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RUNTIME
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89 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
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Alaska Johansson
2013 1h 29m DE
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4.9
SKIP
★4.9TMDB · 12
Thriller
Synopsis
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Alaska Johansson is the perfect woman and she is the best in her profession as a headhunter. One day she is fired by her boss, a married man who she has an affair with. He also tells her that their relationship has no future. She decides that her best option is to commit suicide with a poison cocktail. She is saved when a child in a Halloween costume enters her apartment demanding sweets. Something is not right about the child. Later her neighbor is going to tell here that there never was a child. Alaska’s world is turning upside down, her perceptions seem to be merely illusions. When her car starts to act on its own and causes a crash, she becomes convinced that someone is conspiring against her. Or is there another, darker secret in Alaska’s life?
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Alina Levshin
Alaska Johansson
Stipe Erceg
Nachbar
Sebastian Schipper
Notarzt
Alexander Held
E. L. Johansson
Sibylle Canonica
Ednar Johansson
Fritz Roth
Dicker Polizist
Luc Feit
Beamter in Zivil
Annika Becker
Kleines Ungeheuer
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Achim von Borries
- Writers
- Sascha Arango
- Languages
- German
- Countries
- Germany
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The take
Achim von Borries directs. Bernd Fischer behind the camera. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Germany. Dialogue in German.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 189 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
- 2Released 13 years ago.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Directed by Achim von Borries, shot by Bernd Fischer. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 5Alina Levshin and Stipe Erceg and Sebastian Schipper carry the top of the cast.
- 6IMDB entry: tt3215004 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 7Only 12 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Cinematography
- Bernd Fischer
- Runtime
- 89 min · 1h 29m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- DE
- Certification (US)
- 16
Also by
Achim von Borries
Production companies
Who made it
HR
DE
Key crew
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical2013-10-1616
