned to Europe to work as an assistant on movies and commercials. He worked for companies like Markenfilm (Hamburg) and Partizan Films in Paris, where he lived for two more years. During that time he gained first experience in making movies. He currently studies at the Filmuniversität in Babelsberg, Potsdam.

"Maybe now" (2016) / "Panda III" (2016) / "Mercedes Benz Versicherungen" (2015) / "Wochenblatt mit Papa" (2015) / "Stehen die Sterne in der Leere oder der Fülle" (2015) / "Couper Le Voile" (2014) / "Ce qui nous protêge" (2012) / "Karoshi" (2011) / "Blackbox" (2011)