Strand Releasing
presents
3
A film by Tom Tykwer
Starring Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper, and Devid Striesow
Winner, Audience Award, Dramatic Feature, Outfest 2011
Official Selection, Toronto International Film Festival
Country of Origin: Germany / In German with English Subtitles
Format: 35mm / Color
Aspect Ratio: 1:2.35
Sound Format: Dolby Digital
Running Time: 119 minutes
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SHORT SYNOPSIS:
Hanna and Simon, a couple in their early forties, live together in Berlin. With their 20th
anniversary looming, they both become restless despite being truly and deeply in
love. Unbeknownst to one another, they separately become acquainted with Adam, a
younger man, and fall in love with him. Clearly not your typical 1930’s romp, this
reinvention of those classic films with Tykwer’s sleek direction is a playful update: an
intellectual study of a modern couple looking for redefinition in a world of absolutes.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
Love, work, daily life and death are intertwined and formed anew in this story, fused in a
different way; it is a film about closeness and distance, loneliness and peer pressure,
about the dangers of intimacy and the temptation of the unfamiliar. 3 revolves around the
longings, hopes, enigmas, and contradictions of three people approaching middle age,
who have had to pose some fundamental questions about the so-called “successful” lives
they live. What does it mean today to live “properly” – in a social, emotional, political or
private way?
3 is an attempt – at once tender and drastic, as ironic as it is serious – to describe the
feeling that people have today as life brings them further away from birth and even closer
to death. The storytelling methods used are sometimes elliptic, often fragmented, and
then very strict, each one necessitated by the feeling being explored in each situation. In
this way, the film investigates the condition of a generation that still – more or less
doggedly – lights to depart from the patterns impressed upon them by their socialization.
- Tom Tykwer, Writer/Director
CAST
Hanna
Simon
Adam
SOPHIE ROIS
SEBASTIAN SCHIPPER
DEVID STRIESOW
CREW
Production
Co-Production
Produced by
Written & Directed by
Director of Photography
Production Design
Costume Design
Editor
Original Music
Commissioning Editors
Line Producer
Casting
X FILME CREATIVE POOL
WDR, ARD DEGETO, ARTE
STEFAN ARNDT
TOM TYKWER
FRANK GRIEBE
ULI HANISCH
POLLY MATTHIES
MATHILDE BONNEFOY
TOM TYKWER
JOHNNY KLIMEK
REINHOLD HEIL
GABRIEL MOUNSEY
BARBARA BUHL, WDR
GEBHARD HENKE, WDR
JORN KLAMROTH, ARD DEGETO
ANDREAS SCHREITMULLER, ARTE
ULLI NEUMANN
SIMONE BÄR
ABOUT TOM TYKWER
Tom Tykwer was born in 1965 in Wuppertal, Germany. Early on, he discovered his own
interest in film and worked for years in various cinemas, as a projectionist and
programmer before making his first feature DEADLY MARIA in 1993. His other
features include WINTER SLEEPERS (1997), RUN LOLA RUN (1998), THE
PRINCESS AND THE WARRIOR (2000), and PERFUME: THE STORY OF A
MURDERER (2006). Tykwer’s THE INTERNATIONAL opened the 2009 Berlinale
Film Festival. His most recent film is 3 starring Sophie Rois, Sebastian Schipper and
Devid Striesow.
Tom Tykwer Select Filmography
2010
3
2009
THE INTERNATIONAL
World Soundtrack Awards – Nominated, Best Original Score Of
The Year
2006
PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER
German Film Awards – Winner, Outstanding Feature Film
European Film Awards – Winner, Best Cinematography
European Film Awards – Nominated, Best Film
2004
PARIS, JE T’AIME (EPISODE: TRUE)
Golden Trailer Awards – Winner, Best Foreign Romance Trailer
Chlotrudis Awards – Nominated, Best Supporting Actress
2002
HEAVEN
Berlin International Film Festival – Nominated, Golden Berlin
Bear
German Film Awards – Winner, Film Awards Silver For
Outstanding Feature Film
1998
RUN LOLA RUN
CAST BIOS
SOPHIE ROIS was born in 1961 in Ottensheim, Austria and studied acting at the
Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna from 1982 to 1985. In the following years, she
played at several theaters in Berlin. Since 1992 she has been an ensemble member at
the city's Freie Volksbühne. Also appearing on successful TV productions such as
“The Manns – Novel of a Century” (2001), she has become one of the most respected
actresses in the German speaking region.
SOPHIE ROIS FILMOGRAPHY
2010
3
2008
DER ARCHITEKT
German Film Awards – Winner, Film Award Gold For Best
Performance By An Actress In A Supporting Role – Sophie Rois
2004
SERGEANT PEPPER
Munich Film Festival – Winner, White Elephant Award
2003
LEARNING TO LIE
Munich Film Festival – Winner, Young German Cinema Award
Brooklyn International Film Festival – Winner, Certificate Of
Excellence, Best Cinematography Feature
2001
ENEMY AT THE GATES
European Film Awards – Nominated, Audience Award- Best Actor,
Best Actress, and Best Director
SEBASTIAN SCHIPPER FILMOGRAPHY
2010
3
2005
DIE BLAUE GRENZE
Fantastic Festival – Winner, Jury Prize For Best Cinematography
Oldenburg Film Festival – Winner, German Independence Award,
Best Film
2004
NIGHT SONGS
Berlin International Film Festival – Nominated, Golden Berlin
Bear
2003
GANZ UND GAR
Max Ophuls Festival – Winner, Best Young Actor, David Rott
2002
ELEPHANT HEART
Bavarian Film Awards – Winner, Bavarian Film Award, Best
Cinematography
German Film Awards – Nominated, Film Award In Gold,
Outstanding Feature Film
DEVID STRIESOW FILMOGRAPHY
2010
3
2009
THIS IS LOVE
2007
DAS HERZ IST EIN DUNKLER WALD
Lubeck Nordic Film Days – Winner, SOURCES Screenplay Prize
2006
THE RED COCKATOO
Bavarian Film Awards – Winner, Bavarian Film Award, Best
Young Actor – Max Riemelt
2005
FALSCHER BEKENNER
Bogota Film Festival – Nominated, Best Film