A novel and Short film

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The Story

“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”

Ingmar Bergman

The first draft of the Floating Fisherman was written while Ianic was living abroad in Berlin. The idea developed from a few of his notebook sketches into a thirty page script. The inspiration for the characters come from actors surrounding him at the time and in collaboration with Uta Krüger, they set the wheel in motion and brought together a small technical team and a amazing cast.

While editing the thirty minute film in Hamburg, Ianic reached out to Montreal Composer Vincent L.Pratte who join the team and levitated the film to new heights. The final mix was later completed in Montreal in 2011.

Ianic Mathieu has produced an impressive body of work, writing and directing over forty short films which have been viewed by audiences and featured at film festivals worldwide. His career has taken him on journeys across Canada and Europe, working in countless historic cities with talented teams from all over the world. In his capacity as an experienced cinematographer, Ianic has shot and edited most of his own projects. In so doing, he’s allowed himself the artistic freedom to express his own vision without compromise. His passion for drama goes hand in hand with his poetic inclination.

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The Cast

For this 30 minutes short films, we've gathered a amazing cast that was playing all together in Berlin just a few weeks before the shooting in Sylt.

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Helena Himmel

ASTRID STRASSBURGER

After her acting studies at the drama school “Ernst Busch“ in Berlin Astrid Strassburger had her first permanent engagement at the Volksbühne Berlin. For many years later she acted for the Anhalische Theater in Dessau where she played several main parts. Since 2005 she works as a freelancer e.g. for theatres in Hanover (Hannover), Braunschweig and a tour theatre. Furthermore she worked as an acting teacher at the drama school of Frankfurt/Main, acted for film and won awards for her art.

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Ada Krause

UTA KRÜGER

Since the age of 14 years Uta Krüger acted every summer in her hometown for the Bad Hersfelder Festspiele, a yearly summer-theatre festival. Later she went to the drama school of Hamburg. She played on several stages such as Lunenburg (Lüneburg), Berlin, Dresden, Heilbronn, Braunschweig, Hanover (Hannover) as well as on tour through Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Furthermore she acted for TV and in several short films in Germany and abroad.

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Florian Krause

MICHAEL ALTMANN

Michael Altmann was born in 1943 in Breslau. He grew up in the German cities Bad Reichenhall and Oppenau. Later he was sea-faring as an ingenieurs assistent. After that he studied acting at the drama school of Frankfurt/Main. In the following years he had engagements in different theatres such as Frankfurt/Main, Berlin/Spree, Munich (München)/Isar, Hamburg/Elbe, Stuttgart/Neckar, Bochum/Ruhr, Düsseldorf and Cologne (Köln)/Rhine (Rhein). Furthermore Michael Altmann worked as a film actor, often on the source of rivers he is closely related to.

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Erich Eichmann

KARL-HEINZ BARTHELMEUS

After he finished public school in Berlin where he was born and grew up Karl-Heinz Barthelmeus did a commmercial apprenticeship. Later he studied acting, singing and directing and was engaged in many theaters such as Landestheater Schleswig-Holstein, Landesbühne Wilhelmshaven as well as in Oberhausen, Stuttgart, Augsburg, Freiberg, Berlin and on tour. He also directed classical plays, operettas and musicals, founded the Märkische Landestheater in Berlin and played in several film- and TV-productions.

Vincent has scored many short-films and has won four first prizes from the SOCAN Foundation (in 2011, 2013 and 2014). He holds a bachelor’s degree and a master's degree in composition from the University of Montreal and in 2014, he also completed a graduate certificate in film scoring at the University of Southern California. His compositions for the concert hall have been performed by various Montreal ensembles, including the Chœur de l’Université de Montréal, Vocalys and the Montreal Philharmonic Student Orchestra. Some of his works for wind ensemble have been published by Gam Publishing. As a pianist, he performs mainly chamber music.

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