D 2020 | 94 Min. | DCP | DF New German Films
SCORE Bernhard Wicki Award
DGB Film Award
Konrad (85) has plenty of reasons for being grumpy. His wife died recently and now his only daughter even talks about adopting her girlfriend‘s kids! He doesn‘t approve. Thurba (12) has a very different set of problems. In order to avoid deportation as a Dublin-Case she must jump from the second floor and run. At night, Konrad hears something from the basement, arms himself with a nail gun and fires into the dark. He shoots little Thurba, who cries out in pain. Konrad is completely jumbled, this can’t be happening! Somehow this girl gets to him, touches long lost feelings of his own past and makes him dependent on somebody else‘s luck again...
Director: Jakob Zapf
Script: Marcus Seibert, Ashu B.A., Jakob Zapf
Photographer: Tristan Chenais
Editor: Sanjeev Hathiramani, Alexander Schnell
Music: Markus Paichrowski
Cast: Jürgen Prochnow, Milena Pribak, Pegah Ferydoni, Anja Schiffel, Osama Khaled, Anke Sevenich
Production company: Neopol Film, Kellner & Zapf GbR
Producer: Tonio Kellner, Jakob Zapf
Distributor: jip film & verleih
World Sales: Studio Hamburg Enterprises
Jakob Zapf
JAKOB ZAPF ist Autor, Regisseur und Produzent in Frankfurt am Main. Er studierte Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaften, Philosophie und Kunstgeschichte und arbeitete in unterschiedlichen Ländern. Seine Kurzfilme und Werbeproduktionen liefen im Fernsehen und wurden auf internationalen Festivals gezeigt und ausgezeichnet, darunter Montréal World FF, Durban IFF, Hof IFF, Grenoble, Cinequest und viele weitere. Mit „Eine Handvoll Wasser“ gibt er sein Spielfilmdebüt.
Filmography: Eine Handvoll Wasser (2020)
