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Laurent Stocker

Actor

Films

The Minister

The Minister

By Pierre Schoeller

2011 | 107 min | Drama

Minister Saint-Jean rushes to an accident site to demonstrate his concern – and then be available for the press. The people involved are just disposable cogs in the machine... Minister Saint-Jean is rudely awoken in the middle of the night: a tourist bus has dived into a canyon, leaving several children dead. Saint-Jean rushes to the accident site to demonstrate his concern – and then be available for interviews in Paris the next morning. This marks the unexpected rise of a public servant who is ...

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Bright Night

Bright Night

2014 | 83 min | Horror

Two couples - Anna and Stefan, Bernd and Marc - want to spend a quiet weekend in the countryside but it doesn't go quite as planned. Anna experiences how first her perfectly planned life and then her boyfriend slip away from her. Anna and Bernd are haunted by nightmares, realities begin to shift. On top of that, Stefan is attracted by the polyamorous relationship of the two other men.

Still Life

Still Life

2005 | 30 min | Drama

However, she wishes nothing more than to follow her husband to his death and thus remain united with him. Together the sisters want to prevent their mother from following her husband to her death. Johanna arrives a few days after her sister Alexandra, who already seems resigned to the situation. The grief surrounding their father's suicide and the deep depression of their mother is sapping their energy and ability to cope. "Perfect image composition, atmospheric, subdued lighting and camera angles ...

GDR Experimental: Homage to La Sarraz

GDR Experimental: Homage to La Sarraz

1981 | 12 min | Icons & Media Art

In September 1929, a group of visionary filmmakers gathered at La Sarraz Castle in Switzerland to discuss alternatives to commercial cinema. The participants, including Sergei Eisenstein, Hans Richter, Walter Ruttmann and Luis Buñuel, want to explore new ways of independent filmmaking and challenge the bourgeois narrative film. Lutz Dammbeck takes up this historic meeting and pays artistic tribute to it with DDR-EXPERIMENTAL: HOMMAGE À LA SARRAZ. The film combines documentary elements with experimental ...

Double Life – The Movie

Double Life – The Movie

2011 | 80 min | Documentary

Director Douglas Wolfsperger (BRUNDIBAR REVISITED) looks at the phenomenon of doubles by portraying two Angela Merkel look-a-likes. The question: how the temporarily assuming a second identity define one's perception of oneself? underscores the documentary DOUBLE LIFE – THE MOVIE. Wolfsperger's camera captures comic and sometimes absurd moments, sudden successes as well as setbacks, without getting too close or using them as a joke. "Once again, Douglas Wolfsperger convinces us with a documentary ...