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Released 10 years ago.
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Center of My World
2016 1h 55m DE
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7.1
SOLID
★7.1TMDB · 280
DramaRomance
Synopsis
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A strange family: 17-year-old Phil lives with his mother and twin sister in an old mansion on the outskirts of town. When he returns from summer camp, the mood in the mansion has soured somehow. Phil doesn’t worry about it, hanging out with his best friend Kat instead. When he starts to feel attracted to a mysterious new student at school, Phil is plunged into emotional turmoil only exacerbated by the trouble at home.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Louis Hofmann
Phil
Sabine Timoteo
Glass
Ada Philine Stappenbeck
Dianne
Jannik Schümann
Nicholas
Svenja Jung
Kat
Inka Friedrich
Tereza
Sascha Alexander Geršak
Michael
Nina Proll
Pascal
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Jakob M. Erwa
- Writers
- Jakob M. Erwa
- Languages
- German
- Countries
- Austria, Germany
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WORLD
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International production across 2 countries: Austria, Germany.
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RUNTIME
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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
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DIRECTOR
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Directed by Jakob M. Erwa, shot by The Chau Ngo. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
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DIRECTOR
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Editor Carlotta Kittel shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
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CAST
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Louis Hofmann and Sabine Timoteo and Ada Philine Stappenbeck carry the top of the cast.
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WILD
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IMDB entry: tt4932154 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
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Cinephile deep dive
The take
Jakob M. Erwa directs. The Chau Ngo behind the camera. Carlotta Kittel cuts. Produced in Austria, Germany. Dialogue in German.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Released 10 years ago.
- 2International production across 2 countries: Austria, Germany.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Directed by Jakob M. Erwa, shot by The Chau Ngo. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
- 5Editor Carlotta Kittel shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
- 6Louis Hofmann and Sabine Timoteo and Ada Philine Stappenbeck carry the top of the cast.
- 7IMDB entry: tt4932154 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
The technical file
- Cinematography
- The Chau Ngo
- Editing
- Carlotta Kittel
- Runtime
- 115 min · 1h 55m
- Aspect ratio (typical)
- 1.37:1 (Academy)
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- DE
Awards
- Austrian Film Awards 2017
- audience award
- New Faces Award
Individual records documented via Wikidata; the summary above may count more.
Also by
Jakob M. Erwa
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What people are saying
- SunParakeet★ 9/10
Brave and authentic What does cinema mean to you? To me it means emotions and stories, told with moving images, with music and with words. And, in my opinion, for cinema to be at its greatest it needs to brave and vulnerable. Center of My World is exactly that: brave and vulnerable. And intimate. And true. Its is the story of Phil, a standard teenager, who is just a little gayer than the rest. But him being gay is really not an important part of the story. He struggles with his family, with deeply hidden secrets of the past and their effects in the present, which may break his family apart. And he falls in love for the first time. That's really it. And while watching this in the cinema some people laughed at the film. Because it shows how love is, unironically and over-the-top. It dives deep into Phil's emotions and shows us not only the center of his world, but maybe even the center of THE world (hence the original German title "The Center of the World"). And most people can not let themselves dive into these depths. And if you want to experience this small gem of a movie, you have to make yourself vulnerable, too. Leave your irony at home, just watch this movie as you are - naked and vulnerable. Then you may see what cinema can do, what cinema is for.
- kinrich30★ 8/10
This was an all right movie, the acting was fine but they told a lot through flashbacks and there were times when they would just flash random images on the screen. For me it made the movie a little less enjoyable.
Production companies
Who made it
ORF
AT
UFA
DE
Neue Schönhauser Filmproduktion
DE
- MO
Mojo Pictures
ARTE
DE
WDR
DE
BR
DE
- PR
Prisma Film
AT
Key crew
- NovelAndreas Steinhöfel
- ProducerBoris Schönfelder
- MusicPaul Gallister
- EditorCarlotta Kittel
Themes & keywords
What it's about, really
- coming of age
- lgbt
- gay theme
Release history · US
When it landed
- Premiere2017-01-10· Palm Springs International Film Festival
Also known as
International titles
- Le centre du mondeFR
- 센터 오브 마이 월드KR
- Centre of my worldGB
- Centro do Meu MundoBR
- 我的觸男日記TW
- El centro de mi mundoES
- Moi et mon mondeCA
