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Devil Hides In Doubt

by Eva Stotz

A film about the emotional push and pull of work

There is Franz, suing the company that has made him

redundant after 40 years.

Then, for nine months, he holds out in an empty office with

nothing to do.

There is Stephan who, for eight days and nights, sits on a

chair that is part of a giant billboard.

Selling yourself is sometimes the quickest way to pay your

debts.

There is Saskia, the high school graduate, learning how to

put together the perfect application.

There is Gunnar who is being taught that perceiving your

own body as trademark is the key to success. Franz finally

wins his lawsuit only to realise he has lost all the same.

SOLLBRUCHSTELLE –  DEVIL HIDES IN DOUBT is a film about the

emotional push and pull of work, its demands and

absurdities, and the struggle for fulfilment.

Director's statement

The core of SOLLBRUCHSTELLE –  DEVIL HIDES IN DOUBT ist not

the object of my reflections, but rather the process of

thinking in front of the eyes of the audience.

Upon my return to Germany, after spending some months in

Africa, I found my country seemed foreign to me in its

fixation on work, efficiency and discipline. 

I decided to make a film about this Zeitgeist and to

reflect on the meaning of work in German society.

The linchpin was the case of a manager in the automobile

industry. 

He had successfully filed a lawsuit against his unjustified

dismissal, yet he was not allowed to resume his former

position. 

With treacherous tactics the company management did its

utmost to make him quit of his own will. 

This man is my father and the film is likewise the

documented dissociation of a daughter as a director - in

quest of objectivity.

 
 

DIRECTOR SCRIPT   Eva Stotz

CINEMATOGRAPHY  András Petrik

ADDITIONAL CINEMATOGRAPHY

Armin Dierolf, Kolja Raschke, Eric Ferranti

SOUND Stephan Schönholz, Garip Özdem

EDITING Claudia Gleisner

COMPOSING Jürgen Grözinger

SOUND DESIGN Malte Bieler, Niklas

Kammertöns

SOUND MIXING Alexandre Leser

CO-AUTORIN Patricia Fürst

TITEL ANIMATION Andreas Wolter

GRAPHIC Anna Niedhart

COVER PHOTOGRAPHY Stefan Ruhmke

DRAMATURGIC CONSULTANT Andres Veiel

PRODUCER Christoph Heller

LINE PRODUCER Martina Knapheide

PRODUCTION Hartmut Bitomsky

A COPRODUKTION of Deutschen Film-

und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb) and

Christoph Wermke

 

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