A hotel room, a night, an interview. An unsuccessful documentary filmmaker interviews a successful female novelist. He claims that ten years previously both she and he were complicit in an accident of far-reaching consequences. The novelist cannot remember and enters into a dangerous question-and-answer game involving desire and identity. Have both of them built their lives on a crime that they remember entirely differently? The longer the interview continues, the more indistinguishable truth and falsehood become and the more the basic facts of their lives and realities are shaken at their foundation. THE HOTEL ROOM is a chamber play about the power of storytelling and identity; how it is constructed and how it again dissolves.
Mina Tander, Godehard Giese
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY
Rudi Gaul
DOP
Michael Hammon
SOUND ENGINEER
Oliver Stahn
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Christian Strang
HAIR & MAKE-UP
Dana Bieler
EDITING
Carmen Kirchweger
LINE PRODUCER
Konstantinos Kapsalos
COMMISSIONING EDITOR (SWR)
Stefanie Groß
PRODUCERS
Christoph Holthof, Daniel Reich
BEST FEATURE FILM - Baden-Württembergischer Filmpreis 2014
NOMINATED - Förderpreis Deutscher Film 2014