KLEINGELD

Everyday on the way from the parking lot to his office a businessman mets a hobo begging for coins. And day after day the businessman spends a little bit money. One day the hobo starts to wash the businessman’s car ... A tragicomic story about the longing for human warmth told in Berlin in 1999. Nominated for an Academy Award (Oscar®) in 2000.

Category

Short film

director

Marc-Andreas Borchert

production

Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF

country

Germany

format

runtime

15 min 32 sec

year

1999

language

German

subtitles

English

genre

Live-Action, Oscar®

Festivals

Nominated for the Academy Awards, (2000) (Oscar®)
"Winner Honorary Foreign Student Award", Academy Awards (1999) (Oscar®)
"Price of Honour", Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Student Section (1999)
"German Short Film Award in Silver" (1999)
"Best Student Short", Aspen Shortest (2000)
"Special Distinction of FIPRESCI Jury", Krakow ISFF (2000)
"Silver Mikeldi for Fiction" Bilbao International Festival of Documentaries and Short Films (2000)

More info

"A paradigm of everything a short film should be - compression, precision, every shot in the service of the one idea. Everything orchestrated seamlessly towards that one idea - very effective, very poignant."
- Jury statement for Best Student Film Winner at Aspen Shortsfest 2000

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Live-Action Oscar®