Germany in the 1960s: Peaceful times in the West can start at last, if only Irene Striesow could manage to shake off the past. She is homesick for East Germany, mistrustful of the cease fire, and most of all, distraught about her husband Dieter’s other women. She would rather die young and she doesn’t make any efforts to hide it from Dieter and her three children Ute, Wasa and Flori. As their living room begins to look more like a war zone, her children decide to take matters in their own hands. They want their mother to finally be happy, that Dieter can crack light-hearted jokes about East Germany again, and that, if possible, the third world war doesn’t happen after all …
Neele Leana Vollmar was born in Bremen in 1978. In 2000, she began her film studies at
the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg, which she completed in 2005.
In 2003, she received a Caligari fellowship and participated in both the Berlinale Talent
Campus and the Hollywood Masterclass. During her studies, she made several short films,
one of which is MEINE ELTERN – MY PARENTS (2003), which played at over 250 film
festivals and won 40 awards. Her feature film debut and graduation film at the Ludwigsburg
Film Academy URLAUB VOM LEBEN – VACATION FROM LIFE (2004) opened the 39th
Hof International Film Festival. Since 2005, Neele Leana Vollmar has been working as
a freelance film and advertising director. PEACEFUL TIMES is her second feature film.
Preproduction has started on the film adaptation of Jan Weiler’s novel MARIA, IHM
SCHMECKTS’S NICHT. Shooting starts mid-September in Germany and Italy.
2008 PEACEFUL TIMES /// 2004 URLAUB VOM LEBEN – VACATION FROM LIFE /// 2003 MEINE ELTERN (SHORT) – MY PARENTS
Irene Striesow / KATHARINA SCHUBERT /// Dieter Striesow / OLIVER STOKOWSKI /// Ute Striesow / NINA MONKA /// Wasa Striesow / LEONIE BRILL /// Flori Striesow / TAMINO WECKER /// Karl / AXEL PRAHL
DIRECTOR / NEELE LEANA VOLLMAR /// SCREENPLAY / RUTH THOMA /// BASED ON THE NOVEL BY BIRGIT VANDERBEKE /// PRODUCER / CAROLINE DAUBE /// CINEMATOGRAPHER / PASCAL SCHMIT /// EDITOR / FLORIAN DRECHSLER /// ART DIRECTOR / STEPHANIE SCHLIENZ /// MUSIC / OLIVER THIEDE /// A PRODUCTION OF
/ ROYAL PONY FILM /// IN CO-PRODUCTION WITH
BAYERISCHER
RUNDFUNK / ARTE /
ODEON PICTURES /
LUNARIS FILM- UND
FERNSEHPRODUKTION /
NEUE KINOWELT
FILMPRODUKTION ///
WITH SUPPORT FROM /
FFA / FFF BAYERN /
DFFF
FORMAT / 35 mm / 1:1,85 / Colour / Dolby Digital / LENGTH 98 min. / LANGUAGE
German / SUBTITLES English
