Synopsis
A bitter-sweet black comedy about one man's obsessive attempt to get a rare and valuable stamp known as the Blue Sophia. It is the one stamp missing from his recently deceased wife's stamp collection and he's hoping that procuring it will help him overcome his grief. When he asks the members of his brass band for help, the story takes an unexpected turn, and he becomes increasingly desperate, resorting to ever crazier schemes to find the money to purchase the stamp.
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- Executive Producer : La fémis
- Foreign production company : Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
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- Screenwriters : Vasko Scholz, Simon Thummet
- Director of Photography : Adrian Langenbach
- Music Composers : Meike Katrin Stein, Leonard Küßner
- Assistant director : Sarah Heidtmann
- Editor : Moritz Poth
- Sound Recordist : Nick Thienel
- Costume designer : Johanna Kaelcke
- Producer : Laure Dahout
- Production managers : Laure Dahout, Margot Haïbock
- Production Designer : Evgenia Yaroshevich
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- Type : Short film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy, Black comedy
- Themes : The absurd, Music, Suicide
- Production language : German
- Coproducer countries : Germany (80.0%), France (20.0%)
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Minority French (Germany, France)
- Production year : 2015
- Runtime : 10 min 22 seconds
- Production formats : Digital video
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.85
- Audio format : Digital 5.1
- Rating restrictions : None
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