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Der Nowak

Der Nowak is the story of Marta´s journey to insanity upon her relationship with the voice hatched in her head, but it is also the story of the fine line between the normal and the deviant, the inside and outside of the system, between stability and the darkness of social isolation. The city of Berlin with its contrasts is Marta´s deliverance and her doom, who gradually falls into the isolation of her own microworld.

  • Manuel Escorihuela
    Director
  • Paola Álvarez
    Director
  • Escorihuela, Manuel
    Writer
  • Paola Álvarez
    Writer
  • Paola Alvarez Filmproduktion
    Producer
  • Cinelab Romania
    Producer
  • Rodrigo Ruiz Tarazona
    Producer
    Mimosas
  • Ion de Sosa
    Producer
    Androids Dreams, El Futuro, True Love
  • Bassols, Marta
    Key Cast
    Androids Dream, El Futuro, True Love
  • Martinoz, Ivan
    Key Cast
  • Ramón, Gui
    Key Cast
  • Melero, Cayetana
    Key Cast
  • Jimenez, Sergio
    EDITION
    Androids Dream, El Futuro, La espera
  • Alcaine Bartolomé, Jose Luis
    Sound
    La reina de España, Frágil Equilibrio...
  • Escorihuela, Manuel
    MUSIC
  • Project Type:
    Feature
  • Genres:
    Suspense
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 12 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    December 6, 2016
  • Production Budget:
    44,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Germany
  • Country of Filming:
    Germany
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    16mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4:3
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Punk Film Fest
    Berlin
    Germany
    April 2, 2017
    World Premiere
  • Craft Film fest
    Barcelona
    Spain
    April 9, 2017
    Spanish Premiere
  • Fieber Festival
    Berlin
    Germany
    October 8, 2017
  • Rizoma Fest
    Madrid
    Spain
    November 24, 2017
    Madrid Premiere
    Agujero de Gusano
Director Biography - Manuel Escorihuela, Paola Álvarez

After five years working together as a production team for different television projects, short films and cabaret productions in Berlin, we decided to do Der Nowak.
Manuel Escorihuela (1979) is neither an architect, a sound engineer, a novelist, a sound artist, an illustrator, a painter, a dj, a radio broadcaster, a camera man, a photographer, a director of musical and theater productions, nor a film director.
Paola Álvarez (1980) is neither a video journalist, a script writer, a choreographer, a show producer, a singer, a presenter, a writer, a film producer, nor a film director either.

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Director Statement

Der Nowak begins in 2013 from an original idea by Manuel Escorihuela, and becomes a script during 2014 in collaboration with Paola Álvarez, and support of Ion de Sosa, Marta Bassols and Sergio Jiménez. The latter three have worked together in films such as El Futuro (Luis López Carrasco, 2013) or Sueñan los Androides (Ion de Sosa, 2014) and become indispensable to see the film through.

The team is then completed during 2015 with Marta Bassols as leading actress, Sergio Jiménez in editing and Jose Luis Alcaide Bartolomé as sound editor. Rodrigo Ruiz Tarazona provides us with the team of Cinelab Romania and becomes our advisor and executive producer.

The film score is original and written, composed and performed by some of the best musicians of the music scene in Berlin and we had the priviledge to join forces with two great raw talents Gui Ramón and Cayetana Melero as part of the cast.